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<blockquote data-quote="Dr_Sage" data-source="post: 4936199" data-attributes="member: 36185">Hummmm so maybe would be helpfull to say &quot;your minions&quot; = &quot;DM created weaklings&quot;. They are based on diferent concepts, not minions per se.&nbsp;I actually like to use &quot;weaklings&quot; from time to time as well, but minions mechanic is very specific, designed to make our life as a DM easier and bring bigger numbers to encounters while keeping our &quot;DM sub-processing brain unit&quot; free to work on things other tham HP tracking.&nbsp;**********************&nbsp;Anyway back on topic, expect your players to react properly. If you say &quot;heck, its just a game, i will tell them&quot;, expect a lot of min-maxing when using powers, and a lot of meta-gamming talk during encounters. &nbsp;If you do get annoyed when your players spends some time discussing in meta-gamming language during fights, well, dont tell them directly, keeping the information on the descriptions, and thus players will naturaly use descriptions when talking to each other. &nbsp;As a player, I personaly dont bother using my daily on a minion, if that is good with the plot/situation. Actually I have used Shield bash and Comeback Strike many somethimes on minions and never regreted. The sceenes were well described and the action kept comming.&nbsp;Personal opinion here, not oficcial ruling.&nbsp;Regards!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr_Sage, post: 4936199, member: 36185"] Hummmm so maybe would be helpfull to say "your minions" = "DM created weaklings". They are based on diferent concepts, not minions [I]per se[/I]. I actually like to use "weaklings" from time to time as well, but minions mechanic is very specific, designed to make our life as a DM easier and bring bigger numbers to encounters while keeping our "DM sub-processing brain unit" free to work on things other tham HP tracking. ********************** Anyway back on topic, expect your players to react properly. If you say "heck, its just a game, i will tell them", expect a lot of min-maxing when using powers, and a lot of meta-gamming talk during encounters. If you do get annoyed when your players spends some time discussing in meta-gamming language during fights, well, dont tell them directly, keeping the information on the descriptions, and thus players will naturaly use descriptions when talking to each other. As a player, I personaly dont bother using my daily on a minion, if that is good with the plot/situation. Actually I have used Shield bash and Comeback Strike many somethimes on minions and never regreted. The sceenes were well described and the action kept comming. Personal opinion here, not oficcial ruling. Regards! [/QUOTE]

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