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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psoriasitic Psion" data-source="post: 189660" data-attributes="member: 4580">Defenders of the faith introduced the idea of using leadership to get a dragon for your paladin's mount.. My question is this:Would you allow a wizard or sorceror to take leadership --and then to designate their familiar as the cohort? How it would work:Lets say around the time you take the leadership feat, you have a friend cast "awaken" on your familiar (I know this spell doesnt affect "Magical beasts" but just call it a rationalization of the fact that the animal just became your cohort).You would then be able to choose class levels for your familiar up to your maximum cohort level.. for instance, say your familiar wasan awakened fox. Looking in dragon 293, you'd find the ECL for an awakened fox, then compare it to your maximum cohort level, lets say 8. (i dont have dragon 293 in front of me.. but lets assume ecl 3). You could then take 5 levels of Druid, cleric, whatever. Would this be too cheesy for you? I think its kind of like the old witches familiars, who were said to be able to cast spells themselves. or if you want your familiar to be a supersmart little dude, heck heres your chance. smarter than you even... (Like the owl from sword in the stone! hehe). Arguments against it: Well, the creature would have quite a few HP's -- half your HP plus its class levels.  That would make your familiar too tough!  (on the other hand, with leadership you'd have a familiar AND a cohort, who could then make more attacks, you could kill one and still not kill the other, etc etc.)to me its like putting all your eggs in one basket.. hehe. what do you think?</blockquote>

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