>check for traps, ambushers, cursed items, and so on and so

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>>46812563
nice thread

>>46812563
>Hire burly NPC to go with the party for a cut
>Almost always dies through being trap bait
>Spell slots and tools 100% intact and ready for boss fight

And nothing of value was lost.

>>46812563
Challenging the players. It is a game after all.

>>46812618
You should try out morale rules, fampai

>>46812800
How is that immoral?

They told the guy that he would be going with them to a dungeon where there is a 100% chance of danger. He knows what he is going to do and he is being paid for it. It is not like they tricked him.

>>46812888
Using an NPC as a human mineclearer should give them a morale penalty and make it more difficult to get hirelings in the future

>>46812888
Morale, not moral. A cohort whose purpose is "trap bait" isn't going to have very good loyalty or willingness to carry on.

colette, pls go

>check for traps
>one of your party members is a trap

>>46812932
>>46812946
Our party is usually a group of ranged type classes, barely any of us in our group likes being a melee-based martial class so we usually go this route. We are always up front about the dangers of a dungeon, that it can lead to almost certain death etc., but that we were given this order by (enter prominent name here) and that they too can get a cut of the treasure and glory by coming along.

It doesn't always work, and the NPC doesn't always die, but we never lie about anything.

>>46812800
What if the hired muscle doesn't make it out alive and no one finds out about the people they are baiting into dungeoncrawling?

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>>46812932
What if the hireling has more loyalty than one would expect from a hired gun?

>>46813202
News gets around. When his mates at the tavern realize that Gastor didn't come back after leaving with the Human, half-beast, robot, and demon-blood, others will come to realize the group is bad news.

The party isn't the only group of people moving between towns.

>>46813588
I would expect there to be some sort of plot hook about some master plan.