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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7054740" data-attributes="member: 22779">The problem with that being that as a class element, it has to be balanced (at least somewhat) with what the character is expected to do.  After all, a ranger's pet advances in levels and never wanders off to go have babies or whatever.  Which means if your high level party is babysitting a 1st level NPC, that class feature isn't adding a whole lot of anything to the game and is, in fact, probably a much larger drain.I like the idea of squires, but, it's something that would be very, very hard to implement.  I mean, even if you just take Robin (whichever Robin you care to look at), he's hardly a 1st level fighter.  He's maybe not quite as bad ass as Batman, but, he can most certainly take care of himself.  I mean, depending on which comic books you read (or which TV shows you watch), Robin's taken on pretty much any of Batman's gallery of bad guys and not been turned into paste in the first hit, which is what a 1st level fighter is going to do.  Robin's gone toe to toe with Deathstroke and come out on top, at least in Teen Titans.  That puts him head and shoulders above any 1st level character.</blockquote>