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Message: <blockquote data-quote="babinro" data-source="post: 5675469" data-attributes="member: 67482">While not terribly related to the OP, my party and rotating DM's have gotten to a point where we heavily modify minions.Most traditional minions will have increased defenses over standard creatures (+2 to all defenses for example) in the hope they may live long enough to accomplish something.  Minions all have the 'high crit' property doing additional 1d10 per tier.  They also frequently have a ranged attack in addition to a melee option if the creature did not have that in the design.  We tend to run these in numbers that are double the books recommended allotment to challenge the PC's. In addition to all the above we will frequently use 'Elite Minions'.  The first hit on one such minion will bloody it.  The next hit will kill it.  Strikers consider their added damage to be part of a second hit only on minions, thus reflecting their ability to kill them more effectively.  A critical hit kills an elite minion for all characters.  These actually challenge PC's and are run in the standard recommended minion allotment.Lastly, it can be fun just added flavor to an encounter by adding minions in unexpected ways. Example: Target is attacked by some standard monster type zombies.  After a zombie is killed, it remains inactive for a full round. On its next turn in initiative it can use its arms to drag its limp torso around the battlefield as a crawl action to attack PC's as a minion (using prone detriments on its initial stats).  This creature is treated as a minion or elite minion depending on your preference and is limited to melee basic attacks only. Personally, I find the above additions add a lot to the fun and challenge of encounters involving minions and recommend you experiment if you've not already done so.</blockquote>

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