ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Right, I did that for a while, eventually running into a series of tree's where he had me cornered and I couldn't get out, I hadn't found a rune of teleportation/phase door yet so that wasn't an option either. I realize this may be a special case, but thought I'd point it out.

Made a new Fighter, Human, Cornac. Level 2 of the trollmire I came across a rogue with a regen rune. With the starter iron longsword and shield, I only did 5-6dmg to him at a time, he kept using his regen rune and I could not kill him and he couldn't kill me (did 0 dmg). Finally realize there is a 2...