I'm thinking of implementing a houserule for the Leadership feat and thought I'd run it by you folks for inspection.
What's been bugging me with the feat as it stands, is that the followers you gain from the feat are almost exclusively 1st level. I guess this depends totally on how you play, but in my game I use sort of the following rough guideline: 1st level = rookies & conscripts, 2nd level = seasoned warriors, 3rd level = veterans. It just doesn't sit right with me that a kozak chief should be restricted to 1st level followers, for example.
What I was thinking of doing was to allow the total levels of followers to be rearranged. Basically, you'd sum up the level of all followers and divide as appropriate, with the caveat that no follower could ever be higher than 3rd level.
For example, someone with a Leadership score of 18 would normally get 100 1st level, 4 2nd level, 2 3rd level and 1 4th level follower (making a total of 118 levels). Depending on circumstances, you could then choose to have 118 rookies (1st level) or 59 seasoned warriors (2nd level) or 39 veterans (3rd level), or any combination of different levelled followers.
What do you think? Would the feat still be reasonably balanced?
What's been bugging me with the feat as it stands, is that the followers you gain from the feat are almost exclusively 1st level. I guess this depends totally on how you play, but in my game I use sort of the following rough guideline: 1st level = rookies & conscripts, 2nd level = seasoned warriors, 3rd level = veterans. It just doesn't sit right with me that a kozak chief should be restricted to 1st level followers, for example.
What I was thinking of doing was to allow the total levels of followers to be rearranged. Basically, you'd sum up the level of all followers and divide as appropriate, with the caveat that no follower could ever be higher than 3rd level.
For example, someone with a Leadership score of 18 would normally get 100 1st level, 4 2nd level, 2 3rd level and 1 4th level follower (making a total of 118 levels). Depending on circumstances, you could then choose to have 118 rookies (1st level) or 59 seasoned warriors (2nd level) or 39 veterans (3rd level), or any combination of different levelled followers.
What do you think? Would the feat still be reasonably balanced?