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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5996787" data-attributes="member: 3424">Today, the 4th-level dwarf takes on two fights of two orcs each and two fights of three orcs each. Between several bad rolls for the orcs and several good rolls for the dwarf, the dwarf emerged quite decidedly victorious.The first fight was over very quickly. The dwarf won initiative, killed one orc in the first round and the second orc in the next round without taking any damage.The dwarf was unluckiest in the second fight. He won initative and killed one orc in the first round, but only killed the second orc with his fourth attack, after hitting with his second, but failing to kill it, and missing with his third. In addition the orc managed to score a critical hit on the dwarf for 14 points of damage, which was reduced to 12 because he managed to parry it. After this fight, the dwarf took a short rest and spent a d12 Hit Dice and a d8 Hit Dice, recovering all his lost hit points.In the third fight, one orc managed to beat the dwarf's initiative but misssed him when it attacked. The dwarf killed it with his first attack and easily dodged the clumsy attacks of the other two orcs. Two good attack rolls and damage rolls and one Expertise Dice spent to Cleave later, the two remaining orcs were dead.The last fight went pretty much the same as the third, except that the dwarf won initiative and killed the first orc before it managed to even make an attack roll. One of the other orcs managed to hit the dwarf for 6 points of damage when it attacked, but the dwarf again killed both the orcs in the next round, this time by rolling two critical hits.All in all, the dwarf only lost 18 hit points over the course of the four fights. Of course, this was because the dwarf's good rolls cut down on the number of attack rolls the orcs managed to make against him, and the orcs' own bad luck meant that only two of the nine attacks actually hit. If the dwarf hadn't been so lucky, and the orcs hadn't been so unlucky, my guesstimate is that the orcs would have attacked him about fifteen times and hit about five times, dealing an average of about 42 points of damage, close to what the zombies dealt to the other dwarf. However, as with the previous fights, the balance seems a little off as the orc fights were actually supposed to be tougher.</blockquote>

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