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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 6252271" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Celebrating the 40th anniversary by dusting off my 2e books and cranking some numbers <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=":-)" />For an 18/01-50, is that a 40% chance to hit on each attack against an Ogre? So an average damage of &quot;only&quot; 12.2 in the first round.&nbsp; Average in the 2nd round falls to 7.6... so takes you all of two rounds on average to finish the average one off.&nbsp; (18-00 does an average of 19.75 and so would get him first round). &nbsp; That's pretty freaking awesome and almost makes me feel bad for playing clerics all those times!With the weapon specialization but without the things from skills and powers the averages fall to 7.65 in the first round and 4.2 in the second which makes it a bit less awe inspiring and might make a good argument for not allowing the ambidexterity and two-weapon prof.At the other end, it would really suck not to be in that lucky 10% with the 18 strength (say a 16) and to have a DM who didn't even let you use the specialization (its only optional in the PhB).&nbsp; Down to something like an average of 2.8 per round if you try to two-hand it against the Ogre.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 6252271, member: 6701124"] Celebrating the 40th anniversary by dusting off my 2e books and cranking some numbers :-) For an 18/01-50, is that a 40% chance to hit on each attack against an Ogre? So an average damage of "only" 12.2 in the first round. Average in the 2nd round falls to 7.6... so takes you all of two rounds on average to finish the average one off. (18-00 does an average of 19.75 and so would get him first round). That's pretty freaking awesome and almost makes me feel bad for playing clerics all those times! With the weapon specialization but without the things from skills and powers the averages fall to 7.65 in the first round and 4.2 in the second which makes it a bit less awe inspiring and might make a good argument for not allowing the ambidexterity and two-weapon prof. At the other end, it would really suck not to be in that lucky 10% with the 18 strength (say a 16) and to have a DM who didn't even let you use the specialization (its only optional in the PhB). Down to something like an average of 2.8 per round if you try to two-hand it against the Ogre. [/QUOTE]

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