Thoughts on the Minstrel hireling, or rather their A Hero’s Welcome ability.
You get to deduct the minstrels skill level from all prices in town. While I don’t mind that they can get free rations and arrows, I’m thinking that this is kind of crazy. I mean, it’s just so damn potent!
Last night, my group bought a river boat, and they just stuffed it with food and arrows, because hey, it was free!
So we discussed this back an forth, and one of my players actually said something clever; while it might seem weird that a merchant or poor fisher would give you food ad libitum, then that is also not necessarily what happens.
The minstrel gives you praise for the big hero your are and how you are on an important quest, so a lot of people might chip in just a little bit of dried meat or a piece of bandage or a leftover arrow or two. When 50 to a 100 people do this, you end up going away with a significant amount of provisions.
Looking at it this way, it just seem way less crazy. It almost seem plausible, hell even likely.
well, a merchant is a person with a set amount of resources, not some videogame seller with infinite supplies! And you know what happens when you take everything everyone in a city has for free? Yeah, that’s right. Golden Opportunity, hard move, advance a front, economical crisis, poor people turning even poorer and so on.
Alessandro Gianni Well, they were not robbing the city blind. 😉
lol, I sort of exaggerated to make my point as clear as possible! 😀
Oh, right. I can’t see how I missed that. The point was good though, even if I didn’t see the joke. 😉
Also, the people are receiving in turn the minstrel’s music. History has records of bards making a living moving around and singing for food and other supplies
Alessandro Gianni I could see a city turning hostile as they see this move as just another form of looting by the characters. “Sure they saved us from monsters, but now they are the monsters!”
You know who else gets rations and arrows for free? The bandits who rob the players! Talk about a walking target. I’d have them kidnap the Minstrel as well.