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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MostlyHarmless42" data-source="post: 6960121" data-attributes="member: 6845520">My suggested change, if any, to the -5 attack / +10 damage options in both feats is to make it scale equal to proficiency bonus. Start at -2 / +4 and scale up at a rate of -proficiency / +2 x proficiency. It makes it actually usable at lower levels with the player overshadowing all others in damage, and "buffs" so the player doesn't get upset their feat got "nerfed". I say "buffed" because most games don't reach level 17 anyway. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />My larger issue with those two feats has never been with the damage bit anyway. In truth I only have issue with sharpshooter, and specifically with two elements, the combination of the damage bit with the archery fighting style and the ignoring 3/4 cover at maximum range. An archer should not be able to fire at a guard hiding behind a 3in arrow slit in a castle 300 feet away with no penalty to the attack roll. Within the first range incriment? Sure, but not at maximum range.In my games, I tend to houserule them as follows:1) I give the player the choice to use the proficient option above for damage or the default. They must follow this choice for the rest of the game.2) For Archery fighting style, I rule that instead of a +2 attack bonus, it instead ignores half cover. The true intent of the style is to deal with half cover anyway.3) For Sharpshooter, I have toyed with either ruling that it instead bumps cover down by one degree (half becomes none, and 3/4 becomes half), or that the ignoring cover only applies to the first range incriment. I say toyed because I've yet to actually do so in my table. My simpler solution was to rule that in order for those cover benifits to apply the archer must be able to SEE their target, like many other abilities in the game, and then I'm ruthless with said archers and perception checks to see the aforementioned guard behind a 3in arrow slit. It has worked well so far. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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