Comments on: Hirelings – Making your world real! /blog/hirelings-making-world-real/ Tabletop games and adventures Tue, 21 Mar 2017 02:25:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 By: Fail Squad Games /blog/hirelings-making-world-real/#comment-717 Tue, 21 Mar 2017 02:25:22 +0000 http://www.failsquadgames.com/?p=1060#comment-717 In reply to Ripper X.

heh. Thanks.
For the most part it’s me (Lloyd) who pens the posts.
“cursed with a 23 INT” is interesting. I never thought about how terrible that might be.

]]> By: Ripper X /blog/hirelings-making-world-real/#comment-716 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:41:35 +0000 http://www.failsquadgames.com/?p=1060#comment-716 I’m not sure what to call you, Fail Squad just doesn’t seem to cut it as you are posting some really good stuff.

It took my group a long time to use hirelings, our old DM always had them turn on the party, which got predictable and boring. They always worked for the villain, or sold us out, or were just there to get murdered, so we avoided them. Even after I took over DMing, we didn’t use them until I read the exact part of the DMG that you mentioned above.

One of my most successful hirelings was a village idiot for hire who always said outlandish and crazy “lies”, the thing is that everything he says is actually true, he was cursed with INT of 23, it is impossible for him to communicate his thoughts because to him everybody is too stupid. He can’t hold a job, because everybody is pathetically beneath him. He is insulting, and bored, nothing surprises him, but the players absolutely love this guy.

You should had seen the look on the players faces when they realized that all of his endless complaints, insults, and jibberish was actually true. It took them a while.

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