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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5847393" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, if it is a couple NPCs that are henchmen or companions of the PCs, then I'd call that a 'normal encounter'. I'd expect that situation would usually be one where the NPCs are controlled (mostly at least) by the players. I'm more talking about situations where you might have NPCs that are perhaps 'on stage' but are either entirely ephemeral bit players (a few soldiers fighting some enemy mooks while the PCs happen to be there) or something like that. Maybe there's some possibility that their actions could spill over depending on what choices the PCs make, but fundamentally they're more set dressing than important NPCs or character resources. I had a situation where some NPCs that were PC allies were fighting a monster. The monster would kill one now and then, and part of the PCs goals was to get to where they could intervene ASAP. I didn't play out this fight with the rules. An NPC just died every round and whenever the PCs fought the monster whatever its hit points were was whatever they had to deal with. Whatever damage the NPCs did before that was show.</blockquote>