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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zil" data-source="post: 4218066" data-attributes="member: 20004">One player in my games would sometimes take the feat, but I would take the time to work the new NPC logically into the campaign.  It never really caused any problems i my games.  Now if everyone had taken the feat, that might have been a different story.In another game, I allowed one character to acquire a cohort of sorts without spending a feat.  Instead the cohort was acquired through some interesting role playing (the player in question was a proselytizing priest from a dying world cast out into the planes and the "cohort" was more like a confused disciple).  That worked out really well even though I was effectively giving the player a free feat.  The cohort was not making magic items or the like - he was a dwarven fighter who eventually started taking cleric levels.  I also retained control of the disciple more so than I would if he had been a true cohort.I think the Leadership feat is a fine feat for most campaigns.</blockquote>