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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shin Okada" data-source="post: 5271101" data-attributes="member: 1956">Our PCs have entered the keep the last month and will continue exploring the keep this month. I guess they will meet Splug the goblin soon. How have you fellow DMs treated the goblin?I don't know if my players will try to let him go adventuring with them or not. If they just let him go outside the keep, there will be no problem, both story-wise and game-mechanic-wise.But If they actually tried to keep him as an extra party member, how shall I solve the situation, by RAW?Shall I treat him just as an extra handy tool, and ignore, say, when divining experience points?Or shall I treat him as if he were an extra PC, or rather, a kind of companion character in DMG II?Or maybe I shall count him as a favorable factor for the party, and subtract his XP (100) from the XP of each encounter, to compensate the fact that he is slightly making each encounter easier for PCs?As written, he is not as strong as a PC. But his ranged attacks are strong enough to actually increase DPR of the party a little bit. +6 attack bonus and 1d8+2+1d6 damage is, not so bad indeed. And, though he has only 1 healing surge per day, his total hp is better than that of most PCs.</blockquote>