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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hackenslash" data-source="post: 887565" data-attributes="member: 11770">Hello  All,I am a DM of my own campaign and a player in a friends campaign and I seem to be confused over the importance and to what degree of involvement a player characters Cohort should be in a campaign. My own campaign does not have a cohort yet, but the Cleric PC is thinking of taking the Leadership Feat to get a cohort. Now I do have a problem with the rules on this as I feel that to allow a Cohort to be the same level and not higher is not restricting enough as it basically places an equally powerfull character in the control of a PC and thus causes the other PC's to feel a little left out and like they are missing something. Also from my own experience with playing in a campaign that does have a cohort, the player in question is a Cleric/ Prestige Scion sub class form the Ultimate Prestige Classes Book, and has a Minotaur Cohort, wait for it...Cleric/Holy Liberator...of the same total levels as his own class. Now that in itself may not seem to be an issue in a high level campaign but it does provoke questions as to whether the PC is just taking advantage of the rules so that he can be in both sets of Dialogues/Discussions and take part in multi action scenarios, and always have a say in every scenario to the annoyance of other players with only one class who sometimes don't get a word in edgeways. However I am digressing, the main point of this thread is to see what you all think of the Rules for Cohorts in the DnD Game and whether you think that they are Fair and more importantly, should they be as powerfull as the PC that controls them. I personally think that a Cohort should take a back seat, supportave role and not have a say in party decisions as they are for all intensive purposes an extension of the PC controlling them. Also, I think that the Cohort should only be 2-3 levels below the main PC. The DMG and Leadership Feat descriptions are not too clear on this and allow too much scope for players to over estimate the importance of their Cohorts. So I would appreciate suggestions and advice primarily for my own campaign as I can not influence, nor would I be rude enough, to try and change my friends campaign rules, as he seems to be ok with high level cohorts running around getting their own missions and quests and having equal say in party decisions. Cheers and hope to hear from you all soon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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