What is the largest damage die, or damage equation, that you have presented in a battle as a GM against players, and what was the situation? Best of 2d10 armor negating? d10+5?
What is the largest damage die, or damage equation, that you have presented in a battle as a GM against players, and…
What is the largest damage die, or damage equation, that you have presented in a battle as a GM against players, and…
Biggest so far has been a D8, though I have an NPC who is b[2d10]
d10 +4, messy, forceful, from a ship’s cannon. Anything more than that and it’s pretty much instadeath, and fictional damage is much more useful!
In a low tech world facing hi tech invaders for the first time, I threw 2 riflemen in a mix of other mooks. D20 ignores armor and the desired effect was achieved. The band of 4 lvl 2 PCs triumphed but it put the fear in them. Not even so much that they took a ton of damage, but seeing that big ol’ die ignoring armor definitely made an impression that carried forward and informed their future actions in the fiction.
Hit my guys with a fallen angel’s b[2d10]+4 ignore armor last night. Really inspired the party to play it safe! (The druid turned into a monkey to climb all over its body to defy that danger, was awesome.)
I think the biggest I’ve done was a d10, nothing special. On the other hand, that was NCFOK, where the largest possible HP pool is 11 and the lowest is dying during character creation.
I’m pretty sure I did d10 for cannonfire once, too, but that was vanilla. In retrospect it perhaps could have been bigger, but I didn’t really know what I was doing; before one of the players pointed out the general damage guidelines rules, I was trying to stat cannons as a monster that hunted in packs and jeeeeez what was I doing…