Leadership (Apath Feat)

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Leadership (General)

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Benefit: You have built a close relationship with a cohort during play, to the point where they are devoted to you and will serve you full-time or in dangerous situations, including accompanying you on adventures. They still take secondary positions and might not always be available, acting as agents, guards, lookouts, and support more than heroes. Such a cohort has a stat block (15 point build, no PC bonuses like traits or extra feat, but they do gain full hp at level 1), which is the player's responsibility to maintain, and come equipped with gear to normal NPC wealth levels, at no cost to you.

The situational modifiers for cohorts and followers are not used. If you have a cohort of the same class you are and followers in the same general career (temple, fighting school, mage college, thieves guild, etc), you can use your highest attribute score instead of Charisma when calculating your leadership score.

Special This can be a monstrous cohort or mount, and if you have the animal companion or mount class feature, you can exchange that class feature for this feat with a monstrous companion filling a similar role to what you had. In general, a monster cohort count as having an effective character level equal to its challenge rating +1 + any class levels it has. Monster cohorts are equipped based on their class level only.

Normal All characters can use the Leadership feat (without the level restriction) to recruit a cohort and followers during play, within the limitations of the original feat. While such cohorts and followers are loyal to you, they still mostly live their own lives, and work for your character within the limits of their normal activities. You can employ these characters and expect loyalty. They will act as your agent, craft for you at cost, and take reasonable risks in the pursuit of this role. They are not heroic and will not engage in obviously dangerous actions. They will specifically not follow you on adventures except as dictated by the GM. Normal cohorts and followers generally don't need a detailed stat block.

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