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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CRGreathouse" data-source="post: 2878395" data-attributes="member: 474">For those keeping track at home, it would normally take a Leadership score of 4866 to get 483,600 followers.  Yeenoghu would have to gain almost 10,000 Cha to get that score.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I don't like your idea as written.  Consider a character with 65,535 2nd-level followers.  By the standard rules, the character will have one 17th level follower (and no higher).  By your rules, the character would have one 33rd level follower, I think, and no higher.Now suppose another character has 65,536 2nd-level followers.  The standard rules give this character one 18th level follower -- appropriate, since that character has more 2nd-level followers.  Under your system, the character would get no more followers.  This gives the character with the lower Leadership score a much more powerful retinue (perhaps a hundred times stronger).My essential problem is the that the number of time you round is essentially random, and the number of followers is no longer a monotonically increasing function of the Leadership score.  (A person could gain a level and lose high-level followers.)Further, if this system were used for Epic Leadership, it would make a powerful feat even stronger.  That probably isn't right.I don't think the question is one of simplicity vs. detail.  That's a misrepresentation; neither system is significantly more complex.  Yours does move about more randomly and give many more high-level followers, though.  That's the decision that needs to be made.If you want to give out more high-level followers, I'd suggest just adding (Leadership score / X) to the top, where X is perhaps 10 or 20.</blockquote>

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