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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 3188971" data-attributes="member: 12332">So the characters in the AoW game I'm in hit 15th level last night, and we've got a feat selection to make.And I'm torn ...At this point, most of the higher-level "interesting" melee feats have long lists of prereqs that my character, not being a Fighter, does not have ... I could pick up Great Cleave, but it seems to be generally of little use ... I'd love to pick up a feat like Knockback, but my character isn't a Goliath, just a very strong angry guy with a club ... sometimes I think some of the feat reqs are a little dumb that way.And so I took a look at Leadership.At this point, I'm mostly looking to Leadership to fill a very large gap in our party ... no Arcane casters whatsoever.  The whole party is multiclassed Clerics.  Two guys with 3 levels of Cleric, one full-caster Cleric/Contemplative, and my Barbarian1/Cleric14.But that would be the sum total for picking up the feat ... a second PC, basically, to plug a hole that keeps biting us in the butt.Is that what Leadership is for?  There's no in-game role-playing REASON for an arcane caster to follow my character.  He's a religious fanatic and follower of St. Cuthbert.  In-game, he's in the process of rebuilding two churches ... so the lower-level followers would be great as folks for the church ... but where does this Sorcerer/Wizard/etc come from?  It would make a lot more in-game sense for the Cohort to be a Cleric or a Paladin ... but we certainly don't need another CLERIC in the group.  So, the question is:Is it cheesy to put together a cohort specifically to plug a hole in the party make-up?  Any GMs that would get upset if a player took Leadership and, say, built a Cleric cohort even though there's no logical in-game reason for a Cleric to be following that PC around?Anybody have a great idea for an arcane caster cohort that would follow THIS character around:Picture "The Tick", as played by Patrick Warburton ... but with all the conceptions of Steven Colbert (if Steven Colbert really thought all the things he says on his show).  My usual quote when the GM calls for any kind of Knowledge check is:  "Everything I ever needed to know, I learned from St. Cuthbert."Y'know ... "St. Cuthbert ... Great Deity or GREATEST Deity?"--fje</blockquote>

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