Buy me a coffeeEpic Leadership (Epic)
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You attract more powerful cohorts and followers than normally possible.
- Prerequisites Charisma 25, Leadership, Leadership score 25.
- Benefit You attract a cohort and followers as shown 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.
Example Special Epic Cohorts presents some creatures that make good cohorts for epic characters.
| 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 | +½* | +100** | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Leadership Score: Your Leadership score equals your level plus any Charisma modifier. Outside factors can affect a character’s Leadership score, as detailed in the Leadership feat. | |||||||||||
Cohort Level: You can attract a cohort of up to this level. Regardless of your Leadership score, you can’t recruit a cohort of your level or higher. | |||||||||||
Number of Followers by Level: You can lead up to the indicated number of characters of each level. | |||||||||||
*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. | |||||||||||
You can command one-tenth as many 2nd-level followers as 1st-level followers. You 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). You cant have a follower of higher than 20th level. |
| 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 |