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Mastikator
2008-09-06, 07:38 AM
If you have the Leadership feat, and have a cohort, and that cohort also has the Leadership feat, can he have a cohort? Does that make the cohort's cohort your cohort?

Likewise, can followers have leadership and have followers of their own? Are those followers the followers of the leader of the leader?

KillianHawkeye
2008-09-06, 07:44 AM
Since Leadership is like the only feat that specifically requires the DM's permission to take, I'm going to say that if that ever happened it would be up to the DM who allowed it to decide the consequences. Personally, I wouldn't allow a PC's cohort to take Leadership, and technically speaking, the DM is the one who's in control of the cohort's feats since it is still an NPC.

JellyPooga
2008-09-06, 07:46 AM
Theoretically? Yes. Your Cohort could take the Leadership Feat and have a Cohort and Followers of his own. Your Cohorts Cohort would not be your Cohort and would derive his stats from your Cohorts level (not yours...well, not directly anyway), but would probably follow orders you send down the chain of command.

Will your DM let you do this? Probably not.

Prometheus
2008-09-06, 10:31 AM
Usually Leadership corresponds to an in-game situation. So if one of the PCs decides to be a commander in the military, he may very well have subordinates who have control of additional NPCs that he does not have direct control over. Yes they would still listen to his commands, but only in-so-far as he is acting a military commander and only as well as the message can be relayed down the chain of command.

Crow
2008-09-06, 12:47 PM
There is that bit in the DMG about Cohorts not being "leadership material", or else they wouldn't be your cohort. It doesn't forbid it, but seems to discourage it.