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Re: Godzilla is stronger than you.
Tue, 2007-05-01 09:08 — tboneRight, I would take the approach of looking at all the damage rolls, DR, HP, etc. together, and balancing these to get the desired effect.
If we set G's own damage to rules as written, then with ST 750, his thr damage will be 76d. Assume that monster foes will deliver similar damage, and that we want their attacks to potentially hurt G. DR 300 technically does allow for that, though in practice damage will almost never get past DR, as that many dice make extreme (i.e., non-average) results very improbable.
Still, with foes using AOA damage, or other higher-damage attacks, it should be possible to hurt G (even more so if we reduce DR to 250 or so).
It's probably best to rescale stats for monster-vs-monster combat – say, divide by 50, so G has Monster ST 15, delivers 1d+1 Monster Damage, and has Monster DR 5 or 6. That's much easier to play, keeps familiar combat feel, and allows for more variation in damage results.