> From: David Dunham <david_at_...>
>You're getting away from the elegant simplicity of the follower
>rules. They don't have to be absolutely faceless, but they are
>designed to be more or less replaceable at will.
>
>Note also that hero points can't normally be used for anyone but
>yourself -- if you've split off a follower to act independently, you
>can't use your HP to bump their rolls.
My initial reaction was that this is too strict an interpretation. However,
thinking about it, if your follower acts independently a lot and you spend
an HP on them you have effectively converted them over to being a weak
ally. This might be the simplest way to handle it.
Thom