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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8824113" data-attributes="member: 93670">They don't need to spam it every hit, just every hit against non-mook types.&nbsp; The trouble ties into bounded accuracy &amp; the bloated adventure days 5e forces on the GM.&nbsp; Because of BA you have two factors[spoiler=:two factors]<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nobody is &quot;squishy&quot; &amp; players act like it by not bothering to protect the squishies &amp; just going for the most valued targets if there is any variation.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">If the ignored mooks are able to threaten someone who didn't go after the big guy the results look like execution by fiat &amp; trigger the start of an adversarial player vrs gm mindset rather than pushing the rest of the group to do things like focus on mooks</li>
</ul>[/spoiler]As a GM it leaves a choice between mindnumbing waves of meaningless adam west batman vrs mooks fights &amp; utterly depressing fights that make the table feel like they are bullying a monster.&nbsp; The GM can't use a bunch of competent weighty monsters like level appropriate trolls/dragons/etc to strain those stunning strike ki points because it would look like punches are being pulled or death by fiat &amp; having a bunch of mooks the group just ignores while burning down a weighty solo/bruiser/caster type&nbsp; just makes for a chore of ending the big guyfollowed by a chore of cleaning up mooks who are pretty incapable of amounting to anything.Edit:&nbsp; I'd add the way movement around the battlefield has been so trivialized to allow ignoring the front line to be done so easily adds a third point to that spoiler</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8824113, member: 93670"] They don't need to spam it every hit, just every hit against non-mook types. The trouble ties into bounded accuracy & the bloated adventure days 5e forces on the GM. Because of BA you have two factors [spoiler=:two factors] [LIST] [*]Nobody is "squishy" & players act like it by not bothering to protect the squishies & just going for the most valued targets if there is any variation. [*][I]If[/I] the ignored mooks [I]are[/I] able to threaten someone who didn't go after the big guy the results [I]look[/I] like execution by fiat & trigger the start of an adversarial player vrs gm mindset rather than pushing the rest of the group to do things like focus on mooks [/LIST] [/spoiler] As a GM it leaves a choice between mindnumbing waves of meaningless adam west batman vrs mooks fights & utterly depressing fights that make the table feel like they are bullying a monster. The GM can't use a bunch of competent weighty monsters like level appropriate trolls/dragons/etc to strain those stunning strike ki points because it would look like punches are being pulled or death by fiat & having a bunch of mooks the group just ignores while burning down a weighty solo/bruiser/caster type just makes for a chore of ending the big guyfollowed by a chore of cleaning up mooks who are pretty incapable of amounting to anything. Edit: I'd add the way movement around the battlefield has been so trivialized to allow ignoring the front line to be done so easily adds a third point to that spoiler [/QUOTE]

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