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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7086464" data-attributes="member: 20564">Interesting interaction with GWM - if you hit, you'll likely crit.  Which is nice with a 2d6 or d12 weapon but nothing fantastic.  But that triggers the bonus action extra attack fairly regularly.  That was where polearm master had the edge - a reliable extra attack.People have pointed out the rogue, Divine Smite from the paladin is a lesser case of the same thing - but paladin plus INT is pretty MAD, so that's not a huge worry.Hmm, I know plenty of barbarians who dipped three levels of fighter for champion.  (Not that the first 2 levels of fighter are anything to turn your nose up at).  Here you just need a 13 INT and a feat to get the same.  And a 14 INT would be a 18-20 with advantage, which is a lot of crits.  Congratulations, I see a lot of smart half-orcs barbarians in your future.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  (Half-orc for the extra die of damage on crit.)This really steals the thunder from the Champion, diluting it's one unique thing of an expanded crit range.  I know you mentioned it stacking, but before that was the only place to get it, and as s subclass it's considered ont he weaker side of the power curve.  This could kill it's primary draw of a otherwise unique buff.Wizards with attack spells I can see loving this.  Critting on a 15-20 is just sick.From a design perspective, while I don't like "pure math" feats this doesn't qualify as that - people are excited to get crits and will remember it, not just be a modifier that gets added in and the source forgotten.As much as I like the idea of a tactical warrior, I think this adds too much.  But "half-mod" isn't really used anywhere so I can't see dropping the modifier down.  Perhaps if it was like SS or GWM where it was optional to use becuase there was a penalty with it.  "Take disadvantage to gain +INT to crit range".  (*math*math*math*)   No, that more then offsets the gain in general cases.To sum up: I like it's INT, I think it gives to much and should either give less or have a penalty associated with it.</blockquote>

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