u/Electrical-Echidna63

I tried it and it worked, but it was basically an influence subsystem that I didn't tell the party was anything but an RP. When an argument would be flat out effective id award 1 (maybe 2) influence points. They had weaknesses and resistances that came up, which affected their (100%) secret checks.

The biggest criticism people seem to levy against influence and other subsystems is that it's immersion breaking, but this way was the best of both

There are situations in which minions have a really good reaction (Barbazu reactive strike) but minions never get reaction per RAW.

Would it be sensible to allow a minion to use both of their available action to Ready and action and then in doing so *gain* a reaction? This would allow some creatures to do their gimmick IMO without killing balance