Followers

Our group has now played a few HW sessions. One of my players made a couple of interesting observation about Followers.

In a traditional RPG, the party of characters is partly bound together by the different abilities of each character: only as a team do they have all the abilities needed. A hero (HW character) with several followers, however, has less need for hero companions, since the followers can provide the abilities the hero lacks. In extreme examples, the other players in a session can be superfluous.

Followers can be very able; this further reduces the binding of characters into a party. For example, the player of our warrior hero chose interesting, non warrior, abilities as his best (5W) and second bast (2 X 1W) abilities, and so his warrior abilities are still at 17. The player of our merchant hero has a couple of warrior bodyguards, and has spent a hero point on improving his best ability, so his body guards are now the best fighters in the party, with 18 ratings.

Are followers, as per the rules, too unbalancing?             Received on Fri 01 Sep 2000 - 03:11:23 EEST