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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eXodus" data-source="post: 189858" data-attributes="member: 417">i dmed my usual game this evening, a modified 3e forgotten realms game. the party was trekking through the forests of cormyr looking into the rumors of a forest that came alive and attacked an army with the aid of undead. this party being: human rogue6, human barbarian1/fighter4/longblade1 (from wotc contest), sun elf evoker6, human rogue3/fighter2, halfling cleric4/rogue1, and an npc human barbarian2/fighter1/ranger1.i had the party attacked during the night while camping by a band of elite orcs. 8 2nd level fighters, a babarian6, sorcerer5, cleric6, and a rogue3/ranger2.the orc assault team attacked in three waves, first the rogue/ranger came in under sneakiness and then assaulted the npc with both swords, dropping him. he then ran off. the next wave was three of the fighter2, and the barbarian. i had the fighters using power attack a lot. and i was rolling pretty well.  things really got ugly when the party got seperated into three groups. the rogue/ranger made the mistake of going toe to toe with the raging barbarian who had bull's strength cast on him. the orc beat him into the ground.the battle went poorly for a number of rounds, as i was rolling great even while using power attack, thusly the party was getting beaten down.the party only has one asskicker and he ended up getting webbed by the sorc and was out of the battle for three rounds.this ugly battle went on and on, almost every character spent some time in the negatives, all potions were sucked down. it all came down to a single roll of stabilization.the poor fighter/rogue had to roll his check or die. he had failed five previous checks, and no one could get to him to save him. he failed. he rolled 92 on his % die.thusly he died. this is the second character that this player has lost. i feel a little bad. one it came down to a single roll of the die. two, i will now have to either add a new character to the party and developed storyline which will be a pain in my ass. or three i have to come up with a good way of raising the dead character without it seeming too cheesy.any ideas on how i could deal with this?</blockquote>

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