Good morning!

We had a very brief exchange on reddit the other day about the Cairn x Dolmenwood game I'm in the process of starting and, wouldn't you know it, I ran into a question not the very next session!

How do you handle record-keeping for Hirelings, Mounts, &/or Pets (f.ex, the Ranger's Bloodhound)?

I flipped through my physical copy, scanned through the PDF, and ultimately took a gander at Mausritter, which I've been using to fill in any implied but not explicit qualities for the game thus far. Rather than yoinking Mausritter's hireling card (which I'm not ruling out just yet), what I wound up ruling (for my PC Ranger) was that the Bloodhound would get a single-slot inventory card that represented an abstraction of the accoutrements associated with keeping them and the "weight" of their bond. Is this what you would do?

Thanks!

That would work, though I wonder if a mechanical representation is any more effective than simply narrative effects?

Hey, Yochai, thanks for the response!

In retrospect, making them use an inventory slot is probably pretty punishing.

I think I’ll either use a mock-up of Mausritter’s hireling sheet or just have the player move the stats to their Notes section.

Thanks again!