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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6631633" data-attributes="member: 7006">Therein lies the question though-- if those feats are indeed &quot;very broken&quot; to a certain subset of players (that subset which are playing in the late 3rd / 4th tier and who are focusing their party around giving the GWM/SS feat holder the best chance for success)... is that very broken *enough* to warrant actually changing the game in its entirety through errata?My guess is the answer from WotC's p.o.v. will be &quot;No&quot;.&nbsp; Reason being... the &quot;fix&quot; to a numerical issue that only a certain segment of the players was finding will end up being more of an issue to a greater number of people.&nbsp; The solution being worse than the problem-- the old &quot;Weapon Focus Feat&quot; conundrum.&nbsp; Wherein WotC decision's to try and fix a slight damage imbalance in the 4E math resulted in the creation of a fix that ended up pissing more people off and causing more conflict that the original issue itself did.&nbsp; And I would suspect that any official change to GWM/SS runs the same risk to the rest of the D&amp;D population.The fact that the game itself tells you to make any changes you need to it for your own best experience is really all that they need to do to &quot;fix&quot; this problem.&nbsp; Any DM and table who finds themselves having these GWM/SS issues can make their own ruling to counteract the issue, rather than WotC needing to write down an &quot;official&quot; change that affects everybody.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6631633, member: 7006"] Therein lies the question though-- if those feats are indeed "very broken" to a certain subset of players (that subset which are playing in the late 3rd / 4th tier and who are focusing their party around giving the GWM/SS feat holder the best chance for success)... is that very broken *enough* to warrant actually changing the game in its entirety through errata? My guess is the answer from WotC's p.o.v. will be "No". Reason being... the "fix" to a numerical issue that only a certain segment of the players was finding will end up being more of an issue to a greater number of people. The solution being worse than the problem-- the old "Weapon Focus Feat" conundrum. Wherein WotC decision's to try and fix a slight damage imbalance in the 4E math resulted in the creation of a fix that ended up pissing more people off and causing more conflict that the original issue itself did. And I would suspect that any official change to GWM/SS runs the same risk to the rest of the D&D population. The fact that the game itself tells you to make any changes you need to it for your own best experience is really all that they need to do to "fix" this problem. Any DM and table who finds themselves having these GWM/SS issues can make their own ruling to counteract the issue, rather than WotC needing to write down an "official" change that affects [i]everybody[/i]. [/QUOTE]

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