Unable to 'talk' to stacks of independants
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In this case adventurers I could usually hire. Even though I get the "Bubble" that indicates I could talk to them and then hire with money. It isn't letting me. This seems new to the current edition, as I remember being able to hire a stack back in one of the earlier patches (may have been release build, it has been a while)