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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2648299" data-attributes="member: 707">You seem to be unwilling to acknowledge that unbelievability and unbalanced are two different things.  Just because something is unbelievable does not make it unbalanced.  The Whirlwind Attack feat allows a single 2nd-level fighter to attack 17 opponents in 6 seconds.  Is this somewhat unbelievable?  Sure.  But it's not unbalanced.  You keep asserting that Deflect Arrows is unbalanced because it's unbelievable, and my stance, again, is that it may be unbelievable to you, but that doesn't make it unbalanced, i.e. more powerful than other options available at that level.Hrm.  Let's look back at the conversation, shall we?You've missed it in your own posts?It was a scenario designed to illustrate a point.  For goodness' sake, not every scenario I use to illustrate my point needs to have a 1st level character with Deflect Arrows in it to be relevant to what I'm trying to say!No, the presence of others who dislike Deflect Arrows means nothing of the sort.  It merely means that their personal believability thresholds have been breached as well.Leroy was a young man with years of training and no practical experience.  That's the definition of a 1st-level character.  Although in the case of Leroy, he must have been at least 2nd, since he could deflect arrows! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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