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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SweeneyTodd" data-source="post: 4383395" data-attributes="member: 9391">The reason that they have specifically 1 hp as opposed to say 1d4 or something is that it keeps the bookkeeping much simpler. A minion is either hit and taken out, or still in play. No paper trail.If you think it would make sense for a minion to sometimes survive a hit but not usually, the only downside is having to track their HP.If you're asking why they have a low number of HP at all, as oppose to "1 versus a few", then I think the guys above have that covered.One of the implications the minion rule has (a lot of the 4e rules, really) is that because the game is used to adjudicate the PC's interactions with the world, the mechanics represent how the world interacts with the PCs. It doesn't represent how NPCs interact with each other, that's not really its aim. If you're not comfortable with that, then it's not the minion rule itself that's bugging you, it's the game's design philosophy.</blockquote>