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That is what AlViking had demanded, though. That if something "becomes a minion", it is only and exclusively because things have been outscaled. Hence: anything strong early on MUST eventually scale down to minion status--killable in a single hit, if you can hit them. You've broken the...

Sure. I don't think I said anything that disagrees with that. I was responding to a criticism that claimed minions were specially worthy of exclusion, because they have the consequence of devaluing sapient lives by pretending that a large number of "demonized" enemies slaughtered without a...

Then you assert there are a lot of GMs not worth their salt. "Kitbashing" 99.99% of the time means "the rules are merely suggestions". You are extremely unusual in this regard. You are literally the only person I've ever met who treats their new rules as actual rules, and not as provisional...

"Take a different approach" in this case has to mean not being what D&D has been--either in thematics, or in mathematics. People want small numbers. People want it to be guaranteed that you outscale weak creatures. And people want absolute diegetic processes and never ever ever ever ever...

I am pretty confident it is not in jest.

The point remains. "This is bad because it means you're killing a lot of sapient lives really fast!" is a criticism that applies just as much to "oh, you scale past goblins really fast, those are just trash mobs". If valuing the sanctity of each sapient life is supposed to be a criticism of...

I find that idea precisely as baffling as the fonts. Something being on a colored background has literally nothing to do with whether you can employ creativity in your interpretation and application of the rules. It's not a matter of ignoring irrational crowd psychology. It's a matter of I...

So you're saying it needs to stop being D&D...? Because that's what I was talking about about "something has to give". The thing you asked for is mathematically not possible unless we have an outright exponential growth of both HP and damage. D&D has never has this, and is never going to have...

Problem: You are asking for a mathematical result that cannot be made to happen. That's the issue. You're asking for a mathematical impossibility. There simply isn't a mathematical scaling that ensures this consistently happens, all the time, every time, while still being a D&D-like game...

If the layout makes (generic) you think (generic) you can't change the rules, that is no one's fault but (generic) your own. Frankly, I find it utterly ridiculous that someone could see something with well-kerned fonts or whatever and think "this prevents me from making changes." That's...I...

Both the text and the designers explicitly support creative use of powers. A power with the fire keyword can be used to light things on fire. The fact that you didn't feel that should be true has no bearing on whether it is o rnot. It wasn't any more restrictive than 3e. That's a simple fact...

"Contribute" is a squishy word. Much too vague. You had said: Emphasis added. This boils down to "because of how you phrased the sentence, nobody believes anyone can be creative with how the rules are applied." I reject this as fundamentally wrong. Particularly when it applies to D&D-related...

I fundamentally disagree with your final assertion. Players have attempted to force them into only those extremes. They aren't actually at those extremes. They aren't even particularly close to either extreme. Presentation does not actually change whether you can be creative in your...

That problem is already way, way, way too much embedded in the nature of D&D as it is. You don't need minion rules for that. Or did you think that the Acolytes, Goblins (of numerous types), Cultists, Kobolds, or Xvarts--all of which have less than 10 hit points--were not somehow "dozens of...

Though I will note, it has emulated pulp stories in a variety of ways, as I use the term "emulation". Which is one of the reasons why I think emulation and simulation need to be separated. "Simulation" is specifically about modeling. It's about trying for an accurate representation of a...

While I take a little bit of umbrage with the presentation, the core concept--yeah. I don't trust a GM just because they sit on the other side of the GM screen. I don't trust a rule solely because it was written by somebody. I do think that when one is exposed to a system one has not yet...

No. Or at least not 4e. And the fact that you hold systems you neither know well, nor play, to a different standard than the one you hold the systems you do, is precisely the issue. Except that there is a HUGE GAP between these two things! There is a HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE gap between...

Which is one of the things that makes discussions with conservative, long-entrenched D&D fans so tedious. They turn off and on rules at their leisure, without really thinking about it much. They heed rules they like and reject rules they don't with a casualness that borders on whim. And then...

"...there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong." Fighting things a few levels lower simply very slightly slows the problem down. It doesn't fix it. This is an iterative probability issue. Except it doesn't, because the upper bounds just become...

Perhaps a better way to phrase what I said above: The secret to hummingbird flight is that they have a specially-adapted rotator cuff in their shoulders, allowing them to....rotate the wing in its socket. Meaning the wing is, functionally, bidirectional: it points forwards when it needs to...