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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 2648553" data-attributes="member: 2525">You get the experience for the cohort.  The cohort itself is NOT a class feature.  The class feature simply describes the relationship between the person serving as a cohort and the person with the leadership feat.  It does not in any way describe the relationship between the PCs and the person serving as a cohort.  The cohort feat grants the person with the leadership feat the benefits of LOYALTY, DEVOTION, AND ASSISTANCE of the cohort.  So, for example, if two NPCs were in a dungeon, and one took the leadership feat and "attracted" the other as a cohort, he gains the benefit of that other NPCs loyalty, devotion and assistance.   However, the cohort is still the same as they were before the leadership feat, with regard to the PCs.  It's not like the NPC who took the feat gained nothing by it...they now have a level of lotalty, devotion, and assistance from someone that they didn't have before.  However, the challenge the cohort poses to the party hasn't changed, and is not itself a feature granted by the leadership feat.Unlike summoned creatures, the cohort does not take any actions of the person with the leadership feat during battle, cannot be dispelled, does not go away or become less of a threat when the person with the leadership feat is killed, gains experience points, and is in every single way the same as any other opponant.The closest corallary to a cohort is a trap, not a summoned creature.  The trap is made by someone with the trapmaking skills (a "class feature").  And for people claiming "but it doesn't take a feat", I seriously doubt your opinion changes if the person who makes the trap had Skill Focus: Trapmaking as a feat.  That person with the skill might well be an opponant somewhere in that dungeon.  However, the PCs will definitely get experience points for overcoming the challenge of the trap, and for the person with the trapmaking skill if they encounter them as well.</blockquote>

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