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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 4863005" data-attributes="member: 5724">We're got several 4e releases in the pipeline: we're working on Freeport Companion for 4e, we have a race book called Castoffs and Crossbreeds, and we have Nevermore 4e coming along as well.And I should state that when I talk about gaming mechanics and creator goals, I'm usually very dispassionate. I'm not a fan of the minion concept in D&D, mostly because I consider it philosophically troublesome in relation to the other design philosophies of the game. I know it bothers others, and I wonder if there would have been a better method of meeting the goal of making the PCs feel powerful (and having enough bodies on the board to push, pull, slide, and threaten) without creating an entirely different "how tough is this thing" abstraction that is in philosophic conflict with the core abstraction of "how things are hurt" in the rules set.Minions take two different kinds of damage, unlike other creatures. Damage when the PCs are around (1 hp of which is fatal) and damage when the PCs aren't around (which they've managed to survived to live to see the PCs eventually).As I said earlier, this type of abstraction is indicative of a change in the type of role-playing game D&D is. It's moved towards a game in which the world exists only in relation to the PCs, as opposed to what it has traditionally been, a game in which the PCs interact with a world that functions independent of them (be that at an abstracted level).Both styles can be a lot of fun to play, but they are different styles.joe b.</blockquote>

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