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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 7183053" data-attributes="member: 2011">Telling the players this type of information sounds like really playing the numbers to me.How do the PCs (let alone the players) know the difference between a CR 5 monster with 80 hits points and no damage resistance vs. a CR 5 monster with 40 hits points and damage resistance? From the perspective of the PCs, both of these monsters have taken the exact same percentage amount of damage with a 10 point non-magic weapon attack.Just like the PCs (and players) should not know how many current or total hit points of damage a given monster has (with the possible exceptions of half damage as per the PHB, or nearly total damage), they also shouldn't know whether a monster has resistance or not (shy of a knowledge check).If I Fireball a 200 hit point monster for 25 points, how exactly do I know that he took 25 (no resistance, no save) or 12 (resistance or save) or 6 (resistance and save) points of damage compared to a monster with 50 hit points, 100 hit points, or 500 hit points? The monster took some damage. The player might know that the monster saved or not (depending on table), but the PC should be mostly in the dark. The description "he doesn't appear to be as hurt as you'd expect him to be" is just as applicable an expression to the 25 point Fireball against a 500 hit point monster as it is for resistance.</blockquote>