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Re: Godzilla is stronger than you.
Thu, 2007-05-31 04:36 — Bruno (not verified)Sadly, the only Godzilla movie I've seen was the recent remake in "modern Holywood style", and I'm told that's essentially not a Godzilla movie.
That said, the rule of thumb I've been using for "Can take on military hardware" has been "How does he fare against the HMG .50 and the Bazooka on basic p281, and "how does he fare against the tank on p470?"
Starting with the tank, the main gun is going to cause the most problems for our Godzilla. It does on average 630 damage, and halves his DR for an average 480 wounding per shot. 10 or 11 tank shells will take Godzilla down to 0 HP... I have no idea how that compares to how Godzilla performs in the movies, but if it's too squishy, the first thing I suggest tweaking is Hardening Godzillas scales. I remember someone saying that he regenerates too, and that will get scaled up nicely in 4e so that may also be helpful.
The Bazooka is largely irrelevant. It bounces off of Godzillas' scaley hide. If you had someone standing inside his mouth shooting into the back of his throat or something, the lack of DR and the 4x damage for an internal explosion only boosts the damage up to 168 per shot, so I don't think your kamikaze bazookaman would do anything significant before being swallowed or neemed with nuclear death breath or whatever.
The machine gun does nothing to Godzilla's outside either, although the average wounding of ~558/second after taking pi+ into account means that Godzilla would be happier with a bazooka in his mouth than a machine gun.