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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3551677" data-attributes="member: 29014">Yup, as Rae says, the Cohort would indeed fall under the normal Cohort rules, it would just be played by a guest player.  Although...Rae, I'm not sure if it is fair to ever allow the character to become a normal PC.  Let's take an example (the first part of this might actually happen, sort of, so it's a good example)--Vanitri takes Elektra Planter as a cohort at level 9 and since she was my NPC before, I wind up playing her.  She would be a level 7 Wizard.  Let's say they all level up one more time (it's arbitrary how many) and Vanitri becomes 10, Elektra 8.  Then let's say I dropped Aletheia or something and took Elektra as a normal PC.  I'm now playing LEW's highest-level single-class Wizard (tied with Ashnar and Tenebrynn for spell-slinging potential, since they keep taking classes that don't give caster level increases), and she'd be three and four levels higher than my PCs of several years' time (though this is mainly because I have awful awful luck with games, since Vanitri started adventuring at the same time as my two PCs, so I guess it isn't too bad there).  I'm not sure if that's a problem--I'd think it might be.As to Point Buy, it definitely should not go down as a result of a player dropping.  Frankly, I'm not sure it shouldn't be the same regardless--the reward of getting a guest player is the chance to roleplay without talking to yourself.</blockquote>

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