Well, my buddy who just got home on leave from a tour in Iraq was playing with us, along with another military guy who happens to live in a base near me. I didn't want to start my friend out too complicated on his first game. Also, being that he was only going to be with us for a session, it didn't really matter what he rolled up. He really wanted to be an Elf TWF Ranger, like his elf rogue in Dragon Age: Origins. The other guy, clearly not a CO guy, settled on a Paladin. I'm versatile enough to make a character to fill the gaps in my group, but I didn't know until just before the game was starting that he was playing a pally. He had been saying he was going to play a cleric, so when he switched, it threw my whole idea off.
Long story short, we had no battlefield control, no buffs, no debuffs and no heals or potions. In our second fight, the DM got a few lucky rolls (he rolls in front of us, so no fudging. Straight up and that's the way I like it). We got into combat with a few...something, I don't remember, screwed up orc lookin dudes who wear loincloths and eat human flesh. 3 of them, 3 of us and they wont initiative. We all got hit, the ranger hits and hits hard with his scimitar, the pally smites for a good amount of damage, I miss. We get hit again, they're low, I'm at -9 hp. The pally takes the AoO to get to me and stabilizes me. He's down to like 6 hp now. The ranger hits again and drops it. The ranger gets missed, pally is missed ranger hits and down the second, pally hits and takes the second one to 2 hp. Then he puts the pally down to -4 hp. Ranger misses and gets knocked down to -2. Long story short, we were all eaten as we bled out by a dude with 2 hp FFS.
I love TPK's at level 1 lol.
