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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 1468717" data-attributes="member: 8439">this is interesting, because in the general forum, there are a lot of people who support mixed level parties - I don't like them, but I have been in campaigns where as the "new kid" I had characters lower level than the cohorts of established characters. So the assumption that the cohort is automaticly the weak character in the whole party can easily be false.Another issue is that the new leadership feat allows PC class followers. While they will only be 1st or 2nd level in general, they are no longer just there for guarding the horses. (since some gamers proudly talk of introducing new characters at 1st level regardless of the average, this could provide an interesting character farm - "wow, little cindy's been casting those same 4 spells a day for years, but since Bob died, she's really come out of her shell and started improving at a phenomenal rate!"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ) I think people here have such divergent ideas of what a cohort is, both to the party and the character with leadership (disposable buddy? you guys probably use animal companions as 'meatsheilds' too...) that this thread isn't going to go anywhere. I will say that leadership was accepted by the game designers as a whole other level of feat from any of the others - thats why it was placed in the DMG instead of the PHB in the first place. The SRD just throws it in in alphebetical order, giving no indication that it is a campaign specific feat which should be vetted by both the DM and the group as a whole. This was a big mistake, IMHO, and leads to the misconception that its just another feat to be meaningfully compared with those which effect only one or two checks on a single character. My veiw from the actual books as opposed to the crib sheet is that it isn't. Its a campaign option that effects everyone, not a dodge bonus. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Kahuna Burger</blockquote>

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