Well, there's been some debate on whether your cohorts and followers gain any wealth by level *at all*, or whether their equipment has to be paid out of your pocket since they're considered part of your character.
Either way, Psionics aren't actually Paizo rules, so this question would belong in the Third Party Products forum area.
At level 6 my Telepath became a Thrall Heard.
I gained 1 level 5 cohort.
1 level 4
1 level 3
3 level 2s
And 35 level 1s
(Leadership score 18)Assuming they are mind compelled slaves/followers/believers I am assuming I can do as I wish with their wealth? (Using the wealth by character level chart)
If so this seems to be an imbalance of the wbcl chat for my character as I calculate my loot to be over 42,000 not to mention if I get them killed my numbers replenish in 24 hours...
Your thoughts community?
Added note: I am the most experienced player in my group (I own all the books and let them borrow them and still help most everyone with their characters) so the party lets me get away with murder but I don't want to be that guy... I am just curious if this is actually valid/allowed not necessarily a question of fairness as I've already decided to re-roll to a harder to play Soulbolt archetype prestige into elocater (just for kicks).
"Those who answer a thrallherd’s call are not referred to as cohorts and followers, but rather as thralls and believers, respectively. They do not appear because they admire the character and want to serve her, but because a hidden psychic resonance connects the thrallherd and her servants."
"A thrallherd establishes a resonance with his thrall and suffers if the thrall is killed. For 48 hours following the loss of a thrall, a thrallherd suffers one negative level. This negative level may not be healed by any means until 48 hours have passed since the thrall’s death, at which point it fades naturally. Should the thrallherd’s new thrall die while the thrallherd is still suffering a negative level, he acquires an additional negative level, and the duration of any negative levels gained through losing a thrall resets to 48 hours from the time the most recent thrall was lost."
Also not to mention
"This score is not affected by any of the modifiers mentioned in the Leadership feat."
So how do you have a leadership score of 18?
"A thrallherd’s Leadership score is equal to her character level + her Charisma modifier + her thrallherd level.
Lv6 + Cha score + thrallherd level = 7 + x = 18
you have a charisma modifier of 11?
So, say hypothetically you can get all these thralls.
Their total net value is 14,710GP in gear.
( The cohort should be equipped with gear appropriate for its level (see Creating NPCs).
That includes their weapons, protection, limited use items, and the gear on their back.
You strip them down of everything, and HOORAY, you send them to their deaths and you lose levels.
Yes my Cha is 30. That's another story. Lol. But ignore that.
And regardless of negative levels we have long moments where our characters simply live between missions, working professions etc. If legal my character would do this in a few week time span between missions.
Again, this is a jerk move in my opinion and highly evil. And definitely game breaking. That's why I'm choosing a new character. (I plan on this thrall herd guy being an NPC for an evil king later on) but the core question here is "is this legal by game terminology alone?"
For all the reasons and quotations you posted (which THANK YOU BTW for going to such effort, you're awesome!) I'm thinking it is legal.
Alright, well you are asking if something is legal, because of the idea that it can be exploited at lv6. Which is a more than reasonable request, and then you say you have a charisma score of 30.
Because of this, it really isn't much of a concern to be addressed.
Also as I have stated before, if you strip down all your characters, and 6 of your 35 lv1 NPC thralls die, then you die.
The negative levels stack, and having your cohorts roam the world without any of the provisions they have effectively heightens the chance of them dying.
I hope your GM is a merciful GM. If he doesnt care that you are killing a lv5 NPC every other week to loot his corpse, then thats on him for gamebalcing issues, not on the class itself.
Edit: I guess it only applies to your current thrall at hand in the case of negative levels.
however, leading people to death might strike the proper authorities to investigate the mysterious remnants of naked followers.