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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9017671" data-attributes="member: 7030563">Nick does require an extra roll.  The others you mention here don't.  More to the point they are not simple, especially when a weapon has two masterys and you need to decide which to apply.Except that is literally twice as many rolls on a character 1st to 4th level, and that is before you consider things like Silvery Barbs, Lucky Feats, inspiration etc.And it is before you consider the time it takes to figure out which mastery to take and what to do on level up which will all take longer.  Something like DND Beyond can minimize this, but on pen and paper it is going to take time and space on the character sheet to write that down.You say "easy DC 14" but I would argue at least 30% of the time someone does not know what their DC is on a battlemaster maneuver.  At least 30%, and this will be no different.Not in my experience.  It is adding math and time at a minimum and we don't need adding time to combat for no reason.  The time combat takes already is probably the biggest detractor in the game.  Oh I hit him .... what mastery do I get to do now ... I will do this one ... no I will do that one ... wait he is immune to prone so I will do this one instead.There is no doubt this will increase the time combat takes, even if you believe it is minimal, it will absolutely take longer than combat currently does.  I don't see any value from it, what is the positive in terms of play and story that you get from it in exchange for that extra time it takes?</blockquote>

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