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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 559992" data-attributes="member: 1210">Wow, thanks for the feedback!Slow and Steady is polearms-only because polearms deserve some feats.  It's basically a flavor thing.I could open it up, but I really do like the idea of a polearm feat chain.Nail, you can't use Safe and Slow when you full attack. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Check the last bit of the description.  Maximillion, the advantage to Safe and Slow is that you can move a little and attack with a +1 AC bonus.  Generally, you can't attack while in total defense mode.  The thing about Safe and Slow is, it gives you a bonus when you're already in a subopitmal position- you can't charge or full attack, you can only get in one attack, and you're almost close enough to full attack anyway.About book keeping nightmares: I agree that this can be a problem, and if I try these out and it's too much of a headache, I'll rework them.  Initiatives in my campaign are sometimes a bookeeping nightmare anyhow, if different groups enter the combat on different rounds.  In a recent 21-round combat (!) imc, the number of creatures on the initiative list changed something like six or eight times, and I think there was a little delaying and readying at such.  I write everybody's action for the round down anyway for my story hour and with high level pcs and such it generally takes one line per character per round these days so I rewrite the initiative order each round anyway as it shifts around.  The thing about feats affecting initiative is that it's an underexploited area of potential for feats.  Only Improved Initiative does anything for you there (and a couple of FR regional feats?)About Swift Actions: I'm glad you guys like it!  I'm using it as a prereq for a chronomancer prestige class I'm making up for a nigh-epic level villain, so I'll post to this thread when I see how much of a pain in the ass it is.</blockquote>

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