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<blockquote data-quote="mirzabah" data-source="post: 186536" data-attributes="member: 3211"><p>Not really. Seeking cover against an archer, or attacking him is not something you do when the archer fires his arrow - you do it in your turn. But the proposed feat implies that the archer's friend can (attempt to) make an opening at the time the archer fires. This kind of breaks the rules of initiative. Your argument is also besides the point. d20 melee combat abstracts a lot of dancing around, what the feat implies is that a person that has taken it dances (no pun intended) in such as a way to offer an archer a shot at his opponent. What I'm saying is that if someone tried that on me, I'd dance right back.If their friend is aiming at a rock, perhaps, but a real live opponent is not going to just sit there and make like a pincushion. If you're fighting someone who is obviously trying to make room for an archer to get a shot in wouldn't you attempt to counter such a move? If you allow the first, you must also allow the second - either by introducing an counter-feat, or by allowing your feat to be used in a defensive fashion. Or by dropping the whole mess.OK, so I was being a bit rude. Sorry to all concerned. But it still doesn't make the feat a good idea. I wouldn't say that it was unbalanced - except in the sense that perhaps it's underpowered. Rather, I think it's just silly and doesn't really fit the rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="mirzabah, post: 186536, member: 3211"] Not really. Seeking cover against an archer, or attacking him is not something you do when the archer fires his arrow - you do it in your turn. But the proposed feat implies that the archer's friend can (attempt to) make an opening at the time the archer fires. This kind of breaks the rules of initiative. Your argument is also besides the point. d20 melee combat abstracts a lot of dancing around, what the feat implies is that a person that has taken it dances (no pun intended) in such as a way to offer an archer a shot at his opponent. What I'm saying is that if someone tried that on me, I'd dance right back.If their friend is aiming at a rock, perhaps, but a real live opponent is not going to just sit there and make like a pincushion. If you're fighting someone who is obviously trying to make room for an archer to get a shot in wouldn't you attempt to counter such a move? If you allow the first, you must also allow the second - either by introducing an counter-feat, or by allowing your feat to be used in a defensive fashion. Or by dropping the whole mess.OK, so I was being a bit rude. Sorry to all concerned. But it still doesn't make the feat a good idea. I wouldn't say that it was unbalanced - except in the sense that perhaps it's underpowered. Rather, I think it's just silly and doesn't really fit the rules. [/QUOTE]

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