Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

Creating Minions
and Lieutenants
The heroes have tracked a villain called the
warlock to a remote farm village that seems
to be deserted. While searching the town they
come to a barn…
Minions, at their simplest expression, are direct,
low-powered threats that chip away at the heroes’
Health during an action scene. But minion rules
are flexible, so they can represent much more
than mere humanoid followers of villainous tyrants.
While mechanically simple, minions and lieutenants
can be used to represent a wide variety of threats,
ranging from the simplest masked bank robber to a
starfaring starcruiser piloted by alien forces.
Lieutenants are similar to minions, but represent
more complex opposition. We talk about creating
lieutenants on page 207.
Creating Minions
The process of creating minions is all about
designing credible but relatively minor threats that
fit your story. It’s a simple process that you can do
on the fly when needed, or use any of the minions
provided in Chapter 7. However, given time in
advance for planning and preparation, you can
create more complex minions to custom fit your
scenes and stories.
The following guidelines can help you make
unique, fun minions for your game’s heroes to fight.
Build minions using these steps:
• Name your minion and establish its concept.
• Attribute a die to establish its power.
• Add a short description to define who or what
it is and what it can do.
• Optional: Add special abilities to make it stand out.
• Optional: Write a short tactics section if you
want a reminder when running them.
Hexed Villagers
Minion (1 Per Hero)
Description
Farmers and townsfolk, cursed into mindless violence
Tactics
Hexed: They attack any uncursed person they meet.
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Creating Minions