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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drawmack" data-source="post: 835991" data-attributes="member: 4981">There are two arts and one fact that I learned early in my GMing chareer which apply to every game I have ever run under any system.FACT: It is an abstract system and as such stringent HP counting is not necessary, but is preferred so be as close as you can.ART 1: Fight an interesting combat without the NPC moving a whole lot when using large numbers of bad guys in a fight. Have excitement come from elsewhere. Maybe the volcano is about to blow. With all that ground rumbling whose got time to worry about the orcs not moving. ART 2: Guesing hp. If it's the third time my wizard's fireball is hitting this orc, he's probably dead. Had a game this sunday with the sorcerer's fireball up on the roof whipping out archers while they were inside. I rolled a ref save every round and three failed saves ment 1 dead archer falling past the windows.Now that you know that the way that I track HPs for large encounters will make sense.Only use this if your NPCs are two to one on the party or they will notice the fudging.on a piece of paper number the NPCs starting at 12:00 and moving clock-wise around the table. jot down their hpif the NPCs trade places switch their numbers except in extreme remaining hp variance.when they take damage write it under their hp as a -The Important PartLearn how to say things like "Of course the wizard took 500 hp or damage he's wearing a cursed DR 10/+4 robe of protection that steals 1 con point per day worn that it is not soaked in human blood while on your body."</blockquote>

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