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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darkness" data-source="post: 712270" data-attributes="member: 13">Another thing to consider:Assume you area fighting a creature that, after factoring in all modifiers, you can hit only on a natural 20 (which can very well happen if you are suffering from some spell or poison that negatively impacts your combat ability - or, worse yet, several different penalties).The auto-success rule makes it your best bet to make a maximum Power Attack or else Fight Defensively (plus as much Expertise and/or defending weapon, if available).In fact, unless there's some rule that Power Attack and Fighting Defensively can't be used at the same time, it's your best course of action to do both.And you will still hit as well as if you didn't have any of those additional to-hit penalties. <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:" />If you still don't think that that's so bad, feel free to pile on even more penalties - ability score damage, a curse spell, using Flurry of Blows (or, better yet, that one S&F feat that gives a second bonus attack on a Flurry), Superior Expertise, etc., all at once. But you will still hit as well as someone else who has your exact same stats but none of these additional penalties. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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