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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 3749306" data-attributes="member: 2011">Yup.Which is why taking a Single Minded Psicrystal gains the abilities of two feats: Skill Focus Concentration and Alertness.It doesn't give the first feat for purposes of PrCs, but it gives the +3.Combat Casting and Combat Manifesting are &quot;terrible choices unless required for an unbalanced PrC&quot; (like Enlightened Fist).+3 all of the time is generally better than +4 some of the time. And in our games, NPCs are sometimes smart enough to try to disrupt spell casting with readied missile fire or spells.Note: This assumes that I2K's interpretation is incorrect which I think it is. If that were the intention of Combat Casting (to always give a +4 bonus), it would be spelled out more clearly than that. If this were designer intent, it would say &quot;caster gets a +4 bonus to all Concentration checks&quot;. This concept of only doing it when needed at low level and always doing it at high level is a play on words and not designer intent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 3749306, member: 2011"] Yup. Which is why taking a Single Minded Psicrystal gains the abilities of two feats: Skill Focus Concentration and Alertness. It doesn't give the first feat for purposes of PrCs, but it gives the +3. Combat Casting and Combat Manifesting are "terrible choices unless required for an unbalanced PrC" (like Enlightened Fist). +3 all of the time is generally better than +4 some of the time. And in our games, NPCs are sometimes smart enough to try to disrupt spell casting with readied missile fire or spells. Note: This assumes that I2K's interpretation is incorrect which I think it is. If that were the intention of Combat Casting (to always give a +4 bonus), it would be spelled out more clearly than that. If this were designer intent, it would say "caster gets a +4 bonus to all Concentration checks". This concept of only doing it when needed at low level and always doing it at high level is a play on words and not designer intent. [/QUOTE]

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