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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5665516" data-attributes="member: 54846">FE is already very limited because it hinges on the DM throwing your FE against you.Making it depend on what you have fought in the past means that &quot;Hey now I can get orcs as my FE!&quot; &quot;But we're a high enough level we've moved on from fighting orcs.&quot; I mean why the hell would you say, take goblins when you're less likely to fight them after level 2-3? Your bonus, by level 15 is what, 4? But you'll never use it because you'll never face goblins at that point. There goes a nice feature of your class, unused.It may make sense story wise but why would I choose a mechanical benefit that I won't get to actually use? I might as well write down &quot;+5 vs. pink elephants&quot; on my sheet. It may make perfect sense for my character but its purpose - translating story into a useful mechanical benefit - is wasted.The amount of DMs who reward the &quot;past influences future&quot; thinking is imo vastly overshadowed by those who do not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 5665516, member: 54846"] FE is already very limited because it hinges on the DM throwing your FE against you. Making it depend on what you have fought in the past means that "Hey now I can get orcs as my FE!" "But we're a high enough level we've moved on from fighting orcs." I mean why the hell would you say, take goblins when you're less likely to fight them after level 2-3? Your bonus, by level 15 is what, 4? But you'll never use it because you'll never face goblins at that point. There goes a nice feature of your class, unused. It may make sense story wise but why would I choose a mechanical benefit that I won't get to actually [I]use[/I]? I might as well write down "+5 vs. pink elephants" on my sheet. It may make perfect sense for my character but its purpose - translating story into a useful mechanical benefit - is wasted. The amount of DMs who reward the "past influences future" thinking is imo vastly overshadowed by those who do not. [/QUOTE]

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