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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3065676" data-attributes="member: 17691">I'm afraid I still don't understand what you mean.Two character have roughly the same classes, both enter a prestige class and both get a bonus feat at the same time. The character who had the feat beforehand looses out while the other guy, who never had that skill at all, gets a new nifty ability. My point is, if one guy gets a bonus feat, why shouldn't the first guy, who's had that feat all along, instead develop a new ability?It's as if the system tries to penalize characters for practicing an ability earlier in their careers. Since they have no need to develop a feat that they already have, shouldn't they be able to either improve upon what they already know or instead try to learn something altogether new? The other character, who's never practiced that ability ahead of time, suddenly achieves the same level of proficiency and has the benefit of some other feat he learnt instead.</blockquote>