Editing A Forest Romp in Dihad (section)

== Character Creation ==
It looks like I'm going to have three players. I'm going to have each of them make three characters. Two of these characters are agents (think henchmen) and one of them is the principal (the person who has henchmen, if you can dig it.) What is the difference? I will tell you. The principal character starts with a 10 in each attribute and then distributes 8 points, whereas the agents use standard character creation. All PCs are going to be human. 

Only the principal can take the followers-oriented talents (although they don't have to!) and their agents count as followers. If your principal is a wizard, they may take the followers-oriented talents without paying double cost. If your agents get killed you can probably recruit more, although they won't have earned XP and may or may not have the full 8 points of discretionary stats that normal starting PCs have (that is, if you recruit agents and don't have the followers-oriented talents, you're going to have to go into town and see what likely lads and lasses want to become adventurers, instead of being able to recruit badasses on the spot.) If your principal gets killed, you can promote one of your existing agents to principal status, BUT, they won't get the boost of 6 extra stat points that your starting principal has. You'd better guard your principal carefully!

You are free to treat your agents somewhat more expendably than I would typically allow with henchmen in a D&D campaign. You may or may not decide to bring your whole crew along for an adventure. Up to you guys.