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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lamoni" data-source="post: 2651661" data-attributes="member: 12680">Very true.  NPC's can take this feat.  It seems the only reason a DM would give this feat to an NPC is to try and screw over the party though.  Why not take every BBEG who has someone that is two levels lower than they are and swap out a feat they won't use much for leadership.  There, you effectively made no change to the challenge of the encounter, but now you no longer have to award experience for one of the opponents.  Now what if the party goes against a group of 4 BBEG's with 4 lower level guards.  Why not swap out a single feat from each BBEG so you don't have to add the exp for the guards?Anyway, my point was that while you can give NPC's this feat... why bother?  Why not just give them all the help you want with no feat?  If you think that is against the rules then I would challenge that every DM has broken the rules.  I would never want to hear from the players that the guards had better not fight unless their leaders had been penalized a feat or some wealth to get them.  I would also never want my players to count the numbers in a small army and then argue that the leader couldn't command them because leadership didn't allow for that many.Therefore, since leadership has no beneficial effect on NPC's... (they can have as much help as they want anyway) I say the feat was written for PC's.  Since this is the rules forum though and it is legal to give NPC's the feat I fully expect my argument to be ignored.</blockquote>

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