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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pweent" data-source="post: 4213763" data-attributes="member: 15256">For those who are having cognitive dissonance issues with the minions, please tell me if it helps to think of it like this.First, remember the golden rule: hit points are an abstraction."Minions do not have hit points. Instead, a minion is incapacitated by any successful hit which does damage."I think it's due to the abstract (and fundamentally flawed) HP mechanic that I like minions so much to begin with, in that when described as above, minions sidestep HP entirely. However, at some point it was decided to bring the minions in line with the standard HP system. Maybe this was strictly for simplicity, maybe this was for the potential to create special cases like the already mentioned vampire spawn minions with 10 HP plus regeneration. Unfortunately, by phrasing it in terms of HP, we have a tendency to start treating HP as a concrete resource that are drained away of which minions have a miniscule supply, instead of as an abstraction to which minions do not subscribe.HP are one way of abstracting injury (and morale, and luck) - you have a pool of them, and when you run out, you die. Minion rules are another way of abstracting injury - when a minion is hit, it dies. Not having HP does not mean minions exist, in the game world, in a strict binary "I'm in the pinnacle of health! / Faith and begorrah! A splinter! Tell my woman I loved her!" situation. They are BOTH abstractions. The difference is that HP is an abstraction that is intended to allow someone to be worn down by multiple attacks.So. If you have issue with the idea that a missed fireball can't take away that lowly minion's one hit point, does the above rephrasing of minions also make you uncomfortable?</blockquote>

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