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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 2827719" data-attributes="member: 284">Whenever it's come up for me,  it went a little different.   My dwarven fighter carried a shield for things like this  (shield is normally equipped, dropping it as part of movement, or as a move action when he wanted to switch to a two-handed grip).   And he has combat expertise, dodge, and mobility.   So he closes with the hydra,  who needs natural 20's to hit.  Everyone else stays back, except for the rogue who tumbles in after he's got the hydra focused  on him.   Hydra goes down in a round or two, minimal damage to the party.It really depends on the type of fighter and the rest of the party.   If it's a two-handed fighter/barbarian that didn't invest any feats in AC boosts and relies on out-damaging his opponent, then the Hydra has the advantage because of the number of attacks and damage it can do.  If the other party members can't help him out (blinding the Hydra, Ray of Enfeeblement,  direct damage, etc), then he's going to take a lot of damage, and it could go very badly for the party.If you have an AC monkey or two in the group,  then opponents like the Hydra are much less dangerous (assuming that they can get the hydra focused on them for the initial rounds of combat).  (But your damage output tends to be a significantly less because you spent your feats differently, at least until higher levels where additional feats and magic items can be used to shore up weak areas of your PC type.)Or if the party has strong ranged attacks and ways of slowing the hydra down (Web, grease, everyone in the party flying, etc.)</blockquote>

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