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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4127758" data-attributes="member: 5143">That's not a better solution.  I don't want to make 30 rolls for my followers each round of combat.  Heck, I don't even want followers.  I want to play a cool character who kicks butt.Now, if I want to be able to play ONE character and you want to play 30, what benefit do I get in order to make up for your 30 attacks per round and the time that I have to sit around watching you make those attacks?Plus, how do you write a system that accurately measures how difficult an encounter will be when a party might have anywhere between 4 attacks per round and 180 attacks per round if all 6 players decide to bring along an army of soldiers or followers with them?  Even if the followers are so useless that only 5% of them hit and they are much weaker than an actual PC, you still have a solid benefit from them that another group might not have.  If it's minor enough, it might not even be a problem since balance isn't significantly affected.  Then you only have the second problem: that your number of actions is now taking "stage time" away from the other players making the game more "about you" than anyone else.  And purely for a minor benefit.If the actions are worthwhile, mind you, then you need to balance that by trading off the power of your actual character to maintain balance.  The idea is that if the game lets you have a cohort or followers then you should be just as powerful as any player who chose NOT to have them.  If I choose Fireball and you choose Gain a Cohort(or summon a monster) then I should get just as much benefit from fireball as you do from the cohort.  If you can cast lightning bolt doing 25 damage, I do the same with my fireball and then your cohort attacks for 25 damage, you are now more powerful than me purely because you get more actions.  They are just split amongst the TWO characters you control.Even if you are only able to do 15 damage and your cohort does 10, doing the same damage as me total, you are still more versatile as you can set up your own flanking, protect yourself from damage, open a door with your cohorts action so that you can move into the room and attack with your action and so on.The only real way to do it and keep balance is to sacrifice your own actions for theirs.</blockquote>

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