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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Senior Bobo" data-source="post: 2448666" data-attributes="member: 12675">Here's what I've done in the past when I DM leadership.1) Alignment: I've never had a cohort not of the same alignment as it's leader.   Honestly never occured to me.Race: I generally pick unless the PC has a vast preference or story reason for a specific race.  (I.e. A famous dwarven hero looking for a cohort in the dwarven capital is probably getting a dwarf.)   Little perk races are nice too, for example a famous paladin might get an asimar or even a half-celestial at higher levels.Class: I've never had a PC take this feat that didn't already know what they wanted for a class.  It usually ends up with a discussion of sorts with the player 'No, I won't give you a Radiant Servant of Pelor cohort, but I will let you look for a cleric.'  I don't see much of a problem with random as long as the player's good with it.  Feats are pretty rare for most classes, so I'd really hate for a player to end up with a cohort that's useless and they can't stand.2) I've always made the level (or ECL) of the cohort the maximum that the player is allowed.3) DM's generally have enough to do in battles.   I let the players control the cohorts 98% of the time in fights.   The 2% comes in when either the player has the cohort do something totally against his alignment or personality, or whenever I think of a really good story reason to have them do something different.For RP encounters the DM usually plays the cohort when required.</blockquote>

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