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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belzbet" data-source="post: 5616988" data-attributes="member: 6678902"><p>What seems fair is that you must pay for your followers food, healing, and clothes (armor weapons, etc), and you must protect (if you have a settlement but if not they can fend for themselves; in my eyes if they come and work for you at a settlement you agree to protect them) but besides that you do NOT HAVE TO PAY THEM for their work. If you have enough followers and a small settlements I let PC's tax the followers (and yes the followers can gain PC's income, but its not like they are giving the PC's money, in fact  the PC's are paying for their food, etc. However, if a PC starts a businuss (rules are in PH2, i think), their followers can work for them FOR  FREE and you gain all the profit from the business  (so if you had a big enough settlement with enough business you could gain a significant amount of gp; however, it is expensive to start a business (though at high levels gp comes easy). Also it is expensive keeping a huge army of followers  suppplied with GOOD weapons, etc (100 masterwork longswords are 31,500gp; though again at high levels money comes easy.). I havent looked at the rules ufor the "fanatic" attitude, but im sure followers arent blindly fanatic. Can you risk their lives? Yes, however if you are the cause of one of their deaths then your leadership score drops by 1 (cumulative upon death). So, taking 20 followers into a dragons den to use as fodder (or taking on a tarrasque with 50 followers whilst a wizard dispels your flying carpets) will destroy your leadership score (for your followers at least). As far as I am concerned your first cohort works totally for free and battles with you to the death like an ally PC. However (since you can have multiple cohorts) any one after the first demands a daily wage.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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