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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ravenheart87" data-source="post: 6470084" data-attributes="member: 79274">My players like using hirelings, so it's usually the players who make NPCs join the party at my table. Some of them were cannon fodders, but there were a few who became more memorable with time and were treated as if they were party members. In the previous Wilderlands campaign this includes:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Burp, the stupid drunkard dwarf minstrel. He was the mascot of the party, who became a pretty successful comedian in pubs (no one took him seriously). Despite being a dwarf he had only 4 for Constitution. He was killed by their own cleric with a fumble during a battle with giant frogs. He got an improvised viking funeral, his bagpipes were kept as relic.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Greenblade, the elf minstrel who earned Burp's place by winning a contest held by the party for the next minstrel. He was known for being pretty effective in combat, once beating the crap out of their own paladin. He survived the whole campaign and the cleric made him the leader of one of the brothels he opened in Modron.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Beorn, the dwarf torchbearer. He had pretty good stats for a torchbearer, so the party quickly changed his torches and flasks of oils to axe and armor. In the last adventure a red dragon's breath killed him, but soon his death was avenged.</li> </ul>While the current DCC RPG campaign lacks hirelings (everyone runs several characters and there are some zero level meatbags too), I'm pretty sure with the forthcoming 5e campaign they are going to hire porters, torchbearers, mercenaries, and some of them will be just as memorable as those I mentioned above.</blockquote>

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