How do you deal with characters when they whine in confusion?

[JacktheRabbit]

Design flaw: the feat goes up & down in usefulness as the fighter's BAB increases. At level 6 he'll be able to hold a +1 attack. At level 8 a +3. At level 10 a +5.

At level 11, he's back to holding a +1 attack again.

J

Good point and very true.

 

[Pielorinho]

Not that I like this feat, but I think you could amend it to avoid that design flaw:

The feat allows a character at any point during a full attack action to sacrifice all remaining iterative attacks to ready a single attack. Her readied attack uses the attack bonus that her next iterative attack would normally use.

Thus, a fighter with this feat and a BAB of +17/+12/+7/+2 could decide to attack once (at +17) and ready an attack (at +12); or she could attack twice (at +17/+12) and ready an attack (at +7); or she could attack three times (at +17/+12/+7) and ready an attack (at +2). If she wants her readied attack to be at a higher attack bonus, she'll have to give up all remaining iterative attacks.

Daniel