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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thesolinicus" data-source="post: 4184472" data-attributes="member: 64451">Thanks for the input Folly...I can't find a clear explination in any of my books, though perhaps I am just missing it, about how/whether to factor in Cohorts in encounter CR.On the loot issue we have already had a few 'converstaions' about exactly how much to give them... 1/2 of a share has been the general idea.  I guess my biggest concern with or maybe more accurately dislike of Cohorts is that one character spends a single feat and basically gets an extra character (or more at higher levels).  If you factor in the Cohort on CR for encounters then one character takes a feat and basically steels XP from the other players... not to mention loot and, IMHO most importantly, game time (2 character sheets to search through for BAB or in this case speciffically... 2 clerical spell lists).  I understand that with a cohort it might be possible to take on bigger challenges but does there 'help' equal out the reduced CR and therefore reduced XP Pool?  It also always seems, because they are at least 2 levels lower, that the party always ends up protecting them, sometimes more than another party memeber.Again thanks for the input Folly... I think I will put your thoughts down in the... don't really recomend Cohorts section.</blockquote>