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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 4214382" data-attributes="member: 834">Minions is one of those things that drums up furor amongst speculating internet fanbase and will work like a charm in practice.It's sort of the reverse bag-of-rat tricks for 4e.  You remember the noise about using cleave to kill weak monsters for the express purpose of doing 3 hp to an adjacent tough monster?  Only a problem on the board, will not be one in practice.  Same thing for minions.DM will just look at the situation, look at the participants and assign a role.  He may decide that these guys are nameless mook while this guy is the shaman/leader with a bodyguard.  For the fun of it he'll add a sneaky bastard who'll try to gut the wizard.  Eight Minions, One Controller (Leader), a Brute and a skirmisher.  Let's roll.  And thus the DM realized he could craft a good fight with variety aplenty in less time than it took his faithful disciples to fetch him a cold beer.  At last!  He said.  No need to waste hours adding character levels and tweaking stats to achieve true glory!  He saw that this was fun and knew that it was good.And after his players shall have their fill of excitement and laughter, having slaughtered dozens of imaginary orc in grand fashion, they shall look up to their wise DM and ask: -''Truly you say, dozens of people on a far away board split their hairs in twain, trying to ascertain what might happen should two minions clubber each other in a bar fight?  But...  why, oh wise one?''-''Dear disciples, it is because they hadn't gotten the chance to play yet and needed to do something to kill the time.  But these were the dark age.  Rejoice for now the reign of 4e has come!''</blockquote>

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