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We play Pathfinder and concluded Leadership was overpowered, so agreed the following House Rule:
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Leadership is split into 3 feats, with each previous one as a prerequisite:
1) Leadership (gives you just the followers)
2) Leadership, Improved (add a cohort but max level is character level -4)
3) Leadership, Greater (this is as per RAW, so cohort can, from then on, advance to a maximum level of character level -2)

In this way, each feat adds something, but it takes 3 feats to get to the full RAW Leadership feat.
If the character builds up to taking the third feat the cohort is still at least 4 levels behind them, but then they will gradually catch up to 2 levels behind (provided the characters leadership score is high enough) in the same way that lower level party members catch up to higher level party members in level even if they earn only the same number of XP.
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We did this house rule years ago and nobody has taken the feat since, but I'm currently a player and thinking of taking it to restore Fort Rannick in Rise of the Runelords.

When I DM'd RoTR, the PC who lead the party became Hannah Velerin's boyfriend. Another, (a chaotic evil Shoanti barbarian), casually spread a rumour in a Sandpoint pub that one of the party was the Skinsaw Man (this was before they killed the Skinsaw Man). A partial exodus from town ensued.
When the Sheriff found out the source of the rumour he worked on finding and arresting the barbarian for spreading panic (a subplot that later lead to intra-party murder, murder of locals by the party, an arrest and a hanging). In response to the rumour, Titus Scarnetti kidnapped Hannah and put posters around town telling the party that she was under their "protection", and it would be unfortunate if the Skinsaw Man attacked his family because Hannah might get hurt.