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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 5352732" data-attributes="member: 2642">My "tough minions" that I have occasionally used go like this (this has a few small but important differences from the earlier suggestions here)A tough minion is bloodied by any attack that hits; an unbloodied tough minion takes no damage from attacks that miss, unless one of the bullet points below apply.A bloodied tough minion dies as soon as it takes damage for any reason.There are ways to kill tough minions faster:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An unbloodied tough minion dies outright to any critical hit.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some tough minions have vulnerabilities, like normal monsters but without the number, and die from any hit that deals a type of damage they are vulnerable to. Even a miss from such a source bloodies them, if it would have dealt damage to a normal monster.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A tough minion that is hit by an attack that benefits from sneak attack, warlock's curse, hunter's quarry, a barbarian rage, oath of enmity etc must make a saving throw or die. Basically, any time they're taking extra damage and/or subject to significantly increased accuracy due to a striker's class ability, this applies. If there are no significant conditions attached to the striker damage (i.e. it's an arcane attack from a Sorcerer), the tough minion gets a +2 bonus on this saving throw.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A tough minion that takes more than (10 + listed Con bonus, i.e. 10 + real Con bonus + 1/2 level) damage at once from a single source dies outright, even if this damage is from a miss effect. (NB - don't bother rolling damage for attacks that target only minions unless there's a real possibility of reaching this threshold).</li> </ul></blockquote>

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