The Minion Master: Difference between revisions

== MMORPG ==

 

** Currently they can only have a maximum of 10-12 minions at any given time, but they can be replenished very quickly (which is good, because they decay very quickly once they've been around a while). In the past however, there was no limit to how many minions a necromancer could summon and control, you could have massive hordes of 50+ minions if you and your teammates had enough AoE healing to keep that many alive.

** Also there are the Ritualists, who summon largely stationary but long-ranged Spirits who have a wide range of effects: from dealing damage, to stealing health, to causing blindness, to healing, to taking damage to protect parties, to bringing party members back to life. Of special note is the Ritualist Primary Attribute: Spawning Power, which boosts the stats of created creatures and contains a number of skills that further augment them or benefits the Ritualist when they're summoned. Note that "Created creatures" includes the Necromancer's undead minions, so a Ritualist can dabble in that form of minion mastery too, with mixed results.

== Real Time Strategy ==

 

** Some [[Hero Unit|heroes]] could become [[The Minion Master]] using the correct abilities. Like the Death Knight, who could raise 6 short-lived but invincible minions using its ultimate ability, Animate Dead, or the Night Elf Warden, who could ''summon a [[The Minion Master|minion master]]'', the Avatar of Vengeance, who then spammed further, weaker summons called Spirits of Vengeance. And the Keeper of the Grove, whose Force of Nature ability summoned an extra [[When Trees Attack|Treant]] for every point invested in it after the first. Or the Firelord, whose Lava Spawns would multiply over time if not killed quickly. Or the Dark Ranger, who would turn any unit she killed into a buffed-up skeleton. Yeah, basically, Blizzard loves this trope.

* Carrier cruisers and carrier capital ships from ''[[Sins of a Solar Empire]]'' acted as [[The Minion Master]] by fighting primarily through their strikecraft wings. They would produce, transport and, in case of capital ships, provide supporting abilities for their strikecraft and fleet in general. The cruiser carriers were, in fact, completely unarmed apart from their strikecraft wings, while capitals would also have some self-defense armament. All capital ships would gain squads as they leveled up, but carrier capitals would, obviously, always field the most squads.

== Role Playing Game ==

 

** This is especially true of the Alchemist if you invest into the Lore skill tree.

* The player in ''[[Fable]] 2'' can be one as well with the ''Raise Dead'' spell. At higher levels you can summon six ghosts that are pretty weak but if you've killed a couple of people already these ghosts get stronger.

* The Summoner class from ''[[Hellgate London]]'' is this trope. They can maintain one Demon "pet" and any number of elementals which come in 5 flavors as long as they have enough mana for them all.

** Similarly an Engineer could specialize in one drone, then fill the air with swarms of tiny bots with various abilities.

* While all three player classes in [[Geneforge]] can be this, the Shaper class is best suited for this.

 

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== Tabletop Games ==

*** This editor is uncertain about rules for mass combat in D&D, in which legions of undead etc would act as a single unit under your command. However, one very good reason for the switch was the tendency towards "I attack, then each of my million zombie minions attacks". Aside from the time involved in watching a million zombies attack, it's a bit underwhelming to kill the villain with a [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]] like that.

** Actually, some summoned creatures (like demons) will act on their own if you don't give them any commands, so you can have multiple monsters acting at once. You still can't summon as many of them as in previous editions, though.

 

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