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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaisoku" data-source="post: 5440525" data-attributes="member: 58447">Answer to #1 - Only the things that count against leadership will count. Leadership is about using your Charisma to make people want to be with you and follow your orders. If you are paying them, then you don't need Charisma, so purchased creatures or hired help (of any kind) won't count.Familiars and Animal Companions need your attention, so if you have to divide your attention towards something else, your attention you can give to your cohort is lessened.Think of it as Orco and Cringer vying for He-Man's attention.Answer to #2 - I'd probably start with an animal that's similar in the books that does have a price, and then increase or lower it depending on the effectiveness (CR) and rarity of the creature.This is literally going to be an "eye-ball it on a case by case basis" situation, so I don't think I have a clear cut answer for you.Answer to #3 - If you are spending money to get the person, then they are there for the money, not for your Charisma and Leadership, and if the money runs dry they will leave. They also have the potential to be backstabbers, or plants from enemies... so ultimately, no.. they shouldn't count against Leadership.Regarding the pricing... I think it'd have to be similar to #2, although as a thinking creature, pricing their effectiveness in battle might be hard to do on a straight monetary scale.As my friend suggested when we talked about this before, anything getting to be that powerful (enough to be as strong as a playable character), and intelligent, will likely work better as having a stake in the shares of any treasure found to keep them there.</blockquote>

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