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<blockquote data-quote="Engilbrand" data-source="post: 4444538" data-attributes="member: 44184">The answer to &quot;What doesn't he understand?&quot;In my view, bringing up questions like &quot;What if two minions are fighting?&quot; as more than a goofy question shows a lack of understanding. There have been a number of posts by other people in here with similar ideas to this. In my book, they don't get it.For those of you who say, &quot;The world exists outside of the PCs and everything is exactly as powerful as it would be against the PCs.&quot;:How do you play the game? At all? You would have to run your own mock combats for EVERYTHING that happens in the world. Do you roll Stealth checks for thieves to get away from the guards before the PCs ever show up? Or do you handwave it? The little quote about this is &quot;If an NPC climbs a tree, and a PC isn't around, does he make a Climb check?&quot; Of course not. It gets handwaved. &quot;Why did this happen? How did this work?&quot; It did because it needed to.Minions are the same. HP are much more abstract than some people seem to understand. You can say, &quot;I don't like having my PCs able to 1-hit something.&quot; That's fine. You don't like a part of the game. But don't add, &quot;Because it doesn't make sense.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Engilbrand, post: 4444538, member: 44184"] The answer to "What doesn't he understand?" In my view, bringing up questions like "What if two minions are fighting?" as more than a goofy question shows a lack of understanding. There have been a number of posts by other people in here with similar ideas to this. In my book, they don't get it. For those of you who say, "The world exists outside of the PCs and everything is exactly as powerful as it would be against the PCs.": How do you play the game? At all? You would have to run your own mock combats for EVERYTHING that happens in the world. Do you roll Stealth checks for thieves to get away from the guards before the PCs ever show up? Or do you handwave it? The little quote about this is "If an NPC climbs a tree, and a PC isn't around, does he make a Climb check?" Of course not. It gets handwaved. "Why did this happen? How did this work?" It did because it needed to. Minions are the same. HP are much more abstract than some people seem to understand. You can say, "I don't like having my PCs able to 1-hit something." That's fine. You don't like a part of the game. But don't add, "Because it doesn't make sense." [/QUOTE]

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