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CR is just inherently flawed. Since it was introduced in 3e all it has been useful for is to ballpark a monster's power level and then I had to compare it to the party make-up and player skill levels. I usually begin looking at CR +/- 3 and if I can't find something I want in that range, I...

You've got it backwards. 1e introduced NPCs as just PC classes controlled by the DM. They rolled stats like PCs, had classes like PCs, had magic items like PCs. Henchmen and hirelings were PC classes. And so on. It was 3e that introduced the NPC classes that were different/worse than the PC...

No text is being voided of meaning with what I'm saying. The text in the DMG simply means what the 1 hit point in the stat block means. D&D, and other games, quite often repeat information in multiple areas of the game. What is happening is that we have two different meanings being attached...

You seem to be equating specific rules exceptions like indestructible, destroyed by sunlight, and triple skulls with a general statement that creatures with 1 hit point are destroyed by any damage. If I have 1000 non-minion children with 1 hit point, all 1000 will be killed by any damage...

The US has no infrastructure to make up for the lost imports. That means that 1) they import at a higher cost and pass it on to us as inflation, 2) import less driving up demand and therefore we get inflation, or 3) one of those options plus billions of dollars to create a factory, and the we...

Dragon-Up, the official soft drink of Athas.

I think they call those condors.

Along with a ton of inflation in a country not set up to take over the manufacturing involved AND in which manufacturing costs a lot more.

Can you show anything written that says specifically how any of those that are performed by a PC invalidates the rule that if you knock a CREATURE(no exceptions in the rule for any type of creature) to 0 you can render it unconscious? For a rule to specifically beat another one, you need to...

I'm curious how you square away that the game allows destroyed creatures to be knocked out, with your stance that destroyed creatures can't be knocked out. Elementals, constructs, demons, angels, undead, etc. are all destroyed. That's the language the 4e MM uses. Just like minions, and yet...

Going only by what you posted here as I didn't see the other thread, I can see a stark difference between the two. Pointing to Game of Thrones to justify a narrative style of play(gritty/dark) is very different from using radically different mechanical implementations of the same creature...

I'd be fine with it if destroyed were actually defined in the rules and the definition was different from killed, but it isn't. To make matters worse, in 4e elementals, undead, outsiders(not sure that's the term for them), and constructs are all destroyed, yet since they are all creatures they...

My mother's car battery died last week. People kill the lights all the time. Using kill and die for things never alive is something folks do, though in the case of minions they usually are alive. That's actually the most problematic thing about minions that I can see. They are using the term...

It looks like dead, since they are interchangeable in 5e.

This is not a case of Specific Beats General. Specific beats general requires specificity. You cannot open a locked door. Lock picking lets you specifically open locked door. It uses language that very clearly(with specificity) makes an exception to the general rule. The minion rules are...

Today I also learned that the Cyndi Lauper concert I went to at the Hollywood Bowl was the last show on her last tour. It was a fantastic concert, but I felt a tinge of sadness the entire time knowing that I was watching a music legend retire. She brought out and sang duets with Trombone...

Today I learned that Hercules has been reincarnated. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/killed-it-on-the-spot-infant-bites-cobra-to-death-after-it-coiled-around-his-hands/ar-AA1JnqUX

$230? That's only like a 20 piece set.