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So, I chose to play as a pure fighter in a campaign. Went with warforged, opted play as a samurai, and started out as lvl 4. I enjoy the campaign, and I feel like I'm fairly helpful in our random basic encounters, dealing a fair amount of damage. Except I feel completely ineffective when facing the more imposing enemies. Our first end of dungeon boss was immune to non-magical attacks and his body guard resisted non-silvered. We slogged through the encounter, with myself only being able to do half damage the entire time. Then we have our next big confrontation at lvl 6, this time ive only been able to silver edge my weapon and we are put up against a single vampire (five people in our party: Fighter/Rogue, Fighter, Barbarian, Sorcerer, Cleric.). Again, I'm stuck only doing half damage and watching as this enemy recovers from the damage every round and for our party to succumb to its charm ability one by one, until all of us are unable to fight and our session ending on a cliffhanger of whether or not we just got party wiped.

If my character is going to be constantly running into creatures resistant to his attacks, what are some other options he can take to be effective in combat if he doesn't have access to a magical weapon?

I chose to play as a pure fighter in a campaign. Went with warforged, opted play as a samurai, and started out as lvl 4. 

I enjoy the campaign, and I feel like I'm fairly helpful in our random basic encounters, dealing a fair amount of damage. However, I feel completely ineffective when facing the more imposing enemies. 

Our first end of dungeon boss was immune to non-magical attacks and his bodyguard resisted damge from non-silvered weapons. We slogged through the encounter, with my character only being able to do half damage the entire time. Then we had our next big confrontation at lvl 6, this time I've been able to silver edge my weapon but we are put up against a single vampire (five people in our party: Fighter/Rogue, Fighter, Barbarian, Sorcerer, Cleric). Again, I'm stuck only doing half damage, watching as the vampire recovers health every round and our party gradually succumbs to its charm ability. Eventually all of us are unable to fight and our session ended on a cliffhanger as to whether or not we just got party wiped.

If my character is going to be constantly running into creatures resistant to his attacks, what are some options he can take to be effective in combat without access to a magical weapon?

So, I chose to play as a pure fighter in a campaign. Went with warforged, opted play as a samurai, and started out as lvl 4. I enjoy the campaign, and I feel like I'm fairly helpful in our random basic encounters, dealing a fair amount of damage. Except I feel completely ineffective when facing the more imposing enemies. Our first end of dungeon boss was immune to non-magical attacks and his body guard resisted non-silvered. We slogged through the encounter, with myself only being able to do half damage the entire time. Then we have our next big confrontation at lvl 6, this time ive only been able to silver edge my weapon and we are put up against a single vampire (five people in our party: Fighter/Rogue, Fighter, Barbarian, Sorcerer, Cleric.). Again, I'm stuck only doing half damage and watching as this enemy recovers from the damage every round and for our party to succumb to its charm ability one by one, until all of us are unable to fight and our session ending on a cliffhanger of whether or not we just got party wiped.

I guess my question is, how do some of you best come to terms with this? Magical weapons aren't easy to come by in this campaign, though the Rogue and Barbarian seem to have found themselves a weapon before I joined. Guess I'm just frustrated losing control of a character I'm attached to and not knowing whether or not it'll be alive next session. That charm ability is ridiculously strong btw.

So, I chose to play as a pure fighter in a campaign. Went with warforged, opted play as a samurai, and started out as lvl 4. I enjoy the campaign, and I feel like I'm fairly helpful in our random basic encounters, dealing a fair amount of damage. Except I feel completely ineffective when facing the more imposing enemies. Our first end of dungeon boss was immune to non-magical attacks and his body guard resisted non-silvered. We slogged through the encounter, with myself only being able to do half damage the entire time. Then we have our next big confrontation at lvl 6, this time ive only been able to silver edge my weapon and we are put up against a single vampire (five people in our party: Fighter/Rogue, Fighter, Barbarian, Sorcerer, Cleric.). Again, I'm stuck only doing half damage and watching as this enemy recovers from the damage every round and for our party to succumb to its charm ability one by one, until all of us are unable to fight and our session ending on a cliffhanger of whether or not we just got party wiped.

If my character is going to be constantly running into creatures resistant to his attacks, what are some other options he can take to be effective in combat if he doesn't have access to a magical weapon?