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12:25 AM

@Alan 84" in length, 28" in breadth, and 23" in height. STandard casket.

if I remember correctly, a portable hole does not fit a single barrel... I mean, a 18.1"/46 barrels. They are after all 21.13 m long...

Play Patrice

1:25 AM

You know all those mass data pulls people do on monsters? How and where to go grab those?

Alan

2:04 AM

@PlayPatrice depends on what system you are talking about

although since no system was listed, I suspect 5E based on my experience of 5E players not realizing other things exist :)

Play Patrice

@Alan 3.5 - I'm trying to work through the monk / flurry of blows theory crafting. That and I am curious how much my DM held to the hard rules in an old game we played a long time ago.

Alan

@PlayPatrice yeah, I just saw that question and was coming back here to note that. I can say that in practice, my halfling warlock who targeted touch ACs that I played from about level 1 to 12 pretty much only missed things on 1s, 2s, and the occasional 3 or 4

Play Patrice

That was the feeling I was getting with the grapple monk I was running, and his STR as a monk was poor (11's-16 throughout his career).

Alan

That's purely anecdotal from one game of course. And the fact that I was a flying ranged attacker who often attacked out of invis to hit the flat footed touch AC, which was generally jjust 10+deflection bonus :)

Play Patrice

So I wasn't sure how much it was my DM taking pity on my character concept or if I was stumbling onto something that kinda sorta worked.

Alan

2:14 AM

yeah, most monsters* are far heavier into natural/armor bonus than other sources of AC, unless they are particularly supernaturally dextrous/or otherwise harder to hit

Armor and natural armor are pretty much open ended high stats that scale very much so into the CRs. Dex is openended but doesn't go that much higher than +3-+5 for most monsters in my experience, and other sources of AC are rare

part of the reason I made that char was I was tired of missing :). I didn't do a lot of damage, comparitive to other 3.5 optimized builds, but it was a danged consistent 1d6+1d6/2 levels, then boosted a bit with magic items as I wwent along

Play Patrice

Yup - and I'm just trying to break down my "Viability" question into smaller questions to see if I can get some help mathing out what a flurry of blows grapple monk actually looks like. If I can get some help figuing out how to crunch MM numbers - I can then move on to opposed grapple checks / escape artist stuff to see how many "grapples" on average it takes to pin an opponent.

Alan

nod I gotta run to eat then do some more work on my academic paper, if you haven't found help when I'm free I'll look again

Play Patrice

Thanks alan.

Alan

(On a side note, the most broken part of that char wasn't his damage, it was the fact that he was a protoss observer unit....24 hour flight/invisible/see invislble was pretty plot breaky)

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Alan

10:30 AM

@PlayPatrice hmm, using no filter on d20srd.org/extras/d20monsterfilter will get you a list of monsters in a table, but not including the ac data you wanted (though each one is linkable, that'd be annoying)

orkerhulen.dk/Own%20made%20supplement/… gets an excel sheet, but again not the data you want

@PlayPatrice enworld.org/threads/old-monsters-new-statblock.193894 has a zipped file with all the monsters full stats in it, you can control f for "touch" and zoom through and see touch ACs that way

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Alan

12:14 PM

Hmm. Amusingly, I've always interpreted rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7528/… as Rules as Intended :)

Thomas Markov

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Alan

@ThomasMarkov Reminds me of the arguments around originalist and textualist approaches to US constitutional interpretation, which can often end up swinging on which dictionary you use.

Hmm, question: Point #2 here was about not referencing other answers. https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2993/71804
In my recent answer the vampire question (And other people's as well), references were included, but not in a debate sense, just in a "These aspects of the question were addressed here, and there's no need for me to duplicate them". Is that okay?

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12:43 PM

@Alan Ive never read that meta.

Alan

12:59 PM

whelp ,time to try to grab a few hours of sleep

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8:43 PM

They've done something to break LegacyQuestions.

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