I'm involved in a P6 Kingmaker game with a few other house rules. Any character who holds a kingdom role in this game gets leadership for free, regardless of prerequisite, but the scores are calculated as normal. Since it's P6, low level followers can be very valuable, but I'm having trouble filling my roster.
My character is a level 2 Kensai Magus with a leadership score of 13, so I get 10 1st level followers and 1 2nd level follower.
The DM prefers NPC classes with the standard array for followers, with only rare exceptions.
Does anyone have ideas on how to optimize some of these followers? Here's my ideas so far:
Subsidiary adventuring party to handle low level side quests
Adept, Expert, 2 Warriors
Several craftsmen to produce useful items and masterworks for later enchanting
Alchemy, Weapons, Armor, Jeweler, Tailor, Vehicle crafting
Herbalist/Healer
Scribe/Lawyer
Scholar
Valet
Ideas for other roles as well as suggestions on builds are welcome.
Spies & informants (or just a half-decent forensic accountant), teachers for later followers, linguistic and social experts (aka courtiers), experts to help with spell research, trackers & hunters...
I'm not sure that builds would be important for followers. More like race/class, a skill or two, a feat and a role, maybe a quirk to remember them by. At most.
If your kingdom role is the magister your followers might be centred around that. More intellectual, less wilderness types. Adjust as appropriate for other roles.
Normally, I would agree. Since this is a P6 campaign our scores are low and we only get a few followers. Every edge we can get matters, so traits and gear options matter too.
So far, I've managed to put together a balanced party of 2 warriors, an expert and an aristocrat as an adventuring team. They'll run side quests and bring back loot.
I've also put together a few min-maxed craftsmen with +17 to their craft skills to rapidly produce goods. They're commoners with 15 Int, but some good trait selections.
I have one craftsman with Toilcrafter and Spark of Creation to produce +1 arms and armor on the cheap.
I'm thinking for my last two, a sage to cover all the knowledge skills and linguistics, and a diplomancer. I've recently found some nice options on how to make that viable.
Basically, if anyone has optimized an NPC class, I'm interested in how it was done.