Well thank you for your thoughts. But what do you mean when you say mini? If you mean the minions I linked that's just for a visual reference, the actual monster would/could be any size, that's up to SE.

And your stance idea makes a bit more sense now. But based on what you said, I don't think you want stances per se. It seems like you want more support like skills, like Bard. That doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility.