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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dog Moon" data-source="post: 2743676" data-attributes="member: 23023">Well, Cohorts follow the PCs around, essentially acting as another PC for most intents and purposes.  He gets a cut of the treasure and XP, but then again when Leadership is allowed in my group it's only when we have 2-3 people, so that extra dude comes in real handy, especially if he's a class we need [like a Cleric when we don't have one, a Rogue, etc].As for the followers, we rarely use followers.  We use them mainly to occupy our forts and whatnot.  The main time I actually used followers well was when my character was a spymaster.  I had about 8 different 'identities' [most of my skills were in profession, plus Bluff, Sense Motive, etc].  Each identity required the usage of at least one follower to help maintain my disguise.  Like one disguise was a family who owned a small bakery.  I was the owner and the followers were the wife and the three children of various ages [the book never says that followers must be adults, after all].  Another identity was that I was a servant in the castle and I took care of my infirm grandmother.  An elderly follower kept that ruse for me going while I occasionally came and went to 'visit.'  That character also had a couple of 'friends' [followers] who occasionally stopped by to hang out.Suffice to say that that character used many followers and used them well.</blockquote>