So I decided to create a DPR calculator specific to pathfinder that would take a familiar input, and would give back the percent likely hood of every possible outcome for a round of damage. At its most basic to use the calculator you need 3 things: your Base Attack Bonus (BAB), all to hit modifiers that apply to the attack, and the damage that the attack does (expressed in the standard dice format: 2d6 + 10). There are a lot of other things you can change to change to get exactly the attack profile your looking for, just hit the “About / Help” button for full directions for the tool.
The second main feature of the tool is that it allows you to create multiple profiles so that you can directly compare two or more scenarios against one another to see which is better.
The final main feature of the tool is that while it doesn’t save any data, it does create a link the top of the page. This link will re-create the exact state of the tool for anyone that visits the page: meaning you can share that link about to anyone. For instance click here to see a 6th level, 18-19 strength, power attacking fighter using an unenchanted Great Sword, Great Axe and Falchion.
The tool can be found at: http://fieldofbattlecards.com/dmg_calc/
For anyone who care about the code: this tool is a simple “dumb” page, no data will be saved, there is no server backend beyond severing the HTML, and all of the code is pure JavaScript (meaning all calculations are performed on your side). If you interested in using any of the code, or forking the project, feel free it is all open source.
