How often will you be Stunned?

[Tetsuyama]

I was thinking about this earlier, so I did a little bit of analysis to see how much damage X DCs (Normal) does how often. I thought this might be of somewhat-general interest, so here are some of the results. The table below shows the approximate breakover points for a given DC (where it does X damage just less than 50% of the time, Y damage just less than 60% of the time, and so forth).



DCs <50% <40% <30% <20% <10%
6 21 22 23 25 26
8 28 29 31 32 34
10 35 36 38 39 42
12 42 43 45 47 49
13 45 47 49 51 53
14 49 51 52 54 57
15 52 54 56 58 61


Any comments or questions? Is this sort of information useful to you when designing characters/villians/encounters?

[Gary]

I actually created an Excel spreadsheet that calculates average damage through defenses, and probability of Con Stunning an opponent for normal and killing attacks. It handles up to 24D6 normal or 24D6 killing.

I sent this spreadsheet to Steve to place in the free downloads area, but he hasn't responded to me. :(