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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 3862813" data-attributes="member: 51942">Your problems are compounded by a number of issues6th level Wealth by Level is 13k.  Generally, this means that you can spend no more than 1/3 of this amount on a single item, and if you're lenient 1/2 (which I wouldn't be with uncommon things like highly magical spiked chains)  That means no items of more that 4333gp each, and that means at most a +1 Spiked chain.  It's just a +1, and not by itself a problem, but it add's to the issues.You're using the worst possible creatures against a spiked chain fighter: relatively small bipedal creatures with limited strength and a low number of hitpoints each.  This is easy to fix, just add some creatures that don't drop in a single hit to halt his great-cleave madness.You made a rules mistake by allowing great cleave to trigger an attack on all opponents within reach, when you get only one. That's really easy to fix, of courseYou sound like you didn't play very tactically (which would have been difficult with that rules mistake anyhow, but still).<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use Total Defense for +4 AC as a standard action when approaching such dangerous foes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use grapple to take him out of combat completely.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use Smokesticks or whatnot to impose a concealment misschance on the cheap, making successive hits that much more unlikely.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use hold person or any other fighter specific counter-strategy against him.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Realize that reach weapons are like ranged weapons when determining cover - that means soft cover works and if any line can be drawn between the two respective squares that's obstructed by a creature, even an ally, you have cover and thus +4 AC and no AoO's.  If you use his allies as cover against him, another meta-game benefit is that you'll be including them more since enemies are likely to approach them more closely.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">instead of attacking him, ready an attack (including a five-foot step), triggering as soon as he's within 10-feet.  No AoO, and you get to attack first too!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use tumble to avoid AoO.  A creature with 5 tumble ranks gets +6 AC instead of +4 when using total defense, too.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use ranged weapons, and reach weapons!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use mounted opponents.  Good luck tripping a horse...</li> </ul>And of course you can combine these factors.  Use concealment, soft cover, and ready a grapple with five-foot step all in one round <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.Realize also that it's pretty coincidental that your other PC's can't deal with huge amounts of 1HD mooks easily.  I mean, even the first level spells "Sleep" and "Color Spray" would be devastating against such a group, not to speak of fireball - so let him have a bit of glory, and have him tremble with fear against many many of the things which the rest are much better at ;-).(Of course, a ranger and a paladin are liable not to be really optimal, but that's that...)</blockquote>

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