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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8619224" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>Yeah. Just like Jose Aldo (up to that point possibly the greatest pound for pound MMA Fighter in history) can go down in 13 seconds...to a single punch...to Conor McGregor.</p><p></p><p>The variability of fighting is extremely high. You can be enormously dangerous (a world class fighter) and take one shot on the button and its lights out (as has happened 100s and 100s of times just in my 40 years of being involved with combat sports and watching combat sports).</p><p></p><p>Minions are a trope. They're dangerous creatures except the heroes are so much more dangerous and robust that when they deal with these_particular_ghouls, it reliably spits out Conor McGregor vs Jose Aldo fiction; a trope.</p><p></p><p>You may not like the trope but that is its purpose and it does it beautifully (in terms of its reliability due to implementation and in terms of the tactical overhead managed by players to make it so through their PC).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, its a trope. See my explanation for HP loss above. Not a single blow or spittle needs to land to explain the 5 HP loss for being adjacent at the beginning of your turn. </p><p></p><p>You're evading the spittle and its fangs by grasping the underside of its jaw and recoiling from it while your other hands desperately fight off its claws.</p><p></p><p>The spittle falls short or your armor intercedes.</p><p></p><p>Your grasp of its jaws protects you from its fangs.</p><p></p><p>You have wrist control of one claw while the other slashes futilely against your armor.</p><p></p><p>It then releases you and attacks your friend (with its aura) with wild abandon.</p><p></p><p>Nothing lands. No spittle, no fangs, no jaws.</p><p></p><p>Yet still you lose 5 HP. Because HP aren't meat. You're not standing around static in a tiny space, attacking once every 6 (or whatever seconds), trading with a monster and cleaving chunks of meat off each other.</p><p></p><p>You're tired, you're dismayed, you're frustrated, your luck is running out, your deity or you are deeply offended, etc etc etc. 5 HP worth of damage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 8619224, member: 6696971"] Yeah. Just like Jose Aldo (up to that point possibly the greatest pound for pound MMA Fighter in history) can go down in 13 seconds...to a single punch...to Conor McGregor. The variability of fighting is extremely high. You can be enormously dangerous (a world class fighter) and take one shot on the button and its lights out (as has happened 100s and 100s of times just in my 40 years of being involved with combat sports and watching combat sports). Minions are a trope. They're dangerous creatures except the heroes are so much more dangerous and robust that when they deal with these_particular_ghouls, it reliably spits out Conor McGregor vs Jose Aldo fiction; a trope. You may not like the trope but that is its purpose and it does it beautifully (in terms of its reliability due to implementation and in terms of the tactical overhead managed by players to make it so through their PC). Again, its a trope. See my explanation for HP loss above. Not a single blow or spittle needs to land to explain the 5 HP loss for being adjacent at the beginning of your turn. You're evading the spittle and its fangs by grasping the underside of its jaw and recoiling from it while your other hands desperately fight off its claws. The spittle falls short or your armor intercedes. Your grasp of its jaws protects you from its fangs. You have wrist control of one claw while the other slashes futilely against your armor. It then releases you and attacks your friend (with its aura) with wild abandon. Nothing lands. No spittle, no fangs, no jaws. Yet still you lose 5 HP. Because HP aren't meat. You're not standing around static in a tiny space, attacking once every 6 (or whatever seconds), trading with a monster and cleaving chunks of meat off each other. You're tired, you're dismayed, you're frustrated, your luck is running out, your deity or you are deeply offended, etc etc etc. 5 HP worth of damage. [/QUOTE]
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