What do you need the stats for?
The only time I used commoners in 4e they worked like an environmental hazard, i.e. a fleeing mob that impeded the PCs.
What if your group is fighting in the middle of a crowded street? Having bystanders presents an added challenge as the PCs will presumably not want to kill them and just can't just throw around AOE damage spells willy nilly like they could otherwise. Whereas, the bad guys probably don't care how many innocent people get killed by their AOEs.
When this has come up in my game we've handled it in various ad hoc ways. Remember that the player can always choose that "dropped to zero" equals unconsciousness, not death, so to a significant extent this will be about what the attacking player thinks makes sense in the fiction.What if your group is fighting in the middle of a crowded street? Having bystanders presents an added challenge as the PCs will presumably not want to kill them and just can't just throw around AOE damage spells willy nilly like they could otherwise. Whereas, the bad guys probably don't care how many innocent people get killed by their AOEs.
In 4e there's two kinds of AOE damage: One kind also affects allies (aka 'friendly fire'), the other only affects enemies. The former would be problematic to use in a crowded street, the latter isn't affected, since it's up to the spellcaster (or power user) to define who is to be considered an ally for the effect.What if your group is fighting in the middle of a crowded street? Having bystanders presents an added challenge as the PCs will presumably not want to kill them and just can't just throw around AOE damage spells willy nilly like they could otherwise. Whereas, the bad guys probably don't care how many innocent people get killed by their AOEs.
When this has come up in my game we've handled it in various ad hoc ways. Remember that the player can always choose that "dropped to zero" equals unconsciousness, not death, so to a significant extent this will be about what the attacking player thinks makes sense in the fiction.
I certainly have memories of the wizard player in my game using Colour Spray as an AoE when innocent parties were in the area, as he could easily envisage as something that might knock them out but not hurt them beyond that.