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There seem to be a lot of those in the world these days. :(

Wouldn't that mean that your post here should be in the discussion thread? :unsure::p

I've seen it, but only when there's a special purpose for it like the group will be some sort of military unit and starting in boot camp. We start at level 1 and reach level 2 or 3 by the time we graduate and really get going.

I've been starting my players PCs off at 3rd level since 3e and will continue to do so. The only exceptions are rare, and those involve starting off higher than 3rd level.

This is why I like alignment. 1) I don't have the time or inclination to create detailed personalities for ten bazillion NPCs and monsters. Alignment gives me a quick, rough idea of the NPC/monster behavior and I can modify it a bit on the fly. 2) It gives new players something solid to build...

I don't know how accurate this is, but it's an interesting read. https://www.mmobomb.com/battling-bishops-crushing-clerics-cant-rpg-healer-use-sword

As was the fact that if you hit someone hard enough with a blunt object, you can break the skin causing bleeding wounds. Especially if a broken bone pierces it from the inside.

It's the nature of hit points. Take a fireball. Perhaps you got out of the way barely and a large amount of heat washed by for the damage. The resistant one takes less and the vulnerable one takes more. At half some of the fire caused burns. If it takes them to 0, monster char char. If...

Poison is the only one of those that needs contact in my opinion. Immune does no damage, so contact isn't really relevant to this discussion. Resistant and vulnerable can just cause more damage, speeding or slowing the creature's advance towards the 50% show of damage and the final hit that...

No. I doubt many of us run games the same way we argue them here. That's part of the fun of these discussions. We can argue the minutia and what RAW means, while still playing it much differently in real life. How I argue what RAW means is often different from how I run my game. I often...

The answer to that question is yes by the rules. You don't declare that you are rendering a creature unconscious until the DM says it's dead, then you get to unwind it and instead knock it out. If you had to declare in advance before the creature dies that you are knocking it out, then the...

See my edit to that post. If you are correct in your assertion, then they would not have been given hit points. You don't give hit points to something that goes to instantly destroyed. You only give them to things that can have their hit points reduced. Destroyed = killed via hit point loss...

Definitions. Rules define what they do. Being destroyed has no definition and doesn't tell you what actually happens, so we have to default to the general rule of destroyed equaling killed, which in turn equals being reduced to 0 hit points. Edit: or put another way, if any damage destroys a...

There's nothing in the minion rules precluding being knocked out. Destroyed = killed. Killed = being able to be knocked out. Without some specifically defined meaning for destroyed that does preclude it, it's just another way to say killed, which in 4e means reduced to 0 hit points.

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, and you don't take a direct hit until you are reduced to 0. So no one is beaten, bludgeoned, cut, or burned down to death's door. Instead they are skilled...

They are both included there, but I don't see where that makes a difference. The rules don't preclude you from knocking out a non-minion zombie or golem when you reduce it to 0, so you can still knock out creatures that aren't alive and would be "destroyed."

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