No, not Kronin's style, I've exchanged a lot of role-based NB's with Kronin, literally dozens, and his answers when modding are either very clear, or very clearly unclear, in fact he typically answered "RAFO" if he couldn't say outright. Along with many, many conversations about how various RB/NK scenarios go down, it happens to be our longest running conversation going on for over two years now, and FT and Fox can testify to that, so could Yuna or Fist if they were around. Kronin won't tell you if you're a sane cop or not, something I can also testify to personally, but he always fills in answers very unambiguously

Seriously, have a third party test that, ask Kronin a hypothetical, "is a guard role subject to RB?"

My bet is he'd say no, that it's passive action and can't be blocked, but he'll answer, and he'd tell you too because it's game based info, like whether or not doccing a princess or the guard would save their lives if the NK came down on one of them. You see, that's vital info right? Does a guard absorb a NK if it's aimed at the princess and she dies, or if the doc's aimed at him and she's NK'd? Potential major game impact, Kronin's very familiar with these lines of reasoning because I bounce them off him regularly so I consider there to be about zero chance he'd not think of them, and that having done so he wouldn't tell you if it was a player or NPC. So I have a lot of difficulty believing this.