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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 5426807" data-attributes="member: 61155">Standard 1st level monsters from the Monster Vault - the most recent monster manual product - have between 22 and 38 hitpoints. 2nd level monsters from it have between 32 and 48 hitpoints. 3rd level monsters have between 35 and 55 hitpoints.  The possibility to get a general sense of a monster's hp is certainly there, especially if you pay attention to when you fight or him, or when similar monsters have dropped in the past. But I still don't think it is as trivial a matter as you make it out to be, nor is it a requisite ability for a skilled player of a wizard.  And, again, even if you can perfectly predict it, even at level 1, I don't think monsters will be ending up in that range that often in every encounter.   To be honest, the first of those is not a half-bad guideline. The others doesn't really acknowledge the differences in enemy hp, but can probably still be put to use. But there are enough variances in play that I still think you'll often end up with hp amounts that favor other options than MM. Between that, and the fact that when enemies hit this 'ideal level', the wizard isn't guaranteed to be the one coming up in initiative order, is why I think MM is only really holding its own with other options, rather than being a guaranteed 'better choice'.   Except that every time you level, your range of potential hp for each monster shifts, and the differences get more and more extreme as you get higher level. This discussion about MM is really only relevant at level 1 - it doesn't take long before it definitively falls behind on the damage scale, while simultaneously the opportunities for enemies to be in instant kill range grow fewer.</blockquote>

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