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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8063170" data-attributes="member: 87792">And this is a separate D&D problem - that the hit point rules mean that the fighters aren't waving around sharpened weighted pieces of metal so much as boffer swords. A realistic and skilled human should be able to dispatch an unarmoured ogre in a single solid hit to the throat or under the rib cage to the heart. In 5e an ogre has 59 hit points. A storm giant is CR 13 and has 230 - but being humanoids one shot to the foemeral artery should be lethal. Which means a level 20 fighter can't match a real world expert swordsman in terms of lethality.As for the red dragon or lich, both would have to be exceptionally stupid to let the fighter get close. The dragon can fly and breathe fire. If they land to get within reach of the fighter and then lose then they deserve a Darwin Award, and the fighter doesn't really have extra ways to close on the dragon than they had at lower level.So they can't actually do what you claim.</blockquote>