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You have yet to show any "facts" towards any of your conclusions in this post, and are in your way, by comparing a straw-man's dismissal of "old school" gaming to Machiavellian politics, committing the same appeal to emotion that you accuse others of doing. Hobo and others have stated the fact...

Once more into the breech, old friend. We again use the phrase "feat tax" without defining it. What is the meaning other than a post-hoc declamation? That because 99% of some arbitrary cohort of players (15th level, people you know, play in a group that values hitting monsters) use the feat...

"having more in common with each other" =/= same methodology and similar approach. It just means they look alike from a certain angle.

Unless your campaign has Evil Druids that openly revere a Demonic patron that believes that the best way to destroy the world is to "grow" faster than everything else and soak up all the nutrients and minerals in its proliferation, destroying the world. But hey, Druids are the good guys, right?

Quickdraw McGee without Quickdraw is a "bad" character. The Feat is incredibly Good for that player, actually nigh-necessary. And because the Feat is necessary for that player to have a Good character, instead of requiring him to pay Gold for a specialist scabbard, or train his Skill in...

Alright, but what about the case player that really, really wants to make a "Quick Draw" character, mostly for reasons of Role-playing (or other feat-covered possible aspect of a character, such as dual-wielding Wands or having an off-hand Shortsword). Is it a "Feat Tax" because he feels it...

In my world-view, Core means "you can assume pretty much everything in here is plug-and-play". Half-Orc, Gnome. Goliath, Shifter (ack!), Deva. Barbarian, Druid, Bard, Sorcerer. Shaman, Warden, Avenger, Invoker. You can ban these races & classes in the same way you can ban PHB races & classes...

pa-tay-to, pa-tah-to! Katana, Bastard Sword! Martial, Ki! Hit-Points as damage, Hit-points as narrative! Lets call the whole thing off!

Players. The PLAYERS know exactly how much they have. The Characters only know exactly as much about the game-world factoids as your table agrees upon. Some games like Spreadsheets, some don't, and you don't have to force your Spreadsheets ontop of my Storytelling.

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Wait, just so it is clear, could someone explain to me what the Philosophical Argument is against "Feat Tax"? What is the worth/cost of one (or so) less feat at Heroic over 30 levels of 17 other feats? Also, it seems that Feat Tax can be replaced with Item Tax, from what I can tell.

Wait, are you implying that you "made" your wife? That's a claim that Eric's grandma would find appalling!

Well really, the book is applicable to any martial character, you just have to look at the Powers section as well as the feat section. Buying a book just to look at the Feats (and complain about it on the internet) is kinda weird. Not every page is going to be necessary at the same time, but...

Wait, how many feats per tier does your character have? If you really have such a hole in your design that you have more than 1-3 feats that you have to spend somewhere, it means that you have more than half of the possible feats you can gain in a tier blank! We're talking about 6 feats per...

I get what you're saying here, but I disagree with your example. One of the major problems with including a list of Puzzles Riddles and other intellectual encounters is that they are predicated on surprise. And as soon as they are written down in a book, they are not surprising! Putting a...

Can I disagree here? I would hate for WotC to create an interesting yet limited feat to be released in a book called "Complete X". I have Arcane Power, and I don't mind that there are some one-off "race/class combo" feats that are about as new and interesting as feats normally should be, if...

Keepers 1:1 movement on Diagonals! 20% market-rate on exchanges! Treasure Parcels! Milestones! Dragonborn! Tieflings! All that fun stuff. At-Will attacks "Careful/Sure Strikes” – the +2 to hit at-will attack powers have the “Takedown” effect: any attack that leaves a monster with only a...

Does it need to be? Mutants & Masterminds has been around since 2002 and is a multiple ENnie award-winning system, and Green Ronin has been a celebrated games publishing company for longer than that. Yes, Piazo wants to "make money". So does Hasbro & Wizards of the Coast. It isn't a bad...

Its amazingly easy to avoid the edition war when you remember that you don't have an incentive to fight it. To paraphrase a geek-movie quote, "Hasbro is not the evil empire, Pathfinder is not the plucky hero." (And there is no incense, so there) Pathfinder has 10+ years of D20 system design...

I'm probably one of those people who Pathfinder will ultimately not-be-for, considering I found that the D20 system is merely a great system for Spycraft and Modern-World gaming and a poor system for any Magical World campaigns. I'll probably give the book a long-glance and maybe a "rental" at...