Rolling need for your companion

Yet another thread about this?

OK, if you insist.

Roll however you want on whatever you want. You fought for it and have as much right to it as anyone else. What you do with it once once you get it is your business and no one else has anything to say about it.

On most topics, I usually just let the game go as played, but this is just low when it happens and you have no way to prevent it. Even if your grp agrees not to, what happens if it does? You've just wasted time and effort. So, in this case, I don't buy the, "Oh well, guess nothing you can do" thinking.

Here's my solution. Add a "Need for companion" roll option. Then create a mechanic that locks out your companion from equipping any item won through a standard "Need" roll. It's essentially a conditional greed.

But, since i'm all for choice. I would ALSO make that a loot rule option. So you can have master looter, round robin, companion lock, etc. That way, you can announce in your pug what your going to do and THEN let the players decide. Now, the choice is completely up to the grp players if they want to risk getting ninja'd or not.

You know that is a very good idea. The only problem is that BW has a hard enough time trying to get the simple mechanics of this game working let alone something complicated like this (well, really not very complicated, just a line of Boolean code introduced). Try not to expect too much from them...

Rolling need for your companions without asking first makes you a greedy fool.

Your companion is not as important as another player. Simple as that.