Timeline for Why do my monster minions all have obvious weak points that instantly kill them?
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| Sep 27, 2021 at 0:18 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 26, 2021 at 18:40 | answer | added | Demigan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 26, 2021 at 11:47 | answer | added | user90413 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 18:47 | comment | added | Nat | You're meta-aware, so you follow the Villain's First Rule. | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 15:18 | answer | added | Daniel J. | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 14:33 | answer | added | Jontia | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 13:57 | comment | added | Issel | These weak points were not obvious hundreds of years ago, but villagers are smarter, and are familiar with these minions now. These minions are basic and cheap for a villian to raise and control. You ever see side by side comparisons of olympic athletes today and from 100 years ago? The average person is just a lot smarter and have better tools and tactics than 200 hundred years ago. | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 11:04 | answer | added | AncientSwordRage | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 18:50 | vote | accept | LiveInAmbeR | ||
| Sep 23, 2021 at 17:36 | comment | added | jamesqf | Because video game developers want to sell lots of video games. (And internal merchandizing &c.) If the players always get wiped out in the first level, the game will not be popular. | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 16:56 | comment | added | BruceWayne | What do you define as a "weak point"? Humans, I'd say, have a monstrous weak point, in that our entire Central Nervous System runs through a relatively thinly protected neck (I can very easily touch the back of my neck and feel my spine under the skin). But, where else would "we" route that? It's kind of required, based on our physical makeup. Perhaps your minions are similar in that way? | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 15:41 | answer | added | Nuclear241 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 14:58 | answer | added | Blindy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 13:13 | answer | added | Pavel Stepanov | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 13:04 | comment | added | Nuclear241 | I feel very strong urge to utter "developer oversight".. | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 11:42 | comment | added | Kaddath | Aaaargh you forgot the usual TVTropes warning! just lost almost an hour before realizing what happened :D funny list BTW | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 4:21 | answer | added | Corey | timeline score: 16 | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 2:55 | answer | added | Jedediah | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 23:17 | answer | added | Charlie Bamford | timeline score: 32 | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 23:13 | comment | added | LiveInAmbeR | @Alendyias These are all very sound comments. I already mentioned in the OP that monsters are only as good as how well they defend their weak point. What is being asked is why that weak point would be made visible. | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 22:56 | comment | added | Alendyias | This would make monsters with weak points viable despite weak points, and should be just plain common sense on the part of Overlord's Monster Design Department. | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 22:55 | comment | added | Alendyias | For example, you could place a weak point in a hard-to-reach spot on the monster (belly of the beast anyone?), give the weak point some form of protection that must be destroyed, removed, or worked around, or else spread the vulnerability so that a larger area is vulnerable to damage, but less damage will result from it being struck overall (enlarge the weak point, diminish it as a vulnerability accordingly). | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 22:53 | comment | added | Alendyias | Going off the evolutionary standpoint and the excellent answers here, maybe it'd be smart to minimize the weak points. | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 21:41 | answer | added | Nepene Nep | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 21:29 | history | edited | jdunlop | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2021 at 21:08 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 21:06 | answer | added | Josh Part | timeline score: 53 | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 20:49 | answer | added | Davislor | timeline score: 60 | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 20:40 | comment | added | LiveInAmbeR | @JohnO Yeah sure, the evil overlord CREATING the monsters can always blame it on evolution. That seems like a perfectly evil thing to do. Shifting the blame like a champ. | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 20:31 | comment | added | John O | Biology/evolution have given all of us such weaknesses. They weren't intentional, just the result of adaptivity not ever having encountered such an issue before. Why waste resources on some subtle/narrow magic power that as far as the villain is concerned, doesn't even exist? Imho you don't need an explanation for this as long as those weaknesses aren't absurd. I mean, there are people who die if they nibble peanut butter, so making those absurd enough to be a problem would actually be challenging. | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 20:23 | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 85 | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 19:31 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 22, 2021 at 12:17 | comment | added | Pelinore | A big "red x"? well no it doesn't, you wouldn't want to advertise your kill switch, that would just be silly :) | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 12:16 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 21 | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 12:15 | comment | added | LiveInAmbeR | @Pelinore I have when writing the question. It still doesn't explain why the minions brandish a big "red x" for enemies to aim. | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 11:43 | comment | added | Pelinore | Are you looking for a reason why any sane minion 'employer' would always include such a weakness? have you considered the kill switch rationale? always have a way to kill your minions quickly if they ever turn on you? (so paranoia then is the reason). | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 11:40 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 11:28 | history | asked | LiveInAmbeR | CC BY-SA 4.0 |