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There's been an ongoing argument whether process simulation and genre simulation are even close to the same thing for quite some time.

Well SWSE gave feats and talents. Feat Talent Feat Talent Etc. I would poll for feats and then big or micro if response was...

I imagine feats would win simply because people are used to them. But you could definitely help to make the classes more unique by...

I could easily see something like that (feat trees, just to use standard D&D terminology) instead of subclasses. Well, a feat pole...

Specifically the interaction was that the invisible condition did 2 things seperated by bullet points. 1. Be invisible. 2. You have...

Yeah, but if you're at a level where giants are being used as minions, then those minions likely would be going down in one hit anyway...

Then there was that whole "see invisible spell doesn't actually let you see invisible things" debacle from 5e. (See invisible doesn't...

Good luck answering a question about a version of the game that many (most?) of us haven't played for nearly a decade with actual rules...

Are we seriously discussing the narrative implications of using "destroy" to mean "remove from play"? Am I understanding this correctly?

Your reading of his post doesn't make any sense. Clearstream doesn't seem to be saying that minions were immune to any other effects or...

Yeah, but who cares? Reinterpret it. It doesn't change the way you play it if you decide that defeated only means killed if the players...

See, you read that as gamist, I read as simulationist. The importance of opponents simulates that to me. It just goes to show how...

There's no setting logic needed. Hit points represent how long it takes for a creature to be out of play. A minion is out of play really...

In one game. Other games act differently. In Daggerheart, the word "defeated" is always used, with one exception that I can find: a...

Keep in mind that this is my own crazy vision for 6e, but yeah totally. Or maybe they'd be gated to certain paths of spellcasting...