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I'm not sure why we would judge a golden age of RPGs by reference to the commercial success of a few RPG companies. Nor by, say, the...

I haven't read 5.24, but what you describe above is not reflected in the game text of any edition of D&D I'm familiar with, including...

It made the sound the player wanted. Success!

I can see the point in regulating safety issues and truly objectionable decorations (e.g. swastikas). But you seem to be...

'I want to vote for the Leapords Eating People's Faces Party, but Mr GM, just so we're clear, I'm assuming we agree that no Leapords...

Exactly. The player can make the same action declaration in either case. The question is what the rules resolve. Do the rules resolve...

Sure! That's why I said in task resolution (effect) it's acceptable* but in conflict resolution (intent) it isn't. *still not great

No, I successfully intimidated the guard. It just didn't have the outcome I wanted.

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...

Except that your interpretation of the word "destroyed" gives ludicrous results - immortal minions that can never be killed since they...

i don't really have a horse in this race but it occurs to me, minions weren't just any one type of monster right? you literally had a...

Again, this is a very good example of the 6 impossible things before breakfast. It doesn't matter that the first six things are...

Putting aside that you decided to select a campy TV show for your issue with minions you admitted that minions/monks exist in GoT but...

Here's an example of the difference that happened to me once: The group has infiltrated the enemy encampment and we are in the enemy...

I haven't expressed any such assumption. I'm talking about the needs of conflict resolution (for which I have a preference, which is...