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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 2481148" data-attributes="member: 31734">Sure it is.  It lists "cohort" and therefore the creature is suitable as a cohort.  Because of the 'or' the implication is that the creature is suitable as one or the other, not both unless specifically mentioned.  I suppose you could read the lack of listing a PC as suitable for being a PC, but then you should make the same negative inference for cohorts when it doesn't list 'cohort', at which point the existence of the word 'cohort' in the line has absolutely no meaning whatsoever. No, it's not bluster.  What you are suggesting is totally unreasonable.  You're saying that because it lists "Level Adjustment (cohort)" that means that it's actually NOT suitable for a cohort.  Negating the entry like that is quite unreasonable.  My example shows why you can't do that.  You can't/shouldn't infer a stat block line with a NOT in front of it.  What's to keep you from putting NOT in front of the HD or anything other line?  So, yes, it's exactly like that. Everyone else reads "Level Adjustment (cohort)" and you read "Level Adjustment (not cohort)".  How can you reasonably defend this interpretation?</blockquote>