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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RandomPrecision" data-source="post: 2101105" data-attributes="member: 29267"><p>Sounds like it went a lot better than my last near-TPK.  I was a level 1 PC rogue, and after some dropping of party members and enemies, it got down to me and a zombie.  Our party was pretty unbalanced, because we only had three people, and the other two had some inclination to both be clerics.  Anyway, as the sole survivor of our all-1st-level party, I fought this zombie for at least 4 rounds of constant missing by both of us until I began a streak of about 5 hits, all for exactly 1 damage (someone must have cursed my dice).  The streak broke after that, but we had about 7-8 rounds of either missing of dealing 1 damage, and I got hit a few times by the zombie.  Then, somewhere in there, I rolled a critical miss, and my weapon broke, so I grabbed a mace from a fallen cleric (the zombie missed his AoO), and we continued our uneventful fight until the zombie rolled a critical miss and fell over (since he didn't have a weapon).  Then, fortuitously, I hit the prone zombie and did a decent amount of damage, which killed it.  We didn't actually count the rounds, but we all estimate that I fought the zombie in solo combat for approximately 20-25 rounds, and when I was finally victorious, I had 1 hit point.  It turns out that one of the clerics was only disabled and pretending to be dead, and the other managed to stabilize himself for a while, but the fact remains that our 1st level party's total hit points were negative, and a few numbers higher on one roll would have resulted in a 1st-level TPK.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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