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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5361244" data-attributes="member: 94022">I've been toying with some ideas for minions too.  There's been some discussion on twitter lately about minions and how to beef them up as well.  Some of the ideas I like are: Minions that mark and punish for violating the mark -- throws off the strikers.Minions that create terrain effects either while alive or when they die.Minions that explode when they die, potentially setting up cascading bursts as they take each other out -- while also targetting the PCs.   The idea of course is to give the party something to think about when they encounter minions.  I think that one of the monster themes in DMG2 even had an ability that allowed the monster to dominate a creature for one round when it died, which could be awesome/ugly when minions are involved. I like the two hit rule as well, but I'm debating as to whether or not to use it with my players.  Unfortunately, there are a number of rules lawyers in my homebrew game and a couple get irritated when things don't go as "expected".  Naturally, that's its own issue, but I still have to consider the extent to which it would affect their enjoyment. All in all though, I like seeing all these ideas for making minions better.  I think WotC did a decent job, but didn't quite get all the way there.  By mid-high heroic, minions are not much of a threat to the party.  Upping their damage helps, but I prefer the interesting effects/higher survivability myself.</blockquote>

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