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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3444338" data-attributes="member: 11760">Well, even if&nbsp; you drop down the stats, it's still not really possible to make NPCs as smart as they can be in tabletop, IMO. Take the Hellfire Ramparts drake boss. If it was smart enough to attack anyone casting a heal in preference to all others, it would have to be made a LOT weaker for it not to win pretty much every time. And a drake with wimpy stats would feel awfully strange. It would necessitate redoing the stats for everything eventually.And the obscene amount of hit points and damage and mana are required because there has to be sufficient granulatrity for 70 levels to feel sufficiently different. Add in the granularity for different classes, races, stats and gear, and you're pretty much required to use much bigger numbers than are necessary in D&amp;D. (Or practical, for that matter -- no one wants to roll 4d100 for each and every attack.)Oh, I know. My wife and I duo together in Battlegrounds, and everyones goes after the priestess, since they presume she's a softer target, when she's got hit points that make melee characters jealous. Meanwhile, I blast away at them freely. It works very well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 3444338, member: 11760"] Well, even if you drop down the stats, it's still not really possible to make NPCs as smart as they can be in tabletop, IMO. Take the Hellfire Ramparts drake boss. If it was smart enough to attack anyone casting a heal in preference to all others, it would have to be made a LOT weaker for it not to win pretty much every time. And a drake with wimpy stats would feel awfully strange. It would necessitate redoing the stats for everything eventually. And the obscene amount of hit points and damage and mana are required because there has to be sufficient granulatrity for 70 levels to feel sufficiently different. Add in the granularity for different classes, races, stats and gear, and you're pretty much required to use much bigger numbers than are necessary in D&D. (Or practical, for that matter -- no one wants to roll 4d100 for each and every attack.) Oh, I know. My wife and I duo together in Battlegrounds, and everyones goes after the priestess, since they presume she's a softer target, when she's got hit points that make melee characters jealous. Meanwhile, I blast away at them freely. It works very well. :D [/QUOTE]

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