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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1042278" data-attributes="member: 707">The danger is irrelevant.  If the ability is unbalanced at that level (which Monte thinks it is, hence the Caster Level 10+ prerequisite,) then the fact that he may fail is completely beside the point.Why?Because if he succeeds, he has a power that is out of line with his level.  And if he fails, he simply allows his PC to die and rolls up another character...then tries again.You could use the same logic (he might fail) to justify allowing a 1st-level character to draw from the Deck of Many Things.  After all, he might be Imprisoned on a distant plane!  But the truth of the matter is that, regardless of consequences, success (such as 50,000xp, for the Deck,) is unbalancing.It's the same with the feat from BoEMIII.  It has a level requirement because Monte thinks the power itself isn't balanced until then.  Just because he could fail to gain the power doesn't make the power any less unbalanced at low levels.</blockquote>