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Within the initiative order you are correct (IMHO). The Cleaver already threatened me, but chose to attack someone else, dropped them, then swung into me (with their theatrical momentum). When it is an opponent's iniative I expect that they will try to attack me. This is logical and fine. On...

The basis for allowing a character to get an attack outside of the normal initiative sequence (an AOO) is that a threatened opponent has dropped their guard. I can see no logical reason why if someone near me drops their guard that I should then be subject to an extra out-of-initiative...

Not only would the better fighters (fighter, ranger, etc.). still get the feet a level earlier, but the rogue would have lost out on any benefit from the feat for a level. But I am repeating myself.

Hyp, Agreed. There is a very slight power boost at work. Of course, in order to get that "boost" the druid had to give up some power at first level (ie the unusable feat).

Karinsdad, You responded mostly to issues of your own creation. I don't think anyone suggested that one could simply say 'I reserve my choice until it's convenient', but rather, that the specific feat choice could be made in advance of it being qualified for. In your example of Weapon Focus...

I have yet to see a concrete example of how allowing players to pick feats before they qualify for them would create unbalance. And even if you can come up with some strange corner case unbalanced scenario, IMHO, the idea that a player is able to delay gratification and plan ahead are more...

Spell Mastery Spell Mastery feat You may Master a number of spell levels equal to the sum of your caster level and your Int modifier, doubled. These spells may be prepared in advance without need for a spellbook. Mastered spells are chosen once and may not be changed. For example, a 5th...

Current Round IMC we keep track of which round we are in. For example "Round 1, Initiative 28" then count down from there. It is then very easy to track what once per round means. I'm not sure why you're asking whether it applies to "Next round, or last round?". It applies to the current...

We are currently unhappy with the Ready action limitations, and are considering a house rule that would let you ready any type of action (free, move, standard, full). What are the possibilities for abuse in letting characters ready free actions, move actions, standard actions or full round...

Interesting. I anticipated that reaction would be the opposite--that is, that the penalty would be seen as too weak. But you are essentially claiming that it makes the class completely unappealing... Still, I like the ability. It ties in nicely with the Dryad's Tree Dependence. I want there...

Nature's Child Added something for a bit more balance, perhaps... L1: Nature Sense (Ex), Wild Empathy (Ex), Nature's Child (Ex) L2: Woodland Stride (Ex), Trackless Step (Ex) L3: Wildshape (1/day, small) Nature's Child: If you stay in an area you are not native to longer than your True Druid...

Unlimited wildshape does sound great, but I think in reality 6 times a day is not that far off from unlimited. What I mean is this--in a typical adventuring day a druid probably does a bit of scouting in bird form, then a lot of fighting in one maybe two or three forms (lion, tiger, bear), then...

My interpretation The intent as I see it (and this is, of course, my opinion) of the "with the same bonus" phrase in the Cleave description is to make it clear that it is not an iterative attack, nor does it suffer any penalty for being an 'extra' attack. I would therefore take the same BAB as...

Your examples are not valid comparisons because none of those actions have the specific statement "with the same attack bonus" attached to them.

Trollman, Do you have a link for either of these two statements (Andy or Skip)? Not meant as a challenge to your statement, but I would like to source them to avoid other disagreements later.

Here's how I modified your great feat idea. Wormtongue (feat) By making a successful Bluff check you may conceal a spell's verbal components within normal nonmagical speech without allowing anyone to notice. The Bluff check is opposed by anyone able to listen to the conversation by making a...

House rule Sharing the XP Burden Others may share the XP cost of creation, following the general formula: caster cost = normal cost ÷ number of participants each participant's cost = 2 x normal cost ÷ number of participants. So, the caster may cut their XP cost in half if another accepts...

I too really like this spell. It seems to me that you could use this spell to move in on a creature with reach without penalty. But then maybe that's the point... How about Velbrik's Shadowstep instead of Stutterstep? I believe I'll be stealing this as well.

Spatzimaus, I agree with an earlier poster that a feat + spell levels is too expensive, but metamagics are too good to just be one feat. So I think it could go either way, make the ability free (no feat), but keep the spell level increase, or let the feats drain away the spell level increase...