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<blockquote data-quote="The Dude" data-source="post: 4215027" data-attributes="member: 30511">I do not think this is true.&nbsp; The only person tracking NPC hit points is the DM.&nbsp; When the PC calls out the damage on a miss, the DM says &quot;OK&quot;, goes to do the HP subtraction, realizes the NPC is a minion, and moves on.&nbsp; This rule would only involve more work if the PCs were tracking the damage applied to the minion, because then the PC would be forced to remember the unwritten exception to his/her damage-on-a-miss powers.That is a legitimate concern.&nbsp; It is one thing to say that the rules governing NPCs are different than those governing PCs.&nbsp; When one of those differences is as fundamental as having level-dependent HP, its like saying the laws of physics do not apply to some folks.&nbsp; We are all accustomed to the rules being descriptive of the world, so it is hard to imagine creatures wandering around with only one hit point when fully healed.&nbsp; However, 4e is moving to rules that are descriptive of an object's relationship to the PCs.&nbsp; Making the transition to that view of the rules can be pretty difficult when one of the steps of that transition involves minions having 1 HP.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Dude, post: 4215027, member: 30511"] I do not think this is true. The only person tracking NPC hit points is the DM. When the PC calls out the damage on a miss, the DM says "OK", goes to do the HP subtraction, realizes the NPC is a minion, and moves on. This rule would only involve more work if the PCs were tracking the damage applied to the minion, because then the PC would be forced to remember the unwritten exception to his/her damage-on-a-miss powers. That is a legitimate concern. It is one thing to say that the rules governing NPCs are different than those governing PCs. When one of those differences is as fundamental as having level-dependent HP, its like saying the laws of physics do not apply to some folks. We are all accustomed to the rules being descriptive of the world, so it is hard to imagine creatures wandering around with only one hit point when fully healed. However, 4e is moving to rules that are descriptive of an object's relationship to the PCs. Making the transition to that view of the rules can be pretty difficult when one of the steps of that transition involves minions having 1 HP. [/QUOTE]

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