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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 3122256" data-attributes="member: 1757">Okay; for some slightly more quantitative responses:1) Harrier + finesse weapons: IMHO, this is of the same species as the rogue's restriction to certain weapons: Namely, flavor. hong actually refers to the same issue in his IH hack: <a href="http://www.zipworld.com.au/~hong/ih/harrier.htm" target="_blank">http://www.zipworld.com.au/~hong/ih/harrier.htm</a>2) Weapon master & quantitative analysis: Well, I'd submit that it's difficult to make a suitably rigorous quantitative comparison between the weapon master and equivalent melee-monster PC archetypes. As A'koss says, the WM has a higher BAB, BDB, and max feat mastery than its nearest equivalents (the straight-up berserker and the man-at-arms melee weapon specialist). It has lower damage-dealing capability than the 'zerk (+1/5 levels BAB is little match for berserk strength combined with Power feats) and roughly equivalent resilience (BDB balances out the 'zerk's superior hp and Con boosts). The WM trades the 'zerk's range of potential immunities for cool weapon tricks, with a roughly similar power-up rate. So the question is: Does its higher feat mastery and cool trick array compensate for the 'zerk's damage-dealing ability? Answer: Maybe (if the WM has token restrictions based on opponent) and definitely (if the WM's token abilities have no restrictions based on opponent). That's my back-of-the-envelope.</blockquote>

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