Damage xd6x10^something.

[Dusk Eclipse]

I remember a hulking hurler build that dealt so much damage you needed scientific notation to properly express it, does anybody else remembers it? And by any chance does anybody have a link to it?

[Studoku]

I did a bit of googling but couldn't find an actual build.

The idea is fairly straightforward. Damage done by a thrown object increases linearly with the objects weight (+1d6/200lbs) A hulking hurler can throw any object he can carry as a medium load. Carrying capacity increases exponentially with strength so this breaks pretty quickly.

Combine this with being as large as possible and ideally a quadruped, then add on items which boost your carrying capacity even further and you'll reach the point where you can throw buildings, mountains and moons at people.

[Dusk Eclipse]

I know about the basis, the thing is that I made a claim in another thread (the "Balancing the Order" about "mundane" not needing moar damage and used the hulking hurler as an example and I want to be able to sustain my claim.

The thing is that I haven't been able to find it.

[Karnith]

Well, there was Baby Shump (http://community.wizards.com/comment/20881781#comment-20881781), who could deal up to 3.879e271d6+2265 damage with his Throw Anything ability. Of course, that's more Tauric being broken than Hulking Hurler, and there are some rules issues with that particular build, but I believe that it had the highest numbers.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Close enough I guess.

[Karnith]

Do you need an example of a Hulking Hurler dealing that much damage (i.e. that it requires scientific notation)? Because the bog-standard Hulking Hurler at the beginning of that thread (http://community.wizards.com/forum/previous-editions-character-optimization/threads/886586) was dealing up to 1,331d6+39 damage per throw. Not quite to the extreme that you're describing, but that's still almost 5,000 damage on average.

[Dusk Eclipse]

I did claim it needed scientific notation.

[Gwendol]

I remember a build using truly massive objects shrunk down to manageable size, is that the one? Read it several years ago, but can't find it now.

[Firechanter]

I also definitely remember _seeing_ that build, complete with the scientific notation, but that was years ago and I have no idea where to find it now. It was not the "shump" from the above link, because the page had colourful pictures in it.

Maybe on BG?

[Vaz]

There's Tauric Creature/Whatever X/Hulking Hurler 3/Cancer Mage 1, which has Arbitrary Strength and hence Arbitrary high capacity to throw things.