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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiew" data-source="post: 1678756" data-attributes="member: 12604">Aah, hmm, hmm, hmm. I'm going to have to say I agree that the cleric and paladin would be more powerful. But.... my initial reaction is to say that that would be a really bad use of the leadership feat. Just the fact that it would make it 10 times as powerful as any other feat in existance should ring some warning bells.Let me try to reduce my general unease to a few points.First, cohorts take a share of the gold and experience. This is one major disadvantage of having cohorts. What would you do about that difference?Second, IMHO the main goal of balancing characters is to make it so everybody has an equal chance to shine and nobody gets to hog the glory too much. An extra lower level character probably helps everybody out some and doesn't take too much of the glory, and the glory they do get is sort of theirs, not your main characters. If instead you made your main character much more powerful you would end up outshining everybody. It seems like it would be a lot different.Thirdly, i don't really know how the cohort system works very well, so maybe somebody else could flesh this out, but aren't there a lot of other small issues that arise from having a cohort? It seems that unless you make them without personalities there is at least some potential for conflict or confusion.Just my thoughts.Tiew</blockquote>