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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Regicide" data-source="post: 4311414" data-attributes="member: 67552">I'm not a fan of the Dragonball Z paradigm, sorry.  Common sense says that a bunny isn't a threat, a victim in a cage isn't a threat, a person who is about to be killed by your swing isn't a threat either.  In fact, based on the fact that encounters are pretty much designed for the PCs to win... very few mobs are a credible threat.  Unless you stand there and let one beat on you for half a dozen rounds a minion sure as heck isn't a credible threat.  I'd call the d8/10 feet from falling the ground does to you a more credible threat, can I attack the ground?  DnD is no longer a role-playing game.  There is no in-game reason for a character to know a healing potion won't work on them because they've rested too much during the day.  There is no in-game reason why a character would know that if they can get a fight in against some weak adversaries they will be STRONGER for the following fight because of AP and such from a milestone.  There is no in-game reason why a deaf and unconscious character would benefit from a warlord's rousing cheers.  There is no in-game reason for a character to know that he can use the once-a-day power on his shield, or the once-per-day power on his sword, but not both.  There is no in-game reason for a character to know a peasant dressed as an evil villain but who isn't a threat won't cause targeted effects to trigger, but the evil villain, dressed as a harmless child would.   DnD is no longer rules to model a fantasy adventure, it's a cumbersome system of arbitrary rules meant to emulate World of Warcraft and be a balanced system from level 1 to 30, and it fails at it.</blockquote>

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