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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baron Von Mandrick" data-source="post: 5912443" data-attributes="member: 3269">Him dying did happen as well while the party got away. But the time I remember most clearly, was kind of a perfect storm of things. A group of NPC's we thought were helping us.  Our thief had gotten trouble in a city for stealing or something like that.  The thief was due to be put in the stocks overnight when we knew some horrible undead monsters were going to hit the town that night.  Our defenseless thief would have been slaughtered.  So we had to rescue him prior to evening.We fought a running battle with various groups of town guards, until we had to climb over the wall.  That was when the NPC's we thought were helping us turned out to be doppelgangers and were attacking the party at the same time as the town guards were.  The fighter had to hold off a large group of town guards, while the rest of the injured party took out the doppelgangers.  Part of the party had already climbed the rope, and part were still on the ground.  The fighter held off the enemy on the ground while the whole party managed to get to the top of the wall, and fight the fight up there.  Their fight was difficult, but easier because of how many of them there were.  Finally after taking out more than 6 town guards and wounding others, the rest of the party took out the doppelgangers and couple of guards on top of the wall in time in time to take out the remaining guards still attacking the fighter, and get him out before more reinforcements arrived.It could have ended in TPK.  The fighter definitely didn't do everything himself, but he was the guy who shone in that fight because of his actions.  Those actions were just him taking advantage of being the guy with the best armor, and most hit points, plus some decent magic weapons and THACO.Similar things happened on smaller scales when a sleeping group was attacked while the fighter was on guard duty, and therefore already armored and ready.  There were a number of encounters where the fighter had time to shine.  It wasn't always, but he had his fair share.Also back then fighting higher level guys meant they had greater saving throw chances and reduced spell casters ability to dish out damage many times.  Where as a fighter would always have a decent THACO especially with a magic weapon.</blockquote>

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