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<blockquote data-quote="Amaroq" data-source="post: 5154876" data-attributes="member: 15470">I think that's an answer that varies from DM to DM, to be honest.In our group, one DM allows them, while the other DM does not (but reduces monster defenses appropriately.)The best argument against them that I've heard is not that they're so good that they're so obviously better than every other feat out there that everybody takes them at Level 1, but more along the lines of &quot;they're good enough that every character wants to take them by about Level 15 to get the +2; therefore, let's give 'em to every character or prohibit them to encourage players to invest more in feats which differentiate the character from every other character.&quot;That kind of hearkens back to a &quot;feats should feel special&quot; or &quot;feats should differentiate my character somehow&quot; philosophy: personally, I want feats to make characters feel awesome, unique, and different, and simple &quot;hits more often&quot;, &quot;does more damage&quot;, and &quot;has more hit points&quot; feats don't do that for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Amaroq, post: 5154876, member: 15470"] I think that's an answer that varies from DM to DM, to be honest. In our group, one DM allows them, while the other DM does not (but reduces monster defenses appropriately.) The best argument against them that I've heard is not that they're so good that they're so obviously better than every other feat out there that everybody takes them at Level 1, but more along the lines of "they're good enough that every character wants to take them by about Level 15 to get the +2; therefore, let's give 'em to every character or prohibit them to encourage players to invest more in feats which differentiate the character from every other character." That kind of hearkens back to a "feats should feel special" or "feats should differentiate my character somehow" philosophy: personally, I want feats to make characters feel awesome, unique, and different, and simple "hits more often", "does more damage", and "has more hit points" feats don't do that for me. [/QUOTE]

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