My 3 main fighter types - a dwarf fighter, a human ranger, and a human cleric) are all 5th level. My other three chars - a human thief, a half elf cleric/mage, and a half-elf fighter/cleric, are 5th, 3/4, and 4/4 (i think). Anyway, my party gets used as a chew toy by the Verbeeg. I managed to take out the acolyte and the first two Verbeeg, but the next two killed all but the cleric/mage and the fighter/mage (who were standing well back). I used missile weapons as much as possible with the cleric, the thief, cleric/mage, and fighter/cleric, while the ranger and the dwarf blocked the hall while fighting the verbeeg. My dwarf has 71HP and was the first to go down, while the ranger has 54 and was the second to go. Needless to say it got messier from there. I made it out with those last two, but left everyone's stuff behind (I planned on restoring from a saved game anyway). Is my party too underpowered to handle giants? or did I just encounter a long run of bad luck? If I am underpowered, what levels should I attain first, and where do I get the experience? It seems to me that there are few random encounters as the maps are not the same as in Baldur's Gate, where you could wander around and get random encounters.
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