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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gammadoodler" data-source="post: 9181979" data-attributes="member: 6914290">The relationship between hp and damage is only relevant during a combat encounter.Specifically a combat encounter where the PCs are participants.PCs have no knowledge of what HP total a given monster has or how much numerical damage they are doing. What they know is what it takes to kill the monster and how good a hit 'felt'. Likewise for other creatures in the world. The cat doesn't know that they are dealing 1 hp of damage, they know that they can kill a mouse and not an ogre. The PCs don't know that they are doing 20 damage, they know that they can kill goblins but behirs take a few more swings.The flipside of this absolutist approach to hp and damage is that a swing of a fighter's greatsword is never more lethal to an ogre than encountering 20 CR 0 cats in a dark alley.I personally would rather increase PC damage than reduce monster hp to 1, but at the end of the day, we're talking about the same relationship.</blockquote>