Cohort equipment?

[Vargo]

How do you equip a cohort when a player takes the leadership feat? The rules seem to be unclear...

1. By player wealth guidelines?
2. By NPC wealth guidelines?
3. With a loincloth, and let the player equip them out of pocket?

Is there an "official" ruling on this?

 

[brehobit]

No official ruling I'm aware of, I use NPC wealth guidelines...

 

[Crothian]

Since a cohort is an NPC I start him out with NPC Wealth. The Players are free to give him anything extra they want.

 

[jasin]

Since a cohort is an NPC I start him out with NPC Wealth. The Players are free to give him anything extra they want.

IIRC, that's the RAW default too.