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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Machiavelli" data-source="post: 3581507" data-attributes="member: 40964">Okay, in the games my group plays, we have a not-exactly-rule that dealing enough damage to a target to drop it from full HP to dead in one hit causes that target's most conveniently hilarious piece of anatomy to explode (often the head).  Given that the head is 8lb out of 200lb on the alarmingly oft-targeted human's body, I estimate that the head comprises 4% of the HP total.  Causing the entire human to explode would then likely require 25 times the application of damage.Drawing this generalization outwards to an entire planet, the Death Star's superlaser apparently deals about 12 x 10^20 HP damage.  That's 1.2 sextillion hitpoints of damage.  Of course, we don't know if this is the upper limit of the Death Star's laser, as this amount of damage was enough to utterly destroy Alderan, and the laser may have an un-demonstrated capactiy for greater destruction.  I would stick to (3 x 10^20)d6 for the Death Star superlaser, to penalize any plucky player who fires the weapon and has to ask how much damage it does.</blockquote>