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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when using a hireling with a warrior skill how do they take the brunt of it?
The players I'm GMing are looking to get a hireling who's a warrior. Looking at the description it states
If your attack results in consequences (like a counter attack) the man-at-arms takes the ...
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Replacing dead hirelings in Pathfinder downtime system
I am currently pricing up the cost of running a mercenary guild for a game I am assisting with (GM for downtime).
I've combined Guildhall and Barracks (while removing duplicates between building ...
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Do you have to pay the cohort and followers you get via the leadership feat?
I have been looking at the Leadership feat and there doesn't seem to be anything that says whether you are supposed to pay your cohort. Torchbearer feats description implies that you are supposed to ...
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Bring the D&D 3.5e feat Leadership to 5e rules
I am converting one of my old D&D 3.5e characters to D&D 5e, to use in another campaign. This character had the feat leadership and used it to build a guild. I saw the chapter in the DMG about ...
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How much does a slave cost?
How much does an average adult male human slave cost in Gracklstugh? Either a specific price or a price range would be helpful. My character is a halfling.
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What does the Tracker hireling's Track skill really do?
In Dungeon World, there is a hireling skill-set called Tracker. It has two skills: Track and Guide. Guide is straight forward. However, Track doesn't make much sense to me as I've never been good at ...
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Does a supernatural Follower cost more BP than a mortal?
I'm a bit unsure on how much to have one of my players spend on a supernatural follower of his.
In the rules it states that:
Followers are assumed to have 3 in all Attributes, but the Follower ...
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How long does a Hireling work?
Heroes are able to get the service of hirelings; these can be mercenaries, laborers, skilled artisans, etc... A mercenary or bodyguard will work 18 to 24 hours for the player during adventurers. But ...
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How do subordinate creatures work?
So the PHB and DMG don't do a good job of clearly explaining how subordinate creatures work. It seems like it should all be one subject, but instead it's spread out in a dozen different places and ...
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How do I gain followers in 5e like I did in AD&D?
I just started playing D&D 5th edition at college with friends after playing AD&D for years with my family in a homebrew campaign. I just noticed that fighters don't get any followers after ...
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When does a character Who Leads get her Follower?
If a PC picks up the Leads focus when translating to a new recursion, when does her Follower show up, and would the character recognize him as such?
Is the Follower an actual native of the ...
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How do you level an atypical Follower?
In my last game (and also my first game as a DM), one of my players earned the loyalty of a Giant Goat (MM pg 326) by freeing it from its cell, avenging the death of its brothers by slaying a bridge ...
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How are the followers and the cohort obtained with the Leadership feat?
When a character takes the Leadership feat, how are the followers and the cohort obtained? Do you have to actively recruit them during the game and hope the DM gives you some decent followers, or do ...
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Investing in followers and growing their power [closed]
I've got two NPCs that are my followers (so far). I have a powerful spellbook my DM gave me, however many of the spells are not on my Warlock's spell list, so I can't make spell scrolls out of them. ...
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Do Hirelings have a maximum skill bonus?
How high can the 'skill' of a Hireling go in a Dungeon World game?
I see no limit in the rules as written, and at the upper tiers they can have quite a few points (6-10 for City) to distribute between ...
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How do I add followers to my Warlock's patron?
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I'm playing a level 6 Warlock, my patron is Cthulhu (old god). I am a fan of Lovecraftian style horror, and I'd like to incorporate some of these themes in my quest. My personal quest is to ...
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How much would it cost to hire mercenaries for a couple days?
My team has been tasked with defending a high value target on a lightning rail train. They're fairly certain that the train will be hit hard and are considering hiring mercenaries to flesh out the ...
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How do familiars, animal companions, cohorts, followers, and the like fit into the wealth by level progression?
Though I am not advocating a strict adherence to the wealth by level progression, if that progression is used, how would "extra crew members" of PCs fit on the chart? The leadership feat text does ...
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How much does it cost to hire a Hireling?
In Dungeon World, you can hire NPCs to accompany the party and provide assistance. These NPCs vary in loyalty and skill. However, I don't see any chart or table detailing how much the NPCs are ...
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What is the value of a "Companion"?
The game system is 4E. I am trying to get away from awarding just magic weapon here and there. Having the characters earn favors from NPCs is a pretty tried and true way to give value and move the ...
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When and how are dead followers gained from the Leadership feat replaced?
The feat Leadership has changed considerably since 3.X days and has brought up a few debates at my table.
The specific debate is not over cohorts, but over followers. Let's say my level 7 Pathfinder ...
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