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<blockquote data-quote="drnuncheon" data-source="post: 345908" data-attributes="member: 96">I'd hate to see too many class abilities become feats - it waters down the classes and makes it a whole lot less cool to be a Druid or a Bard or a Rogue.&nbsp; (That's the problem a lot of people have with the entire ELH being based on feats, too...)Anyway, the reason that most of the feats are combat-oriented is simple: the combat rules are the most detailed set of rules in the game.&nbsp; (That's true of almost every RPG, though - the only one I know of where social interaction is given the same level of detail is Pelgrane's Dying Earth game.)&nbsp; Everything else is pretty much handled with a simple die roll, and there's only so many ways you can affect a simple die roll.That said, the aforementioned Dying Earth may well have some inspiration.&nbsp; It allows characters to have certain 'styles' for their Persuade and Rebuff skills, which might be translatable into Feats and/or &quot;social maneuvers&quot;.&nbsp; I haven't come up with anything I'm happy with yet, though.J</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drnuncheon, post: 345908, member: 96"] I'd hate to see too many class abilities become feats - it waters down the classes and makes it a whole lot less cool to be a Druid or a Bard or a Rogue. (That's the problem a lot of people have with the entire ELH being based on feats, too...) Anyway, the reason that most of the feats are combat-oriented is simple: the combat rules are the most detailed set of rules in the game. (That's true of almost every RPG, though - the only one I know of where social interaction is given the same level of detail is Pelgrane's [b][i]Dying Earth[/i][/b] game.) Everything else is pretty much handled with a simple die roll, and there's only so many ways you can affect a simple die roll. That said, the aforementioned [b][i]Dying Earth[/i][/b] may well have some inspiration. It allows characters to have certain 'styles' for their Persuade and Rebuff skills, which might be translatable into Feats and/or "social maneuvers". I haven't come up with anything I'm happy with yet, though. J [/QUOTE]

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