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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barolo" data-source="post: 7041197" data-attributes="member: 61932">Ok, I didn't notice this would be a dominating option. As it is not possible to go beyond what one can already get from the normal progression (+5 to att and dmg), I would suppose you are analyzing the one ABI discount to maximize the attack?It seems to me not the dominating option for PCs that intend to go dx based, as it would hurt their AC, dx save, ranged attack, initiative and stealth, while still demanding of them to invest in str at character creation, right? They could even get the ranged version of the feat, but now they just spent two feats without getting the other benefits, and anybody starting with point buy or standard array can manage to spend two ABIs to max out the attack anyway.So looking at str based chars, what I see is that medium and heavy armor sword and board users are getting one feat discount to maximize their melee attack. As a drawback, they don't improve their athletics tests, throwing attacks, str saves*, and still have to invest a significant score to dex at character creation. So, I was thinking this was a fair trade. Maybe I misevaluated it?*I know, they are rare, nobody seems to care about them, but I really dislike being victim of a monster grapple, specially as the party bruteI was thinking of this feat to be somewhat niche, to give old school melee rangers some incentive for not thrashing str, or to give an easier life for those elven heroes that just wanted to wield longswords, and the human melee heroes in shinning armor that don't want to look like a pile of muscle.</blockquote>

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