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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7438287" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Melee enemies will target whoever they can reach without provoking an opportunity attack, favoring easy targets and effective (high damage, or spellcasting) targets.Bounded Accuracy means that goblins and orcs remain a viable threat at almost any level, and groups of enemies are common at any level.It's not like a warlock has many alternatives. There's very little point in focusing on defense when you're far enough away that very few attacks are directed against you in the first place.Maybe there's no cleric.Maybe the DM is role-playing the NPCs based on what makes sense for them, and that means they attack the guy with the big sword who can't defend himself instead of the lady with the shield that they can't seem to hurt.In this specific campaign, the great-weapon wielder lucked into a very powerful greatsword around level 10, while the rest of the party was left to make do with an assortment of odds and ends. This actually exacerbated the problem somewhat, as the great-weapon wielder became even more accurate and even greater of a threat, without becoming substantially tougher in any way.This is just one combination of factors, granted, but none of the individual bits is unreasonable or terribly improbable. This combination of factors is as valid as any other, and this combination of factors is one where a shield-based fighter-type contributed more to the team than the great-weapon fighter-type did.</blockquote>

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