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So I have been running a long term game, characters started at 1st and are now 13th. One of my players took leadership as soon as possible and recruited a cohort. At first, things were fine. But as the levels progressed and the magic items/money rolled in, he started spending most of his money on the cohort. He uses his PC's spells to buff up the cohort like crazy and then sends him into fight.
This has made the other players quite unhappy. The cohort is killing all of the foes and out shining the actual PCs.
I'm not sure what to do. The player with the cohort loves his cohort and uses it for alot of in depth role-playing. But, the other PCs are asking me to find a way and kill off the cohort because they are tired of him trying to hog the spotlight, so to speak.
Some of my players are also saying that the cohort is a NPC and I should control it and make him not want to fight or make him rebel against his leader because the leader always makes him risk his life to fight and he should run off if he gets hurt, etc. Now, I don't agree because he takes great care of his cohort, risks his own death to heal and help the cohort in battle if necessary, spends most of his money on the cohort, and it is almost a father/son really close bond. So, I can't see him suddenly running away or disobeying or any of that.
Anyways, advice please? Thanks!