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<blockquote data-quote="Talltomwright" data-source="post: 8530694" data-attributes="member: 7015385">It’s worked fine so far; I’ve used it to adjust NPCs who tag along in Descent Into Avernus and Curse of Strahd as in both the tag-alongs as written start more powerful than the PCs and then rapidly become a liability.It’s made them simple to run and their hp increases mean the PCs don’t have to keep saving their sidekick’s asses all the time. They are simple to the extent of being really weak compared to PCs though. My players got very frustrated with a sidekick cleric for their poor number of spells and slots! That’s very much the design principle, evidently, so the PCs remain the heroes. On reflection for NPCs they are meant to respect and value Sidekicks may not be the way to go, so in future I might up the level of the sidekicks or home brew a mix of PC abilities with the RAW sidekick rules. But for rounding out a party, or getting the OSR feeling of bringing along hirelings (cannon fodder) the rules work fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Talltomwright, post: 8530694, member: 7015385"] It’s worked fine so far; I’ve used it to adjust NPCs who tag along in Descent Into Avernus and Curse of Strahd as in both the tag-alongs as written start more powerful than the PCs and then rapidly become a liability. It’s made them simple to run and their hp increases mean the PCs don’t have to keep saving their sidekick’s asses all the time. They are simple to the extent of being really weak compared to PCs though. My players got very frustrated with a sidekick cleric for their poor number of spells and slots! That’s very much the design principle, evidently, so the PCs remain the heroes. On reflection for NPCs they are meant to respect and value Sidekicks may not be the way to go, so in future I might up the level of the sidekicks or home brew a mix of PC abilities with the RAW sidekick rules. But for rounding out a party, or getting the OSR feeling of bringing along hirelings (cannon fodder) the rules work fine. [/QUOTE]

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