BATTY BAT
have a high leadership score.
Take a cohort with a high leadership score.
Have that cohort take leadership.
Repeat until level limits otherwise.
Congratulations. via pyramid scheme you now have a loyal army. Enjoy.
How much GP do you have on hand?
Because seriously, 35 1st level sorcerers with wands of Magic Missile can do wonders for tearing enemies down. That's something like...122.5 points of damage that you can call to bear on a single turn.
Make sure your cohorts are all summoners, and that their eidolons also take Leadership to gain summoner cohorts as well.
That's why he makes the big bucks.
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Aaaand this is why it's good to pay attention to the fact that leadership gives you the ability to "attract" a cohort, not the ability to define one.
But as long as we're talking theoretical situations, I have to mention that leadership requires character level 7, so I'm not sure an eidolon would qualify since it doesn't have character levels and instead has racial HD.
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What's your funding? Seriously? After working down the summoners taking leadership line, your final group should all be taking scribe scroll. Have them all scribe scrolls (1000 GP worth for 500 GP). Have 1 take the trait where you can sell things for 10% extra. This generates 50 GP net profit per person per day, as you are selling at half price. You should have 70 or so scribers, that is a net profit of 3500 GP per day... Or about 1 million GP in a year. Buy the most powerful artifacts in the land, take over world.
Well if you weren't already a sorc..
I'd say start with a bard/Cavalier (tactician cavalier). Go high on cha bonus.. Take natural leader trait. with an 18 cha, 7th level.. You are looking about an 12 at the start.
Go into Battle Herald and Low Templar PrCs.
Low templar removes many potential negatives of leadership
Battle herald adds an additional +4 when you max out that class.. So you are looking about (even if you never never increase cha..
+4, +20, + 4 + 1=29 points of leadership, and that's without any situational bonuses. Chances are you will hit the max waaay before you hit max level.
Makes me wish there was an epic level book for epic level leadership.
And then you follow up with Summoners/Eidolons..
Make sure your cohorts are all summoners, and that their eidolons also take Leadership to gain summoner cohorts as well.
Broodmaster summoners so each summoner cohort can have leadership and multiple eidolons who all have leadership! Of course, the 4 eidolon brood will be stuck with just 3 feats until level 9...
this is getting ugly.
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Agent of dusk gives you 10% extra on sales. Fun for the whole family :).
And there is nothing preventing cohorts from taking leadership, silly though that may be. Not that you can chain down too far; since it requires 7th level only your cohort (who I guess will be the banner guy for maximization) can make the sufficient level to have followers of his own.
Hmm if followers are sufficiant level can they take leadership?
Ohh forgot to mention its on 25 pt buy.
Put every point into Charisma and make all other stats 8. ;-)
Also yes, cohorts can if they meet the prerequisites (AKA level). It's crass, but hey we're breaking it.
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So assuming both you and your cohort are able to top out the chart (difficult but not impossible), you'll have about 300 people making those scrolls, 50 GP per day each... that will make our profits 15,000 per day, or about 5 million GP per year. Even if you can't get that high we should be able to get the score high enough for 50K or so per week with very little work. Those 1st levels can be master summoners too; every day have them summon monkeys and dogs by the hundreds and flood the evil-dwelling dungeon of your choice.
You higher level followers could be crafting other things too.
So assuming both you and your cohort are able to top out the chart (difficult but not impossible), you'll have about 300 people making those scrolls, 50 GP per day each... that will make our profits 15,000 per day, or about 5 million GP per year. Even if you can't get that high we should be able to get the score high enough for 50K or so per week with very little work. Those 1st levels can be master summoners too; every day have them summon monkeys and dogs by the hundreds and flood the evil-dwelling dungeon of your choice.
If only production equalled sales! stupid supply and demand...
You higher level followers could be crafting other things too.
We'll need them to crack the whips in the scroll crafting sweathouses.
Take one branch of your tree of cohorts and make them into a guild master.
That guild master attracts people from around the land to quest and vanquish evil, while selling your scrolls to them and getting rid of the excess supply.
Also, I'm sure there are scrolls of spells that make items that are equal to gold directly. Say...sheep or blocks of iron. :p
Summon one of those planar creatures that are interplanar tradesmen. I forget their name. The tall blue people.
Make sure you and your cohort get animate dead. As far down the line as you can (Clerics get lesser animate as early as lv 3).
Now each of you take Leadership. Now you all have followers, and undead minions. Now if youre all clerics or necromancers, take Command undead. For more undead minions.
So assuming both you and your cohort are able to top out the chart (difficult but not impossible), you'll have about 300 people making those scrolls, 50 GP per day each... that will make our profits 15,000 per day, or about 5 million GP per year. Even if you can't get that high we should be able to get the score high enough for 50K or so per week with very little work. Those 1st levels can be master summoners too; every day have them summon monkeys and dogs by the hundreds and flood the evil-dwelling dungeon of your choice.If only production equalled sales! stupid supply and demand...Ha luckily we are in a fantasy setting where we can ressurect, summon extraplanner creatures to fight for us, shoot fireballs and lightning.
Circumventing a little thing like supply and demand not a problem
RAW I don't see a supply and demand rule. ;)
Never mind all that, Jen the GM just invent the the Kickback feat in the post above yours :P
Make sure your cohorts are all summoners, and that their eidolons also take Leadership to gain summoner cohorts as well.Broodmaster summoners so each summoner cohort can have leadership and multiple eidolons who all have leadership! Of course, the 4 eidolon brood will be stuck with just 3 feats until level 9...
Holy cow! A use for Broodmaster! Who'd have thunk it!
as I can't top the answer of James Jacobs, I'll go with a bit of normal cheese.
Get a Witch and have her cast fortune on you, stay always 30 feet from you, and cackle 1-2 per round.
Perhaps let her be a special race that fits in your backpack or something.
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My only suggestion to the money making madness schemes above is to go with witches and alchemists. Both get Brew Potion as early as level 1, thus opening up your market, plus alchemists, built correctly, can be a non magical money making factory @ lvl 1 because crafting non magical items only use up 1/3 the cost. Takes more time, but worth it. Furthermore, you'll still be able to circumvent any GM clause about selling all items at 1/2 market price as you'll still make money in the margin between 1/3 and 1/2 the cost.
Bonus: Have the witch be a catfolk
I think that would be a useful item for any adventurer, up to maybe demigod status (I'm not sure if it's here or higher, but they treat all d20s as 20).
Really, how common is it for a player to custom build his own cohorts and followers? I remember when a player in the game I used to play in (3.5) took leadership, the DM built his cohort and we pretty much ignored the followers (they stayed at the Keep we were charged with running when we went adventuring). And that cohort was a cleric since the player was a paladin (a cleric of the paladin's deity).
I am just wondering here.
Master Arminas
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Really, how common is it for a player to custom build his own cohorts and followers? I remember when a player in the game I used to play in (3.5) took leadership, the DM built his cohort and we pretty much ignored the followers (they stayed at the Keep we were charged with running when we went adventuring). And that cohort was a cleric since the player was a paladin (a cleric of the paladin's deity).
I am just wondering here.
Master Arminas
I know I don't, and I've never been allowed to build my own cohort either (and I've had at least 2 characters with them). However, we commonly let people decide what path they take after recruitment as long as it isn't completely divergent (so having a cleric start taking paladin levels is fine, but having a superstitious barbarian suddenly take an interest in wizardry would not be).
Next time I DM I may even remove that and just level the cohort for my players in whatever way seems appropriate given what has happened and the personality of the cohort. I'll still let them control combat actions, of course (well, for the most part).
With a leadership score of at least 10, you can take a Dragonne (Bestiary 3, pg 104, CR7) as a cohort. You can probably manage to get multiple Dragonnes if your cohort (and so on) has high enough Cha to boost his leadership score to 10 or above as well.
It's outright stated that Dragonne cohorts have class levels, and although most are said to become barbarians, fighters, and rangers, you could make a Broodmaster Dragonne.
...And then of course the branches upon branches of cohorts and followers would happen as others have discussed above.
With a leadership score of at least 10, you can take a Dragonne (Bestiary 3, pg 104, CR7) as a cohort. You can probably manage to get multiple Dragonnes if your cohort (and so on) has high enough Cha to boost his leadership score to 10 or above as well.
It's outright stated that Dragonne cohorts have class levels, and although most are said to become barbarians, fighters, and rangers, you could make a Broodmaster Dragonne.
...And then of course the branches upon branches of cohorts and followers would happen as others have discussed above.
Congratulations. You've just discovered how to make Crazy Cat Lady in pathfinder.
Congratulations. You've just discovered how to make Crazy Cat Lady in pathfinder.
So... What you're saying is: Make every follower and cohort that doesn't qualify to be a Dragonne a catfolk?
And for good measure, a single witch level each, and cat familiars for all of them. The Dragonne's can have cats too!
Congratulations. You've just discovered how to make Crazy Cat Lady in pathfinder.So... What you're saying is: Make every follower and cohort that doesn't qualify to be a Dragonne a catfolk?
And for good measure, a single witch level each, and cat familiars for all of them. The Dragonne's can have cats too!
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The number of followers you have is important. Some times it's what they can do for you that matters.
Bard : Magician
Cha base caster build.
Dweomercraft (Su): A magician can use performance to manipulate magical energies. Allies of the magician gain a +1 bonus on caster level checks, concentration checks, and attack rolls with spells and spell-like abilities. This bonus increases by +1 at 5th level and every six levels thereafter. This ability replaces inspire courage.
Suggestion: Have all the followers be witches that take the coven hex. Now have them form hundreds of covens that can all cast high level spells.
Use control weather to produce ideal climates for growing crops
Have the people bow to down you as the rain god
???
Profit!