Questions tagged [followers-and-hirelings]
For questions about followers and hirelings—secondary characters which follow and assist the player characters.
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How much do hirelings cost?
I'm looking for a cheat-sheet with prices of hiring people: bodyguards, specialists, servants and whatnot. I will be playing Masks campaign soon and I plan on making my Investigator a rich business ...
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Are there balanced alternatives to Leadership?
The Leadership feat has always interested me, but many times I have seen people call it overpowered, unbalanced, and ripe for abuse by min-maxing players. And these are all fair points, not just about ...
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How to manage minions?
My PC wizard used to trudge around with a veritable stable of minions: his familiar, a Shield Guardian, and up to four skeletons from Animate Dead. The skeletons were good utility; they could form a ...
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Most Overpowered Supporting Cohort - Crafter or Buff-Station? [closed]
Up until recently, I lived under impression that there is no better use of Leadership than personal crafting station, AKA Artificer. Effectively crafting everything at 1/4th of the price (28.12%) is ...
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How can I determine the price for buying/hiring monsters?
I want the players in my compaign have the ability to "buy" monsters in any Bestiary as mercenary to fight for them. But I can't figure out how to determine the price for it.
I had looked up ...
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Do the rules for running a business contradict themselves?
My players recently came into possession of an inn in a small village and I'm trying to figure out how to run it.
On page 127 of the DMG, it says that an inn costs 5GP maintenance per day, including ...
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How can a player smoothly transition from death to playing a hireling?
When a you roll last breath "On a miss, your fate is sealed. You’re marked as Death’s own and you’ll cross the threshold soon. The GM will tell you when."
Sometimes, the fictional ...
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Does a noble have to pay or otherwise maintain the servant they start with?
In WFRP 4e one of the trappings that a character in the noble path (scion) starts with is a servant.
Does the servant generate money on its own (presumably by the scion's family) and otherwise take ...
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Is there a move to increase the level of a hireling's skill?
Hirelings can change loyalty.
"A hireling’s loyalty may be permanently increased when they achieve some great deed with the players. A significant failure or beating may permanently lower the ...
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One of my players "adopted" an orphan girl, how do I go about this?
I DM a game for 4-6 people. I'm a newer DM but am quite comfortable doing it.
One of my players, a dwarven princess, has decided to adopt a young orphan girl who was begging on the streets as her ...
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What is the origin of the Leadership concept in D&D?
In 3.5 D&D there is a Leadership Feat. It allows you to gain a cohort and some followers, a whole bunch of followers if your score is high enough.
But, what is the origin of this Leadership ...
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What's so broken about Leadership?
The Leadership feat is so widely accepted as game-breaking that I feel no need to even source it. However, upon rereading the feat's description in the SRD, it's not immediately obvious to me that it'...
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What level should a character be to make a CR 4 follower balanced?
I want to give the characters of one of my players a follower. Specifically, the follower needs to be a Flameskull (CR 4). The player character is a School of Necromancy wizard; he has the skull of a ...
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Can I hire several veteran soldiers to accompany me?
Seeing as one can hire guards for PC bases as 'Skilled Hirelings', can I take several veterans with me if I pay them enough?
I am a wizard with low HP, so any guards would be great.
I am playing in ...
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