Cleave vs. Minions

[nittanytbone]

Simple question -- Can a fighter use the extra damage from Cleave to kill a minion?

 

[Victim]

Yes. It's not damage from a "Miss:" so minions aren't immune.

 

[Donovan Morningfire]

Simple question -- Can a fighter use the extra damage from Cleave to kill a minion?

Yes, which is good as that is probably Cleave's intended purpose; enabling the fighter to goon-sweep as a default combat option and thus playing into his role as a defender.

So you can beat on a main baddie and then splat his sidekick in the same attack

 

[Mort_Q]

Cleave is specifically mentioned in the minion excerpt.

Excerpts: Minions

Have sufficient defenses: A PC should hit a minion at about the same rate as that PC would hit a typical monster of the same level. If the PC only misses on a natural 1, then that part of the fight becomes trivial. Thus, the minion’s defenses are set using the same scale as other monsters of its level. Similarly, while minions are meant to be easily dispatched, we didn’t want it to be too easy, so we decided that minions shouldn’t die when missed by an attack roll, even if that attack would normally deal damage on a hit. Of course, they might still die if they take damage from other sources, like walking through a wall of fire or getting hit by a Cleave from a fighter.

 

[Ginnel]

Yes, which is good as that is probably Cleave's intended purpose; enabling the fighter to goon-sweep as a default combat option and thus playing into his role as a defender.

So you can beat on a main baddie and then splat his sidekick in the same attack

*scribbles off cleave on his character sheet, writes in Goon-Sweep*

 

[Scribble]

*scribbles off cleave on his character sheet, writes in Goon-Sweep*

Sweepin goons is where it's at!

 

[Fedifensor]

Very nice - definitely putting that on my fighter.