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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CPXB" data-source="post: 1468892" data-attributes="member: 17233">It would have been the same way with a fighter.  In some ways worse because a fighter in heavy gear would have been staggering around from fight to fight -- those animals found it damn easy to charge the 100 feet from us to them (so did my monk, BTW) which is something that a fighter would not have been able to do.  A fighter would have literally missed out on two rounds of the fight, given its structure -- a fair bit of running around -- and the fight was only five rounds!Also, since I am considering changing characters I have statted out a sixth level fighter with gear.  The fighter would have done roughly the same damage as the monk, had an attack score two better and a two better AC.  This would have been offset by the fact the monk's multiple attacks would create a far more likely chance of the monk hitting (at least hitting these giants) -- the fighter would have had a seventy-two percent chance of landing a blow whereas my monk had a seventy-five percent chance of landing a blow and a much better chance of landing two blows.So, in this particular fight a fighter would have simply been less useful in melee than my monk.</blockquote>