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My toughest ever PnP character was a paladin, he was about 20th level if I remember right and managed to survive just about anything that got thrown at him.
his stats were not that great I think they were
Str: 18/14
Con: 12
Dex: 14
Int: 13
Wis: 16
Cha: 18
I was only allowed 10 magical items because of my class but I had:
-a stone fused into my skin which gave me +1 level and allowed me to breath irrespective of the environment
-a helm which had glasses of petrification 'added to them'
-+3 two handed sword
-+6 Holy Avenger two handed sword
-+3 silver dragon plate-the scales were gifted to me by a friendly silver dragon I helped out
-a bastard sword I got from the bottom of a lake which was +1 damage but had healing spells while equipped
-a +3 hammer which could cast lightning bolt three times a day.
-Girdle of Frost giant strength
-Ring of spell reflection (roll d10 add the number to your save against spells ad reflect 10x the number rolled per cent of the spell back at the casting mage)
-ring of fire elemental summoning (a 16HD fire elemental twice a day for 10 minutes gifted to me by my church for ridding the world of a demon prince) my fire elemental was called Dave.
During my travels I also picked up numerous potions (because they didn't count towards my magical item limit after they were drunk) so I ended up with 20 con and 18 dex from the relevant potions there and I was also blessed so my Charisma went up to 20.
It took the best part of 5 years to get the character up to level 20 and because of his class he always had to ensure his companions were OK before he was, so he was last in line for healing, climbing ropes to escape hordes of undead etc etc
He endured betrayal by his younger jealous mage brother, finally forgiving him after a chase across three continents and the deaths of several of the paladins friends.
I lost count of the times he held the passageway against monsters trying to get at the badly wounded party members each time being rescued in the nick of time.
He got badly mauled and lost an eye and three fingers against a vampire count and his minions who had seized control of a seaport and planned to take over much of the world. the undead cult was eventually condemned to the hells.
He tracked down and brought to justice the leader of a large army of bandits who had been terrorising large tracks of countryside-again received several scars from that.
He finally died after a titantic battle with evil clerics a undead dragon and a lot of devil type creatures who were trying to open a rift to the 666th plane of hell. They suceeded three of our party of five were unconscious and dying (all the characters were at least 16th level) leaving the cleric and me standing, we needed the mage to close the portal, the demon hordes were fast approahing the opposite side of the rift so I had to hold them off by jumping through the rift while the mage was resurrected and could do the necessary spell to seal the portal. I got trapped. (not best pleased but hey you have to play like that if you are a paladin or you're not embracing the class properly.)
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