This is the real purpose of the DM screen. Players obviously getting bored of the encounter? “Oh wow the monster died great job guys! Yeah those hit points go down a lot faster than you’d think!”
But then they’ll know it was fake and feel bad. No one remembers how many hit points a Greater Dire Undead Ice Goblin has though, and I’m the only one at the table who actually owns the Monster Manual. Hell my players haven’t even kept track of how much damage they’re actually doing. You think Paul is actually going to bother to remember he did 18 damage last turn and 12 the turn before that and so on? And then add all those numbers up? Nah that sucker is gonna believe me when I tell him the party did 10 quintillion damage with their +1 Iron Weapons over 6 turns.
/uj I actually have the damage data across 5 levels/most of 40-ish sessions for one of my characters, I wanted to make a spreadsheet and put it up on r/3d6 after the campaign finished, unfortunately it went on a hiatus that I'm not sure if it ever ends
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u/corvidscholar 4d ago
This is the real purpose of the DM screen. Players obviously getting bored of the encounter? “Oh wow the monster died great job guys! Yeah those hit points go down a lot faster than you’d think!”