Craven feat: overpowered?

[Shin Okada]

Then Weapon Specialization also improves with level.

Bye
Thanee

Oops my mistake. I have not slept for 36 hours.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Then Weapon Specialization also improves with level.

True enough!

Of course, depending on how you look at it, you could construct a pretty decent argument that WWA and Weapon Focus actually degrade with level.

After all, making 6 attacks when you could normally make only 1 is a huge improvement. Likewise, +2 AB instead of +1 AB is a 100% improvement. 6 attacks vs. 4, and +9 instead of +8? Not so much.

 

[Goolpsy]

It isn't that broken, well it is, and its not.
There an old 3.0 feat from the traps and threachery books.. that increase sneak attack dice by one ( from d6 to d8)
thats an average of 1 damage/2 levels.

Its nearly the same, even without the drawback..

Maybe the feat should be altered so that.. its +1 per sneak attack dice.. instead of per level...

 

[Darkness]

What I really don't understand is that "per character level".

This means that you could take a single level of Rogue, and then go for a straight Fighter, dealing, at 20th level, +20 damage with each sneak attack.

That's ridicuolous.

Agreed. Consider this one house-ruled to 'per class level in classes with sneak attack' (or possible even to 'per sneak attack die').

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

rant

OK, so this feat is only _twice_ as good as it should be.

Does WoTC even have a board to review feats before they publish anymore? Is any playtesting done? Or do words go straight from the designers pen to the published book?

It's a little absurd that this got in. I can't believe I bought this book. What a waste of money.

Ken

 

[BoneMan]

I house ruled Craven to allow +1 damage per Rogue Level, not Character Level.
Any Feats or Class/Prestige class features that stack with Rogue will also stack with Craven.

 

[CapnZapp]

It isn't that broken, well it is, and its not.
There an old 3.0 feat from the traps and threachery books.. that increase sneak attack dice by one ( from d6 to d8)
thats an average of 1 damage/2 levels.

Its nearly the same, even without the drawback..

It's actually quite a lot less broken.

First off it's half the benefit.

Second, it relies on you keep taking levels in classes that grant sneak dice.

A Fighter 19/Rogue 1 multiclass would gain +20 per sneak attack with Craven, while he would upgrade ONE d6 to a d8 with your feat.