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The Friend Folio

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Behind every hero is a good sidekick, maybe even a few depending on how many heroes there are. The best sidekicks are people with their own story who just happen to be passing through the stories of the player characters. 


The Friend Folio contains 20 sidekicks, that are built using the sidekick rules found in the Essentials Kit, and via Unearthed Arcana for levels higher than 6. They are made to be able to drop into your games with little effort to add some extra flavor to your game. An extra tank and a pocket healer are great, but they are even better if they have a fun and interesting personality.  


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Gareth P October 06, 2019 4:34 pm UTC
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I didn't understand why the characters had a stat for pronouns?
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Richard V October 06, 2019 4:53 pm UTC
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Because it is important to normalize asking for them in this day and age. Also not every NPC in the book has obvious pronouns. It is a thing I do now with all of my NPC blocks. I
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Gareth P October 06, 2019 5:32 pm UTC
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Surely the appropriate pronoun depends on which sex they are? Confused.
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Richard V October 06, 2019 5:45 pm UTC
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Because some of the characters are Transgender, some are non-binary, and not every person's gender conforms to what they were born with.
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Gareth P October 07, 2019 5:52 am UTC
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Sorry, still somewhat confused. Is this something political?
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Franklin H October 17, 2019 12:33 am UTC
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I am going to go ahead and purchase your product despite my indifference to your agenda, because I have a intuitive notion that despite you including "preferred pronouns" as an NPC block you will have omitted meaningless things like "stats, equipment, and tactics preferred."

Happy "gaming" Richard.

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Richard V October 17, 2019 9:30 am UTC
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You can find all the relevant stat blocks and gear here, https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/UA_Sidekicks.pdf or in the Essentials Kit. Sorry if that was not clear above. Happy Gaming Franklin!
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Franklin H October 17, 2019 11:27 am UTC
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There is a policy that requires you not to stat out the characters, gear them up, or did you decide not to do so?

As I said at FF2 I am certain there is a utility to this, I am not certain what the utility is.

I suppose this is for people unable to thumbnail together a set of motives, and such for the stat blocks they are to look up?

At any rate decent work.
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Cornelis H January 06, 2020 9:55 am UTC
It's a potentially interesting thing revealing something about their personality like how they see themselves. Same as "sexuality" or "spouse" or "favourite food" can reveal something interesting for a DM to toy around with.

Like any of these descriptors for a NPC you don't have to use it exactly as is if it confuses you... Tweak it to suit your own setting.
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Liam W July 30, 2019 9:44 pm UTC
The previews just show Background-type stuff. Do they have stats at all? Like the Essentials Kit sidekicks?
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Richard V July 30, 2019 9:56 pm UTC
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You would use the stat blocks from the Essentials Kit, the warrior, spellcaster, or Expert. Or from the UA to take them to 20.
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Franklin H October 17, 2019 12:42 am UTC
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No they do not have stats, equipment, favorite sayings, nothing like it.

I also wonder why this is included as a "Ghosts of Saltmarsh" product when literally none of the back stories offered are tied in to Greyhawk or the setting's towns even in Forgotten Realms if you wove it in that I could discern.

The art is acceptable, some of it is even nice.
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