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Is this meant to argue with me? If they are interchangeable, then the rules for PC's not killing something would be in force.

Your character has 50 HP. He takes 5 points of damage. What happened? Same character takes 49 points of damage. What happened? What...

The difference is, we can twist "destroyed" into some sort of mechanical meaning that suits a specific interpretation that is not...

Again, you're insisting that I'm stating a preference. I have zero problems with the mechanic. The mechanics are perfectly fine. Good...

To be fair, I just checked the 4e PHB, and it appears that you can choose not to kill things with energy attacks. I stand corrected...

I'd say it's more a catch-all term intended to include undead, constructs, and the like which aren't "killed" on losing their one hit...

See, again, this is the whole 6 impossible things before breakfast. HP make zero sense. AC is an abstraction that makes virtually no...

I appreciate your forthrightness. I'll assume I have the mechanics right until someone can cite something to change that. It could be...

Again, not to sound like a broke record here, but, so much of this depends on the assumptions of the setting. The notion of mobility...

To be fair, I know it's true in 5e. I was more or less presuming that 5e simply carried forward the 4e rules. 3e had wonky rules for...

That's actually not true. You cannot choose to not kill something with a fireball (or any energy attack). You ALWAYS kill if you...

And the function of a fireball is to cause slaughter en masse, burning people to death. In the real world, we've come to generally agree...

Like I said, fair enough. It's a bit of a stretch too far for me. But, then again, it is very much in keeping with most of the...

Reading into what's been said, I have concluded that what they actually mean when saying it's a moral issue is something along the lines...

Yes, well, as I said, I've only sort of tangentially followed the discussion. But, don't they discuss their discomfort in terms of...