If we get rid of Dennis the duck and love muffin that frees up a bunch of hero spots, we could also get rid of norm prime and get a better martial hero that is also more well rounded
For me our heroes should fall into either of two categories (with a lot of overlap being good):
- Heroes for National Actions
- Heroes for Quest/Personal/Story lines
With the litmus test being "Do they like working and the work we do here". With Lovemuffin mechanically dead to us the only heroes that don't enjoy working here (base negative loyalty) are Hego and Tom. Both of them have caveats to them.
Hego is in the middle of a story line so nothing can be said until that is done and also shego would be very cross with us if something truly bad happens to him.
Tom shouldn't really count as one of our heroes for the moment, he is just here for the Svtfoe story line and doesn't care about anything else.
For the mechanical side the heroes that don't pull their weight right now would be Max, Vanessa, Dennis and Norm Prime (the last two very debatable in my opinion).
Norm Prime only problem is his negative trait, if we ever got rid of that he would be a top tier hero for National actions, he is already at 38 Martial and he is the easiest hero to upgrade on our entire rooster since whenever we get a new weapon or combat related tech we can just superglue it to him for a boost, he is loyal to us (25 base loyalty) and even now he is a good filler for Quest teams that lack Martial.
Dennis has already brought new quests with him on his own (we wouldn't have gotten Feldrake without him), the QM have said he has a lot of potential, he works great with a lot of our units, he is extremely loyal (without Drusselstein he would be at 50) and he is very funny 0 reasons to not keep him.
Vanessa problem is of disposition. Doof doesn't want her to deal with anything that can be called remotely dangerous, she doesn't want to deal with the nonsensical side of our organization and she fears that she will spend her life under Doof's shadow.
For me the best thing to do with her character wise is to let her go to college in like 3 turns and give up narrative control of her then to let her grow on her own.
Max problem is also of disposition but in a different way. He wants to do nothing with the Martial/Intrigue/Occult/Quest side of our organization and he doesn't currently have the chops to work on the more normal side of things (the QM already said that no matter how many personal we do he would still hate adventures).
He still has that tooned in training going on for the moment so I'm okay on waiting until we see how that goes to give a verdict but if after that nothing important changes I say we either remove him from the hero rooster saying something like that we send him back to college if he is okay with that or that we just don't control what he is doing but he is still an intern in the company.
