Under D&D rules, a dagger does 1d4 base damage. The average human has a Strength score of 10, adding no bonuses. Several of them, due to the military background of many, likely had strength or dexterity scores of 11-14. But only two or three, and quite a few would be frail with old age, sinking to 8-9 strength. All in all, we can only add a total of +1 damage per round from Brutus.
An estimate of sixty men were involved in Caesar’s actual murder. Not the wider conspiracy, but the stabbing.
Julius Caesar was a general, which is generally depicted as a 10th level fighter. Considering his above baseline constitution and dex, weakened by his probable history of malaria, epilepsy, and/or strokes (-1 dex modifier), and lack of armor at the time of the event, he would likely have something along the lines of AC 9 and 60 HP. The senators would likely hit him roughly 55% the time.
So the Roman senate had a damage-per-round of 66, more than enough to kill Caesar in one round even without factoring in surprise round advantage.
.Let’s not forget a person can only have up to four people flanking them at the same time. The other 4 people around Caesar wouldn’t receive a flanking bonus. Plus factoring in the movement actions of those involved, that means only 16 senators could attack Caesar a round. So in actuality it would take a little over 3 rounds to kill him.
You all keep forgetting that every senator had to do time as a Roman soldier in the Legions. You didn’t get political power unless you were an experienced warrior as well. So these aren’t just a bunch of flabby old men in togas. These are the canny SOBs who survived and led lives of privilege earned in the blood of Rome’s enemies. They’re prestige level tacticians, fighters, and backbiting Advisors. And most of them haven’t forgotten how to wield a blade. Damn sure Caesar didn’t. So that’s a lot more damage behind each stab than just 1D4.
Caesar wasn’t some scrub NPC General. Caesar was an Epic Tier Warlord. He was a full on player character with all the CHA he needed to not only take power, but inspire so much fear when he decided that he’d keep it.
His assassins had to scatter like cockroaches when his people heard about what they’d done.
Dictator For Life had to be taken out unnamed in the seat of his power by “trusted” friends. Because damned sure he would have won any civil war they’d have brought to him. Massive debuffs rendered upon him from the shock of betrayal alone. They had to do it that way in game terms as well because a Warlord’s best weapons are the people loyal to him.
Going by 5th Edition, with its notable attribute inflation, the best trained NPC soldiers are “Veterans.” STR 16 DEX 13 CON 14, Multiattack. Adding them into the flat human average of 10 across the board inflates the to hit percentage and damage a bit, but Caesar still goes down in a round without grid rules.
Caesar wasn’t epic level. Epic levels don’t exist under current 5th Edition rules, and I think you’re seriously underestimating 10th level fighters. Epic level fighters in previous edition could fight archdevils and gods; no human being historically even approached those levels. Even so, if we inflate Caesar to 20th level and 18s in all stats - better than a Vampire Lord - his AC still only hits 14 and his hit points are 160ish (20d8+80).
Note that a Werewolf is STR 15, DEX 13, CON 14. An ogre is STR 19, DEX 8, CON 16.
Caesar was unarmed, and did not kill any of his attackers with his unarmed strikes due to Caesar’s lack of Monk levels. His charisma, while high, has no effect on combat. He was not a paladin or swashbuckler.
So even HyperCaesar goes down against average humans with 5 veterans in about 5-6 rounds (30-36 seconds). He would have received 20-24 attacks, but failed to do sufficient damage with any of them.
wait, so Caesar put all his points into CHA? Would that make him more of a bard? Did he ever roll to seduce the attackers?
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Some assholes have been putting nails in cheese and treats in dog parks in Chicago and Massachusetts. Also adding antifreeze to water bowls.
Please watch out for your dogs. And if you find out the address of someone doing this, give me the address and tell no one. I will disembowel them.
Antifreeze is fucking deadly as shit. Whilst my mom worked in the vets office the neighbor of a cat owner had become sick of his neighbors tom spraying by his house so he left antifreeze out for the cat. Animals are weirdly attracted to the smell and will drink it.
The cat was given to the vets and for 2 days it’s insides were slowly dissolved by the acids and it bled from his nose, mouth and even eyes.
On the second day, the vet not being able to help and refusing to let the cat suffer any longer put the cat down. The neighbor who did not deny his crimes didn’t even offer to pay the woman’s vet bill.
SO THE BIGGEST FUCKING SIGNAL BOOST TO THIS POST.
Fuck who ever is doing this. They can fucking burn.
my friend had a cat and it drank antifreeze that was puddled in the driveway and one day they were knitting and it just vomited up all of its internal organs and fell over dead on her lap.
The perpetrators of all of this will burn in Hell.
A neighbor of mine threw a ball of hamburger full of rat poison pellets over our fence for my son’s dog. He survived, barely, but has had nerve damage ever since.
Okay, listen up, if your pet drinks antifreeze, do you know what the cure is? Alcohol. That’s right. To save your furry little friend you have to get them drunk out of their faces. Antifreeze is an inhibitor and stops your enzymes from working, but luckily alcohol stops that from happening. I learned this from my A Level Biology lessons, but here’s a source anyway http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2617997.stm
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Whoever does this will get fucking shot by yours truly. I have NO sympathy for peolle who hurt animals, and chances are they also abuse their spouses/sos/children. Fucking SICK and DISGUSTING.
Ok so I’m no vet but a general rule of thumb I’ve noticied is to NOT cure poison with MORE POISON why not like….take your pet to the animal ER yeah? Don’t experiment with other things that are a HAZARD to your pets health.
^yall
Maybe alcohol does cure antifreeze in humans but even if it did in pets a single bit more than the dose would also kill your pet in the best case scenario. Worst case? You kill your pet faster.
Take them TO A VET
Get their organs fixed.
Alcohol helps HUMANS not ANIMALS alcohol is POISON to animals and I DOUBT you’d know the correct dose in correlation to your pets species, consumption, and weight/build.
I’m suddenly laughing at the idea of a cliche noir detective story written in the brutally concise style of Hemingway.
A woman walked into my office. She had legs. I noticed her legs. “I have a problem. I need your help,” she said. They always said that. I knew her legs weren’t the problem. I hoped she might want my help with them anyhow.
“Can you pay?” I asked. Of course she could. Her shoes were worth more than my rent. She could pay. “I can pay,” she said. Her eyes were wet. I wondered if anything else was wet. Probably not. I am not handsome. Not since the war. She was looking at my scar. Lots of people do. Most look away. Not her. She did not look away. She looked at my scar and I looked at her legs. There were two of them. I liked that about her. I liked that a whole lot. “Will there be danger?” I asked. There always is. This city bleeds danger, then drinks it right back up again.
“I’m afraid there might be danger,” she said. She had the voice of a beautiful woman. She also had the face and body of a beautiful woman. She was beautiful.
The light from the window was striped. It made stripes on my cigarette smoke. The end of my cigarette crumbled into ash. My marriage had also crumbled into ash.
“I can handle danger,” I said. I patted the butt of my gun. My gun was a Colt. My gun and my scar were all that was left from my time as a soldier. My gun, my scar, and the nightmares. I looked her up and down. “I am good at handling things.”
This made me crack up, media never fails to disappoint.. It’s like they think as soon as you’re pregnant a massive bump appears. Nope… How about Ohio just minds it’s own business and let each individual decide what they do or don’t do? Forcing their views and/or religious beliefs on others is wrong. I think telling your children they need to pray or go to hell to be tortured is child abuse, but you don’t see me trying to ban churches or anyone’s right to tell their kids that.
I feel like I should point out that all three screencaps of incredibly post-6 week pregnancies come from FOX News, a “news organization” with a vested interest in stoking passions in favor of this noxious Ohio legislation…
I also feel I should again note that there is another piece of legislation in Ohio that would ban abortion at 20 weeks, which would allow John Kasich the ILLUSION of looking moderate and reasonable were he to veto the 6 week ban and sign into law the 20 week one…
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