Lol, just realized something about the Recruit special move. All the options for taking +1… You can lie through your teeth! You’ll get better rolls, but the hirelings ain’t going to be happy when they figure it out.
Would actually be pretty funny in practice. I can imagine a game, where a lot of the effort in having the hirelings is to make sure they don’t figure it out.
Also, if you have an evil streak, you can just kill them when they have lost their usefulness. Or use them as monster bait. As long as you don’t have to uphold your end of the bargain 😉
Our Elves were too dumb for such a trick… Too bad!
Well, you’re both neutral, it’s a bit cruel to deceive people like this.
But you did promise them a part of the swag, if any. Too bad you both rolled poorly… I really wanted a strong hit there.
Our only recruit was a traitor, anyway! How bad…
Yeah, and he’s not dead yet 😉 That’ll come back to haunt you 😀
Well, if everyone you hire ends up dead, that’s going to ruin your reputation bonus, at least. And the people you do get, at least if I were GMing, are all gonna be either gullible or desperate, even of a 10+.
Ben Wray Of course! But after you have achieved complete world domination, you don’t need hirelings anymore. You have a gazillion slaves to push around! 🙂
“Dance my minions! Your master, Hycorax, demands it!” “Okay, all their loyalty scores go down by 1.”
Slaves doesn’t have a loyalty rating! They either defy you and die a long agonizing death, or they do as you say and die swiftly!