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You really don’t see how claiming that D&D doesn’t do any one thing good comes across as claiming it’s piss poor?

Right, we're leaving out steps. The proposed structure is creative agenda->design goal->mechanic. Pointing out a mechanic doesn't serve...

The 4e minion rules literally say that they are for use when the DM wants to throw a lot of monsters at the PCs without it becoming a...

Just wanted to point out is that this is because D&D adopts a linear(/quadratic) rather than exponential power curve. This puts the 10th...

You start off really well. CR is inherently flawed because a monster is going to be easy against some groups of its CR and hard against...

I'm not suggesting those things are equivalent. Personally, I'm perfectly happy with the "fighters can just wade through lava" position...

IMO. They all run into issues. Many of which are gameplay issues. But yes theoretically you can use another. I’m not theoretically as...

Yea. It’s the transitions that really highlight the minion concerns from a sim perspective.

Is your point that one of those particular methods should be preferred because I have objections to each. Or is your point that there...

One could argue (I would) that the increased efficiency of Rico's squad was due to their own increased prowess, not a change in the...

I think I have been toying around with the ideas you sketch out here, and have failed to find a good way of doing so. From my...

Is this not the whole sim point? The mechanics are a concrete representation of something that can be understood, and there is no...

Sometimes there’s just not a particularly better alternative so you live with what you’ve got.

Don’t the normal stat blocks do that better? Like I don’t have a particular issue with minions from a gameplay perspective, but they do...

I would say the monster's status as minion/normal/elite should absolutely be diegetic. In fantasy characters tend to not have any...