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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 5507642" data-attributes="member: 63763">I would argue the situational means in terms of their usefulness being dependent on the kind of monsters you are facing. Bypassing insubstantial is only useful in the situations where you are facing monsters with insubstantial, for example. [Ditto with regeneration/leader foes]. They aren't exactly common. Situational doesn't necessarily mean bad though. I see those kinds of powers as worst case scenario planning. While some feats make you slightly better at the things you are best at (weapon focus, slightly increasing the damage you do most of the time), these feats make bad situations more palatable, in some cases actually making those bad situations better than normal seeing as regen and insubstantial ussually means the monster has fewer HP to start with. Still, when the feat is "does nothing unless you are facing this kind of monster", it's going to be considered situational. For a shadow focused campaign (say using the Shadowfell boxed set coming a month after Heroes of Shadow drops) the likelihood of running into undead creatures and those with insubstantial is significantly increased, and thus making those feats more valuable. Similarly, someone playing through the original adventure path might grab the anti-regen feat at level 10, and retrain it out after the end of the Troll book. EDIT: There are definitely other kinds of situational feats. Ones not based on monsters being faced but on how the DM plays monsters, such as feats which modify OAs. If the monsters, on the whole, avoid provoking like the plague, the fighter probably would be wasting their feat option to make their OAs more deadly. Similarly, there are feats that only apply in certain types of terrain, etc.</blockquote>

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