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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 1671435" data-attributes="member: 957">Hello, back from a week of work travel...I like the document you posted above.Just one question (and a fairly minor one at that)Why did you include the wolf in the calculation of the party power?The wolf is a class feature of the druid.  Without that wolf, the druid would not be ECL5.  Counting the wolf is the same thing as charging a fighter for his bonus feats.  Just because the wolf is an individual combatant does not really change that.Couple points: A) The wolf only changes the power from 102 to 106.  So it is a small fraction.  This will tend to be the case.  Though a human's companion will have more effect than a lizard folk's.  And a solo druid's companion would have more relative impact than a druid in a party.  Extreme case is a Druid 1 (power 1) has a CR1 wolf (power 1) for a total power of 2.  This may indicate that a L1 druid gets a slightly overpowered companion, which was already fairly obvious since the druid is CR1, no higher than the wolf.B) Leadership is a different matter and is a function of how leadership itself works.  Thus, I would charge for a cohort.  He is worth a lot more than +0.2 CR AND he is "balanced" by his taking a share of XP and treasure.</blockquote>