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Me: " 'Bill, why are you all black and smoking! Why are your eyes glowing like that! No, Bill you're on our side, fight it!' " Friend: "Are you sure you're not the monster in this situation?" Me: "Oh no, I'm totally the monster here, but the Council deserve it! 'Enough of this, let me show you my true power as a nightwolf.' Yeah, you get possessed now, go say hi to your friends."

I pretty regularly post hopes for MM minion customization. And heck, I don't need full character level customization. I'd be fine with "choose style A B or C". It would be very nice to do a girl-gang or valkyrie squad.

That would be cool. The shotgun or pistol as a power pool is another one that would be cool for the people that want to be mainly sword but also a little bit gun... we can already main gun and a little be sword via pistol or rifle / ninja. But would be nice to do the reverse.

I'm not particularly interested in the gladiator thing. It's a PvP limited thing and while I know some people enjoy that, I personally don't. This is a fairly personal fantasy for the main part of the game which I know would require massively reworking the structure of the game.

Yeah, the confusion is pretty nitpicky. You gain XP really fast in this game from multiple directions.

So, this is the way I wish Mastermind worked and it really wouldn't work well with how the Primary/Secondary method of doing powers functions but, here we go. Both the minion powers would have multiple options, this could be adjusted from one build to the next. So like, Necromancy would have a choice between shades/skeletons/zombies at tier 1. death knight/wraith/revenant at tier 2. vampire/lich/banshee at tier 3. The attacks would also be an option, just pistol/archery/dark/birdsandbees/beamrifle/mercrifle. Maybe with some new alternates like fire/elec/energy/etc. Basically just "choose a ranged attack set to get three powers from". to be honest, this sort of structure would have been cool for any of the archetypes... increased variability of builds. like if there were three options at each power tier and you could choose one of each tier level.... and still have 9 tier levels though it REALLY can't implemented realistically and remains just a whimsical what-if

Whips Outside of Demon summoning Possibly alternate animations for some blast or melee sets. Fire sets are a good bet, but maybe other elemental types as well. Possibly full attack set could be Ranged, Melee, or Assault Shotguns or Single Handguns as Power Pools similar to Fighting pool or Force of Will Mastermind minion customization (yes, I know this is difficult) Even just alternate piece-sets selectable in costume creation At least female minions, please? Would be fun to have a valkyrie squad (mercs), girl gang (thugs), or kunoichi (ninja) Updated attack animation options for Battle Axe, War Mace, and Broad Sword as the existing ones are very clunky and don't feel like expert martial artists. Perhaps work out someway that using confusion doesn't end up slowing your XP gain... This is pretty nitpicky and low priority to be honest, but it does feel like a mild punishment for picking that playstyle

I kind of wish there was a lead up of fights getting to that point as well. As it currently exists it's a pretty anti-climatic final mission.

What is the stance on matching music to gameplay videos?

Full on character creation wouldn't be any more open to abuse and report than character creation already is, to be honest. It's the complexity involved that would concern me. The more complex such customization would get, the more difficult this would be to implement. But, I'd like: Female options for Thugs, Ninjas, and Soldiers... option to have it random for female only, male only, or random Alternate minion sets for all Necromancy - Zombies(Current)/Spirits/... vampires??? Ninja - Ninjas(Current)/Acrobats/Robin-Hood esque Bandits Mercenaries - Base(Current)/Sci-Fi/Vintage(Victorian/Civil War/etc) Thugs - Gangs(Current)/Jocks&Cheerleaders/Torches&Pitchforks Demons - Beasts(current)/Humanoid(choice of male/female)/Elementals Beasts - Lions, Wolves, Hyenas, Bears, etc Robots - Drones(Current)/Humanoid(Black Magic M-66/Terminator)/multi-leg drone(Crab/Spider) An interface similar to choosing different weapons for choosing different minion sets. Like instead of Left and Right, have Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3.

I periodically necro this topic either on old subjects or starting a new one.... along with "can we have the animations from Demons MM made into a whip set" and "can we have a firearms Power Pool thing so our sword scrappers can have a shotgun or revolver too?"

It would be nice to have a set in the power pools that lets you wield a shotgun or single revolver. This would primarily be for melee and controller types to be honest, as Ranged Damage already has a couple of fire arms options. I say two, because you could sort of split it into a shotgun and a pistol set. Would probably be similar to Fighting, so 3 attacks, and 2 other sets.

I want to be able to customize the appearance of the mastermind sets we have now over having new sets. But yeah, this is a time-intensive request which makes really difficult for a small group like Homecoming.

I think editing the character customization interface would be major issue, honestly. Maybe storage space, unless the costume codes are mostly recording on your computer in your character file.

I know I said not having minions that look like enemy groups was understandable.... but then I thought about a Ninja or Thugs mastermind grouped fluffed as ex-Carnival of Shadows. Just have the costumes slightly off what the Carnies have.

In quipping with friends I brought up "what if I want to play a soccer girl and her friends that decided to take on villains?" Which resulted in one of my friends pondering the effectiveness of "soccer-tween" minions

As a note, assuming full character creator is too much trouble (and I mean full relative to current, would still be less than what PCs have) These are some of the optional minion styles I'm thinking of for the critters. Possibly with a interface in either character builder (for if you're all of one style or another limited) or Power customization if you could choose style per power to have a mix. An interface of per minion so that you could mix and match over all six summons feels again to be way out there. (all of this is unlikely and troublesome, to be honest): Gangs - Mafioso, Yakuza, College Kids, Athletes, Cheerleaders, etc Mercenaries - Cyberpunk, Napoleonic (yeah would be a bit strange with their attacks), Space Opera, Modern Military Ninja - Anime-ish, Infiltrators from other cultures, Cyberpunk again Necromancy - Ghosts, Skeletons, mummies, maybe vampires (or that might be better as its own power set), Banshees Beasts - alternate beasts like bears, dinosaurs, etc Demons - Demons is already a broad group, have to be ways to do demons on a similar skeleton without looking like behemoths Robots - See Demons Also, female minions... yes sexy kunoichi and such, but also just the same stagehand night-suit that the current ninja wear on a female body.

This is much more involved than the cosmetic suggestions I mentioned earlier, to be honest, but also just giving ideas as a way of killing boredom and hey if I suggest them they're in the ether. Cosmetic suggestions assume a selection of two to five "styles" of minions rather than a character creator style customizer Warriors: Knights, Samurai, Aztec Warriors, etc... Attacks thrown weapons (daggers, axes, spears) Guardian: Angel, Kami, etc... Attacks: Energy blasts from a talisman/charm/ofuda/whatever Aliens: various sorts of alien options... Attacks: Beam rifle Reptillians: Mild near-human snake people, lizardfolk, etc... T3 as a dragon or other such big hitting mythic reptile... Attacks: Spines? Wizards: Different sorts sorcerers and mystics, Attacks: lightning or ice Psychics: Different types of psychics (telepaths, telekinetics, pyrokinetics, etc) Attacks: Psionic

Yeah, though at least a option for lady minions would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't want to minions to be mistaken for enemy spawns.

This is most likely something that's come up before. But I really wish we had some ability to customize our pets a bit. I feel it's fair that you can't have the sort of full customization you'd get for a player, but would be nice to have like some different styles. Especially as regards to demons, necromancy, and bots. Also, some female minion options for gangs, mercs, and ninja would be neat. Even just put into the same random selection pool as exists currently.

.... candy cane weapons for axe, club, titan weapons, and maybe swords....

I figure you could do it as an alternate animation to existing blast sets by tweaking animation speeds here and there since you could just have the blast come off the whip as they do for mastermind. I don't expect it is as easy as it appears, but figured I could make the suggestion. Making a full melee set seems like it would be the hardest.

Can we get these as alternate animations for other blasts? Like have it for Darkness, Lightning, Fire, Energy? Just would like whips outside of mastermind.

Maybe keep it to pistols and shotgun: Off-the-cuff - short animation, basic attack Center Mass - shot with knockdown body armor - mild S/L resist, KB/Stun resist Shotgun - cone blast with KB (requires two powers) Serpentine - Ranged/AoE Def, +Run speed

I'm assuming someone has already said this, but still would like to add the possibility of custom minion design. Especially for Thugs, Ninjas, Mercs, and Necromancy...with alternate beasties for Demon, Robot, and Beasts.