Kazmojen Stats

[ArchAnjel]

I know people have complained about the claw/bite damage being reversed in the stats but I'm looking at the stats and I'm seeing a lot of other discrepancies that I'm hoping someone can help me get settled before game night.

First off, he starts out with:

• +10 melee (1d8+7/x3, masterwork dwarven urgrosh)

There's something that doesn't add up and I can't figure out what it is. I can only come up with +9 melee for him: +3 BAB, +5 Strength, +1 Weapon Focus (dwarven urgrosh). Where is the other +1 melee coming from? Additionally, his damage should be +8, not +7; since he has nothing in his off hand, he's got both hands on his urgrosh, thereby doing Strength x 1.5 damage (5 x. 1.5 = 7.5 = 7) plus 1 for it being a masterwork weapon = 8. So, instead of +10 melee (1d8+7), I'm counting up +9 melee (1d8+8).

His optional single attack is listed as:

• +8 melee (1d6+4, claw)

We know that's supposed to be (1d4+4, claw) but there's still something not right. Where is this +4 damage coming from? He should be getting the full +5 from strength since it's a single attack, right?

His Full Attacks are similarly messed up:

• +6 melee (1d8+4/x3, dwarven urgrosh)
• +2 melee (1d6+2/x3, dwarven urgrosh)
• +2 melee (1d4+2, bite)

As far as I can see, the attack bonuses should be +5 melee, +1 melee, and +3 melee. The same +9 from above would calculate to +5 and +1 when two-weapon fighting at -4 and -8 respectively. And the bite is a secondary natural attack, thus gets a -5 on the attack roll (which would otherwise be at +8). Leaving aside the damage dice for the bite, the damage modifiers as I see them should be +3 (half strength bonus (5/2 = 2.5 = 2) plus masterwork (1)), +3 (same), and +2 (half strength bonus due to secondary natural weapon). So, altogether the Full Attack stat block should read

• +5 melee (1d8+3/x3, dwarven urgrosh)
• +1 melee (1d6+3/x3, dwarven urgrosh)
• +3 melee (1d6+2, bite)

So, with that many discrepancies, it's starting to make me wonder whether it's really ME that's making a mistake somewhere. Can someone take a look at the above and let me know if I'm missing some bonuses and/or penalties from something? And if this has already been covered somewhere, please point me to it since the Search function on the site is down right now.

[TriOmegaZero]

Not having my book with me, I can only comment that you made in error in that masterwork weapons give a +1 to attack and not damage.

[TriOmegaZero]

Not having my book on me, I can't say much. I do notice that you're adding the masterwork weapon bonus to damage. It actually is +1 to attack rolls.

[nib]

Hi,

The masterwork quality of a weapon adds +1 to the attack and not the damage roll. That already clarifies a few of your problems. I'm not the expert on unarmed attacks, though, so there may still be inconsistencies not explained.

I did notice quite a few inconsistencies myself in the statblocks and thus won't vouch for correctness ;-)

The claw base damage might be 1d6-1 so that the total with strength comes up as 1d6+4 with a +5 STR modifier...

Cheers,
Nib

[ArchAnjel]

A-HA! So I was RIGHT... when... I... thought I might be doing something wrong.

Don't know why I got mentally stuck on the erroneous belief that Masterwork plus Weapon Focus = +1/+1 instead of +2/-. That certainly does clear up quite a bit. Thanks all for that slap upside the head. =o)

Shannon