Leadership questions

[Spacehamster]

Hello! Was curious if there is any feats that improves the level of your cohort? And also if when it says in leadership description that cohort is 2 levels lower then your character, does it mean effective level or just straight out level? As in would a +1 lvl adjustment race be 3 levels lower or two levels lower then you are?

Spacehamster over and out

[Coidzor]

There's a feat floating around somewhere that lets a cohort be one level closer to its player character.

I believe it is called Improved Cohort in 3.5 & is found in Heroes of Battle. Can't remember the name but there's an equivalent in Pathfinder as well, I'm sure.


And also if when it says in leadership description that cohort is 2 levels lower then your character, does it mean effective level or just straight out level? As in would a +1 lvl adjustment race be 3 levels lower or two levels lower then you are?

An Effective Character Level 10 PC can have a Cohort with an ECL of up to 8.

ECL is equal to racial hit dice + levels + level adjustment. In other words, however many hit dice the character has plus their level adjustment.

So a Cohort with a +1 level adjustment and 7 HD would be ECL 8 the same way a Cohort with a +0 level adjustment and 8 HD would be ECL 8. So, yes, the cohort would have 3 less hit dice, assuming that the PC did not have any level adjustment.