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The difference between feats and class abilities is that you only get feats every 3 levels but you get class abilities at every level and sometime more than one. Gladiator should have been condensed into a 5 level prestige class. It has a narrow focus. I'm not sure it it would be overpowered if...

The prereq puts a bit of a damper on this one. You are sinking a lot of metafeats into suboptimal choices. I suppose if everything is a sonicball you can avoid resistances. I guess how much you like this feat depends on how much you like sonic attacks. This feat is essential a variant double...

Sandals of Tiger's Leap grants the flying kick feat when worn much like cleaving weapons grant cleave and ring of evasion grants evasion. There are a number of feat granting items. A sign of a weak feat is that you can get it in a cheap magic item. When the material is standardized the early...

Who the heck votes average on useless feats like this? I don't see them posting that they voted average and why.

The question is what exactly base DC means. I think it doesn't counts the focus feats and I'm pretty sure it doesn't count spell power but it does count attribute modifiers. I don't think the wizard standing 1000' feet away from the epic wizard is supposed to get to use the epic wizard's DC. I...

This new interpretation of this feat is very interesting. It allows a split level caster to penetrate SR and saves if a fellow pure caster also casts the spell. Lets say an 15th level evocation specialist with greater spell focus and a 15th level dragon disciple (with 7 caster levels) each cast...

Because a feat is a prereq for a prestige class doesn't make it a good feat. The prereq could be any useless feat because the class is balanced by penatly feats like some classes are balanced by bonus feats.

Estates are used in the Mongoose Class books as variants of existing domains. Some aids incorporate 3rd party material because WoTC is so strict about their own.

Autoquicken quickens metamagic spells to free actions if the total spell level is within the quickening range. No one should take this feat, it shouldn't even exist or need to exist.

24d6 with no save is a pretty substantial effect don't you think? The multiple fireballs are nothing special really.

I didn't mean to imply that natural modes were (ex) but that (ex) modifiers to natural movement modes are affected by movement bonuses. The first +20 increase of monk speed is (ex) as is barbarians base speed increase. Those Ex modifiers are not named movement bonuses because named movement...

It is interesting and fitting that all the shield feats are in the "6" category. They are all better than average and are synergistic. Feats have to be amazingly powerful to rate a 7 or above.

There are new types of named bonuses now. Temporary and Movement. This discussion is based around the new named bonus "movement." Monk speed over 50 is a movement bonus. ER is a movement bonus, Boots of SS are a movement bonus, Fly is a movement bonus. Movement bonuses do not stack just like...

This feat is superior to Power Lunge in every way. You double your total damage, not just your strength bonus and you don't provoke an AoO plus you still get the chance to knock your opponent back a square with shield bash.

Skill ranks are limited for the same reason you can't buy up specific saves and BAB. A character of a certain level has a certain amount of power. Hyperspecialization makes a character better than a 20th level character in one aspect but inferior in all other aspects. Imagine a 3rd level...

1) If it stacks up well against core classes then 2) players will take this class and 3) those players will have fun if they like playing powerful characters. If a class is weak, its easy to give the NPC as many extra levels as it takes to compensate so an NPC can have any class you want to...

If everyone is rating prestige classes by different criteria then the result is relatively meaningless. Feats are rated on relative power, prestige classes should be rated on the same basis. Some prestige classes sacrifice little to gain little, others sacrifice a little of everything to get a...

If you just want ranged heals there are many spells from different sources that heal at range. The most core is healing circle but there is mass stabilize at lvl 2 (heals everyone within 30' 1 hp from dragon magazine and spells and spellcraft has at least one ranged healing effect. You still...

As far as metamagic feats go, this one is probably below average or just average. Its sometimes useful in the way that a stilled, silent spell is useful. Empower, extend and persistent are much more universallly useful. People rating it highly are exclusively thinking of ranged harm and being...

This isn't a feat I'd mind getting for free as part of a prestige class package unlike some of the other divine feats that would never see use if every character got them tacked on as 1st level base class abilities. This feat is exactly useful for clearing out the mooks while you drink your...