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[Boogerman]

Hey, I've gone and recruited too many companions and I want to get rid of them.
I don't want to alienate the cultures the companions came from, though, so killing them myself is out of the question.
The local goblins, who seem all to happy to attack me, don't want to attack my companions.
What is the most reliable way of getting rid of these nuisances?

[Demonic Gophers]

Setting lots of fires can work.

Or I think you can retire in a town, then reactivate your adventurer.  That should get them to stop following you everywhere.

[Tsktac]

Setting lots of fires can work.

Or I think you can retire in a town, then reactivate your adventurer.  That should get them to stop following you everywhere.

Really? Because I've retired my adventurer a few times,and in my experience if you wait in the pub they'll comeback bright eyed and fully healed.

Hey, I've gone and recruited too many companions and I want to get rid of them.
I don't want to alienate the cultures the companions came from, though, so killing them myself is out of the question.
The local goblins, who seem all to happy to attack me, don't want to attack my companions.
What is the most reliable way of getting rid of these nuisances?

I'd recomend you retire in a town ,leave quickly ,and then just travel.  good luck .

[Boogerman]

Thanks for the quick replies!
I'll try that, and see if it works.

[E-mouse]

I remember gathering and losing track of several small armies with an over-legendary'd adventurer. If you're Perfectly Agile, then try running through several mountain tiles manually: once people fall far enough behind, they'll wander off on their own until you run into them again.

If you can swim, you can do even better - just jump in a river and go fish-hunting. Your companions will stay near where you entered the river, and once you swim a few screens away, none of them will follow you when you Travel.
Just don't drown yourself trying if you can't swim.

[LegoLord]

I recommend that you retire your current adventurer, get a new adventurer that only has the maximum starting spear skill, take him to the town you retired in, and use him to kill old companions.  If he dies, repeat and possibly edit the skills based on what brought him down.

[eerr]

why are you ditching compainions??? go fight some fearsome monsters!!!!
just got to thin the lot of course

[LegoLord]

why are you ditching compainions??? go fight some fearsome monsters!!!!
just got to thin the lot of course

I tried that once.  The monster ended up killing me as well, because creatures tend to go after you first, as every one else is following you.

[E-mouse]

It's not too hard to get around that - either provoke the creature and run back to regroup with your meatshields, or sneak all the time and wait in ambush near an enemy you can see until someone catches up and charges into the fray.

[LegoLord]

It's not too hard to get around that - either provoke the creature and run back to regroup with your meatshields, or sneak all the time and wait in ambush near an enemy you can see until someone catches up and charges into the fray.

I tried that and when I turned the corner of a passage . . . "You've been spotted," soon followed by "You have been struck down."  Going and killing your other dude's companions with a new dude is much better.

[WorkerDrone]

I seem to remember attacking the *Goblin devoid* Dark Fortresses with small armies of adventurers is always a good way to get rid of hanger oners. After your third fortress, you'll have either died, or have gotten quite a bit of those XP's, and lost all or almost all of those meatshields.

[Roundabout Lout]

I found a way. Not too reliable, but it works.
Retire, play another adventurer, and do whatever. Come back, and adventurer 1 will have moved to a random town, without the followers. Keep in mind that if you return to where you first retired, they'll come runnin back to ya.