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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wycen" data-source="post: 6141444" data-attributes="member: 13732">Are you thinking outloud or looking for answers?I am not aware of any Paizo material on what to do with followers beyond what is presented in the text for the leadership feat - with the exception that the new Ultimate Campaign book has ideas, but beyond that I have not bought or read the book.There is no rule that a cohort cannot have his own cohort, unless James Jacobs said something unofficially.  I do remember a thread about the cheese possible if a summoner had a cohort who was also a summoner.  As a player, I would be disappointed if I had to share followers with somebody else, unless those followers were really friggin' cool.A careful study of the leadership score calculations shows that if you recruit a cohort who does not match your alignment your leadership score with regards to a cohort is lowered.  No such text exists for followers.In my current game, my character's followers serve to maintain his various operations while he, cohort, and other heroes are off adventuring.  It makes sense to me that not all of them see things through the same eyes, especially since I created a quick and dirty random chart to see what kind of followers show up.  Hence, I end up with commoners and more NPC classes than the better PC classes.  But as much fun as it is to whip them up and give them a little bit of background, I don't want to create dozens of fully statted out NPCs.Again, to my knowledge there is no material to determine what kind of followers or even cohort shows up.  Though, since you can get monster cohorts, which probably require DM approval, you can probably have some input into the cohort's training.  After all, an evil cleric of Destructo is not going to want his buddy to be the good cleric of Puppies and Rainbows.A way to factor in rivalries or different training is to assign like minded folks to certain tasks.  My warrior types guard our HQ, while the builders work on improving a fort or yet another group is starting up a siege engine workshop.  The hound master, as much as you can be a master as a 2nd level aristocrat is who I called upon the organize these, plus arranged for volunteers (non-followers but financed by my PC) to organize the first cavalry detachment in the city.These groups are spread between different places and even different towns.  I have a few 'open' slots even, if cool new follower opportunities come up.  Like a goblin, but in this case the DM warned me he'd make mischief and get other followers to be lazy.So I say talking to your DM is a good idea.  Unless you are the DM...</blockquote>

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