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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elephant" data-source="post: 2331407" data-attributes="member: 17431">I was looking at the rules for hiring mercenary warriors in the DMG, and I noticed that the list price (2sp/day for a 1st level warrior) did not include "materials, tools, or weapons that the hireling may need to do his job."When PCs hire some mercenary warriors (for instance, if a new lvl 1 party has two wizards, a bard, and a cleric), how should the equipment for the mercs be handled?  By the book, the 2sp/day doesn't include equipment.  It doesn't really say how much should be added to the cost for the mercs weapons and armor, though.  Besides, it stretches my suspension of disbelief to expect a bunch of mercenary warriors to be completely devoid of equipment until some employer comes along and outfits them.One idea I came up with was to simply double the list price for hirelings in order to account for equipment costs.  That seems almost too simplistic, though.  Does anyone have any thoughts on how to handle this better?</blockquote>