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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lurker37" data-source="post: 4359063" data-attributes="member: 9522">I tend to think of minions as all having near-identical appearance. Not in hair coulour etc, but they all have the same gear. And they're taking orders from someone there if it's not an all-minion encounter. Furthermore, the fact that the encounter outnumbers the party, clues the players in that there are minions, so they should already be looking for these tells.What would not work IMO is a knowledge check to 'identify monster', since minions are a template used for an encounter mechanic, rather than a creature type per se. It's not that the monsters are necessarily sickly. They could simply be unlucky, or fated to die this day, or what have you.</blockquote>