NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7193169" data-attributes="member: 996">He re-skinned it as a hat. A lot of de rigueur/common/expected things varied from one DM to the next.  I rarely got to recruit henchmen and almost never got to actually use them - I resorted to playing then as PCs now and then to get the exp.  To me, at the time, the henchmen rules, which were quite detailed, had the feel of a DM's response to an option that had been systematically abused for a long time, maybe in 0D&D and even the pre-release early days of the game in Gary's basement, they were de rigeur or even abused?:shrug:Henchmen seemed gone in 2e, present only in the 'Cohort' of the Leadership feat in 3.x, off-handedly tossed back in the DMG2 as 'companion characters' to round out parties missing a role, and, again, absent in 5e.  But I didn't stick around for all of 2e, and mostly ran - with my own, extensive, 1e-ish variants - rather than played so, IDK for sure.But, getting followers was a dramatic and memorable part of being a high-level fighter.  (If because, for one thing, you got nothing else, 9th even marked your last precious HD+CON bonus hps.  Not "hot damn, 5th level spells, too bad I gotta wait 3 levels for 6th, this character is really coming into it's own" more "well, might as well build a keep and retire, I'm get'n too old for this...")So it could be cool to reprise that to help bring the fighter up to snuff.  Like Robilar recruiting Otto, your fighter could bring in NPCs with useful abilities to contribute in ways he can't.</blockquote>

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