Being an RQ2 veteran, it seems to me that Rurik with a Club is the definition of FFV- low access to resurrection, hard healing, scraping by on your clacks, and being afraid of Trollkin, while in AD&D 1 you could eventually graduate out of that phase onbce you survived to 5th level. Even at Rune Levels in RQ you had to be careful of a dagger crit which could bypass your rune metal armor. True or false?