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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4868198" data-attributes="member: 80487">When is a monster a minion?Reading the DMG, it appears that the answer is whenever one replaces a standard monster (fitting into a target XP total) with "several" -- alternatively "four" -- minions of that level. So, theoretically, a level 9 encounter for five PCs (2,000 XP) could be made up of two level 14 standard monsters ... or several level 14 minions (half as many of level 18 being too hard for a "level 10" or lower party, and eight times as many of level 2 being too easy for a party of "level 7" or higher).It does not appear that a monster is simultaneously a standard monster to one character (taking normal hit point damage and so on) and a minion to another.The way some people write about them, though, is confusing in light of that.Whence, for instance, come such ideas as that certain monsters are always minions when met by characters of a certain (which??) level -- or that certain (which??) others are never minions?How does one determine the stats for a minion? For instance, I see that they are supposed to do a fixed amount of damage ... but standard monsters do rolled amounts.</blockquote>