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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Negative Zero" data-source="post: 1143328" data-attributes="member: 3794">Varianor, i'm not sure i agree with your way of thinking. that's like saying that since the tracking feat is more useful to someone with survival as a class skill, it's designed badly. the way i see it, all feats are designed to help a certain situation/class/ability more than others. it then becomes the player's/character's choice whether it's worth it to them to take the feat. by the same token, giving a flat bonus, in fact, does the same thing you're saying this feat does, just in the opposite way. while this feat might have a greater numerical value to larger hit die classes, the actual effect is the same for all classes. the original Toughness feat, while it gives a static numeric bonus, the actual effect varies according to the class. classes with a smaller hit die gain more from the static bonus than those with a bigger hit die. i.e. 3 hit points is more valuable to someone who is limited to a maximum of 4 hit points (75% of their total) than it is to someone with a max of 12 (25% - one third the bonus). all i mean by this comparison is that the argument works both ways, and as such isn't really valid (IMO). personally i don't like this philosophy; that game features are meant for "x" and "x" only. it's the rationale behind change to power attack in 3.5: "we meant for you to do this with it, and if you're not then you're wrong." i disagree. if you're tougher than average then you should be tougher than average. i guess my way of thinking adds "... for your class" to that statement.  Nifft, so you're basically saing that because "you get more use out of the feat by taking it earlier rather than later", then you don't like it, right? assuming that i interpretted that correctly, then i suppose i can see your point. however, your method also rewards those with larger hit dice as those are usually the classes with good fort saves (which seems to be criticized as a design flaw here). also, it runs the risk of providing a HUGE benefit all at once if taken at later levels, which doesn't sit well with me. ~NegZ</blockquote>

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