Cohort help

[Bryon_Soulweaver]

Thanks Jhulae. My DM doesnt level by game terms though, he thinks its pointless to just have a person encounter a powerful creature/person and just level up, say if we faught a quasi-god, no instent level up for her, she would get experience but not the normal way. (not like we'd be able to kill a god or quasi-god in his homebrew world anyways, he makes demigods have atleast 130-200 levels, they can be the same class or several different classes and PrC's, their just unkillable)

 

[Dimensional]

If she became a cohort, how fast would she level by game terms?

bizarly exactly as fast as you level

the formula for cohort XP is
(xp earned)*cohort level/Leaders level


which means for a 20th lvl leader and a18th level cohort if the leader earns 1000xp the cohort earns 900.

for a 20th lvl Leader and 1 level 1 Cohort if the leader was to earn 1000xp the cohort would earn 50xp.

basicaly your cohort will never gain levels relative to you, unless you spend XP on stuff so you don't level.

Jeremy

 

[irdeggman]

She *can* be a cohort but it'd be a waste since she's probably 1-3rd level and you could have a 15th level cohort. It'd make more sense to have her be a follower: you should have 50+ 1st level followers, ~6 2nd, ~3 3rd, 2 4th, 1 5th and 1 6th level followers. IIRC, cohorts are commoner/expert/warriors in the DMG. The SRD doesn't specify class and I think there's some supplement that suggested you could have adepts with a +2 ECL mod (meaning an adept 4 is a 6th level follower). Aristocrats are supposed to be too snooty to be followers.
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Actually the 3.5 rules don't specify a class limitation for followers.

SRD

Number of Followers by Level: The character can lead up to the indicated number of characters of each level. Followers are similar to cohorts, except they’re generally low-level NPCs. Because they’re generally five or more levels behind the character they follow, they’re rarely effective in combat.

Followers don’t earn experience and thus don’t gain levels. However, when a character with Leadership attains a new level, the player consults the table above to determine if she has acquired more followers, some of which may be higher level than the existing followers. (You don’t consult the table to see if your cohort gains levels, however, because cohorts earn experience on their own.)

Whereas the 3.0 DMG said that followers could be warriors, experts or commoners (all NPC classes).

The 3.5 text talks about NPCS and not NPC classes. One has to do with how the character is played/controlled (i.e, by the DM) the other is a specific type of class that is lesser than the PC classes.


Cohorts are generally under the player's control. (see 3.5 DMG pg 106) [I generally allow the player to determine what the cohort does and how he advances - once I've created him. I do not allow the player to role-play the cohort though. A player who is role-playing 2 characters at a time, when one is a subserviant role is just kind of whacky - a player engaging in a discussion with himself just gets out of hand quickly and the other players start to feel dominated by the the player and have less fun as time goes on.]

pg 104 of the 3.5 DMG talks about the motivation of cohorts and how they will leave if mistreated.

 

[kanithardm]

I don't think anyone mentioned it, but u can't have a cohort of higher level than you.

 

[Bryon_Soulweaver]

Found my cohort, a half-celestial drow with levels clr 4/paladin of eilistraee 4/drd 8. She is NG and my friend's sister is going to play her (and this is the worst thing I've ever done). The strange girl will be a follower, Dm gave her a large "natural" boost to knowledge (arcane, religion, ancient lore [another house rule]) so we could use someone to record what information we find.