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<blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 3236924" data-attributes="member: 141"><p><s>Minor nitpick: Is it <em>anarchic power</em> or <em>chaotic power</em>?</s>[spoiler]It's anarchic power- I shoulda checked the online SRD instead of my book![/spoiler]</p><p></p><p>Wealth wise- well, this is a +8 bonus. A half-level of wealth (which is one feat) is never going to be equal to a +8 jump in the enhancement of one's best weapon. A 40th level barbarian is going to go from the equivalent of a +13 weapon (+12 regular, +1 from chaotic rage) to a +20 weapon. Only usable during rage, but that hardly seems a significant combat limitation.</p><p></p><p>I want to say that this would be a rather powerful divine ability (6 feats in UK's system). 6 feats is 3 full levels of wealth, concentrated into one weapon... well, even that wouldn't quite be enough. 8 wouldn't be enough (4 levels of wealth). And I be afraid that it would be unbalancing to discard the 25% rule so vehemently, with only a single feat.</p><p></p><p>Maybe if you made it some kind of anarchic power attack; subtract 6 from the attack roll in order to gain the <em>anarchic power</em> ability? Then it is really only a +2 enhancement (+1 over the chaotic rage ability, which it subsumes) and that is a lot more reasonable.</p><p></p><p>Dunno about the save. I wonder where they got the DC 23 from? Maybe give it a Str 27 prerequisite, and make the save DC equal to 10 + Str bonus? It won't scale very quickly, but it would be a bit of an acknowledgment that a flat DC is stagnant and kinda boring. It won't make much of a difference in game play, I don't think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cheiromancer, post: 3236924, member: 141"] [s]Minor nitpick: Is it [i]anarchic power[/i] or [i]chaotic power[/i]?[/s][spoiler]It's anarchic power- I shoulda checked the online SRD instead of my book![/spoiler] Wealth wise- well, this is a +8 bonus. A half-level of wealth (which is one feat) is never going to be equal to a +8 jump in the enhancement of one's best weapon. A 40th level barbarian is going to go from the equivalent of a +13 weapon (+12 regular, +1 from chaotic rage) to a +20 weapon. Only usable during rage, but that hardly seems a significant combat limitation. I want to say that this would be a rather powerful divine ability (6 feats in UK's system). 6 feats is 3 full levels of wealth, concentrated into one weapon... well, even that wouldn't quite be enough. 8 wouldn't be enough (4 levels of wealth). And I be afraid that it would be unbalancing to discard the 25% rule so vehemently, with only a single feat. Maybe if you made it some kind of anarchic power attack; subtract 6 from the attack roll in order to gain the [i]anarchic power[/i] ability? Then it is really only a +2 enhancement (+1 over the chaotic rage ability, which it subsumes) and that is a lot more reasonable. Dunno about the save. I wonder where they got the DC 23 from? Maybe give it a Str 27 prerequisite, and make the save DC equal to 10 + Str bonus? It won't scale very quickly, but it would be a bit of an acknowledgment that a flat DC is stagnant and kinda boring. It won't make much of a difference in game play, I don't think. [/QUOTE]
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