Do you need a really great horse? Do you want an entourage of skilled individuals? Do you like having someone die in your place? Well, for the small price of nothing at all, you can have thirty-five brand new hirelings! In: The Book of Hirelings!
Not convinced? There is a dragon hireling.
Thanks for the reply J.T. Seusoff, right, let me take a look over those issues.
Battlefield Dominance was missing the word enemy, it is now “Battlefield Dominance―When you ride against mounted foes, pick 1 enemy, you gain +1 ongoing to defeat them.”
You’re right about New Guy, and I’ve used your exact wording. I think I wrote that one tired, its just the right thing for the move.
About that skull? Damn straight you should!
These are great – I love them 😀
Not sure if my computer is rendering the document incorrectly for some reason, but it looks to me like the headings are on the wrong page from Muddy Farmhand and forward.
Other than that, some really good inspiration here!
Thank you Em0srawk and Mattias Swing. Its fine on my laptop and a pal’s iPad, but my way of formatting google documents is terrible, I’m getting the hang of it though.
Have you tried Insert->Page Break (Ctrl-Enter)? That usually helps me. 🙂
Sir I salute you for this is a work of art!
I can’t express to you how amazing this is, fantastic job!
Fantastic. If may I say, could be nice to have them sort alphabetically, OR a la D.W., grouped in themes, so “Town People” “Pets & Monsters” etc.
Not Paid Enough: “-6” should be “6-“
Envy of Pirates Everywhere: maybe bad design. With a success (7+) the object should be steal (no list for this, this is the original request, so a success should be a success). THEN, you could add a list of complications that you could avoid with the holds (maybe avoid 1 complication with 7-9, and avoid 2 complications with 10+).
Complications could be:
– Attract attentions
– Do it quick
– Captured (after the steal) or wounded (enemies, or stray cats, maybe?)
Wynand Louw and Traveling Haberdasher, glad you like them guys. Tell me if they ever see use in one of your games.
Andrea Parducci I will never succumb to your logic and alphabetisation! No, I understand what you’re saying but there aren’t that many really, if there were more I would group them by theme.
Not Paid Enough has been fixed.
Envy of Pirates Everywhere is fixed, it was intended that they steal it at 7+.
This is very cool, and fantastic timing – I was just asking about hirelings yesterday
Tony Ferron I think you are a good writer. This is good APART from just the game mechanics.
Dylan Knight Happy to help chief. Tell me if you make use of one!
Wynand Louw Eh, thank you very much. I try to keep it fun and light, far too much stiff writing in roleplaying.
Oh, I totally forgot, William Gerke, get over here.
I’m definitely stealing the Calvary, torchbearer’s Explore, and minion’s Spy moves to add to my general moves list
I really love these, and my only complaint is that the apostrophes are misplaced throughout, which is distracting.
I’m totally printing two of these for my next session, as results for Carouse rolls.
That is a shame. I would not know where to start with that.
Huzzah! Have fun Matt Horam.
(Tony, you could permit other users to modfify your file, you know what wonderful things we can do with a shared file)
THIS IS SO FRACKING AMAZING
Mike Galosi I’M GLAD YOU THINK SO!
Holy crap. I’m brand new to the game, never GM’d before but starting soon, and ABSOLUTELY using these. This is bloody brilliant.
All three off ours died yesterday, as I was using loyalty as HP…
Scott McCafferty Glad to be of service my good man. Good luck!
Matt Horam Oh dear! I hope they were of some use before they died.
In the core rules they don’t even get HP, so using Loyalty was a decent idea. Hirelings are treated as a resource in the core rules, so a GM can kill them off when making the hard move “use up their resources” or even when the Hireling has a move that reads “they take the brunt of the damage”.
If you’re not into the zero HP/all fiction concept for Hirelings you could give all Hirelings 10 HP or a 3 strikes, you’re out rule.
To sate my curiosity, what three Hirelings did you have?
Doctor, warrior, urchin.
Nice!