As someone who's beaten the Troll Assassin, the most difficult foe I know of, I can only say that the combination needed to get that far and survive is something like:

1. Be a paladin -seems to be the strongest/most viable overall class, with fairly potent attacks and able to both block patience damage, healing a single point of rep and, if blocking, healing four pounts of patience as well, all in one move. Doesn't block rep damage however, so best to keep dealing damage (pleasing the sorcerer who will sometimes charge your rep a bit) and defeating opponents without using personal attacks (causing rep to heal a bit).
2. Be lucky -a series of bad rolls, a bad outcome from the frickblasted druid at the wrong time, or two or three nasty trolls in a row, and you're gone. Sad, but the way the game is built.
3. Be patient -ties into the above. If you get wiped out, give it another shot, or just exit and restart the moment you see no chance of recovery.
4. Be careful -if your patience or reputation go too high, the trolls will start using their bullplop 'summon dark forces' attack and knock off half of both bars in one hit. Granted, high stat bars are also the only way to become a Social Justice Champion. (Not sure I ever managed this as anyone but the paladin. The rogue seems near-useless at long-term viability, but perhaps that's to make an overall point about stooping too low to win arguments?)
5. Be classy -even a single use of the third move, in the paladin's case "Lunge / list opponent's character flaws", I believe, stops between-battles reputation recovery after the current battle. This is almost always undesirable, unless perhaps one is worried about high rep causing enemies to cheap-shot you with 'summon dark forces'.
6. Be skilful -if your rep and/or patience are high enough, you will unlock special attack abilities, each one curiously consuming some of the resource that /doesn't/ unlock it -so, the high patience ability costs reputation, and vice versa. Note also that the advanced version of the personal attack does not count as a personal attack -it's cool like that. If the skill text is blue/yellow, it is an advanced skill.
7. Be victorious! Now go out and conquer all those who would make poorly thought-out arguments against your crusade for a better tomorrow! Or don't. Whatever.

Thank you.
You're about two years too late, so I've moved on to other games, but thank you none the less.

Originally posted by Flibedi-floob:

Thank you.
You're about two years too late, so I've moved on to other games, but thank you none the less.

Hehe, fair enough. Have a good one~

Originally posted by Highly Inappropriate:

Thank you.
You're about two years too late, so I've moved on to other games, but thank you none the less.

If it's 2 years late, then the game should refresh and you can try it again, ha!

Now it's been 8 years, so you probably don't even remember this game lmfao