You are making the mistake of setting your fantasy character up against a normal animal.
You as a real life human would be fighting the orka, not your fantasy character. They would be fighting a Chimera. Which can do all those things you mentioned as well.
And if you think your fantasy character can beat a Chimera with their weapons and magic, that would be the same as you thinking you can beat an orka with your bare hands.
Unless you are some elite high level special ops in the military, you will not win against an orka.
Let’s say as a party you’ve taken down a few monsters already. Without knowing the proportional strength of a chimera to the monsters you’ve already faced how would you know?
Like let’s say I did kill an Orca on my own. Then I see a polar bear, the Orca was a lot bigger so seems reasonable.
Now living in the age of technology, not a fantasy setting, I personally know that a polar bear would be a lot harder to beat. But how’s an adventurer supposed to know that? They don’t have wikipedia and national geographic in most fantasy settings. It’s not unreasonable to believe when encountering a creature that no one in the party is familiar with it at all.
Wasn’t familiar with “Touch of Death”; I don’t play clerics often. But it’s just a smite.
Assuming average HP on level up and +3 CON mod: Barb: 25; Fighter: 22; Cleric: 19.
And Touch of Death does +9 damage at level 2.
I’m only breaking out numbers to get a better idea of what the users of the ability would be seeing, and what level of lethality they would come to expect from repeated usage. And that’s not killing anyone with a touch except commoners, and level 1 wizards and sorcerers.
My only point is: people who have had to risk their life to even get to level 2 (unless they’re reckless or an idiot) probably wouldn’t have an overly big head over middling magical abilities. They might be feeling themselves and think they can fight a group of thugs at 4 to 1 odds but it’s bonkers to pretend a normal adventurer would need some ex machina explanation to warn them off fighting something like a giant or a dragon at level 2.
If I was a magic robot that could throw fireballs or kill something by simply touching it IRL, probably.
You are making the mistake of setting your fantasy character up against a normal animal.
You as a real life human would be fighting the orka, not your fantasy character. They would be fighting a Chimera. Which can do all those things you mentioned as well.
And if you think your fantasy character can beat a Chimera with their weapons and magic, that would be the same as you thinking you can beat an orka with your bare hands.
Unless you are some elite high level special ops in the military, you will not win against an orka.
Let’s say as a party you’ve taken down a few monsters already. Without knowing the proportional strength of a chimera to the monsters you’ve already faced how would you know?
Like let’s say I did kill an Orca on my own. Then I see a polar bear, the Orca was a lot bigger so seems reasonable.
Now living in the age of technology, not a fantasy setting, I personally know that a polar bear would be a lot harder to beat. But how’s an adventurer supposed to know that? They don’t have wikipedia and national geographic in most fantasy settings. It’s not unreasonable to believe when encountering a creature that no one in the party is familiar with it at all.
Yeah, but you’re not that at level 2.
Well, not fireball; but being a Warforged isn’t level dependent, it’s a race, and Touch of Death is a level 2 spell for a Death Domain cleric.
Wasn’t familiar with “Touch of Death”; I don’t play clerics often. But it’s just a smite.
Assuming average HP on level up and +3 CON mod: Barb: 25; Fighter: 22; Cleric: 19.
And Touch of Death does +9 damage at level 2.
I’m only breaking out numbers to get a better idea of what the users of the ability would be seeing, and what level of lethality they would come to expect from repeated usage. And that’s not killing anyone with a touch except commoners, and level 1 wizards and sorcerers.
My only point is: people who have had to risk their life to even get to level 2 (unless they’re reckless or an idiot) probably wouldn’t have an overly big head over middling magical abilities. They might be feeling themselves and think they can fight a group of thugs at 4 to 1 odds but it’s bonkers to pretend a normal adventurer would need some ex machina explanation to warn them off fighting something like a giant or a dragon at level 2.