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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 5135157" data-attributes="member: 1154">I think there are 2 factors at work here.First, a monster being left at 1 hp is quite memorable, so selective memory probably skews things a bit.Second, it wouldn't surprise me if there's a statistical basis for this being common, and it only becomes more common if you increase the 'threshold' (e.g. if you count not just being left at 1 hp, but at 2 or even 3).Consider this. Let's say I'm using an at-will that does 1d10+6 damage, and I'm fighting something with anywhere from 9 to 16 HP left. In other words, depending on what I roll I might drop the monster or I might leave it at 1 or 2 hp.In fact, regardless of what the monster's hp is, as long as it's in that range I have a 10% chance of leaving it with 1 hp and and a 20% chance of leaving it with 1 or 2 hp.From every 5 such monsters, I have a roughly 2/3 chance of leaving at least one of them with 1 or 2 hp left (1-[.2]^5)=~.67.Of course, this is a very simple example. Once you start getting into larger pools of dice, the odds skew and become more difficult to calculate. The range of hp values where you're capable of leaving the monster at 1 or 2 hp also increases, though.Just did the math for 2d10. Assuming I did it correctly, and assuming it's equally likely that a monster's HP is anywhere in the range where it can leave 1 or 2 hp left (e.g. 3-22 for 2d10+0), there's an 11% chance of leaving the monster at 1.Now the real x-factor here is how likely a given monster is to be in an attack's "minionizing range" at some point before it's killed. This probability probably goes up as attacks do more dice of damage and thus get a larger range, but consequently the actual probability of the attack minionizing the monster goes down...But one thing I didn't account for is that an attack that does very little damage against a monster at the high end of the minionizing range will leave the monster in the minionizing range. If my curiosity gets the better of me I might program something to calculate that later. This is what really matters, since the question here isn't the likelihood of a given attack minionizing a monster, but of a given monster ever being minionized by ANY attack.</blockquote>

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