Except the teleport is limited by the cohort's gear. You can't go past 50 lbs of gear with a bearded devil if you want it to teleport.
I addressed that on the previous page: Bag of Holding.
I only way I can see Monstrous Companion being worth it is if the effective Cohort level is equal to the usual level of your animal companion. Essentially making it a better Cohort than leadership at the cost of not having any followers. Level 20 Druid would have a lvl 20 monstrous cohort. That CR 7 magical beast would have 13 class levels. It would end up having a higher HD number than a standard animal companion as well.
I also personally wouldn't let anyone that simply had leadership get monstrous companions at all.
Anyone else agree with this view to make it worth it while still playing into the intended purpose of reducing complications?
EDIT: You know... even this hardly does what was intended. To make it worth it you would have to allow them to basically be a equal level Cohort with class levels that also gains the benefits of animal companion levels. Essentially combining your companion and your cohort into one. Big issue with this of course that your Cohort would be far stronger than most PCs... lol
Clear candidate for a feat that should simply be deleted.
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I am concerned that the construct rider archetype and especially the spell knowledge discovery were made with excessively harsh costs. I have a hard time seeing the construct rider justifying the loss of three class features and reduced extract use.
Also alchemists already have a reduced number and level of slots so the harsh conditions on using spell knowledge seem a bit excessive. Is the alchemist really going to obsolesce the wizard with more reasonable spell access???
The flavor of both is really great and in some ways overdue, but i think the costs used were too high due to an unnecessary concern on game balance and niche protection.
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I just picked this book up. I am seldom disappointed in a Paizo product but I am in this one. A book titled Companions and Cohorts should have things in it for classes that have companions like rangers hunters and druids. This book gives classes other than the companion classes access to companions which is not bad in and of it self but there should be things in it for companions of the companion classes.
Why not add a simple feats like the two below
Animal Cohort
Perquisites Level 4: Natures bound, Hunters bound or any Animal Companion
Your Animal Companion is Awakened and it can have an intelligence above 5
and take class levels.
Greater Bound
Perquisites Druid, Ranger Hunter Level 5 and 5 ranks Animal Handeling
Your bound increases with you animal companion or animal cohort. You can
communicate telepathically with your Animal companion or Animal Cohort with a range of on mile per level.
What? That doesn't make any sense. Why should it just be for nature companions?
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I looked to the paladin archetype, it has a problem.
the concerns of the material world, eschewing some divine
studies. She does not gain access to divine spellcasting and
cannot use spell-completion magic items.
Divine Troth (Sp): Once per day the divine guardian
pledges her protection to a willing creature for the day.
This is done at the same time she prepares her spells.
When the paladin first selects a creature for divine
troth, that creature must be present and agree to receive
the paladin’s protection, but if the paladin already has a
creature selected for divine troth, she can maintain that
selection each day without her charge being present. Once
per day, the divine guardian can cast locate creature to find
the current target of her divine troth. This ability replaces
detect evil.
Guarding Hands (Su): The paladin can use lay on hands
to heal herself or her divine troth as a move action, but
cannot use lay on hands to heal herself as a swift action.
The divine guardian cannot use lay on hands more than
once per round. This modifies lay on hands.
Courageous Defense (Ex): At 3rd level a divine guardian
can intercept attacks directed at the target of her divine
troth as if she had the BodyguardAPG and In Harm’s
WayAPG feats. The divine guardian’s aura of courage does
not grant a bonus to allies within 10 feet, but still grants
her immunity to fear effects. This ability modifies aura
of courage.
Bonus Feat: A divine guardian gains a bonus feat at 7th
level, and additional bonus feats at 10th and 13th level.
These bonus feats must be chosen from the following list:
Diehard, Endurance, Greater Shield Focus, Greater Shield
SpecializationAPG, Heroic DefianceAPG, Heroic RecoveryAPG,
Missile ShieldAPG, Ray ShieldAPG, Saving ShieldAPG,
Shield Focus, Shield SpecializationAPG, or Tower Shield
Proficiency. She must meet these feats’ prerequisites, but
for purposes of meeting the prerequisites of these bonus
feats, she treats her paladin level as her fighter level, may
use her Charisma score as her Dexterity score, and is
considered to have the Spellbreaker feat.
Look at the text in italics. The paladin never prepares spells, but he needs to do that to choose his divine troth for the day. He can never use Divine Troth, has a impeded use of Lay on Hands, and can never use Courageous Defense.
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I have to say, I'm really disappointed with the undead section of this book, especially the feats. :/
I made a simple House Rule change for Monstrous Companion:
For the Monstrous Companion Feat, replace the following (including the chart):
"The following chart determines the effective cohort level for your monstrous companion based on your effective druid level."
The new line is: Your effective druid level - 3 is your effective cohort level for your monstrous companion.
Thoughts?
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I'd simply use the Magical Beast Companion feat from Caged Dragon Games in place of Monstrous Companion.
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The instructor starts out with an apprentice cohort who starts as a commoner, but eventually becomes a real wizard. It still uses a Leadership score to determine how strong your cohort can be, but it's based on Int rather than Cha. When the wizard gains a bonus feat, they can choose a Teamwork feat that they share with the apprentice as long as it's nearby.
Apologies for necromancing this thread, but I had a question regarding the Apprentice cohort that the Instructor got.
It says that the apprentice never picks up item creation rules. Does this include the Scribe Scroll feat wizards automatically get at 1st? Do they just not get it, or is it replaced with something? Like how in PFS, Scribe Scroll is replaced with Spell Focus. As well, can an apprentice take any archetype, or are they just a plan vanilla wizard?