Greenfield
Adventurer
We have a player in the game who wants to take the Dragon Cohort feat (Draconomicon, Page 104). It lets him pick a Dragon type from a table (Page 139) to have as a Cohort, like the common Cohort available through the Leadership feat.
Unlike Leadership, the character doesn't get Followers (a number of 1 or 2 level NPCs that are loyal friends). He just gets the Dragon. The rules area bit different, in that the ECL of the draconic creature is treated as if it were three lower than normal.
The PC in our case is a total level of eleven, though two of that is ECL adjustment for his race. The ECL is one point of character adjustment and one racial dice, so he's probably 10th level.
My question is, do you get a Draconic creature straight from the book, or do you build him like a character, with Draconic racial modifiers?
He wants a Wyvern, which has a listed Intelligence score of 6. He wants to do a 32 point buy (the same standard we do for PCs, so he can apply a -4 INT modifier and still end up with an 11 or 12.
The Feat says:
So it's a bit unclear.
Any advice on how the Cohort should be statted?
Unlike Leadership, the character doesn't get Followers (a number of 1 or 2 level NPCs that are loyal friends). He just gets the Dragon. The rules area bit different, in that the ECL of the draconic creature is treated as if it were three lower than normal.
The PC in our case is a total level of eleven, though two of that is ECL adjustment for his race. The ECL is one point of character adjustment and one racial dice, so he's probably 10th level.
My question is, do you get a Draconic creature straight from the book, or do you build him like a character, with Draconic racial modifiers?
He wants a Wyvern, which has a listed Intelligence score of 6. He wants to do a 32 point buy (the same standard we do for PCs, so he can apply a -4 INT modifier and still end up with an 11 or 12.
The Feat says:
Draconomicon page 104 said:DRAGON COHORT [GENERAL]
You gain the service of a loyal dragon ally.
Prerequisites: Character level 9th, Speak Language (Draconic).
Benefit: You gain a cohort selected from Table 3–14: Dragon Cohorts (page 139), just as you would by selecting the Leadership feat. However, you may treat the dragon’s ECL as if it were 3 lower than indicated.
See Dragons as Cohorts, page 138, for more information.
So it's a bit unclear.
Any advice on how the Cohort should be statted?