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Originally Posted by Anthony
Hey, it was an improvement over 3e orcs -- they shifted from a d12(x3) weapon to a 2d4(18-20/x2) weapon.
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Yeah. When I was running D&D3.0 a 3rd level ranger with nice high Con got one-shotted by an Orc because he flubbed his Spot check and then took a critical from a bog-standard Orc with the issue great axe. Bam! Dead.
The change in D&D3.5 was sensible, though as they changed the standard stat spread for monsters from 10-11 in all stats to 13,12,11,10,8 it wasn't as much help as it might've been, as 1d12+3 (x3) to 2d4+4 (18-20/x2) only really saves 3rd+ level frontline types from being one-shotted. D&D3.x Orcs were pretty rough on low-level PCs, I found. For bigger PCs, Ogres were pretty scary, too - same sort of glass-cannon effect. And then there were Trolls. Everything's fine, and then one gets a hit with both claws and suddenly someone gets torn in half.