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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frisbeet" data-source="post: 2027318" data-attributes="member: 10287">Hey thanks.Lessee, when did 3.0 come out?  Few months after that  So I guess spring of 2003.I've always wanted to be more ambitious with the sheets, such that no matter what character you've got you can exactly model him/her.  I didn't want to make a more generic ENTER AB.  ENTER WEAPON DAMAGE. spreadsheet because it I wanted to reduce the amount of lookup stuff a user needed to do--one could just try whatever series of characters was interesting and see how badass they were.  Unfortunately it quickly became apparent that all the supplemental stuff was going to make this hard to do.  Actually the friggin monk with flurry of blows presented a real problem, and I'm not happy with this implementation (it's correct, but you can't stack TWF with flurry, for example).  So anyways it's an amalgam of the user lookup/specific selection style.The real gem of the sheet is "rolls", though it's seldom necessary.  This only needs to come into play when the opponent has DR.  DR screws up average damage because you can't do negative damage.  This formum actually (re)derived a formula a couple years ago which calculated the # of ways, & hence the probability, of getting an outcome rolling N identical s-sided dice.  Thus enabling the rolls worksheet.  Of course, the damn thing is half the reason why the spreadsheets are so large.Last regrets: haven't had the time to keep the Comparison spreadsheet current--though it's numbers are correct--as I've endeavored to update the Power Attack Calculator.  I see the PA calculator as the real utility of the two spreadsheets, as few other resources on the net (none that I know of) actually give you exact answers on the subject.  Anywho, thanks for the indulgence.</blockquote>

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