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Message: <blockquote data-quote="akr71" data-source="post: 7064041" data-attributes="member: 6801213">I'm of the opinion that "you pays your money, you takes your chances."  Meaning, if you choose a flying race for your character, you have to deal with the drawbacks of possibly falling out of the air, so I'm not a big fan of your Flyer's Defense feat.  I could probably live with something similar to the Monk's Slow Fall, but if and only if the character's wings were unrestrained and uninjured.However, I do like your Dive Attack, but I would make it a racial feature rather than a feat and give it double the damage dice rather than 1d6 - look at the Charge of the Giant Boar or other creatures as an example.I also don't see how a flying creature would be immune to opportunity attacks.  With the right choice of reach weapons, the Aarakocra should be able to do what you are trying to do without a feat.  Of course they might unexpectedly come across an opponent who also has a long reach too...How about, Dodge as a Reaction while airborne?  That way the Aarakocra could Dive Attack an opponent and fly away and possible miss the attack of opportunity, but if more than one opponent were there, they would still be vulnerable.</blockquote>