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<blockquote data-quote="Hackenslash" data-source="post: 891358" data-attributes="member: 11770"><p><strong>Cohorts...Grrrr !!!!</strong></p><p></p><p>Hello Everyone !</p><p></p><p>Well it looks like I need to freshen up on the DMG Cohort rules. Sorry !!! It was not my intention to criticize my DM "Lord Vangarel" on how he runs his Cohorts in his campaign. I only posted this Thread to get other points of view and see if I could incorporate Cohorts in a different way in my own campaign. Now, I must admit to still being reluctant to even bother with Cohorts in my campaign but I am pleased with the response from all of you out there and have certainly cleared up the standard rules and how they could be incorporated into a campaign. I think I have been a little frustrated with the way Cohorts have been portrayed to me in the game that I play in, as it's the first time I have been exposed to them in game time. This may be due to my own narrow mindedness or maybe even a lack of imagination to explore other possibilities for "second PC's" but I just don't feel comfortable with PC's having that much power over, and with, a second PC and "possibly" taking away play from other players. Oh well I will probably die a horrid death at the hands of my disgruntled DM...hehehehe !!! But never mind I can always play another players Cohort !!! Hahahahaha !!!! Peace All <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hackenslash, post: 891358, member: 11770"] [b]Cohorts...Grrrr !!!![/b] Hello Everyone ! Well it looks like I need to freshen up on the DMG Cohort rules. Sorry !!! It was not my intention to criticize my DM "Lord Vangarel" on how he runs his Cohorts in his campaign. I only posted this Thread to get other points of view and see if I could incorporate Cohorts in a different way in my own campaign. Now, I must admit to still being reluctant to even bother with Cohorts in my campaign but I am pleased with the response from all of you out there and have certainly cleared up the standard rules and how they could be incorporated into a campaign. I think I have been a little frustrated with the way Cohorts have been portrayed to me in the game that I play in, as it's the first time I have been exposed to them in game time. This may be due to my own narrow mindedness or maybe even a lack of imagination to explore other possibilities for "second PC's" but I just don't feel comfortable with PC's having that much power over, and with, a second PC and "possibly" taking away play from other players. Oh well I will probably die a horrid death at the hands of my disgruntled DM...hehehehe !!! But never mind I can always play another players Cohort !!! Hahahahaha !!!! Peace All :cool: [/QUOTE]
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