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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AeroDm" data-source="post: 5864318" data-attributes="member: 13650">I think it might be more interesting if you reversed your formula. That is, give every monster a HP total and an auto-death total. So your 20th level monster would have, say, 98 HP but auto die if any hit dealt more than 20 dmg (obviously, 5e or any system would have to tweak these values to balance them). Similarly, I read a variant on minions early into 4e that introduced minions with flair wherein they took two hits or one hit from fire (in the example of a fire vulnerable minion). You could do the same with the 20th level monster having 98 HP, 40 in one hit, or 20 with fire. Personally, I think any time you can make the resolution of how monsters are defeated more interesting is a huge win. I think we too often set up combats to be "beat all targets to death." This reminds me of that shift from Warcraft 2 to Warcraft 3 where all of the sudden the different ways in which you might win a mission made the game feel so much more robust.</blockquote>