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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 3167881" data-attributes="member: 9254">12 L1 town guards vs. one naked L15 barbarian.  Let's see, the barbarian has ~AC10 for arguement's sake and the town guards have Point Blank as their feat.  Of the guards, only 8 are likely to hit.  Of the 8 crossbows that hit, assuming a perfect die that rolls 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 on the die for damage (+1 for point blank), the barbarian's Dr ignores the bolts that did 1+1 and 2+1 points of damage.  The remaining bolts do a whopping 21 points of damage, less than half the barbarian's 45 bonus hit points from Rage.Even if you house rule that each bolt that hits is a crit, the barbarian still only takes 48 hp after DR, which is barely more than his bonus Rage hp. If you rule that all the bolts flat out hit and do crit damage he's still only taking 96 hp after DR, half of which would be recovered by Rage.  Once he begins punching people with power attack he'll probably be knocking them unconscious with a single blow. Grappling him is actually a bad thing since it means he can attack them unarmed without earning an AoO.  Pinning is likely to happen since he's got that lovely +6 strength adjustment for a Grapple:+21; the guards are basically praying he rolls a 1.  They might manage to overwhelm him before he takes them all out.  Maybe.  While he's buck naked.   May a diety take mercy on them if he gets a weapon.  Soooooo.....if you want a dozen guardsmen to be a threat, go play Runequest (the Chaosium version).  Or MERPS.  Something based on the Cyberpunk Interlok system.   But not D&D.  A dozen 1st level guardsmen have never been a threat to a 15th level anything else in any version of D&D I've ever seen.</blockquote>

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