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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6066595" data-attributes="member: 463">Thanks for the comments.I always think that human Minions make more sense at Paragon than at Heroic Tier, where Minion status only makes sense for untrained rabble, large rats and such. Depends a lot on campaign level demographics though; my Forgotten Realms game based on the FRCG has humans across all 3 Tiers (eg Shadovar Shadow Knights make 22nd level minions), whereas an Heroic-Tier-only setting would be statted very differently.The minions above are the following standard monsters converted to minions 8 levels higher, keeping the same XP value:Human Bandit Skirmisher-2Human Guard Soldier-3Zhent Soldier Soldier-5Human Cavalier Soldier-7 (Leader) I definitely don't want Soldier minions Marking, it's a trivial status effect that requires tracking. I'm keen to minimise the need for tracking effects. The knight's ability to draw attacks aimed at adjacent allies works well for a 'defender minion', though. Immobilise seems a reasonable ability for a critical hit, but unless the minion has a lasso or net I'd probably prefer Slowed. Knocking Prone has a similar effect anyway, as potentially does Push 1 & Daze, since you can't charge 1 square.In general I don't think minions need to draw fire from the boss; since they have relatively high damage output plus low survivability it usually makes sense for the PCs to kill them first, anyway.</blockquote>