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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 1492680" data-attributes="member: 6562">Hey U_K! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />From 1e on I remember that HP have always come with warning labels that tell you NOT to confuse them with ability to soak up lethal damage -- they're an abstract ability to not die from blows, by lunging to the side or parrying the blade at the last second.Better question is: how many swings at a housecat would it take before you finally killed it? That's a question that D&D's HP mechanic could model. How many blows when you have a cat held down and helpless? That's the Coup de Grace mechanic, and it's made to bypass HP. All in all, when D&D says "hit", it isn't always "a palpable hit!"Given that in 3.5e D&D there are many dragons which do start out as Tiny, and that they do have quite a lot of HD for their size (at all sizes), I think I'm being true to the current spirit of the rules.I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say for the record that IMHO dragons are magical. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />John Q. Mayhem: If you think that a Tiny Dragon is evil, throw a Grig Bard at them, or worse yet, a Blightwisp (falllen Lantern Archon -- Tiny sphere of blackness that shoots black rays of Unholy damage and teleports at will). Size only matters sometimes.Ferret: Your dragons don't sound much like mine, so I don't think my work here will help you. Sorry. -- N</blockquote>

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