[Tyhm]

Join would be very handy. Have every NPC do
join damage.txt;

then in damage.txt
event (firemagic) or whatever the syntax is on that...nevermind, the idea is you could just write out what you want all the attackable NPCs to do when they're hit by fire magic in one text file, and boom, they all know how to respond. All you'd have to do is go around to each one once and add the "join" code. Make our jobs a lot easier, have no visible effect to the unupgraded players.