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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5092634" data-attributes="member: 51942">Nobody seems to think they're a good idea, however.  For the price of a feat, the bonus is too much - whether you hand out the bonus for free or don't, is a pretty minor distinction since there are lots of other ways of adjusting the overall difficulty of the game.I mean, anybody seriously considering these kind of house rules will be well capable of adjusting the overall power level of a campaign to their wishes - it's no harder than accomodating a slightly larger or smaller party, after all.Incidentally, though on the topic of math fixes, what's much worse than the attack is the NAD math (before fixer feats) - that's off at level 1, and just gets worse.[sblock=estimate of NAD-math problems]A typical PC will fairly early on in his career have an AC that's 3-4 higher that his average NAD, rising to around 7 behind towards late game.  By contrast monster NAD attacks are a mere 2 lower than ac attacks, and even the AC attacks outpace AC by about 2 over the course of the game...  A level equivalent foe will very roughly hit AC on an 11 at first level, NADs on a 8, and by late-game that'll typically be AC on a 9, and nads on a 3.  In practice the problem's generally worse since the attacker has more choice in terms of which defense to target, and since it's much easier to pimp AC (get a shield, or a defensive weapon, or use any of a number of class features, choose a paragon/epic destiny that pimps AC), so defenders and others expecting to get hit will likely have even more lopsided defenses (a paladin starts off with an average NAD of slightly more than 5 below his AC, for instance).[/sblock]</blockquote>

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