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Chapter 29.1

Here are the updated character sheets. I modified them to show weapons and AC.

Jace:

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I’ve been neglecting Jace, which I think is okay, but I might have to upgrade him in the future. He doesn’t have any cool equipment. If you total up his AC bonuses (No shield or Intimidate), it comes to 1+16+8+10=35. Then he gets to parry. The lowest score he can get is 5, which means rolling a 1, which is always a fail. The highest he can get is 25, which would give him an AC of 60. Psycho and Esther would hit him about half the time, but most NPCs he goes up against won’t, but he is far from invincible. If he fights another Drescher who is ready for his tricks, he could be in trouble.

When he stands his ground, he swaps his natural AC for his Intimidation. If any of his opponents’ alignments match his, the 14 is multiplied by 0. If any of them are opposite, 14 is multiplied by 2 for each.

Esther:

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Unlike Jace, Esther took all four weapon training feats to give herself a +15. Because she is using light weapons, she gets to use her Dex base of 14 instead of 10 to bring her melee with the rapiers to 49. For defense, if she uses her new shield and dodges, she can get up to 11+8+22+10 = 51. If she is Hasted, she increases this by 5. But, with a stealth score of 47, she will want to spend most of her time in the shadows. With her damage up to 43, she will kill almost character in one shot if she makes a sneak attack.

This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

Draya

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I didn’t realize how powerful her staff would be when I gave it to her. But since I gave her permanent Dragon Strength when she holds it, which raises her Strength skills by her level (16), and I said she had Master proficiency with it, that gave her another +15 to hit. So she now has 40 to attack. I also gave her +15 to parry with it, so her AC is 14+18+10 = 42. Now, this is when she is wearing her mage robe/dress that Esther and Gromphy are going to get cursed, so, as you are reading this, she only has an Armor skill of 4, so when she casts Mage armor, she will only get a bonus of 4. Hopefully, she doesn’t get attacked in the next few chapters. 😊

I also included her stats once she casts Dragon Spirit. Since that increases all of her essential stats by a lot, I show those in red. The Dragon Fire Dam number of 430 is how much damage she would do to a single target if she spent everything she could. It will be a little less using her staff and even less if it is a fireball.

Psycho

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I hinted at most of these numbers already. I didn’t say how good he is at melee combat, however. In one of the previous chapters, he says Jace is better with the sword than he is, but that is because Jace can get multiple crits on almost every hit, and Psycho only gets natural crits 5% of the time. He will exceed the enemy’s AC by ten a lot, but Jace does it better and more consistently.

Psycho’s biggest weakness is AC, as he only has 32 when he is dodging. When he is shooting his bow, he can’t take any defensive actions and is considered flat-footed. He isn’t going to fight in melee often, but he kills things fast when he does. But increasing his Dodge is something I should look into.

I also included both his bows and both kinds of arrows he uses. It looks like the elemental bow does more damage because three of its levels were used for damage, while all 15 of Dragonwing’s levels were used for distance. I did say his arrows would do 35 damage, and that is because he will need to spend three criticals to add 150 to his shot, and that adds 3 more damage to the 32 I show.

If you have questions, let me know, but I imagine most people aren’t going to study these stats too closely. I just want to let you know I am thinking about it, and I promise not to include a scene where Jace just “tries really hard” and manages to stab a dragon in the eye and kill it. Everything will be earned.