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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 2786874" data-attributes="member: 6779">Their stats, as presented, are definitely stacked in her favor.With no magic items on his side, Claire has a big advantage over him. His specialty is melee, but he is almost certainly not going to get a chance to close unless Claire uses monumentally bad tactics. As I tried to highlight in my example, protection from arrows negates his only non-melee option, whereas hold person has a 50/50 chance of negating him, period.If he had some boots of striding and springing or perhaps a periapt of wisdom, it might be a little less one-sided. Even a tanglefoot bag would have made life more difficult for her. (For that matter, a level of barbarian instead of fighter would have made distance less of an issue.) But this is also why characters travel in parties -- a cleric on Narrin's side could have made a huge difference, for instance, by casting silence or remove paralysis. (But then, Claire might have had a druid on her side casting entangle...)This isn't to say the battle couldn't end up with a win for Narrin -- but probably not on an open field with free movement, and mundane gear. If they were walking down perpinduclar dungeon corridors and both came 'round a corner and smacked into each other, they would launch straight into melee and Narrin would be able to use his abilities to the utmost.If he could get a good grapple on her, she'd be up the creek.-The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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