Leadership Modifying Feat

[smootrk]

I had another idea. Would this feat be balanced as an alternate to the standard Leadership feat? Basically you could take this feat instead of the standard leadership feat.

If this feat was allowed as an alternate to the standard Leadership feat, what changes might need to be made...
Drop the +2?
allow the other leadership feats to modify this number? (Extra Followers)
is there anything I am not thinking of?

 

[smootrk]

OK, so the feat is rewritten as an alternative to the leadership feat.... Still balanced?
Should I make the multiplier x2 (instead of x3) because other Leadership enhancing feats can now further adjust those numbers?
Comments?


Skilled Staff [Leadership - alternate feat]
You attract more skilled followers than other leaders
Prerequisites: Charisma 15, Character Level 6
Benefit: As an alternative to the standard Leadership feat, this feat functions much the same, with the following changes: When determining the followers that are attracted according to your leadership score, only half (rounded down) of the normal allotment of 1st level followers will be available. For 2nd level and higher level followers, use three times the number indicated according to your Leadership Score. Cohorts are still bound by the normal limits of the Leadership Score (or by other Leadership enhancing feats). A character that takes Skilled Staff may not take the standard Leadership feat and vice-versus.
Skilled Staff is an alternate Leadership feat, so Leadership enhancing feats (such as those found in Heroes of Battle or elsewhere) may still affect the qualities of this feat; references to the Leadership feat are interchangeable with Skilled Staff in these instances.
Normal: Characters with the Leadership feat use the Leadership Score tables without adjustment.