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I was talking about 5e.

Where do you think people live??? Villages are going to be next to fields. It's where their animals graze. For God's sake, your "wowzers" at something that is so utterly mundane it is NEARLY UNIVERSAL is astounding. We're done here.

Noooope. Don't need to "heavily, heavily stack the odds". It's literally just like a hundred, hundred and fifty peasants with slings. That's all you need. "Perfectly positioned"? Not at all. Literally just don't cluster up and don't stand in a straight line. A semicircular arc is good enough...

No. It is in the actual critical and audience positive response, in people analyzing how this new Superman film fixes an ongoing problem that superhero media has suffered for at least the past decade, and how it in fact broke down specifically the things that people thought they "had" to do...

A bad GM is one that engages in various harmful behaviors, such as: arbitrary and capricious decisions, bad-faith rules interpretation, crapping on others' preferences, refusal to engage in warranted and appropriate discussion (note: not the same as "always let everyone argue for as long as they...

Critical hits always land. An army of 100 peasants is going to hit about 5 critical hits. They won't deal a ton of damage, but the dragon simply cannot do what you describe, if the peasants have even the tiniest bit of self-awareness/preparation. Like, "don't stand in a line"/"don't be in a...

Correct. People say they want a "cool" Superman. But then the thing that actually succeeded was a dorky Superman, a Superman who was comfortable being kinda lame. Directors had been giving people the Superman the public told them they wanted: complicated, gritty, grim, violent, willing to kill...

No. They aren't a threat. That's the problem. The 50 peasants (or 100 peasants, or whatever it was) are functionally guaranteed to kill the dragon. That's the problem with this alleged "solution". It makes the "minions" too powerful.

Given the success of the recent Superman, which specifically used the "dorky", "uncool", unpopular "trunks" outfit for Superman.... No, I don't really accept that popularity even has a guaranteed strong correlation to projected money. Sometimes, the right constellation of things that are of...

Okay. Seeing an argument trotted out only against one specific thing, while not even lifting a finger to talk about, y'know, how goblins and kobolds are specifically designed to become that--to be sapient beings who BECOME nothing but trash to be swept aside by the Great And Powerful Heroes--is...

See: the "50 peasants vs 1 dragon" problem.

The designers specifically told us that the point of the existing 5e mechanics was to make monsters be outscaled in the specific way that minions are: not a threat individually but definitely a threat as a group. Hence, you are simply wrong if you claim that they aren't trying to do this exact...

See, I actually agree with the stance that games can be a tool of moral education and investigation. I just still don't see how the thing you are targeting is in any way special. There are much, much, MUCH more important things to fix, if our goal is to eliminate the lingering stench of...

Whereas I find bad GMs stick to it nearly forever, because the kinds of personality traits that lead to a person being a bad GM are also the kinds of personality traits that lead to a person having zero or negative self-reflection, significantly inflated ego, and a desire for that ego to be...

Completely agreed. Actually quite funny to hear minions called "narrativist" when they're nothing of the sort! I chose not to respond to it only because I feared backlash for doing so.

Exactly. I think the problem may be that folks think "one hit point" means "crappy damage". That's literally what minions don't represent. Minions do genuinely dangerous damage--so every time you miss one, it's just (effectively) doubled in value for the enemy. It's the "zerg rush" strategy...

Well. It's nice to finally see folks call that out...twelve years late. I must beg your forgiveness for finding that a cold comfort at this point. Because if that's the case, literally every claim every person has ever made about 5e being somehow correctly designed for the current market...

So you are denying that the 5e designers based their design choices on the survey data? Or denying that their survey data is worth listening to? Because I assure you it is not more useful to you than it is to me if we say that we can reject WotC survey data as flawed and incorrect. Much the...

Let us assume that a million people are, or have ever been, GMs for D&D. This is, I think you would agree, a very low-ball number. Now imagine that 99.99% hold opinion A, and the remaining 0.01% hold opinion not-A. Despite not-A being held by a vanishingly small proportion of D&D GMs, 100...

It's literally the same thing. Pretending it doesn't matter. Yes, you are. And yes, it is--because that's what people genuinely want, and what the designers desire to make, and what the game has offered from quite early on. Unless you thought the whole multi-attack thing from early-edition...