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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 586821" data-attributes="member: 6875">Well.Color me stunned, you're right.  Okay, revised Feat list:HD1 Exotic Weapon: Spiked Chain (up-sized)Ft 1 Power AttackFt 2 SunderCh 6 Weapon Focus: Spiked ChainFt 4 Weapon Specialise: Spiked ChainCh 9 Improved Critical: Spiked ChainFt 6 ExpertiseFt 8 Improved TripCh 12 Knock-DownFt 10 Combat ReflexesCh 15 Hold the LineFt 14 Improved SunderEssentially, move the Improved Sunder to the last choice, and insert the Weapon Focus in the resulting "open spot" ... losing Expert Tactician entirely.The feat listed in the MM is for a -typical- example of an Ogre.  Player Characetrs -- indeed, DM-run opposition -- is not beholden to folloow that suggested choice.  It's also not a FREE feat.  Giant-type monsters get 1 feat to start with, and 1 feat for every 4 additional HD above 1 (1 feat at 1HD, 2 feats at 5HD, etc).  That HD-based feat is in my table (corrected above) at the "HD 1" entry.  Ch # is character level, Ft # is Fighter level, and HD # is monster-HD-based....In fact, look up the entry for "Dwarf" ... it lists "Feat: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (dwarven waraxe)" ... do you requie all dwarven characters, of any sort, to always have that feat selected as their first feat ever?I certainly hope not.  <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=":)" />It's not really an issue of book access.  Look how little I used outside of the PHB/DMG/MM, really.  A few flavor bits from the BoVD, material for flavor from MoF, some weapon enhancements/powers from MoF, one item from S&F that, really, would have been better served as three SEPERATE items, using up only the Glove slot and making him lose the Gloves of Storing (of which he only really needed one anyway).  I didn't take Large and In Charge, mainly because I don't HAVE that feat available to me; that'd make the blighter even worse (I'd take that instead of Hold the Line, in fact).  Heh. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />I admit I did forget the standard markup on base costs for larger arms and armor, so from the Pipe onward, just delete that crap (none of its going to be terribly useful anyway, I'm just obsessive about spending starting money to the last cp ... a habit I picked up playing Shadowrun, where leftovers were cut by 90% after character generation ...).  That frees up almost $5K in gold, which should cover up to QUADRUPLED base costs for armor and weapon.[EDIT: Typographical errors]</blockquote>

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