Hired Hands: Expanded Rules for Hirelings
Added 2015-09-13 12:50:22 +0000 UTCMeet the apothecary, cook, interpreter, minstrel, porter, scholar, squire, teamster, and torchbearer! These hirelings provide your adventurer with additional benefits - as long as you pay them and keep them safe! Additional traits, quirks, and motives help bring your hirelings to life. By "Jester" David Gibson; illustrated by Jacob Blackmon.
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This was just what I was looking for. One of my PC decided to start looking for a hireling last session. This will come in handy from profiling the applicants to deciding what the hireling is and is not adept at doing.
Eddie Sells
2016-11-20 15:05:16 +0000 UTCThis has become a regular part of our game and is included in the player's reference binder that we keep at the table that among other things has prices lists for equipment and services.
MNBlockhead
2015-12-02 05:25:56 +0000 UTCThank you! I imagine more skilled hirelings would probably ask for 2-5 times the regular rate, depending on their level of expertise.
Jester David
2015-09-14 01:58:31 +0000 UTCThis was a great article, I can see myself using it immediately! Do you have any suggestions for how much extra a more skilled hireling will haggle for? I'm tempted to say about thrice normal wages per "tier", but I could imagine something else was intended. I see the note about hazardous situations sharply increasing expected pay; what might mercenaries charge? A follow-up article for men at arms using the same framework would be most welcome. Again, this was great.
Andrew Cunningham
2015-09-13 18:55:48 +0000 UTC
