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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 3980204" data-attributes="member: 1003">But only if the Skill comes up in the game.&nbsp; That's the point I've been trying to make all along.&nbsp; If you blow your Feats on +125 bonuses to Diplomacy, and all your opponents are Iron Golems, guess what?&nbsp; The guy with Weapon Focus is better off than you!That may be an extreme example, but I did ask my current DM to let me retool my current PC a couple times because the Feat choices I had made in anticipation of adventures that never happened were non-ideal in the campaign as it actually evolved.Also, the Skill will only come up if that's what you want to play.&nbsp; If the player in question is a Robin Laws Buttkicker or combat-centric Powergamer, those Social Mastery Feats are useless, no matter how cool they are.The Intimidate Feats should be numerically similar to the Diplo Feats, but they absolutely do not need to be numerically similar to the combat feats.&nbsp; Totally different mini-games, to use the parlance of the thread.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 3980204, member: 1003"] But [B][I]only if the Skill comes up in the game[/I][/B]. That's the point I've been trying to make all along. If you blow your Feats on +125 bonuses to Diplomacy, and all your opponents are Iron Golems, guess what? The guy with Weapon Focus is better off than you! That may be an extreme example, but I did ask my current DM to let me retool my current PC a couple times because the Feat choices I had made in anticipation of adventures that never happened were non-ideal in the campaign as it actually evolved. Also, the Skill will only come up if that's what you want to play. If the player in question is a Robin Laws Buttkicker or combat-centric Powergamer, those Social Mastery Feats are [I]useless[/I], no matter how cool they are. The Intimidate Feats should be numerically similar to the Diplo Feats, but they absolutely do not need to be numerically similar to the combat feats. Totally different mini-games, to use the parlance of the thread. [/QUOTE]

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