Leadership Sphere

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Practitioners of the Leadership sphere learn how to gather, organize, and command others.

Leader

When you gain the Leadership sphere, you gain 5 ranks in the Diplomacy skill, plus 5 ranks per additional talent spent in the Leadership sphere (maximum ranks equal to your total Hit Dice).

If you already have ranks in the Diplomacy skill you may immediately retrain them. If you possess multiple spheres that grant ranks in Diplomacy, you gain a competence bonus on Diplomacy checks equal to half your base attack bonus instead of retraining the ranks multiple times. This is only applied once.

Both base packages of the Leadership sphere require significant time investment and thus are unsuitable for being granted as a temporary talent. Likewise, no (follower) talents may be granted as temporary talents. (Cohort) talents that do not affect the type or number of creatures you can recruit may be gained as temporary talents if you have the (cohort) package.

Special: Animal companions, Conjuration sphere companions, drake companions, eidolons, familiars, independent inventions, Leadership cohorts, and any other controlled characters gained by class features, talents or feats cannot gain this sphere or talents from this sphere.

Associated Feat: Leadership.

Leadership Packages

When you first take the Leadership sphere, choose one of the following packages: Cohort or Follower.

Cohort

Specialized NPCs called cohorts are willing to follow you on adventures. A cohort always acts on your initiative.

See the rules for Cohorts

Follower

You gain a group of followers. These followers will not accompany you into dangerous locations, but can lend assistance in various ways.

See the rules for Followers