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Blackstorm wrote:

Just my 2 cents: I just ban Leadership. That's more because I don't want my players gain allies just with a feat.

Players who aren't strong can have PCs who can lift a ton. Players who aren't smart can have PCs who make Tyson look like a mental midget. But, whoa to the player who is socially awkward if he wishes to have a PC who is suave.

That's not the issue, we're saying that a feat for another full character is overpowered and irresponsible, they have to do more than just a feat for that kind of power. Please read the entire comment before you post.

Just my 2 cents: I just ban Leadership. That's more because I don't want my players gain allies just with a feat. They have to interact. Leadership have a variable score, but unless you do some really bad thing, you can rather easy take the max. So I prefer that my players roleplay the interaction with the npcs. If they interact in the right manner, they can get a lot of allies, including (but not limited to) some king or lord that could bring them an army to help them. They could never acquire tat with just Leadership. So, roleplay it, you gete Leadership feat free :)

I actually think this is the best way, but it puts alot of work on the DM, so most are adverse to it. Also Leadership gives a proper system, which know alot of players prefer over "DMs Whim".

Leadership was created so that players could have little homies. A DM could just home brew it in, but the feat gives base mechanics. Just limit the cohorts available to the setting, I love the idea of having bros and little dudes that look up to you, and its especially flavorful in Kingmaker. I think that by Raw, Leadership is unrefined, it need a lot of work to be fair, but there are plenty of other things by raw that are broke, like wizard.

Customizing your cohort is just a simple solution for lazy DMs, From what I understand, a Cohort is an NPC you've convinced to follow you, whatever which way. So the DM should create some sort of System for the player to acquire a cohort, such as a quest, or the NPC witnessed the Player in action and followed him in awe. In my Kingmaker Campaign, we run into a lot of people, whom I've chosen to demand Fealty rather than kill, and as such, When I pick up leadership, I'm going to choose one of my followers and promote them to Cohort.
Leadership is broken due to the laziness of the DM, you Fix it by not being lazy, done and done.

I played the PFS Scenario 4-20 Words of the Ancients, and the DM decided that we should play high tier, even though our party level was 8 on the dot, so half the party wiped. He didn't tell us until the end that we were in fact playing up, and when we brought it up at the end of the Scenario, and we had to pay Resurrection cost and we only got low tier rewards.

So, I'd like to DM a couple games if there's space, but I can't seem to find a sign-up area.