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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfen Priest" data-source="post: 276982" data-attributes="member: 3909">I really think this thread has begun to get silly/ridiculous.For one thing, it seems a lot of people don't quite understand/agree on how the feat even works.  For another thing, I'm completely convinced that my initial opinion on this feat will continue to be my opinion on it forever.I mean, comparing it to weapon focus makes no sense to me, because, realistically, any character can spend a little more time practicing with a weapon to become better at it than he would otherwise be.  Virtually every character in the game world can do this, and it still makes logical sense to the world.OTOH, if every (primarily) spellcasting character in a given world (in this case FR of course) pretty much takes SCP (and so far no one has successfully demonstrated why you wouldn't take it, IMHO), then that makes everyone who is primarily a caster a *prodigy*, which doesn't make sense in a logical world.If you have to *forestall* getting other feats like Improved Initiative, big deal.  The fact is you can only take the SCP at first level, so you should.  Any player who really knows how to min/max would, IMHO.If you like the feat, and want to use it in your campaign, I personally couldn't care less.  No one is trying to take this feat away from anyone else, or out of anyone's game.  But how can so many people honestly not understand why some of us would NOT want this feat in our campaigns?Comparing it to iron rations and weapon specialization may be found witty by some, but it really does little to prove any point, because, in the case of WS, it comes from a combat specialist mastering a particular weapon through training.  Every fighter of a given level *would* become such a master, most likely.  But every wizard a prodigy?  Come on.</blockquote>

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