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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6437464" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>As I said before, I don't have any problem with a single Noble Gossamer having little chance of beating a Gammaroid in a fight. There's no reason not to assume it requires a flotilla of them to have a good chance of killing one. Wolves are the "natural predators" of moose, but they don't normally try unless there's a pack of them.</p><p></p><p>The Gossamer's odds are not great, but it still has a chance. My calculations shows its average Dex damage per round is pretty low, put it has a small but significant chance of one-shotting the Gammaroid every time it fails its Con check, since it has a roughly 2.4% chance of rolling 16 or more on its poison damage of either 2d8 (normal hit) or 4d8 (confirmed critical hit that penetrates its Fortification).</p><p></p><p>Furthermore, the Gammaroid might be unlucky and fail its Fort save several times against the Gossamer's multiple tentacle strikes. Assuming it gets hit by all twenty tentacle stings, the Gammaroid has a 37.8% chance of failing a single Fort save, an 18.9% chance of failing two, a 5.96% chance of failing three and a 1.33% chance of failing four (after that the odds drop below 1%).</p><p></p><p>Working out the precise odds would require more work than I can be bothered performing, but I reckon a single Noble Gossamer has at least a 1-in-thirty chance of paralyzing a Gammaroid with a single full attack. Two or three Gossamers working together with overlapping fields-of-sting would greatly increase the chance of the Gammaroid becoming helplessly paralyzed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6437464, member: 57383"] As I said before, I don't have any problem with a single Noble Gossamer having little chance of beating a Gammaroid in a fight. There's no reason not to assume it requires a flotilla of them to have a good chance of killing one. Wolves are the "natural predators" of moose, but they don't normally try unless there's a pack of them. The Gossamer's odds are not great, but it still has a chance. My calculations shows its average Dex damage per round is pretty low, put it has a small but significant chance of one-shotting the Gammaroid every time it fails its Con check, since it has a roughly 2.4% chance of rolling 16 or more on its poison damage of either 2d8 (normal hit) or 4d8 (confirmed critical hit that penetrates its Fortification). Furthermore, the Gammaroid might be unlucky and fail its Fort save several times against the Gossamer's multiple tentacle strikes. Assuming it gets hit by all twenty tentacle stings, the Gammaroid has a 37.8% chance of failing a single Fort save, an 18.9% chance of failing two, a 5.96% chance of failing three and a 1.33% chance of failing four (after that the odds drop below 1%). Working out the precise odds would require more work than I can be bothered performing, but I reckon a single Noble Gossamer has at least a 1-in-thirty chance of paralyzing a Gammaroid with a single full attack. Two or three Gossamers working together with overlapping fields-of-sting would greatly increase the chance of the Gammaroid becoming helplessly paralyzed. [/QUOTE]
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