**Getting Followers**

After you get the feat leadership, either through a class feat or buying it the number of followers you get is based on your influence score. Adding more points into influence will add to your pool.

**Initial set up**

The first thing that I do when I want to play with my followers is to pick a role for them, I then make the aliases and such around that role. This way I dont have to care about what silly names the game has given them.

In this case I have a follower named bust and I want to use them as a thief of my character's faith..

I use the following aliases..

thief           follower bust $*

thiefsay    	follower bust say "%^MAGENTA%^$*%^RESET%^"

thiefpose   	follower bust pose %^CYAN%^$*%^RESET%^

thiefposeclear 	follower bust pose clear

thiefemote 	follower bust emoteat bust %^RED%^$M $*%^RESET%^

thiefemoteme    follower bust emoteat loki %^GREEN%^$M $*%^RESET%^

And one nickname..

nickname mythief bust

I find the bonus for how I play is that I no longer have to care about their name, just the role I need them to play. When I have multiple followers in a room I can better manage conversations.

**Controlling**

Now that I have the aliases setup I can:

thief summon

thief wearall

Now when they come into the room they are already wearing their equipment (there is a three or so second delay when you call them before they enter). At this point I set up the follower's title (its adjectives) and its gear. I also command the follower to recognize me with my name.