LEADERSHIP FEAT and Outsiders: Questions

[Iron_Chef]

If a pious character with the Leadership feat could use a lesser planar ally or some similar spell, could they use it to gain outsider cohorts and followers from their deity? For cohorts, this kind of thing seems to be allowed in the DMG under "special cohorts".

My main question is for followers: I'm talking about ECL+0 outsiders that have no special abilities, no SR, no spell-like abilities and are about as powerful as an orc or other similar race; they advance by character class. So these outsider followers would all have a level in expert or warrior and be 1/2 CR. Is this unreasonable? It seems okay to me. The outsiders would remain so long as their mortal leader remained alive and faithful to their deity. They could serve to advise the character in how she could best serve their deity and avoid sin or other transgressions, as well as serve as a status symbol of the leader's close relationship with their deity.

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

Use Planetouched. Yes, that would be fine. If you're high enough level, you can have real Outsiders for cohorts, though any Outsider with real Hit Dice level would be too high for a regular follower-- since they cast spells as a Cleric, I'd say they'd count as +3 for PC class.

 

[Iron_Chef]

Cool. Thanks!

Anybody else have an opinion?

 

[hammymchamham]

Take a Ghaele as an example. Your leadership score would have to be high enough to attaract a cohort of 20th level (their ECL is 20) before I'd allow a player to have one.