So long story short to make this quick. We're playing Kingmaker and my party's (I'm the GM) 7th level Duke was just slain. He had just picked up a cohort. The party plans on attempting to bring the Duke back, my question is what happens to the newly minted cohort? Does he stay around, does he bolt, does he commit hari kari?
rocklax wrote: So long story short to make this quick. We're playing Kingmaker and my party's (I'm the GM) 7th level Duke was just slain. He had just picked up a cohort. The party plans on attempting to bring the Duke back, my question is what happens to the newly minted cohort? Does he stay around, does he bolt, does he commit hari kari? Why not have the PC play the cohort for a while? If the guy knows his master is soon going to come back, then it doesn't make much sense to run off, unless he doesn't like the rest of the party on the off chance that the Duke will come back
Technically with out the character with leadership he would fall under the control of the DM who could then do with him as he saw fit,and who would hopefully be graceful enough too return him too the PC upon resurrection, however if your DM was up for it I think Talons idea seems far more interesting.
Talon Moonwalker wrote: rocklax wrote: So long story short to make this quick. We're playing Kingmaker and my party's (I'm the GM) 7th level Duke was just slain. He had just picked up a cohort. The party plans on attempting to bring the Duke back, my question is what happens to the newly minted cohort? Does he stay around, does he bolt, does he commit hari kari? Why not have the PC play the cohort for a while? If the guy knows his master is soon going to come back, then it doesn't make much sense to run off, unless he doesn't like the rest of the party on the off chance that the Duke will come back I really am not sure what to do, I can't find any RAW for this and wonder how others might handle it. I mean this guy just devoted himself to follow this guy (whom he thinks a badass), who within a month gets himself killed. I'm tempted to have this cohort leave the service and if/when he is brought back, the Duke would have to attract a new one. However now rumors will begin to persist about the Duke as the old cohort would likely tell the story.
The rules are fairly simple, the cohort is a NPC who follows a character because of the leadership feat, without that he is just a normal NPC and falls back under the complete control of the dm, which means this isn't so much a Rules question as a role-playing question. What do you think the cohort WOULD do now that this character has died? How did the PC die? Does he know they plan to ressurect him?
How did he die i mean if we are talking got himself killed being dumb or to a low CR mook sure he might leave a bad impression.
If however is was heroic such as standing toe to toe with a high CR creature so that others might have time to bring it down then thats the stuff legends are made of and if the guy is returning even more the reason to be known as his loyal right hand man.
Well he charged an enlarged spriggin wielding a halbred, cr 3 or 4 I think. Anyways said spriggin rolled a 20, then confirmed the crit with a 20...max damage, 2d8+5x3=63. After that the rest of the party pretty easily dispatched the enemy. Honestly it was only extraordinary die rolling that happened to kill him.
I'd kinda think that the cohort would kind of be thinking, "what a mook."
Just make sure if you take the cohort you don't make him wait forever to attact a new one and don't arbitraily increase time for that one leaving otherwise you'll start getting asked what was the point of even taking the feat.
In that case, I think the cohort would probably lose a fair degree of faith in his ex-duke.
Oh, I was by no means going to make him suffer and wait for another. I, in the back of my head think, that the current cohort leaving makes a bit of sense RPing wise. It'd be easy enough to RP in another soon after if/when they bring him back. Well that is unless they reincarnate him!
Like-wise over something like that, while we the players can appreciate the sheer bad luck of it, the cohort himself just saw him get his head lopped off by something that really shouldn't have been a challenge. Looks like time for a new cohort.
i wouldn't remove the cohort. i'm sure he would have noticed that the spriggan scored a lucky shot.
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