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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5995726" data-attributes="member: 3424">The dwarf goes up two levels today, because I got distracted yesterday homebrewing a 5e Warlord class based on the dragon sorcerer.At 460 XP, a single orc is about halfway between an "average" encounter and a "tough" encounter for a 2nd-level character. My trusty spreadsheet also indicates that the 2nd-level dwarf will beat an orc about 98.98% of the time, and he will only need to beat two orcs to gain a level. Once again, both the fights pretty much ran along similar lines. There were quite a few low rolls for both the orcs and the dwarf. The dwarf basically lost initative both times, missed on his first attack, and killed the orc on his second attack. As for the orcs, they managed to attack the dwarf four times over the two fights, but only hit once, dealing the minmum of 3 points of damage.After taking a long rest and and reaching 3rd level, the dwarf goes back to fighting orcs. He needs to defeat four orcs to reach 4th level, but instead of taking them on one at a time (which would be close to the "average" budget of 425 XP for a 4th-level character) he will take them on two at a time, which would exceed the "tough" budget of 850 XP.This time round, the orcs had a run of terrible luck, while the dwarf's luck was more average. The orcs won initative in the first fight, but kept missing the dwarf. On the other hand, the dwarf killed one orc with his first attack but failed to kill the second orc with Cleave. He missed the orc in the second round, but killed it on the third. In the second fight, the dwarf won initiative and killed one orc with his first attack. The orc missed the dwarf in the first round, but hit him in the second. However, as the dwarf had also missed the orc in the second round, he was able to use his Expertise Dice to parry the orc's attack, reducing the damage by 6 points from 9 to 3. The dwarf then killed the second orc in the third round.Overall, it seemed that the orcs were far less dangerous than the zombies, as they only managed to inflict 3 points of damage to the dwarf between level 2 and level 3, and between level 3 and level 4. However, this might have been because the orc were less lucky than the zombies. If the orcs had been hitting at about the same rate as the zombies, they would have dealt about 17 points of damage between level 2 and level 3, and 25 points of damage between level 3 and level 4. This would be close to the 14 and 26 points of damage that the zombies dealt to the dwarf. However, the balance still seems a little off as the zombies were closer to "average" encounters while the orcs were closer to "tough".To get to 5th level, the dwarf needs to defeat ten orcs. However, instead of having five fights of two orcs (which would be between "average" and "tough" for a 4th-level character), I will run two fights with two orcs and two fights with three orcs (which would be harder than "tough". Let's see how that pans out.</blockquote>

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