I got you twenty times! I must be Epic level!

That was a pretty sorry showing, Barry. 

I take a size penalty to AC, and she gets a bonus!

I think it's impressive how you tanked 20d4 damage in six seconds and seem no worse for the wear.

Was that six seconds, though?

I guess I don't know.

We'll have to do it again.

Altronus, time us.

If attack rolls were meant to represent individual attacks or damage rolls meant to represent individual hits, I imagine Paizo would have worded Piranha Strike a little differently. 

You make a combination of quick strikes, sacrificing accuracy for multiple, minor wounds that prove exceptionally deadly.

Prerequisites: Weapon Finesse, base attack bonus +1.

Benefit: When wielding a light weapon, you can choose to take a –1 penalty on all melee attack rolls and combat maneuver checks to gain a +2 bonus on all melee damage rolls.

Yeah, attack and damage rolls are an abstraction. 

Unless you're using a ranged weapon.

...Unless you're using a ranged weapon.

I'm lost.

Controlling for stats, the inquisitor is, broadly speaking, better than me at the fundamentals of fighting. Controlling for stats, the inquisitor is better at keeping her footing than me, better in a clinch, would be better at batting a baseball out of the air, would be better at pulling off a Dirty Trick.

She has more... let's call it c-factor. 

Then - oh, then you're a believer in the factor of Selfhood theory?

In the what now?

You'd want to talk to scholar of the martial arts about it, but there's this whole panoply of traits which are known or thought to be co-related to each other like bodily resistance is with the strength of your alignment aura and whether you take reduced or no effect from certain magicks. Some people want to include things which are much less obviously co-related (or, if he's being honest, which seem like they're more parsimoniously explained in other ways than their being an expression of the same underlying factor as alignment aura), like skill at fighting, or even job skills and social skills and knowledge of the sciences. My understanding is that there rages a fierce debate around the world as to which things are true expressions of Selfhood, or caused by a common cause as Selfhood, or caused by one of the expressions of Selfhood, or not co-related with the rest of the panoply at all.

Some of what you've been saying makes more sense if I assume that you're all absolute Selfhood maximalists. 

This must be how gods feel about their squirrels. 

I've noticed that I'm much more physically resistant than I was before being chosen as a paladin - I suspected it, and checked by slapping a wall to see how hard I'd have to before it stung. This isn't surprising, everyone knows that people with magic are more physically resistant, but I suppose the multitude of selects in the Vault does make for a fairly unique opportunity to see whether Selfhood theory is true, and if so, what's bound up in it...

Let's do a science.

Uh, we were talking about our plans for fighting the diabolists? 

This will be valuable information for fighting the diabolists. 

If we decide to do that, which, uh, I'm very not sure we should. For several reasons, including that if we try, uh... maybe Asmodeus just levels all of his people up.

...Fair point. But who are we supposed to be fighting, then?

These mysteries are beyond me.

Sivius, what's your Strength score?

His Strength is 3d6 = 7 just kidding his Strength is some number he doesn't know, other than that it's below average. 

It should be pretty easy to check how much you can lift off the ground or over your head.