Leadership feat changes: NEED HELP FAST!

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

Would it be so bad to allow a character with Leadership feat to gain PC class followers? Like a wizard gaining 1st level wizard apprentices?

If this is implemented, should each PC class follower count as two NPC class followers for purposes of determining how many followers the leader can have?

Need answers fast; game is tomorrow! Thanks in advance!

 

[Crothian]

I allow PC and NPC classes equally. Usually the cohort is already an NPC the group knows, and sometimes the followers are as well. I allow a lot of versatility to get the right type of followers. Once I even scrapped their table to make it apply to dragon followers because it fit the character and the dragons were already NPCs in the game befriended by the character.

 

[Wolf72]

um .. might be off base here, but I thought that your cohort could almost anything ...

ah ... but you're asking about followers right? ... the ones they say will only be commoners, experts, and warriors ...

say ... that is a tough question, my first reaction is to say no, that's what your cohort is for.

 

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

But what if the PC is starting a cult/temple, or a thieves' guild, or a training academy, or an organization? Or something that caters to PC classes?

To clarify, I'm not talking about cohorts, but about followers that the DMG says can only be crappy NPC classes, LOL.

 

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

bump

 

[the Jester]

Eh... sounds like a good place to put an improved leadership feat into play.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

An expert does make a good rogue when it comes to pick pocket, search, disable device and so on. (Or take the "thug" class from Fantasy Flight Games)

A possible solution:
Allow PC Classes, but PC Class levels equal an NPC Class levels +1. So, if you have 4 level 2 followers, they could be 4 level 2 NPCclassed characters or 4 level 1 PCclassed Characters..

Mustrum Ridcully

 

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

I suppose you could always see that the NPC class followers got training so that their next level was in a PC class of your choice... That would get around the DMG rule. The only problem is getting the followers to live long enough to level up, LOL.

 

[Carnifex]

I have allowed a PC to have PC class followers before - a tiefling sorcerer/rogue in a PS campaign. After he ended up with a massive palatial residence in Sigil due to a Deck of Many Things, his renown attracted many young sorcerers seeking to learn from him, so he set up a sorcerers school. Some of the followers were still experts, etc, but most were sorcerers of varying levels.

It didn't turn out to be unbalancing, mainly because at this point the campaign was high-level enough that the effects the low-level sorcerers could have were rather limited.

 

[rankarrog]

What about: Let the followers start with Npc-Classes or 0th-level and the charaacter can train them in his class?