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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 92071" data-attributes="member: 3146"><p>When I played 2nd edition in a high level campaign, I was playing an elven fighter/wizard (elven battlemage kit or something like that that gave me an additional +1 to hit with a longsword) with the bladesong fighting style and weapon specialization. Like most such characters, I had a good strength (thanks to lots of magic), and a nifty magic sword. IIRC, I normally had a 5/2 attack rate and used the bladesong ability to give me one free parry per round. I'd usually devote one of my normal attacks to a parry as well. This worked out quite well because most of the time, I only had 2 or three attacks on me per round. I'd parry two of them and then attack with my remaining attack (or two remaining attacks every other round). It was next to impossible for the tough enemies (in 2e, you had to choose to parry an attack before you knew if it hit so I always picked the attacks that were big, damaging, and likely to hit) to hit the character because of the parrying and the scrubs couldn't hit his armor class anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>