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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anguirus" data-source="post: 4475197" data-attributes="member: 41413">The designers played with minions a lot.  I think that for most of the playtest lifecycle they had small numbers of hit points.The designers aren't perfect, but they were considerate enough to playtest this idea for you and didn't like it.Think of it this way.  The difference between a minion and a normal monster is that a minion is supposed to 1) fall down upon being hit and 2) be incredibly simple to run.  Giving HP to minions is contrary to design feature 2 in that suddenly you are tracking anywhere from 4 to 40 extra sets of HP.  It also complicates feature 1 in that a PC with +2 to hit swinging at a minion with AC 13 no longer has a 50% chance of killing the minion...he has a lower chance of doing so because he might roll low damage.So minions really ought to have 1 HP or else they complicate your life and slow down combat (and so should not be used at all).  Some people think minions should have more than one HP for reasons of verismilitude; I recall reading a complaint that a level 21 legion devil could trip over a log and instantly die.  I find this concern foolish, to say the least, for reasons that I hope are extremely obvious.</blockquote>