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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashkelon" data-source="post: 6267944" data-attributes="member: 6774887">A few things you must note here.1. NPCs do not get class levels. It is your own choice as a DM to give NPCs class levels.2. As such, it is also your own choice to give NPCs class features. This means that if you give a NPC damage on a miss, that is your choice to do so. If you do not like damage on a miss, don't give it to your NPCs. It really is that simple.3. Damage on a miss from NPCs is also no big deal at all. The reason for this is bounded accuracy. Any NPC who can deal damage on a miss will probably already be hitting 50% of the time anyway. IF you have PCs with 24 HP where 8 missed attacks will kill them, 8 attacks at 10 damage each and a 50% chance to hit is already pretty much garunteed to kill the PC. So even in your most contrived scenario, damage on a miss doesn't change the results.4. Any scenario in which you feel 2-3 points of miss damage is bad, is far worse by archers, and exponentially worse from magic missile. An group of 8 level 1 NPC mages is far more likely to cause a TPK than a group of 8 level 1 NPC fighters with damage on a miss. 60 automatic damage that cannot be defended against at all with range of 100 ft is far more potent than 2 to 3 points of miss damage that can only be done in melee.</blockquote>