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<blockquote data-quote="WHW4" data-source="post: 5221291" data-attributes="member: 63382"><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">I recently took some initiative in our campaign and decided my character would start up his own free company, with eventual goals of harassing a nearby goblin settlement and providing protection for the local area… for some gold of course.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">Background info in case anyone’s curious: We are playing a low-magic campaign, E6 gestalt, 4th level. My character is a barbarian/rogue. Other characters are a barbarian/fighter, barbarian/rogue, and a witch/sorcerer. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">I took the spoils from a recent tomb exploration we had been on and invested in a few things. I inquired and hired two warriors (4th level no less, I was impressed) and hired them on for a month at 4s5c each a day (1g/day for both of them).</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">I bought the two of them horses (and one for myself naturally) I managed to find two light warhorses and a light horse, assigned one of the warhorses and the regular horse to the two warriors and tasked them with recruiting more people while I investigated the goblin-town with the group. To that end I gave them 100g and a circuit of three towns of sizes varying from small town to small city with instructions to meet me in one month’s time at the last settlement with whoever they had managed to gather. The towns in question are in a region with goblin raids happening on occasion. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">I know I put a lot of trust in these guys, but the DM threw me a bone and told me they wouldn’t just run off the cash at least.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">I explain all this because I’d like to present my DM with a guesstimate of what I might expect to find when I meet up with these two again and let him work from that, rather than ask him to come up with numbers/levels/costs whole cloth.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">Anyone done something similar in their campaigns? Have a quick and dirty system you or your group uses for mercenary groups? One that’s super-intricate? Either way share them all!</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WHW4, post: 5221291, member: 63382"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]I recently took some initiative in our campaign and decided my character would start up his own free company, with eventual goals of harassing a nearby goblin settlement and providing protection for the local area… for some gold of course.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]Background info in case anyone’s curious: We are playing a low-magic campaign, E6 gestalt, 4th level. My character is a barbarian/rogue. Other characters are a barbarian/fighter, barbarian/rogue, and a witch/sorcerer. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]I took the spoils from a recent tomb exploration we had been on and invested in a few things. I inquired and hired two warriors (4th level no less, I was impressed) and hired them on for a month at 4s5c each a day (1g/day for both of them).[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]I bought the two of them horses (and one for myself naturally) I managed to find two light warhorses and a light horse, assigned one of the warhorses and the regular horse to the two warriors and tasked them with recruiting more people while I investigated the goblin-town with the group. To that end I gave them 100g and a circuit of three towns of sizes varying from small town to small city with instructions to meet me in one month’s time at the last settlement with whoever they had managed to gather. The towns in question are in a region with goblin raids happening on occasion. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]I know I put a lot of trust in these guys, but the DM threw me a bone and told me they wouldn’t just run off the cash at least.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]I explain all this because I’d like to present my DM with a guesstimate of what I might expect to find when I meet up with these two again and let him work from that, rather than ask him to come up with numbers/levels/costs whole cloth.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]Anyone done something similar in their campaigns? Have a quick and dirty system you or your group uses for mercenary groups? One that’s super-intricate? Either way share them all![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=white][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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