For decades, tabletop role-playing games—most notably Dungeons & Dragons—suffered from a silent, frustrating problem: the "bag of hit points" syndrome. Dungeon Masters (DMs) would place a goblin, a mind flayer, or a dragon on the battlefield, only to have it stand still, trade blows mindlessly, and die in three rounds.
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