Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Let us recruit minor characters as hirelings. (Spoiler Free)

There's already implementation for "hirelings with no attached plot elements," so I was surprised to find that characters we've saved or encounter who just disappear after their stories can't be hired. It would be a lot cooler to have a character who we have some minor history with in our party than some random character. Basically, any combat capable character we fight alongside, rescue, or interact with who might be interested in fighting for coin or might just want to come along with us who disappears from the game after our interaction or has no more meaningful interactions could be added to the Hireling pool after they're encountered. Generic voice lines would be fine if the actual VA for those characters didn't record enough dialog for them.

I like the idea but the problem is that a great deal of these characters have a story after your encounter. It is probably too much work at this stage (unfortunatly).

I use mod "Recruit any NPC - Transform NPC Into Playable Character - Make Full Custom Character Party - No party limit - Resurrect Dead" (long name, I know) for this, though it has some bugs currently, but also develops quickly.