. . . Tracking D&D Stats

So, the Manglers played the second session of the Hoard of the Dragon Queen last night. Another solid session where we fought some kobolds and cultists, saw our bear get beaten by a half-dragon, and ended the session by splitting the party in the worst way imaginable: the ranger in deep cover with the cultists, my paladin captured by the cultists, the druid wandering around as a raccoon, and the sorcerer hiding in a cave with a handful of rescued prisoners. Next session should be interesting.

During this session, I started keeping track of our hits and misses and damage, as well as how often we were hit. (I suppose that my time spent using Excel to figure out if my paladin was more efficient with a Greatsword or sword-and-board made me a little stat happy.) Our characters are all 2nd level now. The druid spent most of his fights in bear form; the ranger fights with dual short swords; the sorcerer mainly casts cantrips; and my paladin mainly uses a greatsword. (I didn’t really track when people switched weapons–I think a couple of the druid attacks were with dual scimitars; I attacked once or twice with javelins; the ranger shot some folks with a longbow; and the sorcerer at one point dropped a 23-hp sleep on some kobolds which I didn’t count, since it’s not real damage.)

Here’s what I figured out (with highest in each category in red):

	Druid	Ranger	Paladin	Cleric/Sorcerer
Offensive Stats
Hits	7	6	6	7
Misses	15	7	2	1
Hit %	32%	46%	75%	88%
Damage	69	44	56	42
Avg. Damage per Hit	9.857143	7.333333	9.333333	6
Avg. Damage per attack	3.136364	3.384615	7	5.25
Max Dmg. Dealt	14	9	11	10
Defensive Stats
Times Targeted	27	10	10	0
# of Hits	19	5	7	0
# of Misses	8	5	3	0
% Hit	70%	50%	70%	0%
Damage Taken	163	19	39	0
Avg Damage Taken	8.578947	3.8	5.571429	0
Max Dmg. Taken	21	5	9	0

So, the druid wins in terms of damage dealt, average damage per hit, damage taken, average damage taken, and max damage taken. The numbers are, however, a little skewed because the druid had one combat against a half-dragon–a really dangerous battle that skewed some of the statistics. For example, if we remove that battle, the stats look like this:

.	Druid	Ranger	Paladin	Cleric/Sorcerer
Offensive Stats
Hits	6	6	6	7
Misses	8	7	2	1
Hit %	43%	46%	75%	88%
Damage	55	44	56	42
Avg. Damage per Hit	9.166667	7.333333	9.333333	6
Avg. Damage per attack	3.928571	3.384615	7	5.25
Max Dmg. Dealt	12	9	11	10
Defensive Stats
Times Targeted	19	10	10	0
# of Hits	13	5	7	0
# of Misses	6	5	3	0
% Hit	68%	50%	70%	0%
Damage Taken	83	19	39	0
Avg Damage Taken	6.384615	3.8	5.571429	0
Max Dmg. Taken	13	5	9	0

Overall, the stats show a nice consistency among the 3 melee characters (although the hit % for the paladin and sorcerer are a bit odd). As an afterthought, I looked at damage per round (in rounds where the character attempted an attack), and there was some difference there. (Druid: 5.75, Ranger: 5.5, Paladin: 8, Sorcerer: 6). Anyway, make of the numbers what you will.

Some things that the numbers do bear out:

*bears are really tough and can take a beating at 2nd level
* the sorcerer is really good at avoiding melee
* my paladin gets hit a disproportionately high amount (for reference, my guy has a 16 AC and the bear has an 11, and yet I was hit 70% of the time and the bear roughly the same amount
* two weapon fighting was miserable this night. No one hit with both attacks in the same round

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