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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pyrex" data-source="post: 3628054" data-attributes="member: 11600">Not sure we're quite connecting here, so let me try again.There are some problems with purchasing feats with XP, here are my main issues:1) Not all feats are created equal.  This is just a given.  Power Attack is a stronger feat than Toughness.2) Not all feats are as strong at all levels.A first level wizard can take Quicken Spell, but it's completely useless until at least caster level 73) Linear costs for feats aren't reasonable.500xp/feat is really expensive at 1st or 2nd level, but chump change at 10th.  5000xp is hugely expensive even at 20th level, but is a drop in the bucket at 40th.4) Simply scaling the costs doesn't work either, because it just encourages front-loading.Any system where a feat costs k*CurrentLevel won't work because players will just buy as many feats as possible as early as possible because the currently-low XP cost will have become meaningless 4-5 levels down the road.Given 1-4 above, that suggests that any cost system for buying feats needs to be not only Scaled, but almost certainly Progressive and probably with a short-term multiplicative component.For Example:--  Scaling: Each Feat costs 20% of your current level --> CurrentLevel*200xp--  Scaling + Progressive: Each additional feat costs an additional 10% --> CurrentLevel*(BonusFeats*100xp + 200xp)--  Scaling + Progressive + Short Term: Each additional feat this level costs a further 10% --> CurrentLevel*(BonusFeats*100xp + BonusFeatsThisLevel*100xp + 200xp)This way every time you purchase a feat it has a significant cost at that moment.  Also, each successive feat is more expensive than the last, and buying lots of feats really quickly costs more and more XP.Front-loading is *still* an option, but could be discouraged by increasing the ShortTerm multiplier.</blockquote>

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