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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6151903" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I'm not going to engage with the rest of your post as there is literally nothing that can constructively come from it as we can apparently parse text and find diametrically opposed (or at least orthogonal) meaning and then extrapolate again in the opposite direction.  We're from different planets so we can leave it at that.With respect to the above though, we can possibly achieve some clarity (but perhaps not as again we may have orthogonal or diametrically opposed readings and extrapolation.).  The way I've always understood (and correspondingly used) the term "ganking" is as follows:Ganking - To kill a singular enemy or enemy force that has no chance to defend itself (eg The Red Wedding or Renley Baratheon being killed by the shadow in The Song of Fire and Ice).Minions, I thought intuitively, are there to serve as mooks or cannon fodder.  They are the AD&D Heroic Fray rules but moved from player-side to GM-side.  A Heroic Fray is called out by the Fighter when enemies outnumber the PCs and are at least 10 HD lower than them.  This grants lots of extra attacks to mow down the one-shottable enemies (minions),The DMG 1 rulebook provides their role via invoking genre expectations and encounter-building instructions:You can use them any way you'd like such as using them as sentries for "ganking" but that isn't what they were constructed for.  They're the inverted Heroic Fray cannon fodder of AD&D.</blockquote>

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