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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lamoni" data-source="post: 2649485" data-attributes="member: 12680">Very interesting discussion.  My first instinct was to say No experience since the cohort is just a feat.  Then as I thought about it, I was going to say that I'd give some experience anyway since Leadership is not balanced with other feats.  It is a feat that allows different play styles and is quite helpful in small groups.Through reading this thread, I'd like to change my position.  For two reasons...First, the person with leadership could dismiss the cohort at any time, or get a psychic reformation and lose the leadership feat.  There, now there is no feat regarding the NPC cohort, but the cohort would still be fighting or healing or whatever on his own as an NPC.  In this case, I think everyone would agree that killing the NPC would give experience since he is no longer a cohort.  What if the PC was deciding on a cohort and there was a line of 'applicants' at the time of the attack.  If they were all attacked at once, each killed applicant would give experience, just as the one that he picked as a cohort would give experience (if he picked one in time).  If the PC could decide on one cohort, send him out to be killed, choose another, send him out to be killed, etc. until there were no cohorts left to choose, would that really deny all the experience from the encounter?  The second reason, which nullifies the whole argument is that I don't thing NPC's are allowed to take Leadership.  A BBEG who is supposed to have a cohort can have one just by giving him one.  No need to waste the leadership feat on it and there is also no need to have an evil leader restrict himself to having followers who are weaker than himself.  Someone with wealth and political influence might attract many followers or cohorts who are more powerful than they are.Therefore, since we don't normally award experience to NPC's... but only PC's there is no argument.  Unless of course the party fighter kills the party sorcerer and their cohort and wants experience from it.  Would it really matter who he killed first?  Once the sorcerer is dead, there are no ties left and the cohort can be a normal NPC again.</blockquote>

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