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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 2098057" data-attributes="member: 29252">Oh, that's easy - you pay them, and give them a month's pay in advance (also don't tell them they have no chance!!!  Important!!!!); when negotiating with my DM (he was planning a siege-type situation, us attacking, only level 2-3 for the smallish party), I started looking into hired mercs - he told me base was 2 sp/day, but that it struck him as way too cheap.  I suggested that's for level-1 npcs, and that it would be reasonable for it to scale as most enchantment effects (base*level*level); he still thought it too cheap, so I suggested that it would be difficult, under most circumstances, to hire someone for a day (barring safe duty contractors - which warriors in a siege is most definately NOT), and suggested a month's minimum pay for soldiers (30 days).  Also supplies for a month (trail rations are 5 sp/person/day) and a 20 level 1, 1 level 3(sergant, base 6 sp/day as a leader - one per 20 soldiers) worked out to 315 gp for food, 120 gp for soldiers, and 162 gp for the sergant; 597 gp total; round to 600 gp for miscealaneous expenses.  As Trail Rations are "decent" food, and all a level-1 soldier would be able to afford is "poor" food (on his salary) my DM ruled that they would have very good morale.A mercenary company is fairly expensive for the effect.  Of course, 20 CR 1's and 1 CR 3 make for a ECL 9 by <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/encounterCalculator.htm" target="_blank">An Online Encounter Calculator I found</a>)For the Gate/Protection, just house-rule that any doubling of a standard spell, and/or combining of two standard spells makes a DC 5 per (cumulative; a combined, doubled spell takes 5 (combine) + 10 (2 5's for doubling)).  Gate is standard, there is a hour/level adaptation spell in the Manual of the Planes, so a Gate with, say, a * 8 duration, with a *8 duration on an Adaptation spell for anyone who goes through the gate would make a DC of 35.  Assuming a caster level of 43, the gate could stay open for 344 rounds, and the protections on the travelers would last 344 hours, or a little over two weeks.</blockquote>

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