Deliberatley? No.
But its a descision that i dont understand.
And it falls under the "you dont care" thing.
Yeah YOU dont. But i might. I know plenty of people that do. Making your own party is part of the DnD fantasy for quite a few people.
The hirelings as they are, feel pointless. Like padding that dont scratch the itch people want scratched. Whats so hard to just add to the list of hirelings that already exist a "custom" option.
Solves all problems, cannot be hard to do.
There was a conscious descision made to make the hirelings this way and i for the life of me cannot figure out what was the thought process behind it. Just seems weird.
Especialy with *those* hirelings.
None of them are classic combinations, and they got stuff thats, quite frankly and maybe ill get warned for this, offputting.
Weird pronouns arenot everyones business. It personally brings me out of it. Im not a native speaker and reading the paragraph about the weird orc paladin was annoying to me.