One hit killed a full health, max level, character with Hedge on. (not a melee build to be fair, and hedge only blocks a max of 20 damage, but still!). He's waaay scarier than dredmor. One of these days, when I have some time, Imma gonna hunt him down. He's taken two of my players to the grave now.
Omfg, I didn't know that but it explains a LOT. I had the same kind of experience in that I got 1 shot crit by Diggy through a block with Hedge up.....and I'm like, wtf, HOW HARD does he HIT...I'm taking like half damage post-block?!?
@Gaidren, yeah, I learned that after a similar experience. That said: if you look up Vlad's damage output on dremorpedia it's huge and he does 169 damage with an 86% crit chance... so yeah, for he can kill most characters on a single hit even with a lot of protections.