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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 947003" data-attributes="member: 1465">You can determine awareness in the way you prefer, obviously. But my point is that without a roll needed to use this ability, it is more difficult for the DM to adjudicate circumstances by simply giving a bonus/malus on the roll. In the example of being prone, you decided first to require a Spot check and then adjudicating a penalty for being prone. But let's say you have played this feat for many sessions without a PC being prone, and therefore not requiring a Spot check at all...Hey, I am not criticizing your adjudication, ok? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I am just trying to say that such a feat with automatic success and no roll could make things more complicated for the DM that with the simple Reflex roll.Let's try to find another example... you are subject to a Slow spell, which gives you (in 3e...) -2 to Reflex ST among other penalties. Obvious, you are slow and arrows move faster than before in your perspective. Without any roll the DM can basically do nothing as simple as applying the same penalty, he has to introduce a roll which was not from the beginning. Possibly not that tragic, but d20 is ALL about bonuses and penalties!It doesn't matter if it's Refl or Dex check... In another case, with a Slowed PC trying to Swim for example, a DM may rule0 that the -2 from Slow applies to Swim checks because it's more difficult to keep floating while moving slowly, easy as bread.Ok, that was just a general opinion on this feat's design, it's not necessarily important <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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