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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2807123" data-attributes="member: 2020">Wait a minute:  Gwyndilyn took the arterial strike.  She can deliver a blow, retreat from the combat, and let the creature bleed to death.  Furthermore, she can deliver an arterial strike with an arrow.  And she has a high skill level in Hide, enabling surprise.  She also has a high dexterity and improved initiative, making it likely she will go first in the following combat round (to retreat if she hit in the surprise round, to fire again if she did not score a arterial strike the first time.)  Also, in direct combat, Gwyndilyn is good at feinting, and if she succeeds can deliver a sneak attack and arterial strike (then retreat from combat with a 40 foot movement.)  If she cannot sneak attack in melee, she can deliver 3d8 + 6 hit points of damage per round with her large bastard swords.  And this is without any magical items or spells whatsoever.  What is so weak or ineffectual about that?  EDIT:  At night, Gwyndilyn with blindsight can move through a forest silently with greater ease, sneak up on someone on a roadway, shoot him down (surprise, sneak attack, win initiative, attack again, both arterial strikes), then retreat and hide.  Before he has any chance to find her, he's a dead man from bleeding.  If he stops to heal himself, that means he's denied his Dex bonus again:  another sneak attack, and another arterial strike, is incoming.</blockquote>

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