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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seule" data-source="post: 1084193" data-attributes="member: 407">Sure, my feats don't come into play most of the time.  They don't have to.  My character is still perfectly capable of swinging a sword the rest of the time, casting low level clerical spells to take a load off the party cleric, and has some useful Ranger skills like Search, Listen and Spot, although limited to 4 ranks.I use a Falchion in unmounted combat, as it's my God's favoured weapon, and Power Attack helps there quite a bit.In short, as I tell everyone before I start play with new people, my character off his horse is a fair fighter and a backup Cleric.  On his horse, he rules the battlefield.  It's a fair trade.  The mounted feats, to compensate for not always being applicable, are very powerful when they do apply.  I understand that playing a character like this doesn't appeal to most people, and frankly that's a lot of why I do it: to be different.  I have proved many times that it can be very effective.Secondly, telling me that I am powergaming (...powergaming and min-maxing is encouraged) and that I am ineffective (...less than half the combats is bad trade) seems both inflammatory and contradictory.  Maybe we can just agree that I like the character and think it's an interesting tradeoff, and that you don't.  There's room for all kinds.Note, the most effective mounted fighter is undoubtedly the Paladin.  Summonable mounts is a wonderful thing.  --Seule</blockquote>

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