Rule changes for 1E to allow more play options

[Jon Cary]

How about adding the option to either hire appropriate-level NPC "guards" from the NPC Codex and/or allowing the Leadership feat? This would allow short tables to bring along a hireling or a cohort to fill out a table that was short a player (or two).

[Gary Bush]

Did you mean to post this in the playtest forums?

[BigNorseWolf]

Oh hell no. Nothing is added to the game by allowing the most overpowered abusable feats in the game that let you send a small army into the dungeon in your place.

[Philippe Lam]

Seconded. There's already enough legal menageries that there's no need for even worse.

[Yuri Sarreth]

Would have to double check but I'm fairly confident there is a clause in The Guide that allows a GM to insert one of the pre-gens to fill out the table if the only other option is to turn away people.

[Ascalaphus]

Yuri Sarreth wrote:

Would have to double check but I'm fairly confident there is a clause in The Guide that allows a GM to insert one of the pre-gens to fill out the table if the only other option is to turn away people.

Yes. To be precise:

• The minimum table size is 4; at least 4 PCs go on an adventure.
  
• At least 3 players need to be present.
  
• If you have 3 players you can add a pregen to reach the legal table size. This pregen should be in-tier if at all possible.
  
• Another way to reach legal table size is to add players who've played the scenario before.

  Replaying a scenario to make the table legal doesn't cost you a star replay, but you also don't get any credit for it (no gold, PP, XP, boons or item access). You do get a chronicle sheet so that you can note down money spent etc.

  (You could spend a star to replay as normal of course.)

• The rule for adding replayers to reach minimum table size is a bit ambiguous; it can refer to adding a 3rd player, to adding a 4th PC, or it can apply to both. I think it should apply to both, but I could be wrong; maybe it only applies to the "third warm body at the table".