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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 5000917" data-attributes="member: 14197">Well, they could have done:1,3,5,7,9 at Heroic11,13,15,17,19,20 at Paragon21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 30 at EpicYes, it would have given you a string of feats at 19,20,21, but that's a good place to stack an extra feat (20th) because that's on the crux of being EPIC. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> and getting a bonus feat at 20th sounds like an EPIC good time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Obviously, they would have had to slightly change the levels of the power progression, but it could have worked.  I came up with the revised feat progression in about 10 seconds, and I imagine that a couple of days with some smart designers and developers would have been able to make it work.The key here is that WOTC didn't see that there was problem (sensing that the monster defenses were just fine as they were).  Once they got pressured to fix it by their math-wizard fans, I think that's when the spiral occurred.They couldn't reprint the PHB (or the MM1 if they simply reduced the defenses of paragon and epic monsters) so they ended up fixing it with feats.</blockquote>

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