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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 2945145" data-attributes="member: 24969"><p>Sometimes. Seems like mostly it was just PCs, but every now and then either the situation or the player would opt for NPCs in the party. Usually, they were just a henchman or two that would act as yes men for the PC. If there was a big battle, there might be some mercenaries as they were pretty cheap in the DMG. We really threw our DM for a loop once after he told us that our country's captial had been taken over by Viking raiders and we figured out we could sell our magic sword and hire enough mercenaries to march over there and free them (which we did). The most I've ever seen was when the party was acting as a military unit in a fantasy war between two empires. We needed as many bodies as possible so every single player character got henchmen and we also got mercenaries. The party was a mercenary company workign under a constitution with about 8 PCs with a total head count of over 50 including paymasters, supply officers, etc. Our "dungeons" were essentially really large (and long) mass combats for which we spent lots of money for buffs.</p></blockquote><p></p>