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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6324673" data-attributes="member: 29398">Obviously the 25th-level type is better at what he does than his 3rd-level self; and the combat will be shorter.  But"shorter" doesn't necessarily equate to "one-hit kill" and nor should it (I'll ignore critical hits for this discussion); if the Giant has 95 h.p. and Toughnose the Fighter-25 hits it for 36, that Giant's still around and (in 4e terms) isn't even bloodied yet.  Chances are ol' Toughnose is only going to miss on a '1' so the Giant's chance of survival is mighty close to nil, what matters is how long the Giant hangs around to clobber Toughnose - sure his AC might be in the lower stratosphere but Giants tend to hurt you when they hit you and the more chances they get the more likely Toughnose's nose might get a little bent.Lanefan</blockquote>