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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.

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...