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<blockquote data-quote="Benly" data-source="post: 4558578" data-attributes="member: 67591">Yeah, they get to spend a feat to make use of that no-feat-cost bonus proficiency, at a penalty. That's.. that's a great deal there, guys.There isn't (or shouldn't be) a binary of flavor feats vs. functional feats. When you do that, what you're saying is &quot;players who want to make their characters flavorful should be penalized when the dice start hitting the table&quot;. A feat being bad isn't &quot;justified&quot; by it being flavorful - there's no reason the feat couldn't have been good along with being equally flavorful, and making that tradeoff in feat design serves only to create a trap for players who want to make flavorful characters.Personally, I would take off the -1d6 of sneak attack damage. The feat is then at its core statistically similar to Weapon Proficiency: Rapier, with the change from a light blade to a heavy blade flavored by your race choice. You lose Nimble Blade, you gain Heavy Blade Opportunity and Eladrin Soldier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benly, post: 4558578, member: 67591"] Yeah, they get to spend a feat to make use of that no-feat-cost bonus proficiency, at a penalty. That's.. that's a great deal there, guys. There isn't (or shouldn't be) a binary of flavor feats vs. functional feats. When you do that, what you're saying is "players who want to make their characters flavorful should be penalized when the dice start hitting the table". A feat being bad isn't "justified" by it being flavorful - there's [i]no reason[/i] the feat couldn't have been good along with being equally flavorful, and making that tradeoff in feat design serves only to create a trap for players who want to make flavorful characters. Personally, I would take off the -1d6 of sneak attack damage. The feat is then at its core statistically similar to Weapon Proficiency: Rapier, with the change from a light blade to a heavy blade flavored by your race choice. You lose Nimble Blade, you gain Heavy Blade Opportunity and Eladrin Soldier. [/QUOTE]

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