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<blockquote data-quote="ZombieRoboNinja" data-source="post: 6001837" data-attributes="member: 54843"><p>I'm thinking that's because the podcast seems to be one conversation (therefore about a month old, at least as old as the first portion they put online), and the character sheets seem to be made in conjunction with the new playtest rules rather than what they were actually writing down during the podcast. (For example, all the character sheets are level 5.)</p><p></p><p>So my guess is that the versions of these feats on the character sheet are after the development guys sacrificed Mearls to their dark god for making up feats off-the-cuff in a PR podcast, and fixed it up a bit to their liking.</p><p></p><p>The first feat, battle-raging, went from max damage to +2d6 damage (in return for taking disadvantage). This would probably need to scale with character level for it to be worthwhile at higher levels. But it's a lot better than max damage, which (a) isn't as much of a bonus, and (b) makes crits somewhat meaningless. </p><p></p><p>"Overpower" looks like an attempt to make the idea they were discussing in the podcast worth a feat. Right now it looks kind of like a crappy version of Cleave. I'm wondering if maybe it means ALL adjacent creatures take 2d6 damage, which would be more powerful and also more dangerous for allies who get too close. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Also from the podcast - I guess you get feats at levels 1, 3, 6, and 9 now (so two specialties), and as I suspected they haven't really started thinking about levels 11-20 yet. There will probably be some weird math adjustments to be made, unless we want level 20 rogues rolling 21d6 for sneak attack and fighters getting 10d20 expertise dice...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ZombieRoboNinja, post: 6001837, member: 54843"] I'm thinking that's because the podcast seems to be one conversation (therefore about a month old, at least as old as the first portion they put online), and the character sheets seem to be made in conjunction with the new playtest rules rather than what they were actually writing down during the podcast. (For example, all the character sheets are level 5.) So my guess is that the versions of these feats on the character sheet are after the development guys sacrificed Mearls to their dark god for making up feats off-the-cuff in a PR podcast, and fixed it up a bit to their liking. The first feat, battle-raging, went from max damage to +2d6 damage (in return for taking disadvantage). This would probably need to scale with character level for it to be worthwhile at higher levels. But it's a lot better than max damage, which (a) isn't as much of a bonus, and (b) makes crits somewhat meaningless. "Overpower" looks like an attempt to make the idea they were discussing in the podcast worth a feat. Right now it looks kind of like a crappy version of Cleave. I'm wondering if maybe it means ALL adjacent creatures take 2d6 damage, which would be more powerful and also more dangerous for allies who get too close. ;) Also from the podcast - I guess you get feats at levels 1, 3, 6, and 9 now (so two specialties), and as I suspected they haven't really started thinking about levels 11-20 yet. There will probably be some weird math adjustments to be made, unless we want level 20 rogues rolling 21d6 for sneak attack and fighters getting 10d20 expertise dice... [/QUOTE]
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