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<blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 997390" data-attributes="member: 5890">Re: reOh, you mean in exactly the same way as a hired NPC would? So what precisely did I spend a feat on again? Since I don't have my DMG with me, I'm relying on the SRD text, but it refers to &quot;devoted companions&quot;, and gives modifiers to the leadership score for being abusive. It certainly doesn't suggest that fair and equitable treatment is necessary to retain a cohort.But primarily he's focussed on serving the bard. It would be entirely possible for someone to specify that their cohort is fanatically loyal and won't move without a direct order from their character. I can certainly think of a number of role-played situations where that would indeed be the case. None of this changes the fact that the character spent the feat, and if his cohort is always running off and doing things he shouldn't, it's not difficult to merely dismiss him and get another one which is more amenable, per the feat.Of course the alignment and personality of the cohort are primarily the choice of the character with the feat, for the reasons I gave above.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Saeviomagy, post: 997390, member: 5890"] [b]Re: re[/b] Oh, you mean in exactly the same way as a hired NPC would? So what precisely did I spend a feat on again? Since I don't have my DMG with me, I'm relying on the SRD text, but it refers to "devoted companions", and gives modifiers to the leadership score for being abusive. It certainly doesn't suggest that fair and equitable treatment is necessary to retain a cohort. But primarily he's focussed on serving the bard. It would be entirely possible for someone to specify that their cohort is fanatically loyal and won't move without a direct order from their character. I can certainly think of a number of role-played situations where that would indeed be the case. None of this changes the fact that the character spent the feat, and if his cohort is always running off and doing things he shouldn't, it's not difficult to merely dismiss him and get another one which is more amenable, per the feat. Of course the alignment and personality of the cohort are primarily the choice of the character with the feat, for the reasons I gave above. [/QUOTE]

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