Hi there
I'm playing a Fighter in a campaign and I am thinking of taking the Leadership feat to get a Griffin as a Cohort. I cannot find in the rules how does a monstrous cohort advance? Does it take class levels like a regular cohort or does it use the Monster advancement table?
(I'd love to have a griffin with barbarian levels ho-ho-ho!)
Thanks!
check this feat out instead.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/monstrous-mount
Sadly, my Fighter does not qualify.
Infact, without Archetypes, I'm not sure a Fighter ever could. A cohort is the only way I can find for a Fighter to get something that isn't a 2HD mount that will die when a dragon sneezes on it.
Leadership is already a GM-Discretion filled feat. RAW, nothing states that the monster advances in any way as you level, or your Leadership Score progresses; merely which specific monster from the bestiary is available from what Leadership Score and on. However, if your DM is already allowing Leadership, and also allowing you to take a Monster cohort, I don't see any problem with allowing the monster cohort to advance in class levels as your score goes up.
According the the Leadership charts a Griffon (CR 4) is comparable to an 8th level Cohort, which you have access to with a Leadership score of 12 (though you can't be any lower than 10th level). I don't see any problems with being 11th level with a Griffon that has 1 level in a Player Class. Even if you followed that pattern up to 20th level, your Cohort only has 10 class levels (plus original CR makes it I believe CR 14), compared to your standard cohort, who'd be 18th level. That doesn't come close to being any more game breaking than the standard Cohort rules (considering how Leadership can be abused, I'd say that's actually LESS game breaking).
True. A human druid using wildshape would be more abusive. But we already have a druid as a PC.