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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IceFractal" data-source="post: 3234485" data-attributes="member: 27704">I always base it off ECL, because otherwise it leads to the odd situation that high-LA races can't really have followers of their own kind.  For instance, say we have a 6th level knight with a 4th level squire cohort.  They die and become ghosts.  Now, however, the squire is apparently too powerful to be the knight's cohort, even though their relative levels haven't changed (ECL 11 and ECL 9).  And if there was a living knight of the same ECL, he could have the squire as a cohort.  Doesn't make any sense, does it?Bottom line, since the cohort's LA does affect when you can have it, the player's LA should matter as well.</blockquote>