Kerrick
First Post
I talked to a guy this weekend who's looking for a group (like me); we hooked up through the FLGS. Anyway, he was telling me about his PC, a paladin, and he mentioned that characters didn't get enough feats - he had to "wait a long time between levels". It's a fairly common complaint, though I'm not sure if I've ever noted it myself. I've been against the idea simply because monsters follow the same rules as PCs, and they get enough feats as it is. Well, that and if everyone gets a feat every 2 levels, what will the fighter do?
But then I started to think: Why? Why not leave monsters at 1/3, and give PCs 1/2? The only "problem" I could see is that you'd run out of feats to take after awhile (assuming you don't have a hoard of books to choose from).
There's another idea I came up with today at work: why not let some feats, i.e., Dodge, Great Fort, Lightning Ref, Iron Will, Spell Focus, and Spell Penetration, stack? I already do this with Dodge and the +2 save feats; letting SF and SP stack would eliminate the greater and epic versions (which have no prereqs besides the base feat). The way I figure it, if a mage wants to blow 5 feats to get a +5 to his spell DCs, he should be allowed to, eh? The only thing I'm worried about is that using 10 + 1/2 caster level + spell level for spell DCs (which scales nicely with saves) with this rule might make spellcasters a little too strong (even if it is only one school) - with all those extra feat slots, a mage would be stupid NOT to dump a few feats into Spell Focus.
But then I started to think: Why? Why not leave monsters at 1/3, and give PCs 1/2? The only "problem" I could see is that you'd run out of feats to take after awhile (assuming you don't have a hoard of books to choose from).
There's another idea I came up with today at work: why not let some feats, i.e., Dodge, Great Fort, Lightning Ref, Iron Will, Spell Focus, and Spell Penetration, stack? I already do this with Dodge and the +2 save feats; letting SF and SP stack would eliminate the greater and epic versions (which have no prereqs besides the base feat). The way I figure it, if a mage wants to blow 5 feats to get a +5 to his spell DCs, he should be allowed to, eh? The only thing I'm worried about is that using 10 + 1/2 caster level + spell level for spell DCs (which scales nicely with saves) with this rule might make spellcasters a little too strong (even if it is only one school) - with all those extra feat slots, a mage would be stupid NOT to dump a few feats into Spell Focus.