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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5093111" data-attributes="member: 71571">I've already covered that.They don't look weak.  They look normal for their race. They are the baseline.But, a strangler will have a chain in hand and the skill to use it.  A hexmage will be holding onto a stick with blacksmoke coming from it created by magic.  A dragonshield will be a little more jumpy, and will try to hide behind his shield.Instead of describing minions as 'weaker and pathetic' I describe normal monsters as 'has a trick or two' or 'radiates cold' or whatever.Minions are baseline, and I make the normals (if they can be discerned) special.  Notice I don't say ALL normals don't look like minions; but in most cases it's obvious.Also notice:  If in most cases it's obvious, then when I -do- hide a normal in the minions, (some lurkers) then it's that much more interesting for the players.In the two encounters above, you have more minions than non-minions.  Why would I treat them as worthless?  They're the majority.  They're the norm.  Just like the PCs are the paragons of their races, those that are a step above, so are non-minions above the normal combatants of their race.The world already has that view for PCs, why not use the SAME theory in regards to monsters?</blockquote>