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<blockquote data-quote="Shin Okada" data-source="post: 4130531" data-attributes="member: 1956">In my understanding (or at least in my way of using that word in the first post), a PC &quot;went behind in level&quot; means &quot;A PC went behind in levels relative to other PCs by any reason&quot;. Losing a level due to energy drain or death maybe one reason. Spending too much XP may another reason (that PC may not level-up at the same time as the other characters). Simply starting as a lower level character (some DMs like this style) can be another reason, too.But anyway, I tend to disagree with this. Of course, the leader of the cohort is most responsible to the condition of his cohort. But cohort is indeed a member of adventuring party and in my opinion, in an adventuring party, in most cases, someone's death is not that one's fault or not the particular PC's fault. That is the fault of entire adventuring party.I think, that is also one of the reason why PC XP award rule changed in 3.5e from 3.0e's. Someone died should not be penalized much.By the way,This is wrong by the RAW. From DMG P.105The cohort does not leave. Just his advancement is stalled. Yes. That is what I wrote in the first post. When a PC went some levels behind other PCs, that PC gains more XP from the same encounter comparing to other PCs and thus catches up with them eventually. But once a cohort loses some levels, he/she never catches up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shin Okada, post: 4130531, member: 1956"] In my understanding (or at least in my way of using that word in the first post), a PC "went behind in level" means "A PC went behind in levels relative to other PCs by any reason". Losing a level due to energy drain or death maybe one reason. Spending too much XP may another reason (that PC may not level-up at the same time as the other characters). Simply starting as a lower level character (some DMs like this style) can be another reason, too. But anyway, I tend to disagree with this. Of course, the leader of the cohort is most responsible to the condition of his cohort. But cohort is indeed a member of adventuring party and in my opinion, in an adventuring party, in most cases, someone's death is not that one's fault or not the particular PC's fault. That is the fault of entire adventuring party. I think, that is also one of the reason why PC XP award rule changed in 3.5e from 3.0e's. Someone died should not be penalized much. By the way, This is wrong by the RAW. From DMG P.105 The cohort does not leave. Just his advancement is stalled. Yes. That is what I wrote in the first post. When a PC went some levels behind other PCs, that PC gains more XP from the same encounter comparing to other PCs and thus catches up with them eventually. But once a cohort loses some levels, he/she never catches up. [/QUOTE]

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