Help with Fictional Positioning: If I let my players “begin” with attacking my monsters die too fast.

Help with Fictional Positioning: If I let my players “begin” with attacking my monsters die too fast.

Help with Fictional Positioning: If I let my players “begin” with attacking my monsters die too fast. Can someone give me some pointers on how to make my normal monsters still useful? I know of the 16 HP dragon: http://www.latorra.org/2012/05/15/a-16-hp-dragon/ but I’m having problems with monsters like Frogmen where I cannot justify that my group can’t hack n slash (as they have no thick hide or other stuff).

http://www.latorra.org/2012/05/15/a-16-hp-dragon/