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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jubilee" data-source="post: 4015604" data-attributes="member: 36594">It would depend on the GM.  One of our GMs would use it to screw us over in any way he could - they would steal our stuff, steal our horses, stab us in our sleep, turn out to be dopplegangers, or sell our secrets to our enemies.  So in that game, we'd never bother to hire anyone. In one game we do have a goblin we picked up around 6th lvl and we're now 16th.  He's the only survivor of a gang of goblins and orcs who attacked us during a winter incursion.  We initially kept him alive to question him, then we didn't want to free him because we were afraid he'd give away our position (we were scouting the area), and then a couple of us wouldn't let the rest kill him.  He's sorta been adopted as my Paladin's squire/student.  I think he's probably the most powerful goblin the realms has ever seen now.. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  However, the GM usually forgets to have him do anything in combat, so we always assume he's keeping the horses in line.  Sometimes he loots stuff we neglect to loot, although he doesn't always tell me.. In another game, there's a PC who is carting around his wife and 5 year old daughter (he spent a few months in the fey realm and came back 5 years older).  Luckily, the GM doesn't ambush us in camp with fireballs, and the NPCs are always assumed to hang far enough back they never get targetted in combat.. And one time with the PC player was not at the game but would have died when another player was running him, the wife saved him with a cure everything potion we didn't know she had. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />/ali</blockquote>

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