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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 4864219" data-attributes="member: 66434">The DM can always determine the outcome of events that do not involve the PC's without resolution mechanics. A consistently run game world populated with constructs that have stable objective attributes in relation to one another aid in making those outcomes more logical. If there are things in the world with a value that can shift depending on who is or is not present, then a logical determination of an outcome for a given event becomes harder to make.&nbsp;I could perhaps buy into the minion nonsense if there were any rhyme or reason to the minion status and it was applied across the world as a whole. For example if a given creature was treated as a minion to anything X number of levels over it's own at least there would be some benchmark for making the determination. It would have to apply equally to PC's and monsters of course. A 1st level PC charging in against a level 10 dragon should be swatted like a fly. A minion of &quot;equal&quot; level to a regular monster (or the PC's) just doesn't make sense. &nbsp;If there are two monsters of the same level standing next to each other what exactly makes one a minion and the other not? Aside from the MM saying so that is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 4864219, member: 66434"] The DM can always determine the outcome of events that do not involve the PC's without resolution mechanics. A consistently run game world populated with constructs that have stable objective attributes in relation to one another aid in making those outcomes more logical. If there are things in the world with a value that can shift depending on who is or is not present, then a logical determination of an outcome for a given event becomes harder to make. I could perhaps buy into the minion nonsense if there were any rhyme or reason to the minion status and it was applied across the world as a whole. For example if a given creature was treated as a minion to anything X number of levels over it's own at least there would be some benchmark for making the determination. It would have to apply equally to PC's and monsters of course. A 1st level PC charging in against a level 10 dragon should be swatted like a fly. A minion of "equal" level to a regular monster (or the PC's) just doesn't make sense. If there are two monsters of the same level standing next to each other what exactly makes one a minion and the other not? Aside from the MM saying so that is. [/QUOTE]

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