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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 4568961" data-attributes="member: 10784"><p>True, when we talk about old campaigns, it is those moments of heroism where the PC expects to die, but survives that we still talk about 10 years later... in an old Kalamar campaign from 2E days, my 7th level human ranger charged an evil elf bladesinger that must have been at least 11th level.  Back in 2E days, bladesingers were one of the most powerful "kits" around (old style prestige classes) and multi-classing was not nearly as balanced as 3E.  But, my guy won initiative and caused enough damage with his first hit to consult our rather brutal 2E crit chart, and I ended up getting a 5 time damage modifier and did 60 points of damage with that one hit, knocking him down to like 1 or 2 hit points, where it was a simple matter of a magic missile from the party wizard to finish the bad guy off...  (of course, since most bad guys were not around for more than 1 battle, the crit chart tended to hurt the PCs more than the bad guys, because it would often leave one of us with a permanent injury. But, that time it was a memorable victory for the good guys!)</p></blockquote><p></p>