An exemplar-ary cohort, or how I learned to to stop worrying and inspire courage.

[tottreson]

Ok weird title, I know. But I was bored and am ashamedly too happy with it to change it :P.

I'm designing a cohort for a 16th level character and want to use a Dapsara angel with class levels. I like the idea of my cohort being a party buffer and advancing it's Bardic performance abilities, but I feel like if I I simply take levels in bard to advance it I would run into two main problems:

1)While taking bard would make the effective level for it's bardic performance 5+the X levels it gains, it's spell-casting would still only be that of a level X bard which when taken in comparison to party level would be almost useless.

and

2)I'm already going to be using summon spells on my main character and I don't want to complicate turn order -even more- by making my cohort also have a whole spell list that I would have to keep track of and etc etc.

So my question is this: would the Exemplar brawler stack with the inherent monster's bardic performance abilities for purposes of determining it's inspire courage performance bonuses?

[dragonhunterq]

step 2 of adding class levels wrote:

If the creature possesses class features (such as spellcasting or sneak attack) for the class that is being added, these abilities stack.

The class abilities should stack.

[tottreson]

dragonhunterq wrote:

step 2 of adding class levels wrote:

If the creature possesses class features (such as spellcasting or sneak attack) for the class that is being added, these abilities stack.

The class abilities should stack.

Ah cool. See I read that and thought they should, but I wasn't sure y'know? Thank you for clearing that up! :)