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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 1303331" data-attributes="member: 7737">Just to clarify, my original question related to a cohort's initial gear; i.e., what the cohort gets at the moment that the PC attracts him with Leadership. The consensus seems to be that the cohort should be outfitted as an NPC of his level would be. Obviously, after creation, the cohort could end up being laden with gear, or not, as each PC / party / DM determines. Nifft, per the 3.5 SRD, the cohort does not suck XP away from the real PCs.What this means is that if a group of 4 PCs, one of whom has a cohort, earns 1000 XP, then each PC gains 250 XP (1000 / 4 = 250 and not 1000 / 5 = 200). The cohort earns some proportion of 250 XP, determined as (cohort level) / (master level) * 250 XP. Edit: the above method is the 3.0 way to determine XP. In 3.5, you need to compare each PC's (E)CL to each monster's CR, then divide by the number of PCs. The important point is that even in the 3.5 XP method, you'd still only be dividing by the number of PCswhich does not include any cohorts (per the rule quoted above).</blockquote>