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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8996610" data-attributes="member: 6801845">It's a program I wrote that simulates fights, pitting different fighter builds against level appropriate monsters using a long array of randomized D20 rolls.&nbsp; Runs through a thousand fights or so and figures out how often the fighter wins or the monster does.&nbsp; Been a while since I pulled it up and still depends on assumptions, but duelist with shield master generally came out on top if you allow the shield bash before other attacks, then TWF dual weapon then GWM.&nbsp; I don't think I ever got around to PAM, but that gets a bit tricky.&nbsp; With PAM do you want to win initiative in a cage match?&nbsp; It also did some comparisons with champion and battle master (assuming the battle master just did extra damage).I used it for this kind of analysis but also comparisons of rolling for ability scores which showed that random rolls make much more of a difference than fighting style.&nbsp; Of course it's also limited because I can't really emulate things like all of the BM's maneuvers and I assumed the fighter had action surge available 1/3 of the time.If I were really ambitious I'd link it to my monster database and run them through a few hundred different monsters each and let it crunch.&nbsp; I'm not that ambitious.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8996610, member: 6801845"] It's a program I wrote that simulates fights, pitting different fighter builds against level appropriate monsters using a long array of randomized D20 rolls. Runs through a thousand fights or so and figures out how often the fighter wins or the monster does. Been a while since I pulled it up and still depends on assumptions, but duelist with shield master generally came out on top if you allow the shield bash before other attacks, then TWF dual weapon then GWM. I don't think I ever got around to PAM, but that gets a bit tricky. With PAM do you [I]want [/I]to win initiative in a cage match? It also did some comparisons with champion and battle master (assuming the battle master just did extra damage). I used it for this kind of analysis but also comparisons of rolling for ability scores which showed that random rolls make much more of a difference than fighting style. Of course it's also limited because I can't really emulate things like all of the BM's maneuvers and I assumed the fighter had action surge available 1/3 of the time. If I were [I]really[/I] ambitious I'd link it to my monster database and run them through a few hundred different monsters each and let it crunch. I'm not that ambitious. :) [/QUOTE]

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