Originally posted by @%thesock10150alpha49:

Originally posted by Padds:

weak armour?

Actually yeah, that probably played a big role as well. People will blame the food first, and it's a great starting point, but taking a direct draugr hit after a missed parry while only wearing trollhide definitely hurts.

You might have had a decent amount of health, but Trollhides only advantage is it's mobility. It relies on negating the need for armor, but it actually sucks at taking damage. If you aren't able to avoid things, you'll probably want to upgrade to bronze armor.

I would definitely start by spending the time on Foods first, because that is genuinely easier and faster than grinding out Bronze. But if you feel you need it, upgrading your armor may help in some way.

Level 3 troll armor is only 6 armor (33 vs 39) less than level 3 bronze armor. The reason he died is because the game expected him to have eaten cooked fish, minced meat sauce and carrot soup for a total of 105+25 health and he had only eaten food worth at most a total of 73+25. The existence of a merchant from whom you can buy a fishing rod and the existence of carrots were concealed from him, and even if he had happened to come upon those things the game still wouldn't have told him that health influences stability/stun resistance.

He also would have died with comparable bronze armor