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Shield Block Feat - Your Thoughts?
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<blockquote data-quote="the_bruiser" data-source="post: 1359033" data-attributes="member: 6126"><p>Well, now, that's a fair point <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=":)" />. </p><p></p><p>In my defense, I wanted to be complete, and showed both styles with and without power attack for completeness. And in my campaigns, I've never seen yet a non-rogue melee fighter that didn't have at least a 13 str, so I may be biased by experiences that differ from yours. People in my group have tried high-dex rapier fighters, but in practice it's not been fun for them - you end up hitting about as often as the high-str GS tank, but you just don't do the damage. You'll have the rapier dude say "I hit twice, including one critical, for 21 damage." Then the GS says, "Ah, I rolled bad, only hit once, for 29 damage." The rapier-man rolls his eyes and wonders where he went wrong.</p><p></p><p>Again, not to over-stress this point (and nobody has accused me of this, I just want to get it off my chest), my party is not made up of vicious min-maxers. But none of them want to be the guy who's clearly inferior by another, either. We actually role-play a fair bit, sometimes with whole game sessions that feature no combat at all, but WITHIN combat they all want to feel they can pull their weight. </p><p></p><p>But, yeah, you're right, there's certainly no law that you'd have a 13 str, much less that feat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the_bruiser, post: 1359033, member: 6126"] Well, now, that's a fair point :). In my defense, I wanted to be complete, and showed both styles with and without power attack for completeness. And in my campaigns, I've never seen yet a non-rogue melee fighter that didn't have at least a 13 str, so I may be biased by experiences that differ from yours. People in my group have tried high-dex rapier fighters, but in practice it's not been fun for them - you end up hitting about as often as the high-str GS tank, but you just don't do the damage. You'll have the rapier dude say "I hit twice, including one critical, for 21 damage." Then the GS says, "Ah, I rolled bad, only hit once, for 29 damage." The rapier-man rolls his eyes and wonders where he went wrong. Again, not to over-stress this point (and nobody has accused me of this, I just want to get it off my chest), my party is not made up of vicious min-maxers. But none of them want to be the guy who's clearly inferior by another, either. We actually role-play a fair bit, sometimes with whole game sessions that feature no combat at all, but WITHIN combat they all want to feel they can pull their weight. But, yeah, you're right, there's certainly no law that you'd have a 13 str, much less that feat. [/QUOTE]
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