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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 863291" data-attributes="member: 319">I like to give players the option of taking average hit points to avoid the pain on rolling 1's (and most of my players generally end up not rolling), but I think it's a terrible idea to do the same for monsters and enemies.In one of the games I played in, the DM insisted on giving everything but the players maximum hit points, and while the inequality alone was infuriating (he was incapable of running anything besides the most basic, hack 'n' slash melees, and used enemies with buckets of HP to make up for that), what made it even worse was that it tended to make combats painfully boring - there's nothing as discouraging as getting a lucky critical while sneak attacking and hitting something for 50 points of damage only to realize that it has the same 90 or 100 hit points as the other two you've killed so far and your amazing blow didn't come anywhere near to putting it at death's door.Randomness tends to give combat a sense of urgency which you lose when you go to average or max HP.</blockquote>