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Maybe not. Of course, with magic involved to calm things down, who knows! Whether there's a chance to talk beforehand depends on what...

In TTRPGs? Most of them. In video games? I generally don't. Are you saying that in video games, you have as many options for dealing...

I want to second this; though I still have a problem with playing some games "appropriately": I tend to rather want to run around the...

In video games, the NPCs have limited programming. You literally can't sit down and talk it out with an enemy unless the enemy is...

@clearstream, you asked if it is "okay for posters to disfavour mechanics out of moral concerns" and did so in a fashion that suggests...

To be fair, in many video games, you can't actually have conversations with the NPCs the way you can in a TTRPG.

Meh - sometimes in the game you just gotta kill 'em all and let their gods sort 'em out. :)

That's all the more reason why I personally find the argument against minions to be somewhat absurd. In the fiction, they are all ogres...

Keep in mind that with 4e D&D, "just an ogre" isn't really a thing. The "ogre" is represented by a variety of different stat-blocked...

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 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...

I think it was pointed out that those ogre minions had an AC of 27 (the minimum AC that a minion ogre thug could have, which is 16 + the...

MM just says "equal to its hit points." I've always heard that as current hp, not max. So it's just another issue of unclear writing...

Really? And how do you determine that something is less plausible? Do you assume it's impossible to come up with a plausible reason on...