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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2646627" data-attributes="member: 707">How?  How does the scenario show any inequality at all between the two feats I mention?  They are exactly equal.  Both feats are available at level 1.  One feat adds one ranged attack per round, one feat subtracts one ranged attack per round.  Where is the inequality?You may think it's unbelievable.  But you have yet to show any basis at all for claiming that it's unbalanced.Okay, so you're conceding that as written Deflect Arrows is fine, since Rapid Shot--or being above sixth-level--prevents it from completely protecting a character from ranged attacks, as you argued earlier.  Your only objection at this point is the scenario above, namely that a 1st-level character can be fighting 3 orcs and deflect an arrow at the same time.I'm curious.  What makes this so much more unbelievable than, say, a fourth orc?  Isn't it just as unbelievable that a 1st-level character can be facing in all directions simultaneously, defending himself equally well from all 4?Your objection to Deflect Arrows seems to be entirely based on your personal believability threshold.  That's fine.  In that case I guess we can just agree to disagree.  I don't have a problem with Deflect Arrows on a believability level, because it doesn't seem any more outlandish than many of the other feats and abiliities in the game.  But obviously YMMV, and does.</blockquote>