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maybe it could require a PB threshold similar to how some old edition monsters had a certain level of +X weapon to hit, like 'if you don't have a proficiency bonus of +4 then all attacks/spells/ect have disadvantage to hit this monster' even if the threshold was one behind the expect PB of the...

the minions are a threat, however they're one that is intentionally designed to not last more that a couple of rounds, they chuck out a bunch of damage the first few rounds, they die, and the main threat gets to take centre stage with the party having a large section of their HP or maybe one or...

the concept of the minion template/category to my understanding is not 'here is a weaker variant of the same monster that exists alongside the original' but 'these are the same monsters and you have all become so strong as to be able to dispatch them with a single blow'

i'm aware, but i've only seen the movie version of that scene, i could not slog my way through the books, i tried.

what i got from that scene in the movie was in those first moments the ring was actively trying to influence him, after he had it in his possession it settled down and didn't have a good reason to be blasting full force 'do evil' vibes at him, at which point the resistance starts to factor in...

i dunno, i wouldn't trust squirrels to not be pulling a long con on us.

i mean, humans are pretty good tool users with our opposable thumbs and all, our intelligence took us pretty far taking advantage of that trait right? i never said it had to be an exclusive advantage.

oh CR, i see okay, outlier situations like this is exactly why people have pointed out why there ought to be some sort of damage threshold safety net to prevent random cherry tapping from taking them out, the minion ogre's DC is designed to be relative to the PCs, not some stray feline or...

as well as taking advantage of your biological strengths, no?

wait why is the minion ogre the 'harder' ogre and the normal one 'easier'? but regardless, you shouldn't ever be putting the cat up against the ogre with the minion template unless it's some sort of divinely empowered super cat or something, because this minion/elite system works off relativity...

honestly the idea of your species working as an entire second progression parallel to your class does appeal, like a gestalt build where your second class is actually your species.

i'd assume they mean like that 'Tippyverse' i think it was? thought experiment, the available magic, even just that of low levels, probably should've had some major fundamental impact on how the world developed and functions.

i think you're taking the metaphor just a touch too literal, you're not going to be putting a bunny in with a rottweiler, but these are creatures with biologies that work differently from each other and are fundamentally suited and adapted for different things and IMO should be designed as such.

i've long pointed out in conversations such like this that people need to stop thinking of the differences between a human, an elf and a dwarf as comparable to the differences between an englishman, frenchman and a spaniard, because fundamentally those are all just different types of human, the...

i was imagining an unarmed fighter (who hadn't specced into that), i don't know if either of those would apply in that situation, but yes while it might be possible to one-shot a goblin but as soon as you start looking at anything else slightly more durable it quickly stops being possible to...