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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aboyd" data-source="post: 4600910" data-attributes="member: 44797">You're right, they should be adepts.  My mistake.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />Wow, you're right.  I just re-read the Leadership stuff in the DMG, and all the discussion about NPC classes & commoner stats arrays is missing.  That apparently is a house rule from my DM that I've been playing with for so long that I've assumed it for my own campaigns.Wow, you're right again.  That makes crafting far better, I think.  My 3 gnomes should churn out 6 flasks a week at that rate, which is suddenly way-the-hell worthwhile.  That's still only 18 gold a week if they sell them all.  Nobody's getting rich.  However, that would pay their living expenses and cover the cost of the alchemist's lab.They had been so crappy that I had just left them at my stronghold and gone off adventuring for a few weeks.  If I come back, my cohort (who is a potion-chucker) could load up on 20 or so free flasks.  That's sorely needed, as she's down to 3 flasks and she's bought out the entire stock in the town we're in.OK, point conceded -- followers are better than expected.  They only suck in the game I play because of house rules & my failure to understand taking 10 for craft.  Now that I've reviewed it, I'm going to have to make some decisions about my own campaigns.  I think I'm going to stick with npc classes, but bump up the stats to elite array, and no cohort-leadership-pyramid-schemes.</blockquote>

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