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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mesh Hong" data-source="post: 4771945" data-attributes="member: 73463">I have just whipped up a very basic level 10 human henchman to get a better feel of your original idea.  Human Henchman Level 10 henchman (Minion) Medium Natural Humanoid XP 250  Initiative +9 Senses Perception +8 Henchman Aura aura 1; Enemies starting their turn inside aura take 10 damage HP 1; a missed attack never damages a minion. AC 25; Fortitude 24, Reflex 23, Will 22 Resist all damage 10; half damage from close or area attacks Speed 5  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/bm.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bmelee:" title="Basic Melee    :bmelee:" data-shortname=":bmelee:" /> Longsword Strike (Standard; at-will) ♦ weapon Attack +16 vs. AC; 7 damage  Henchman Tactics (Immediate Reaction; at-will) ♦ missed by melee attack If Henchman is missed by a melee attack it may immediately shift 1 square and make a Longsword Strike attack as an immediate reaction  Alignment Unaligned Languages common Skills Athletics +15, Endurance +14, Intimidate +12, Streetwise +12 Str 21 (+10) Dex 18 (+9) Wis 16 (+8) Con 18 (+9) Int 16 (+8) Cha 14 (+7) Equipment chainmail, shield, longsword  Now that I've done this it doesn't seem that bad.  The only thing that really stands out as being wrong is the damage aura. If you were to keep this it would have to do at most the same damage as the creatures standard melee attack, but I would probably want it to be less because it is auto hitting and affecting multiple targets. The changes to defences and attack would slip by unnoticed by your players and wouldn't actually cause an in game issue. I still don't like the half damage from close and area attacks because it is purely a mathmatical solution without any logical (or even illogical) reasoning.   Its an idea, but what is the henchman going to actually achieve with an action point? In this case another 7 damage, you would be better off giving them a recharge or encounter power that gave them access to better attack, in this case a 2d6+5 damage attack.  But all this is veering away from the basic reasoning behind minions. They should be easy to run and require no book keeping. If you have got to track which minions have used action points, or encounter powers or roll for recharge every turn then in essence they are not doing their job and might as well be normal creatures. Note: I am not sure if I am even convincing myself with that last point, it would depend on how many henchmen you intend to use in a single encounter. If you were only going to use a couple mixed in with normal minions it might not be that bad, if you were going to use 20 it would be a lot more work to keep track of.</blockquote>

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