Hydraulic Jack wrote:
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> but I soon came to find that the presence of HP in
> NPCs only depleted PCs of HP. If the NPC bumped then so did the PC and vice
> versa. Once the NPC had used all their HP then the heroes - with bigger
> reserves could use theirs to win the contest. All that had happened was
> that I had 'cost' the PCs some extra HP to win the contest
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I completely agree. I never give my NPCs HPs. To be fair, I've got the
impression that NPCs with HPs is unusual in most campaigns, reserved for
arch enemies.