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<blockquote data-quote="D'karr" data-source="post: 6177978" data-attributes="member: 336">I'm thinking that a barbarian devotee of the Raven Queen would work great.&nbsp; He shows up during combat because his &quot;mission&quot; is to send her the souls of the fallen, and he doesn't want to miss the fun of making them fallen.From my experience a companion character works great because of its extremely low overhead.&nbsp; Designing a full character just to have a 4th &quot;combatant&quot; is a waste of time IMO.&nbsp; You have more important, and significant things to do as a DM.&nbsp; And with a full character somebody has &quot;too many&quot; options to think about. Either you will be running it, or another player will be running it, and that is overhead not needed.&nbsp; Companion Characters, particularly a Slayer, are designed for extreme ease of use - hardly any options included.&nbsp; He comes into combat, hits once or three times and goes away.&nbsp; Nothing complicated there so I would not make a complicated character.&nbsp; YMMV.For our group the card simply served as a constant reminder.&nbsp; I found out it worked well because it reminded players that there are other things they can &quot;make up&quot; instead of limiting themselves to the writing on the cards.&nbsp; It also helped because I didn't have to keep reminding them.This seems like a fun group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="D'karr, post: 6177978, member: 336"] I'm thinking that a barbarian devotee of the Raven Queen would work great. He shows up during combat because his "mission" is to send her the souls of the fallen, and he doesn't want to miss the fun of making them fallen. From my experience a companion character works great because of its extremely low overhead. Designing a full character just to have a 4th "combatant" is a waste of time IMO. You have more important, and significant things to do as a DM. And with a full character somebody has "too many" options to think about. Either you will be running it, or another player will be running it, and that is overhead not needed. Companion Characters, particularly a Slayer, are designed for extreme ease of use - hardly any options included. He comes into combat, hits once or three times and goes away. Nothing complicated there so I would not make a complicated character. YMMV. For our group the card simply served as a constant reminder. I found out it worked well because it reminded players that there are other things they can "make up" instead of limiting themselves to the writing on the cards. It also helped because I didn't have to keep reminding them. This seems like a fun group. [/QUOTE]

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