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Message: <blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 4716520" data-attributes="member: 43019">So, a feat that gave +3 untyped damage per tier would be balanced, despite it being more effective than any other damage feat, because you get lots of feats?One feat doesn't cause you to not take all those other feats. Just one of them, whichever mattered to you least. Of course, the next feat boots off the next one. One after that, another. And six feats later maybe you aren't taking any of those feats, at all.Does a feat have a major restriction on it that would justify it being better? For example, is it a multiclass feat - the designer playground method for allowing people to take a more powerful feat, but only one? How about is it a race feat, which is a perk of that race and thereby limited? Does it have sizable limitations, such as Spell Focus which is not only limited to one class but also requires an ability score not useful to that class otherwise? Is it an epic feat, of which you only get so many and at a certain pace, and which are often allowed to be just a bit cooler (though not nearly as much cooler as Expertise, but eh)?Either:A) Expertise is too powerful a feat as stands, so is badly designedB) Expertise is a fix for a math problem in the system and is badly designed for that purposeI don't believe there actually is _any_ other possibility. I'm not expressing hyperbole or railing at the interwebs here. It's bad design, whether it's good intentioned or sloppy balancing.Now, will it break your game? Of course not. It takes a lot to break a game (like Demigod level 30 a lot). Will it help break the game? Maybe, if A is true. Will it help fix the game? Maybe, if B is true.Honestly, I suspect it's an improvement in the game to the extent that it makes certain things at epic less based on missing with your normal attacks a lot and people using the super powers were already doing things like using action surge and a pocket TacLord to game the system for their really important attacks... it's just a really badly designed way of doing it. I mean, bad design happens, and it's a shame, but it's fixable - like Blade Cascade, for instance.Or like how this could have been handled, if it was a fix to an unforseen math trend.</blockquote>

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