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Oh I was not implying anything of the sort. My comment was merely to engage how much empathy does @clearstream expect players to have...

I agree. The minion is a narrative tool according to what 4e wrote about its use. Like any tool, though, you can also use it for other...

Ah I missed that, I was referring to your example with Cronut the Barbarian (posts #22009 and #22010)

In my example, I presented minions as specific individuals, working for an individual at an implied governmental bureaucracy. You gotta...

Hey! Maybe it's ten year old Thanos. :p Okay. I forgot you had altered minions that way. Others have said that the 4e ogre minion...

Fair enough. For me, an ogre is an ogre is an ogre - some have skill sets that are different and they have been labelled differently for...

I have to wonder how that scenario would play out in 5e using the rules (no homebrew either on the side of the PCs or the monsters).

It's passing rare that the PCs run into 20 creatures at once that aren't one-hit wonders even with their full hit points. Last session...

Re bolded: LOL what? The core of D&D is all about replicating narrative tropes - Classes, levels, adventure parties, fighting monsters...

WOTC made minions because they thought tracking the HP of twenty plus creatures was too much of a pain. Does anyone here want to share...

I'm of the opinion minions can be used for both. In @Umbran's example they serve primarily if not solely as narrative set pieces. In my...

I don't have to track them on my scrap sheet behind the GM screen. They get hit ..they die. No tracking conditions and any other kind...

Look, last session the kobold delivered Gastlagast's insult, and the final moment of the evening was Cronut popping the kobold's head...

I don't think I've spoken about minion mechanics in this thread before. I could see a gamist perspective on them. But, for me, that...

A PC cannot 1-shot an Ogre easily. The minion with the DT can be 1-shotted. The point being that the attack needs to do a minimum...