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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Necrohazard" data-source="post: 1673416" data-attributes="member: 20518">In my campaign I would say yes. From the DMG pg 106: Be sure to consider the effect of a PC having a cohort. A cohort is effectively another PC in the party under that player's control, one whose share of XP, treasure, and spotlight time is bound to take something away from the other players' characters. Also remember a cohort that is mistreated can become disloyal and eventually leave or even seek revenge against their employers. Loyal cohorts become trusted friends and long-time helpers. It is true that they dont take away from the pool of XP like the others but they do grow in power, and they do or can take a half-share of all the treasure that the group would have had otherwise, so that if you have 4 people in your group and a cohort and you all came upon treasure that was around 10,000gp in worth the cohort would get 1,250gp for him/her self and the 4  non-cohorts would devide what was left given each of them 2,187 gp and 5 sp;</blockquote>