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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8429107" data-attributes="member: 5948">One thing I would like WotC to get around to at some point is to actually write up a dedicated new base class for pet controllers, where all the core class features are about controlling your minion/ally (or possibly allies).  Subclasses for necromancers puppeteering undead, beast trainers, fiend summoners, owners of a genie bottle, etc etc etcThere's been a pile of quasi-attempts to implement the trope in game terms, ranging from subclasses like the beastmaster ranger to chain pact warlocks and summoning and animate dead and find steed spells.  But none of them really work because they treat the pet mechanic as a minor or peripheral add-on to the existing base class, and so the pet's capability is limited to near-uselessness, and its role to expendable transience, by the requirement to balance it with all the existing features of a full class.I wish they'd get down off the fence and do a class built from the ground up around minion/ally control.  Some people will inevitable shriek about 'getting your anime in my D&D', but let them.  I think the trope is strong and universal enough to be worthwhile, and it would let you run a (for instance) necromancer where your big guns in combat were the undead minions bowing to your will, rather than the same high-level spells every other wizard can cast. Which would be a nice change.</blockquote>