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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2319148" data-attributes="member: 463">I disagree - I'd have to be making them 8th+ before they'd necessarily be 'inhuman' in that they'd be noticeably tougher than normal humans relative to the animal stats in the Monster Manual.  If anything War-3s are still a bit weak to represent 'normal' humans when compared to the real-world animals statted in the MM, while War-1s are incredibly weak.   In real life you hear tales of the unarmed woman hiking in the woods who killed a cougar with her bare hands when it attacked her child - OK the cougar killed her too - but in D&D she'd be a Commoner and a mountain lion would kill a Com-1 in 1 round!  I find comparing NPC stats to Monster Manual animals gives a better comparison than spells, which don't exist.  You might argue on weapon damage, but there's no reason to assume a 4.5 hp wound is meant to be a 'killing blow' - after all we have Criticals, and IRL it usually took several weapon blows to actually kill someone.  IMC a typical experienced War-3 soldier has maybe 18-22 hit points, ST 14 and Power Attacks with halberd for 1d10+9 = average 14.5 damage, he'll kill a similar adversary in 2 hits, or 1 hit if he Criticals.   He won't do too well against a lion or tiger.</blockquote>