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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6058668" data-attributes="member: 20323">MinionsCouldn't get back to sleep, so I did some more brainstorming on the conversion, specifically about minions...All kobolds are minions in Dragon Mountain. Minions aren't a challenge by themselves - they either need mass numbers or some kind of trick/trap (or both) to have a shot at harming much the less defeating a group of hardened adventurers. Right now, however, I want to focus on minions in isolation. There are two angles to any monster: tactics and stat blocks. Tactics are a large part of this. There's all the original Tucker's Kobolds tricks. There is also some stuff unique to 4e: Kobolds can do sneaky stuff like move adjacent to an enemy, aid one kobold's attack, then shift away so that one kobold is virtually guaranteed a hit. I'm also brainstorming tactics of my own... Some that I'm looking forward to trying out are using monster bait/repellent and myco-toxins that only effect mammals.Talking about minion kobolds and the importance of stat blocks might sound like a joke. After all, they're going to be dying in the dozens, how long will a single kobold have to pull off a bunch of tricks, right? Hang on. Certain traits/powers in 4e can make some minions much more of a threat than the baseline minion. These include:- Long ranged attacks- Grapple attacks- Waves that don't stop until a condition is met- Invisibility or frequent hiding- Draining healing surges- Threatening reach- Death triggers (aka "exploding minions")- Powers that create minions (or be created by standard monsters)What else might you add to that list?</blockquote>

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