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What's the difference between a 'hired' cohort and a cohort received from leadership?
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<blockquote data-quote="FoxWander" data-source="post: 5576965" data-attributes="member: 1356"><p>Technically there's no such thing as a "hired" cohort (or followers), they can only be gained via the Leadership feat. Read the <strong>Attracting Cohorts</strong> section of the DMG, p. 106. The first sentence is the relevant bit.</p><p> </p><p>Underlining added for emphasis. The Cohorts bit on page 104 is simply describing cohorts, how they act and they're effects in game. Even though it mentions that they "are hired by or seek out a PC" you only actually <em>get</em> one by taking the feat. Which is spelled out by the underlined bits in the quote above. That the feat is required to have these NPCs is further backed up on pg. 105 under <strong>Replacing Cohorts and Followers</strong>. There it mentions that one can replace them "according to his current Leadership score"- and you have to have the feat to have a Leadership score.</p><p></p><p>Any NPC that is simply hired by the PCs is just that- a hireling. Hirelings may be the same, stat-wise, as cohorts but the similarities end there. Hirelings are only as loyal as they're paycheck. [-]Note that they are the only ones in that section of the DMG that are described as potentially turning on the PCs.[/-] <em>Edit- I read a bit more and found that mistreated cohorts are specifically mentioned as possible revenge seekers as well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek! :o" data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FoxWander, post: 5576965, member: 1356"] Technically there's no such thing as a "hired" cohort (or followers), they can only be gained via the Leadership feat. Read the [b]Attracting Cohorts[/b] section of the DMG, p. 106. The first sentence is the relevant bit. [COLOR="Orange"] [/COLOR] Underlining added for emphasis. The Cohorts bit on page 104 is simply describing cohorts, how they act and they're effects in game. Even though it mentions that they "are hired by or seek out a PC" you only actually [i]get[/i] one by taking the feat. Which is spelled out by the underlined bits in the quote above. That the feat is required to have these NPCs is further backed up on pg. 105 under [b]Replacing Cohorts and Followers[/b]. There it mentions that one can replace them "according to his current Leadership score"- and you have to have the feat to have a Leadership score. Any NPC that is simply hired by the PCs is just that- a hireling. Hirelings may be the same, stat-wise, as cohorts but the similarities end there. Hirelings are only as loyal as they're paycheck. [-]Note that they are the only ones in that section of the DMG that are described as potentially turning on the PCs.[/-] [i]Edit- I read a bit more and found that mistreated cohorts are specifically mentioned as possible revenge seekers as well. :o[/i] [/QUOTE]
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