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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Velmont" data-source="post: 3522338" data-attributes="member: 13739">I think I'm the only player who has the leadership feat actually. I'm also the one who have suggested the modification to the leadership feat for LEW. Crux of the Matter is the only adventure I've been playing with the cohort as a cohort (he was a NPC in M4, where he appeared first).So, up to now, what I think:25 point-buy: I find it correct. I think it is normal the chort doesn't eclipse the other players, and in the case of Rinaldo, his cohort is the same level of other players, but even then, the other players have stayed more important in the story. Ok, it makes not really good monk/paladin and otehr xclass that asks for many stats (Hogarth is a cleric, good at figthing but really bad at turning because of that...)Cohort comes with DM approval: Sure, as a player, it is a bit frustrating to see a feat becoming totally useless for a whole adventure, but I am aware too that some master might not be confortable to have it around. In teh case of Hogarth, it has been the opposite, as it is teh only source of healing of the group for Crux, which had been more then welcome in that crazy tower.XP: Now that I've seen Hogarth died and soul trapped, the whole question about XP catching have been meddling in my mind. I had in my hand the faith of Hogarth or Vanitri, as the two, weakened and almost defensless in front of a 17th+ level wizard. I have hesitated in my move because of two things. First, roleplay. I wasn,t sure if Hogarth would have done such a devotion for someone he knew little (Vanitri wasn't in M4 when the party saved his life), second, the XP loss, as there is only one way for Hogarth to catch up: Rinaldo need to lose XP (dying, item creation, level drain, ect...). I think the second reason should not have been a reason to hesitate. The problem with the XP, it is, as a cohort cannot catch back, he become more and more fragile as the difference can increase. Now, you can always change of cohort, but having to create a new character every adventure, it become nothing more than a hireling with stats and lack of personality. Also, it is worst if you are considered to be teh cause of teh death of your cohort, as your leadership score reduce by 2, and thus, at one moment, you cannot recruit anymore a cohort 2 level under you...A modification of the XP award, I think, would be a good thing, but befroe doing so, we must be aware that the XP award actually have one big positive point: It doesn't take XP to the players, so other players doens't have to pay for having one person in the group have taken Leadership. I, personally, don't mind to haev less XP because a cohort is around, but that wouldn't be the case of every player, and the XP award we use actually is the official SRD rule for XP award.</blockquote>

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