Jinxxed

Follower Mortality Vote. Essential or Protected?

Added 2021-02-02 03:02:10 +0000 UTC

Hello, I've been thinking about this for a while and figured I'd ask you guys. Would you prefer followers to be set to essential or Protected?

Essential:

This means they'll never die, no matter what. Not even you can kill them.
They will instantly heal after every battle.

Protected:

The only way they can die is if you deal the killing blow. NPCs wont be able to kill them
Followers wont instantly heal after battle, they either need regen enchantments or you need to heal them or they rely on natural health regen.

On one hand, you can never kill them by mistake if they are essential, but the game might be made too easy with the nearly instant healing after each battle. With the Protected status, you might kill them by mistake, but there's an added challenge. And you could always load the game or use a modded revive spell. I've been thinking about setting future followers to Protected for these reasons, but if most people are against it I can continue to keep them essential.

I don't think I'd ever make them neither, where any NPC could just kill them. That's a little too much for me. Honestly, if I could just keep them essential and remove the instant health regen, I would just do that instead.

Feel free to discuss as well if you'd like either here or in the discord.