A player recently asked me: Do cohorts pretty much always have the ability to mark armor except when they specifically don’t? Or are they assumed to have “armor on” but can’t mark it until there is a PC with the Leader ability? The lack of a second armor box, and the lack of any mention of cohort armor limitations made it difficult for me to confidently answer.
A player recently asked me: Do cohorts pretty much always have the ability to mark armor except when they…
A player recently asked me: Do cohorts pretty much always have the ability to mark armor except when they…
Based on the wording of leader my understanding is cohorts don’t have armor unless someone has leader. When someone has leader cohorts can say they had armor the same as a pc (as long as the PC has the load).
The way I think about it is that when you’re talking about damage to a cohort, it’s on a larger scale than a PC. So, like, maybe a couple of your Thugs have leather jerkins, but the armor represented by Leader is an abstraction of the fact that with better training, the cohort as a whole is able to resist damage.
Yea Chris McDonald Thomas Berton thats how I took it too. And the example for cohort harm seems to support this.
However.. that box for armor is there on the crew sheet, suggesting I may have been shafting these NPCs by directly dealing harm. Maybe my first understanding is correct after all though
Mark Cleveland Massengale my assumption would just be that the box is there for when someone inevitably takes leader as a skill. That way players using the sheet don’t have to jerry rig their own.
Certainly something you could do as a long-term project or acquire asset, too
Cohorts don’t have armor unless someone has Leader.
Awesome, thanks for the clarification John Harper
Also, some cohorts like the smugglers vehicle can get armor i think
Yes Kara Snow
And now I wonder if this means someone with Leader can lead the Smugglers vehicle, and it get 2 armor…?
Edit: I’d personally rule it would
Yep, that’s right.