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<blockquote data-quote="2eBladeSinger" data-source="post: 4353776" data-attributes="member: 65432">The DM I have now makes it very clear – he even uses different color markers to indicate minions. To be honest, as a player, I don’t like this very much; it turns the whole encounter into a meta-game exercise. If I wanted to play Warhammer Quest, I would have brought it over. &nbsp;I’m going to be running the group in a couple of weeks and I asked myself this very question, so thanks for putting it on the boards so I don’t have to. I think using minions to intentionally deceive players into using their dailies is bad form, but, as I said above, I’m not going to spell it out for them either. Think of an encounter with some undead including 2 skeleton minions, 4 zombie minions, 2 zombie brutes and a skeleton soldier. As undead, they’re going to be a rag tag bunch with no clear leader and an assortment of rusty gear (though the MM describes them as all wielding the same thing). I don’t see a reason to say, this one is a mook and that one is a PBD. Now if there is a clear leader barking orders or a guy in shinier armor, I’ll describe that appropriately. But overall, I think it will be more fun if they figure it out in combat. It helps to describe the action: they’re cleaving heads in two and slicing off arms then all of a sudden one opponent grabs an incoming blade with his bare hand and pushes it away… obviously not a mook.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2eBladeSinger, post: 4353776, member: 65432"] The DM I have now makes it very clear – he even uses different color markers to indicate minions. To be honest, as a player, I don’t like this very much; it turns the whole encounter into a meta-game exercise. If I wanted to play Warhammer Quest, I would have brought it over. I’m going to be running the group in a couple of weeks and I asked myself this very question, so thanks for putting it on the boards so I don’t have to. I think using minions to intentionally deceive players into using their dailies is bad form, but, as I said above, I’m not going to spell it out for them either. Think of an encounter with some undead including 2 skeleton minions, 4 zombie minions, 2 zombie brutes and a skeleton soldier. As undead, they’re going to be a rag tag bunch with no clear leader and an assortment of rusty gear (though the MM describes them as all wielding the same thing). I don’t see a reason to say, this one is a mook and that one is a PBD. Now if there is a clear leader barking orders or a guy in shinier armor, I’ll describe that appropriately. But overall, I think it will be more fun if they figure it out in combat. It helps to describe the action: they’re cleaving heads in two and slicing off arms then all of a sudden one opponent grabs an incoming blade with his bare hand and pushes it away… obviously not a mook. [/QUOTE]

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