This tip/trick might be something that's well known to a lot of people, but it's something I just discovered and I think it's pretty useful. Companions are great, but one of the problems is that they often get left behind in another cell for whatever reason. You could go back to the cell and pick them up if you can remember where you last saw them, but that can be inconvenient if not impossible. What I have done in the past is to record on paper the reference ids of my companion NPCs when I pick them up and then I can use console commands to bring them back. This is more convenient then traveling back to pick them up, but it still involves lots of typing for multiple companions. Finally, I realized that it's possible to use a batch file containing the same commands I was typing and to run it all with one console command. The trick is to put the following lines of text into a file in the game directory named summon.txt or something similar. prid <REF ID of NPC> moveto player In the lines above, replace the <REF ID of NPC> with the actual ref id number by looking up the NPC's name on Google and going to their wiki page. Repeat the above two lines for every NPC that you want to summon. Then in the game console execute the batch file like this: bat summon That is all. Hope this is useful.