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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7750253" data-attributes="member: 4937">If I drop a feather from height, it will fall slowly to the ground.  A feather accelerated in the atmosphere will quickly slow to low velocity.  So if I drop a feather onto a boulder from height, I would very much expect it to always lightly fall on the boulders.The same is not true in reverse.  I can drop boulders onto feathers and produce impacts with a lot of kinetic energy.  I can strike feathers with baseball bats and produce impacts with a lot of kinetic energy.Actually, you won't get exactly the same effect, but that's beside the point.  The most important point is this is a terrible analogy.   Feather fall has no effect on anything hitting you.  What feather fall does is make you fall like a feather.  It has an effect on how you are thrown or how you fall.   It has no effect on how things fall into your or how things are thrown into you.Featherfall does something that makes you comparatively buoyant in the air so that your terminal velocity is relatively low and safe.  It does nothing to effect the velocity of things flying into you.I have no idea what you are talking about.  You'll have to give me a quote, because I'd guess you are thinking of someone else.  My actual complaint about skill feats (and I've done rather little complaining about them) is something no one has yet really focused on.</blockquote>