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Oh the irony. The only reason you have any leg to stand on is an insistence on a very specific interpretation of the rules that is not...

Only when edition warring.

There's nothing in the minion rules precluding being knocked out. Destroyed = killed. Killed = being able to be knocked out...

5e very specifically does not have all meat hit points. You don't even take so much as a scratch before half your hit points are lost...

No. Just reinforce what you are saying. I'm not always arguing with you! :P

Destroyed has no definition. Language in the DMG shows that destroyed and killed are used interchangeably, so destroyed doesn't do...

Ahh, edition warring. How I missed thee. @clearstream, feel free to have to last word because this level of sophistry is just beyond me.

Again, that is wrong. A minion is only "destroyed" AFTER it's HP are reduced to zero. There is no other way to "destroy" a minion...

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...