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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2078953" data-attributes="member: 463">Hi - had some bad cohort experiences here.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />IMC I've come to realise that it's best to only let PCs recruit as cohorts suitable NPCs who they encounter during play, not tailor cohorts to the PC.&nbsp; I tried the &quot;let player roll up whatever cohort they want&quot; approach and every cohort was a beautiful (usually female, dep on player preference) Cleric or Bard in love with the (male) PC... this got tiresome real quick, esp with 3 Clerics in a 3.0 party - you really see just how stupidly overpowered Clerics are.&nbsp; As for XP, I use the 3.0 approach where Cohorts get a 1/2 share and this seems to work fine.&nbsp; For roleplaying the Cohort, I used to let players do it - ie mostly 0 roleplaying, I even had 1 player _wouldn't let_ me play his sex-object cohort - &quot;That'd be weird&quot;&nbsp; - now I'd just let them run the cohort in combat with me RPIng them out of combat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 2078953, member: 463"] Hi - had some bad cohort experiences here. :) IMC I've come to realise that it's best to only let PCs recruit as cohorts suitable NPCs who they encounter during play, not tailor cohorts to the PC. I tried the "let player roll up whatever cohort they want" approach and every cohort was a beautiful (usually female, dep on player preference) Cleric or Bard in love with the (male) PC... this got tiresome real quick, esp with 3 Clerics in a 3.0 party - you really see just how stupidly overpowered Clerics are. As for XP, I use the 3.0 approach where Cohorts get a 1/2 share and this seems to work fine. For roleplaying the Cohort, I used to let players do it - ie mostly 0 roleplaying, I even had 1 player _wouldn't let_ me play his sex-object cohort - "That'd be weird" - now I'd just let them run the cohort in combat with me RPIng them out of combat. [/QUOTE]

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