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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfwood2" data-source="post: 3340251" data-attributes="member: 39394">Then maybe Improved Familiar is really more your speed.  That would give you a creature who's basically an extension of your character, and I'm sure you could qualify for something that could serve as a mount.That wouldn't give you class abilities, but... basically, what you are asking for is something that the game should not give you and the DM should not allow you to have.  Leadership is a very powerful feat, so powerful that cohorts are discussed separately in the DMG.It is supposed to be balanced by the fact that "you have to roleplay two characters".  Or more accurately, by the fact the cohort (while loyal) is an NPC not fully under your control and should be portrayed by the DM as having his own interests and needs.Leadership should not be used as a way to get an extra package of class abilities that will ride quietly underneath you and do what you want while not incoveniencing you in any other ways.(Unless being used by a Fighter to get a cohort Mount, because we have to take pity on the poor fighter there.)</blockquote>