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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pedantic" data-source="post: 9405917" data-attributes="member: 6690965">Surely that could be better achieved then by not writing the feat the way it is? The proposal here is not that the feat grant a new action, but instead it should be understood to mitigate a penalty. There's no reason it couldn't simply have done that, instead of existing the way it does.I personally don't think it's good that the penalty is left as a game design exercise to the reader, but setting aside that issue, the presentation is pretty clearly bad. The proposed penalty could have been explicitly written into the ability, and/or the feat could have been written to clearly mitigate the penalty instead of as if it grants new capabilities.Setting aside the question of how complete the action description should be and how much should be left up the to the GM to design in the moment, I really can't think of a worse way to present what is apparently the desired play here without outright counterindicating it.</blockquote>