If you want to supplement your decision-making material with a reference of similar wording take a look at the Faerie Fire spell. If you allow this spell to affect multiple creatures, it would make sense to have Slashing Flourish affect multiple creatures as well.
But it isn't similar. One generally refers to any creature, while another has qualifiers that it has to be an other creature.
Slashing flourish is the only feature or spell that uses this wording that I can find. Others that work similarly all say "a different creature" instead of "any other creature." So there is some argument to be made that is meant to be different, but there are a number of ways the writers could have made their intentions clearer. "Any number of other creatures" would have been clearest.
But clarity has never been a concern in 5e.
It does not say "another creature" it says "any other creature", "other" simply meaning that you can't choose the primary target again.
If you dont see the obvious similarity between "any creature" and "any other creature" in a discussion regarding the use of plural/singular, I believe you're in the minority. Either way, I simply put the reference for OP to interpret.
Who said I didn't? I'm simply pointing out that all effects that involve choosing targets tell you exactly how many you can target unless it is one. Can you find any other example where that is not the case?
Your very first sentence was "but it isn't similar." Are you trying to tell me that you knew the wording was similar but said it wasn't anyway?
Regardless I'm not sure what your point is. It should be fairly easy to compare you own ruling on Slashing Flourish with your own ruling on Faerie Fire and decide from there. If someone decides that the two work differently regarding the number of targets (in the context discussed in this thread), that someone would probably benefit from making it clear what type of evidence they count as valid for their own judgement.
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Your very first sentence was "but it isn't similar." Are you trying to tell me that you knew the wording was similar but said it wasn't anyway?
Regardless I'm not sure what your point is. It should be fairly easy to compare you own ruling on Slashing Flourish with your own ruling on Faerie Fire and decide from there. If someone decides that the two work differently regarding the number of targets (in the context discussed in this thread), that someone would probably benefit from making it clear what type of evidence they count as valid for their own judgement.