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<blockquote data-quote="Marshall" data-source="post: 5759295" data-attributes="member: 765"><p>Absolutely false and this logic is where truly red and deep purple powers come from. Powers should ALWAYS be targeted to be useful for everyone most of the time and EXTRA useful in niche situations or for certain builds. Powers that have obscure triggers, extremely situational targets or major portions of the effects built into the build riders are no-gos. Thats before powers that are just mechanically inept or &quot;different fluff-but-worse mechanics&quot; than existing powers. All of which we are seeing a LOT of in recent articles. Take for example the egregious Flight power in the Rake, its already been established that in multiple PrCs that a Flight speed is appropriate for 16th level PrC features and instead we get encounter Pixie level flight. Now we have a &quot;Peter Pan&quot; PrC, so that design space is closed AND THE MECHANICS ARE TERRIBLE so any PC that takes it isnt going to be a serious contributor to the party or, even worse, the DM is going to have to make allowances for the anchor on the partys capability.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Marshall, post: 5759295, member: 765"] Absolutely false and this logic is where truly red and deep purple powers come from. Powers should ALWAYS be targeted to be useful for everyone most of the time and EXTRA useful in niche situations or for certain builds. Powers that have obscure triggers, extremely situational targets or major portions of the effects built into the build riders are no-gos. Thats before powers that are just mechanically inept or "different fluff-but-worse mechanics" than existing powers. All of which we are seeing a LOT of in recent articles. Take for example the egregious Flight power in the Rake, its already been established that in multiple PrCs that a Flight speed is appropriate for 16th level PrC features and instead we get encounter Pixie level flight. Now we have a "Peter Pan" PrC, so that design space is closed AND THE MECHANICS ARE TERRIBLE so any PC that takes it isnt going to be a serious contributor to the party or, even worse, the DM is going to have to make allowances for the anchor on the partys capability. [/QUOTE]

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