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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Switchback" data-source="post: 4808163" data-attributes="member: 69793">I play a controller (wizard) and my DM has admitted to ‘not liking’ minions, but states he will continue to use them due to their expectancy in the rules. His main beef is he feels they are hard to use in the context of his adventures.       Despite the qualification, this makes me naturally uneasy, as that is a strong point of having a controller around. Even though I think my wizard does fine with no minions around and can contribute in useful ways, I wonder how much a lack of minions (if a lack occurs) will put a crimp on my role. At the end of one adventure with no minions present and also in which the selected enemies were high on NAD’s and resists to some of my spell types, a different party member suggested I might roll another striker… Which I am pretty vehemently not interested in. Going forward, I also think it should be possible to plan a power build suited to more standard enemies, if I know that is what will be encountered primarily.      So far our campaign has run limited encounters but faced minions perhaps in 4 out of 18 combats or something close to that.      So I am curious if there controllers out there playing in low minion (or even no minion) games and still getting the most out of their character? And just in general, trying to figure out how often most DM’s throw minions into their encounters. Is 50% a common figure, lower, higher, etc.</blockquote>

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