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Message: <blockquote data-quote="c0mA" data-source="post: 2645433" data-attributes="member: 31392">like deflecting an arrow coming in at you @ 300'/sec (200mph av.) when you are in melee with three orcs, two of which are flanking you.  sure its a feat, but for a first level character to be able to accomplish this is unbalancing using RAW.which was my point exactly.  i was using a hypothetical to show how this overpowered feat needs some toning down.  there are too many situations where this feat can be abused as is.  for instance, your party encounters the BBEG (who has deflect arrows).  the dm has it set up so that taking him out normally would be hard to do for the party, for whatever reason, but the one rogue/fighter archer has a slew of +1 arrows that do +2d6 fire damage.  the rogue/fighter, if he does not have rapid shot and isn't high enough level, cannot ever hit the BBEG.for those of you argueing against an exagerration thinking it would never happen, well that wasn't the point.  i can think of many instances where an NPC with the deflect arrows feat completely neutralizes at least one of the PCs for the entire combat, or has the possibility to do so.an opposed attack roll could have DEX as its modifier, or STR.  i didn't explain further because its our house rule and i didn't feel like expanding upon it here.</blockquote>