Re: Re: Tricky situations List - damage to followers

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:27:20 -0700

>> But it's also a trope of most heroeic stories that
>> the followers are there to 'take a bullet" for the
>> heroes, if they are mentioned at all.
>
> True, but....
>
> let me quote at you a bit of the tactics notes from an
> NPC I believe you wrote up, and who personally I
> regard as the ultimate PC.
> "Kallyr protects Ernaldesta whenever she accompanies
> the band into combat."

Aaaaand the important word is "most" (heroic stories). Most is, as I know you are well aware, not All.

As far as your dungeon-bashing crack, followers dying in droves comes from millenia before Gygax and Arneson - Odysseus had twelve ships (approx. 600 men) when he left for Troy. And he had how many men when he returned?

I think the tactics notes for the various heroes came from Greg, and I just added numbers, but it's been a while.

Anyway, if Robin is still reading... What happens to followers can be another place to put some effort in alternatioves.

And another one from me: What can you do to a defeated enemy (as in "I tie him up...then slit his throat").

RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad R. Sabatini, Scaramouche