Leadership
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Leadership
( Player’s Handbook v.3.5, p. 97)[General]
You are the sort of person others want to follow, and you have done some work attempting to recruit cohorts and followers.
Prerequisite
Character Level 6,Benefit
You can attract loyal companions and devoted followers, subordinates who assist you. Your DM has information on what sort of cohort and how many followers you can recruit.Special
Check with your DM before selecting this feat, and work with your DM to determine an appropriate cohort and followers for your character (the Dungeon Master’s Guide has more information on cohorts and followers). -
Leadership [General]
Prerequisite
Character level 6th.Benefits
Having this feat enables the character to attract loyal companions and devoted followers, subordinates who assist her. See the table below for what sort of cohort and how many followers the character can recruit.Leadership Modifiers
Several factors can affect a character’s Leadership score, causing it to vary from the base score (character level + Cha modifier). A character’s reputation (from the point of view of the cohort or follower he is trying to attract) raises or lowers his Leadership score:Leader’s Reputation Modifier Great renown +2 Fairness and generosity +1 Special power +1 Failure –1 Aloofness –1 Cruelty –2 Other modifiers may apply when the character tries to attract a cohort:
The Leader . . . Modifier Has a familiar, special mount, or animal companion –2 Recruits a cohort of a different alignment –1 Caused the death of a cohort –21 Cumulative per cohort killed. Followers have different priorities from cohorts. When the character tries to attract a new follower, use any of the following modifiers that apply.
The Leader . . . Modifier Has a stronghold, base of operations, guildhouse, or the like +2 Moves around a lot –1 Caused the death of other followers –1 Leadership Score Cohort Level Number of Followers by Level 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 1 or lower — — — — — — — 2 1st — — — — — — 3 2nd — — — — — — 4 3rd — — — — — — 5 3rd — — — — — — 6 4th — — — — — — 7 5th — — — — — — 8 5th — — — — — — 9 6th — — — — — — 10 7th 5 — — — — — 11 7th 6 — — — — — 12 8th 8 — — — — — 13 9th 10 1 — — — — 14 10th 15 1 — — — — 15 10th 20 2 1 — — — 16 11th 25 2 1 — — — 17 12th 30 3 1 1 — — 18 12th 35 3 1 1 — — 19 13th 40 4 2 1 1 — 20 14th 50 5 3 2 1 — 21 15th 60 6 3 2 1 1 22 15th 75 7 4 2 2 1 23 16th 90 9 5 3 2 1 24 17th 110 11 6 3 2 1 25 or higher 17th 135 13 7 4 2 2 Leadership Score
A character’s base Leadership score equals his level plus any Charisma modifier. In order to take into account negative Charisma modifiers, this table allows for very low Leadership scores, but the character must still be 6th level or higher in order to gain the Leadership feat. Outside factors can affect a character’s Leadership score, as detailed above.Cohort Level
The character can attract a cohort of up to this level. Regardless of a character’s Leadership score, he can only recruit a cohort who is two or more levels lower than himself. The cohort should be equipped with gear appropriate for its level. A character can try to attract a cohort of a particular race, class, and alignment. The cohort’s alignment may not be opposed to the leader’s alignment on either the law-vs-chaos or good-vs-evil axis, and the leader takes a Leadership penalty if he recruits a cohort of an alignment different from his own.Cohorts earn XP as follows:
The cohort does not count as a party member when determining the party’s XP.
Divide the cohort’s level by the level of the PC with whom he or she is associated (the character with the Leadership feat who attracted the cohort).
Multiply this result by the total XP awarded to the PC and add that number of experience points to the cohort’s total.
If a cohort gains enough XP to bring it to a level one lower than the associated PC’s character level, the cohort does not gain the new level—its new XP total is 1 less than the amount needed attain the next level.
Number of Followers by Level
The character can lead up to the indicated number of characters of each level. Followers are similar to cohorts, except they’re generally low-level NPCs. Because they’re generally five or more levels behind the character they follow, they’re rarely effective in combat.Followers don’t earn experience and thus don’t gain levels. However, when a character with Leadership attains a new level, the player consults the table above to determine if she has acquired more followers, some of which may be higher level than the existing followers. (You don’t consult the table to see if your cohort gains levels, however, because cohorts earn experience on their own.)
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Extra Followers
( Heroes of Battle, p. 97)[Leader]
Your charismatic magnetism attracts even more followers to your banner.
Prerequisite
Leadership (PH) , CHA 13,Benefit
You can lead twice as many followers as indicated for your Leadership score (see page 106 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). For example, a character with this feat and a Leadership score of 15 can lead forty 1st-level followers, four 2nd-level followers, and two 3rd-level followers. -
Might Makes Right
( Races of Faerun, p. 166)[General]
Your great strength draws more followers.
Prerequisite
Leadership (PH) , STR 13,Benefit
Add your Strength bonus to your leadership score for the purposes of determining how many followers you may have with the Leadership feat. -
Epic Leadership
( Epic Level Handbook, p. 54)[Epic]
You attract more powerful cohorts and followers than normally possible.
Prerequisite
Leadership (PH) , CHA 25, Leadership score 25,Required for
Legendary Commander (EL) ,Benefit
You attract a cohort and followers as shown on Table 1-33: Epic Leadership.Normal
Without this feat, you must use Table 2-25: Leadership in the DUNGEON MASTER’s Guide to determine your cohort and followers. -
Epic Leadership [Epic]
Prerequisites
Cha 25, Leadership, Leadership score 25.Benefit
The character attracts a cohort and followers as shown below on Table: Epic Leadership. In all other ways Epic Leadership functions as the Leadership feat.Normal
The Leadership feat provides no benefit for leadership scores beyond 25.Table: Epic Leadership
Leadership Score Cohort Level Number of Followers by Level 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 25 17th 135 13 7 4 2 2 1 — — — 26 18th 160 16 8 4 2 2 1 — — — 27 18th 190 19 10 5 3 2 1 — — — 28 19th 220 22 11 6 3 2 1 — — — 29 19th 260 26 13 7 4 2 1 — — — 30 20th 300 30 15 8 4 2 1 — — — 31 20th 350 35 18 9 5 3 2 1 — — 32 21st 400 40 20 10 5 3 2 1 — — 33 21st 460 46 23 12 6 3 2 1 — — 34 22nd 520 52 26 13 6 3 2 1 — — 35 22nd 590 59 30 15 8 4 2 1 — — 36 23rd 660 66 33 17 9 5 3 2 1 — 37 23rd 740 74 37 19 10 5 3 2 1 — 38 24th 820 82 41 21 11 6 3 2 1 — 39 24th 910 91 46 23 12 6 3 2 1 — 40 25th 1000 100 50 25 13 7 4 2 1 — per +1 +1/21 +1002 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 - The maximum cohort level increases by 1 for every 2 points of Leadership above 40.
- The number of 1st-level followers increases by 100 for every point of Leadership above 40.
- A character can command one-tenth as many 2nd-level followers as 1st-level followers. A character can command one-half as many 3rd-level followers as 2nd-level followers, one-half as many 4th-level followers as 3rd-level followers, and so on (round fractions up, except any fraction less than 1 rounds to 0). A character can’t have a follower of higher than 20th level.
Leadership Score
A character’s Leadership score equals his or her level plus any Charisma modifier. Outside factors can affect a character’s Leadership score, as detailed in the Leadership feat.Cohort Level
The character can attract a cohort of up to this level. Regardless of the character’s Leadership score, he or she can’t recruit a cohort of his or her level or higher.Number of Followers by Level
The character can lead up to the indicated number of characters of each level.Table: Example Special Epic Cohorts presents some creatures that make good cohorts for epic characters.
Table: Example Special Epic Cohorts
Creature Alignment Level Equivalent Angel, astral deva Any good 20nd Dragon, ancient silver Lawful good 42nd Couatl Lawful good 16th Giant, cloud Neutral good 24th Ghaele Chaotic good 20st Giant, storm Chaotic good 28th Dragon, wyrm brass Chaotic good 42th Dragon turtle Neutral 21st Hydra, 12-headed Neutral 19th Roc Neutral 23rd Dragon, ancient green Lawful evil 40th Devil, ice (gelugon) Lawful evil 21st Giant, cloud Neutral evil 24th Demon, glabrezu Chaotic evil 23rd Demon, succubus Chaotic evil 12th Dragon, wyrm white Chaotic evil 41th -
Legendary Commander
( Epic Level Handbook, p. 62)[Epic]
You attract and lead great armies of followers through sheer force of personality.
Prerequisite
Epic Leadership (ELH) , Leadership (PH) , Diplomacy 30 ranks, CHA 25, must rule own kingdom and have a stronghold,Benefit
Multiply the number of followers of each level that you can lead by 10. Thus, a Leadership score of 25 would allow you to lead 1,350 1st-level followers, 130 2nd level followers, and so forth. This has no effect on cohorts. -
Going all in on the paladin of insanity?
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@daermadm Hadn’t considered that, but that is a good idea for the Torment Knight, for when he carves out a Kingdom of Torment from the souls of the worthy, all in the name of the God-King Dregnoth.
I had originally thought about doing the Leadership thing with Rorek and the Axe of the Dwarvish Lords maybe starting his own mountain raising it to enclave status and uniting the Dwarves. I guess it depends, if the Great Leo Pard, 10E thief extraordinaire, can pull off the Abyssal Heist of the Century, then I would keep both the Dwarves in play.
Otherwise i will probably pivot to a Torment Knight, and a Doom Weaver (or Lust weaver) hadn’t decided yet. Both will be sent by ‘Mother’ to help Ceasar lift the God-King Dregnoth to his destined glory within the Manaverse.
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@halfgiant said in Leadership:
Both will be sent by ‘Mother’ to help Ceasar lift the God-King Dregnoth to his destined glory within the Manaverse
Trying force me to give your stuff back ?
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Leo stand before the Obelisk "And that My giant magical rock friend is why we either have to steal his stuff from hell or beam out of this crazy sphere "
Two weeks later
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@daermadm said in Leadership:
Trying force me to give your stuff back ?
Force you, don’t think a player can force a DM to do anything. I was just following your idea, with the paladin of insanity, since i needed a new character to play. Seemed kind of a cool concept, a Forsaken Paladin bringing justice to the non-believers of God-King Dregnoth’s. With Ceasar by his side delivering the God-King’s message of Luv to the masses. Optimizing his leadership only seemed natural.
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@halfgiant said in Leadership:
I was just following your idea, with the paladin of insanity
Not.My.Idea.Ever
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So this is how I see Bob’s new paladin of insanity…
Sort of Like the Swiss Guard for Caesar the Pope of Dregnoth.Caesar had me draw up a little pic of the two of them as they prepare to spread the word of Love and Lube to the masses
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@orc I rely like that, the Campaign of Luv and Lube, These are the Chronicles of Dregnoth The God-King and the Adventures of the Penetrators.
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@halfgiant said in Leadership:
@orc I rely like that, the Campaign of Luv and Lube, These are the Chronicles of Dregnoth The God-King and the Adventures of the Penetrators.
