Rules for making minions (a.k.a. turn any monster into a minion on the fly!)

[Asmor]

Noooooo! You make me cry.
Does the errata fix that to any extent? I'm going to be DMing pretty seriously in the near future, and I was hoping I could trust that CR wasn't a joke/facade this time around.

Everything works well enough, don't worry.

 

[Liminosse]

This seems pretty accurate to me, especially after comparing all of the minions in the monster manual based on level and damage. There is a pattern however to minions damage based on level, but as with many patterns there are a couple of anomalies. The ogres do 2 more damage then other minions of their level, and the rats do 1 less. setting those aside you can pretty much use the Limited damage expressions on pg. 185 in the DMG to determine a minions damage (if 9 or 10 damage per hit seems like a little much for a lvl 5 minion), just use the damage bonus appropriate for their level in the "low" column and add +1. Its pretty much the same thing as minimum damage but your lowering the dice to 1 instead of 2-4. Unless the minion has an unusually low or high amount of damage for its level, the method purposed by Asmor works great, thank you

Liminosse Starstone