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Message: <blockquote data-quote="taliesin15" data-source="post: 4218591" data-attributes="member: 22058">One comment first about the Leadership feat: the desciptive text in the 3.0/3.5 DMGs is pretty general and not very detailed as it was in the first edition DMG--that's a general criticism I have of the WoTC DMGs as they are relatively weak in terms of helping DMs flesh out a world. Few PCs have tried to use this Feat in any of my games over the years, but it can be interesting to try. I let a PC in my game last year have a heal-bot Cleric be a cohort to his Ranger character, but made it much more interesting by having her have the personality of an overbearingly overmotherly nanny type, not just healing the Ranger character, but constantly nicely fixing his clothes, telling him to eat his veggies, etc. It worked really well with the flavor of the game (especially vis a vis the torrid affair he was having with a Barghest-dominated hot Rogue woman, but that's a long story).One thing that this Feat is excellent for is bringing a bit of real world versimillitude to the game for DMs fleshing out major NPCs. As I've designed a number of mid level and high level NPCs throughout the main continent of my milieu, I think the one thing that could be relevant for other DMs to consider when PCs want to get followers, build a castle, etc., is that there's a lot of mundane considerations to keep in mind. Assuming they have a fortress, is it close to water, what about food, how do they relate to the local political powers, and so on. Mundane things like mice eating the grain stored in the silo for the winter, or weevils compromising everything made from hemp (rope) and cotton, or termites chewing away at wood--things such as these can become new threats to the PCs taking on Leadership, albeit they are not as fun as swords and sorcery.</blockquote>

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