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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrankTrollman" data-source="post: 1127919" data-attributes="member: 14225">No, he means, 3.0 and 3.5.That is, in fact, what the feat actually says.When you have an 18 strength and you stab someone with a short sword you do 1d6 + 4. If you have weapon specialization you "add +2" to the damage. Then you do 1d6 + 6 (not 1d6 + 2).If you powerlunge, you add double your strength bonus - which is +8. Now it literally doesn't say that it negates any other bonuses. So that +8, as literally worded, is in addition to the +4 you already have. For a total of +12 when charging with the short sword (+14 when charging with the greataxe).That's what the feat literally says.Now the author said that wasn't what he meant - and wanted it to be +8 and +10 - not +12 and +14 like the revised text actually says.I don't have anything against the people who play it at +12 and +14 - that is how it really reads. But I figure that if I'm willing to take the author's word that Knockdown is not supposed to allow a counter-trip (despite not saying that in any way), I'm willing to take the author's word on this, too.After all, Knockdown and Powerlunge is a good combo - so powering up Knockdown to make it actually useful while powering down Powerlunge until it's no longer a really great feat means that the same character now has two good feat chains instead of one great feat chain and one useless feat chain.-Frank</blockquote>