Luckmann
2013-09-18, 04:27 PM
First of all, let me apologize for my utter cluelessness.
Anyway, I have some questions that I was hoping that someone could answer. Dealing with Cohorts using the Leadership Feat.
After going up and around everything in attempts to find a proper fitting Cohort or a way to gain a Familiar as an Aasimar Cloistered Cleric, I finally came across a note on Exalted Cohorts in the Book of Exalted Deeds.
The note mentions that an exalted character may, at the GM:s discretion, acquire some non-standard Cohorts using the Leadership Feat, listing a number of examples and making some suggestions.
However, two questions:
1) What makes someone qualify as "an exalted character"? Is it even a thing? Because skimming over things, I can't find anything on specifically how to *be* an "exalted character". At first I thought it meant having a specific feat or maintaining your alignment or something, but it doesn't seem to say. Maybe I'm just blind.
2) Secondly, the regular Leadership feat and standard Cohorts seem to operate under the assumption that the Cohort always is a standard player race with some form of standard class. However, the list of suggested Cohorts in Book of Exalted Deeds include mostly Monstrous Cohorts, so how would they advance - especially since, apparently, Racial Hit Die can never advance by accumulation of experience.
Assuming a non-standard Cohort with 1 Hit Die, let's use the Lantern Archon as an example (Hit Die 1d8, so 1), could I just slap a Class Level, let's say a Favored Soul (nevermind it being a terrible choice, let's say I just want to simulate Spell-like abilities) onto it the first time it's assumed to advance in level? And if so, when would it be assumed to become Class Level 1 (ECL 2, since it's 1 Racial Hit Die + 1 Class Level)?
Cheers.
Anyway, I have some questions that I was hoping that someone could answer. Dealing with Cohorts using the Leadership Feat.
After going up and around everything in attempts to find a proper fitting Cohort or a way to gain a Familiar as an Aasimar Cloistered Cleric, I finally came across a note on Exalted Cohorts in the Book of Exalted Deeds.
The note mentions that an exalted character may, at the GM:s discretion, acquire some non-standard Cohorts using the Leadership Feat, listing a number of examples and making some suggestions.
However, two questions:
1) What makes someone qualify as "an exalted character"? Is it even a thing? Because skimming over things, I can't find anything on specifically how to *be* an "exalted character". At first I thought it meant having a specific feat or maintaining your alignment or something, but it doesn't seem to say. Maybe I'm just blind.
2) Secondly, the regular Leadership feat and standard Cohorts seem to operate under the assumption that the Cohort always is a standard player race with some form of standard class. However, the list of suggested Cohorts in Book of Exalted Deeds include mostly Monstrous Cohorts, so how would they advance - especially since, apparently, Racial Hit Die can never advance by accumulation of experience.
Assuming a non-standard Cohort with 1 Hit Die, let's use the Lantern Archon as an example (Hit Die 1d8, so 1), could I just slap a Class Level, let's say a Favored Soul (nevermind it being a terrible choice, let's say I just want to simulate Spell-like abilities) onto it the first time it's assumed to advance in level? And if so, when would it be assumed to become Class Level 1 (ECL 2, since it's 1 Racial Hit Die + 1 Class Level)?
Cheers.