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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rex Blunder" data-source="post: 4220043" data-attributes="member: 60850">I'll grant you that a 1st edition housecat could kill any number of 4e minions. In an early Dragon magazine, there was a story about a cat who stalked and killed a party of 6 0-level carpenters armed with hammers.I've always disliked things that do small amounts of HP damage, but that seem like they couldn't kill you without you suffering some embarrassing mishap.The first time I remember encountering it was in the Basic Expert set. There was some spiky cave floor that you walked over that did 1-2 points of damage. Sure, that's fine if you're reasonably healthy, but if you're at 1 hit point, it's hard to explain how you die from cutting your foot. (Sure: you trip and impale your brain. But it's ridiculous.)Same thing with housecats. In 1e, cats did like 1-3/1-3/1-4 or something damage. In 3e, they do 1/1/1 damage. Either way, it was possible for a housecat to kill a wounded 10th level fighter, or an unlucky commoner. A cat bite draws blood. But it is very, very unlikely to kill you. So it shouldn't do damage.So here's my suggestion for the cat stat-block for 4e. I hope the WOTC designers think the same way I do:A CAT DOES NO DAMAGE.</blockquote>