Yikes - I don't think I could do that, especially with the job uniqueness rule (#4). That is one crazy rule, one I might be able to do by itself. But I'm definitely not letting my own troops permanently die.

I've been toying around with a new rule - not buying anything at all from any shops. I've had to relent once or twice, though, but I'm wondering if I can do it from Ch. II onwards.

And I tried getting a monster in Ch. I - I got a Mediator and all - and I got in a fight on the Mandalia Plains with a Guest Chocobo, but it didn't offer to join afterwards. What's the deal with that?