Forum Game Thign: NPC Party Members

NPC Party members will be NPCs that the player can recruit as a party member of sorts that would fight at their side. I may let players be able to control them, but I may just have to control them myself. NPCs may also have custom growth rates as well (For example, a .1 or .45 growth rate, compared to a player's .2 rate of growth). Some of them will of course be easier to recruit than others.

Unlike the enemy recruits a lion tamer and teacher can have, the NPC recruit can be revived when they run out of Health, and can store their own things in an inventory when the player runs out of inventory space. NPCs will have access to class abilities players do not have, as well. For example, classes such as Jewelers, Gameshow Hosts, Wild Animal, and The Elderly are all options for NPC recruits.

However, one concern I have is that this sort of function will be completely ignored by players.