Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
Gygax was arguing against critical hits when he was saying that but didnt notice the save or dies were just letting magic users do it anyway.And 5E combat isn't that swingy: but it has enough swing to be fun, a real legitimate threat of death on occasion.
I have talked with people who have killed far more player characters in 4e than any other edition because they felt they could actually play it fair. So if that is the goal huzzah.
Gygax and Arneson didnt start play with level 1 characters but rather Arneson actually recommended level 4 from the very very beginning pre funny dice even.