[Mutants & Masterminds]2.5 million minions can't be wrong

[andrew_kenrick]

I've just got the new ed of M&M and I have a question about feat ranks, and specifically the minions feat. Unless I've skipped the relevant section, feat ranks don't seem to be capped in any way. So I could start off in a PL10 game with my minions feat at rank 20, which means I could command an army of 2.5 million 45pp minions.

Now as fun as this sounds, it also sounds wrong. Is it? :\

 

[arwink]

I don't have the books nearby, but I think it'd actually be 2.5 million 15 point minions. Or, alternatively, 1 million 30 point minions or a measly 500,000 45 point minions. Or one very angry and powerful 300 point minion. More power points devoted to the minions lowers the number you get.

Not something I'll ever let my players get away with, admittedly, but I have no problem lobbing a 20 ranks of fanatical minions on world-invading bad guys.

 

[Vigilance]

I dont think that would be appropriate for a PC, but I can see the value in allowing minions to work that way.

Someone like Miranda Zero from the Global Frequency comic.

You could argue that the vast majority of the Global Frequency (the NPC portion that consist of people like pregnant women who know more about Sumerian Mythology than anyone alive) are her minions.

Does she have MILLIONS? Maybe not. THOUSANDS? Id say so based on the comic.

Chuck

 

[Particle_Man]

"Sacrificing Minions. Is there ANY problem that it CAN'T solve?"

 

[Dirigible]

Does she have MILLIONS? Maybe not. THOUSANDS? Id say so based on the comic.

1001.

 

[andrew_kenrick]

I suppose it could cover heroes like Black Panther who were kings of small nations, although I would be very wary about letting a player abuse it quite so much ...

 

[Particle_Man]

15 point minions? I see this army of schoolchildren, following their leader like a rock star.

 

[Bretbo]

Just becasue you can do a thing doesn't mean you should do a thing!

 

[frankthedm]

The other players, provided they are heroes, should quickly work out any problems with minion fueled battle plans.

I'd just say to keep it in your PL.