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<blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 9048395" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Active defense hints at the solution to this, as does the Monster Bible (as I'm now tempted to call the ADD2e Monster Manual):Monster Bible: NPCs aren't PCs.&nbsp; They have different rules and character sheets.&nbsp; So the fireball victims don't need to follow the same procedure in the event of a fireball as the PCs would.Active Defense: NPCs need an Attack Class for this, and the PCs do the rolling.&nbsp; Why doesn't the magic-user make a Spell Attack too?&nbsp; And save the GM another 2.8 seconds by saying something like &quot;the fireball does 26 damage, 13 half?&quot;This isn't a missed opportunity to fix D&amp;D so much as a potential breaking of D&amp;D; maybe NPCs were just fine with their own rules.&nbsp; But there was an opportunity to do something about having 15 NPCs, each with its own hit points, having different reactions to one PC action.&nbsp; This is where Remove Hit Points would be a good call.&nbsp; Instead of the DM looking for each victim's Current Hit Points (not Total) to see if the damage exceeded that amount or start doing some subtraction, the DM would just add the Damage to the NPC's Damage and compare that number to the NPC's Max Damage.&nbsp; That would be in line with the design philosophy of numbers-should-go-up (re: removal of descending ACs and subtraction from THAC0).So, was Monte Cook saving PCs-Make-All-the-Rolls for Numenera?&nbsp; 3e could have used it too, and fixed D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMMichael, post: 9048395, member: 6685730"] Active defense hints at the solution to this, as does the Monster Bible (as I'm now tempted to call the ADD2e Monster Manual): Monster Bible: NPCs aren't PCs. They have different rules and character sheets. So the fireball victims don't need to follow the same procedure in the event of a fireball as the PCs would. Active Defense: NPCs need an Attack Class for this, and the PCs do the rolling. Why doesn't the magic-user make a Spell Attack too? And save the GM another 2.8 seconds by saying something like "the fireball does 26 damage, [I]13 half[/I]?" This isn't a missed opportunity to fix D&D so much as a potential breaking of D&D; maybe NPCs were just fine with their own rules. But there was an opportunity to do something about having 15 NPCs, each with its own hit points, having different reactions to one PC action. This is where Remove Hit Points would be a good call. Instead of the DM looking for each victim's Current Hit Points (not Total) to see if the damage exceeded that amount or start doing some subtraction, the DM would just add the Damage to the NPC's Damage and compare that number to the NPC's Max Damage. That would be in line with the design philosophy of numbers-should-go-up (re: removal of descending ACs and subtraction from THAC0). So, was Monte Cook saving PCs-Make-All-the-Rolls for Numenera? 3e could have used it too, and fixed D&D. [/QUOTE]

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