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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SidusLupus" data-source="post: 2590981" data-attributes="member: 10278">Amongst my group of friends, none of us has really ever taken the Leadership feat. Last night, one of my players deceided he'd like to go with that route. There's only three of them, so I'm okay with them having access to leadership. The thing is, I've never really seen leadership in action, and I had a few questions on it.As far as I understand it, the player chooses what kind of cohort they want, i.e. the class. Then I get to go design it appropriately for him. The cohort has to be 2 levels lower than the leader, at all times. Then the question becomes, who runs him? Obviously the cohort is an npc. The way the DMG says it, it sounds like he's controlled by the leader. The thing is then, that's not really an npc but a second pc. So then, does the leader controll the cohort in combat, and for skills manipulation, but for Rping that's my job? Or do I just control everything as best as I can. Help and tips would be appreciated.Also, the followers. As I peg it right now, he's not got a high enough leadership score to have followers. When he gains followers how does one handle that? Stat them all out? What do you do with them? First level npc classes are pretty fragile, you can't just take them dungeon crawling with you. Also, is leadership still worth having if you just can't ever have followers?I must amend what I said earlier. I myself actually did take leadership once but I never got to use the cohort and the followers were just money leeches. I felt somewhat screwed in taking leadership, and I come asking these things because I dont want the player to feel he wasted the feat because I ran it wrong. Help me ENworld, you're my only hope!</blockquote>

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