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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 1448143" data-attributes="member: 1014">Regional/1st-level feats are great if built properly.  I would say "used properly", but I come from the school of thought that assumes the entire group is formed of power-hungry powergamers with one hapless roleplayer  DM whos fun is consistently ruined by powergamers taking advantage of bad rules.Agreed.  Which is why all 1st level feats should either not be directly related to combat and/or they should have some sort of disad built into them.  So Blargians gain +1 to hit with an axe, but their dimwitted and gullible nature gives them -2 to Sense Motive and Intimidate checks (No point in penalizing a combat character with Diplomacy or other non-combat-cool roleplay skill).But personally, I shy away from giving regional feat bonsues that are combat related or spell DC related.  They are great, but open to abuse.They shouldn't.  I'm totally against that.  There's no reason why someone should have to balanance Eberron with their Midnight game.  Now if the DM makes the personal decision that the Blargian feat would work great with one of his homebrew countries, that's a different story.</blockquote>