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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FalcWP" data-source="post: 2885210" data-attributes="member: 16858">Well, an untrained hireling costs 1 sp a day.  A trained one (who might have ranks in listen and spot) costs 3.  So, for less than 1 gold piece a week, you can get someone who should at least be able to scream when the ambushing orcs rip him open.  For two gold pieces a week, you might even get a guy who could throw a rock and then go hide.If you're morally flexible, you could always just rent a few kids from a farmer for a couple gold pieces (he doesn't have to feed them *and* he's getting paid?  Score!), but that'd probably be an alignment violation for a paladin.Both PCs should have excellent Charisma scores.  You may eventually opt to each spend a feat on Leadership.  With good charisma scores and a bit of time, you can build a small army of followers (not to mention some useful cohorts), which should take care of watches at night.  It might cost you a feat each, but in gestalt, this can be solved by just taking a level of fighter at some point or another - even a sorcerer/warmage is going to have a few feats he wants from the Fighter list.</blockquote>