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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7851068" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Right, which is an inherent limitation to the proposal. Feats are not remotely balanced against each other, or between builds, and granting more feats only exacerbates that imbalance. A comprehensive solution would involve modifying feats so that they were more balanced, and also introducing new feats for archetypes which are currently unsupported.Aren't you getting rid of flat ability score increases, though? It certainly sounded like you weren't going to allow those, at least for the three feats at level one. GWM is comparable to +2 Strength, and a closer analysis reveals that it's often-but-not-always the superior choice for certain builds. If you've removed the option to take +2 Strength, though, then GWM loses its competition; it becomes the obvious-and-only choice for a melee damage-dealer.In the base game, it's not the choice between GWM and +2 Strength which is unbalanced. It's the fact that, after +2 Strength is no longer an option (because you've capped out), GWM still gives you an equivalent power boost. With GWM/Sentinel/Polearm, you're operating on the power level of someone who has Strength 26, while the poor wizard is actually capped at a power level of Int 20.I don't know how you're planning to generate ability scores, but if they're capped at 15 to start, then the fighter who takes GWM/Sentinel/Polearm is effectively operating with a 21, while a wizard with the exact combination of Keen Mind / Observant / Linguist is stuck with an 18. And if the wizard takes any other combination of feats, they can't even reach that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7851068, member: 6775031"] Right, which is an inherent limitation to the proposal. Feats are not remotely balanced against each other, or between builds, and granting more feats only exacerbates that imbalance. A comprehensive solution would involve modifying feats so that they were more balanced, and also introducing new feats for archetypes which are currently unsupported. Aren't you getting rid of flat ability score increases, though? It certainly sounded like you weren't going to allow those, at least for the three feats at level one. GWM is [I]comparable [/I]to +2 Strength, and a closer analysis reveals that it's often-but-not-always the superior choice for certain builds. If you've removed the option to take +2 Strength, though, then GWM loses its competition; it becomes the obvious-and-only choice for a melee damage-dealer. In the base game, it's not the choice between GWM and +2 Strength which is unbalanced. It's the fact that, after +2 Strength is no longer an option (because you've capped out), GWM still gives you an equivalent power boost. With GWM/Sentinel/Polearm, you're operating on the power level of someone who has Strength 26, while the poor wizard is [I]actually [/I]capped at a power level of Int 20. I don't know how you're planning to generate ability scores, but if they're capped at 15 to start, then the fighter who takes GWM/Sentinel/Polearm is effectively operating with a 21, while a wizard with the exact combination of Keen Mind / Observant / Linguist is stuck with an 18. And if the wizard takes any other combination of feats, they can't even reach that. [/QUOTE]

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