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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kordeth" data-source="post: 4182682" data-attributes="member: 5036">Doesn't matter if there are nonabilities or not, it's just an analogy to clarify that "dies if it takes damage" isn't the same thing as 0 hp.How is it simpler to write out the phrase "Minions are killed if they are hit with an attack that inflicts damage" than it is to write "HP: 2?" Everybody playing D&D understands the concept of "inflict damage, when a monster reaches 0 hp, it's dead/disabled." Introducing a new concept of a minion that dies when it takes any damage is a fair bit less simple.But once again, that makes it more complicated if minions have hp like a normal creature, just a lot less of them. If anything, it would make more sense the other way (i.e. in the MM it explains how minions die if they take any damage and the DDXP stat cards translated that as "HP: 1") And yes, at 1st level "2 hp" might work, but your 25% hp theory breaks down at higher levels. A 9th-level minion with 25% hp, taking from the succubus, would have 22 hp. Given that the at-will powers we've seen don't scale up until you hit 21st level, I really doubt that 9th-level PCs can routinely dish out 22 points of damage. Even 10% hp for the level breaks down, just at a higher level than 25%.</blockquote>