Leadership Feat - Calculating XP for Cohorts

[TheGogmagog]

Oh, and all XP spent by the Cohort at the PC's command come from the PC. If the Cohort acts on his own (DM overrides PC), the XP come from ... somewhere else. *waves hand* -- N

Hmm, I like that. My method was to calcuate the level of the cohort, and then subtract any exp spent from him. So if the cohort crafts one cantrip scroll, he will always be three levels behind. The benefit of this is the cohort won't fall behind, the drawback is you still need to keep track of separtate exp that has been expended.

 

[Saeviomagy]

Hmm, I like that. My method was to calcuate the level of the cohort, and then subtract any exp spent from him. So if the cohort crafts one cantrip scroll, he will always be three levels behind. The benefit of this is the cohort won't fall behind, the drawback is you still need to keep track of separtate exp that has been expended.

And that the character's cohort loses an entire level by spending one experience point... Ouch. Normally doing that has the potential to leave you AHEAD of your buddies, not get stuck permanently behind...

I'd like to second my vote for "if the cohort spends XP, then it comes from the leader - the cohort is always 2 levels behind his leader". It sounds like a much more workable and palatable rule.

 

[S'mon]

Personally I treat cohorts as actual people rather than a "character ability of the PC", so as per 3.0 they get a 1/2 share of the party XP. So the more cohorts there are, the less XP the PCs get, which reduces the demand to always have cohorts with the party. I do this for most non-cohort NPCs with the party, unless that NPC is contributing as much as a PC. Since a cohort adds about 50% to a PC's power they are obviously much more powerful than a regular Feat so I see no problem charging XP.