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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9578360" data-attributes="member: 29398">Which is exactly the problem I have with minions as a thing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />A monster's stats should reflect the fiction of what that monster is, without consideration for who or what happens to be fighting it at the time.If one looks at monster AC and hit points as relative measures against other monsters, it snaps much closer into alignment with the fiction.  An Ogre has 75 hit points to indicate in abstract that, in the fiction, it is much more resilient than a 7-hit-point Goblin; and it has AC 20 to indicate - again in abstract - that its hide-plus-thick-fur-robes are much harder to get through than the thin skin-plus-leather-jerkin of the AC-12 Goblin.  Further, the Ogre has 75 hit points and the Goblin has 7 regardless whether each is fighting a common farmer or a demigod at the time.Changing a monsters' stats to suit what it's fighting (as 4e did it) defeats the whole purpose of having the stats reflect the actual fiction in relative and constant terms.  It works fine for pure gamism, perhaps, but that's not everyone's goal.</blockquote>