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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahglock" data-source="post: 4002018" data-attributes="member: 56725">Since no one else is agreeing with you, I'll chime in and say yes it is a craptasitc feat.  You may get what 17 feats by level 30, so a feat while a smaller investment in 4e than in 3e it is still a decent investment.  And so what you spend a feat so maybe once a night you can act one extra round, and your initiative may still suck so all the cool wall of fire uses don't work after blowing an action point and a feat.  I'm not sure I'd let the AP mechanic handle it on its own since then no PC would ever lose a round in an ambush unless I was an ambush happy DM.        Still it really is a crappy feat unless you get ambushed a lot, and even then unless APs refresh quickly its only mediocre.  If I am going to spend a feat on an ability that is likely going to be once a session and cost me an AP it better be more impressive than getting to act in the surprise round.</blockquote>