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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6008224" data-attributes="member: 6669384">The first to take the feat has a stronghold, a city that he's in charge of.  (There's a Regent there in his stead while he's on the road).Then there's the ship.  His Cohort is a Bard who recently finished seven years of servitude as a captured soldier.  The PC is the first man to help him without trying to command or own him.The Followers, on the other hand, have the primary duty of being warrior/sailors who man a small vessel we now use to travel around.  And that would be fine, if they stayed with the ship.The party went to meet a mysterious information source, discovering that it's their recently deceased friend, fresh from Olympus.  Big impression on the followers, who did come along.Now they're headed over/through the mountains north of Thebes, Greece, and I have a problem:  Any encounter that challenges the PCs will reduce the followers to a fine red mist.  PCs are 11th through 14th levels at the moment, and Followers are 1st and 2nd levels.Where they're going it will help to have a small core of loyal followers to help keep things organized, and to flesh out the ranks.  So it's manageable,  barely.Now the recently returned "Son of Jupiter" is building his own following.  And although he's lower in level than the Barbarian Prince, his following will be larger.  (Son of a god, returned from the dead more or less on his own seems to count as "special power" on the leadership charts.  Who knew? )So the party is about to be over run with diaper cases.Our agreed upon formula for Leadership is that while PCs are built on 32 points, Cohorts are built on 28, and Followers are built on 24.  Cohorts use PC classes, Followers use NPC classes, at least for the 1st level types.  While that reenforces the power tiers nicely, it makes followers very breakable.Think of the heroes who sailed with Odysseus:  How many of them survived the tale?  (Hint:  He reached Ithaca alone and so bedraggled that even his own family didn't recognize him.)So followers are expendable.  It happens.  There's even rules for it, and the effect it has on Leadership scores.At some point, after the first deaths, the PCs may decide that it's better to leave the lower level types out of harm's way.</blockquote>

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