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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shin Okada" data-source="post: 4073925" data-attributes="member: 1956">Personally, I don't like the maxing out hp idea. The main reason is personal preference. I don't even like to roll ability scores and hps for PCs. I always use average hp for monsters and elite hps for NPCs and monsters with classes and such. That is the "intended" average strength of the CR system. And these days, I use monster stats cards (and similar cards made for monsters which is not yet released) for DDM intensively and it makes DMing much, much faster. Yes, all the same creatures have exactly the same number of hps. But what is wrong with it?There are other reasons,Actually, if you max-out HPs an add +1 to+2 BAB, it is almost as time costly as to actually add appropriate number of HDs per MM to increase CR by 1 or 2. And need you more examinations.You must always watch out for the type of HDs and their Con. Maxing out hps of a monstrous humanoid (d8s) with high con will not change his total hp much. But maxing out hps of an undead monster (d12, no con) is almost doubling it's durability. So you need much careful examination than adding hds as per MM and giving average hps.</blockquote>