Leadership: What to do with followers?


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Nothing special here just your standard organization.

Cohort: Usually either a regent/manager or my familiar with class levels.

Followers: The people running the day to day hassles of managing my vast wealth and possesions.

In DnD era style play they're usually members of my household (old school style where the gardener of your country house in a foreign land is still considered a member of your household albeit not a member of your family). They manage property, sell the loot I don't want, grow crops, etc. The lower level members are the peasants, general labourers while the higher level ones oversee household interests in various courts, major cities etc.

In more modern times their members of a multi-national corporation with the level one's are the fresh out of school new recruits while the higher level ones are regional or higher managers. The cohort typically serves as CEO overseeing the day to day affairs of my empire coming to me for special decisions.

Either way as my characters power and ability grow so do their resources. I have adapated rules for noble households from another game which leadership is a pre-requisite feat for. Its not in all games but in those with wild untamed areas the players can become adventurers, leaders of a large "guild" and then ruler of their own noble household with estates, properties and other perks and pitfalls.


have them manipulate some democratic vote.
Let them worship you.
Sacrfice them to the demon lord you worship.
have witch coven hex, and get as many witches as cohorts as possible with that hex.
sent them in rooms first if your barbarian gets tired of being the trap-finder.


Shifty wrote:

They usually end up costing my players a small fortune to maintain.

Its the downside of having the most broken Feat in the game.

The followers tend to be 'appropriate' to what the Leader is - if you are a fighter then expect a bunch of men-at-arms.

Also note that nowhere does it say a player gets to build either the Cohort stats nor that of the followers, however the cohort is usually given as a courtesy.

hey i heard somewhere that there's a fear that helps with followers building forts so did you take anything special to help with this tactic?


spalding wrote:

I've used them to build forts and home bases for the most part. Typically they are my tie in to a specific area, or concept. Either a business consortium or a new martial order or arcane school.

Typically I assume the first level are the 'new members' and as they get to higher levels they aren't available for my direct usage because they are performing tasks the organization needs of them. My higher level followers are typically my retinue that I have for my position in the organization.

hey i heard somewhere that there's a fear that helps with followers building forts so did you take anything special to help with this tactic?


Every person of importance is entitled to the enthusiastic service of dozens of little people. Hence the "I especially want to thank all the little people that made this possible" line at awards. What, you're going to cook, clean, wash, carry stuff, polish equipment, deal with insignificant NPCs, and so on, yourself? Pfffft.


Jeremiah, you're probably going to have to PM someone to get them to notice a reply to their post of five and a half years ago.


Is eating them an option?

Also righteous necromancy dude.


Jeremiah Leatherman wrote:
a fear that helps with followers building forts

Agoraphobia?

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