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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5573555" data-attributes="member: 7006">But my point is that feats don't define your character.  They just change the numbers on your character sheet.How you roleplay your character is how you define it.  If you want your character to be known as a rash individual who walways charges headlong into battle... you don't have to take Powerful Charge for that to be the case.  Or more to the point... you don't have to take it a feat slot earlier, if you decide to go with Expertise instead.  The fact that you might take Expertise at level 2 and Powerful Charge at 4 doesn't ipso facto mean your character is any less a charging machine at those lower levels before the feat gets taken.  How you roleplay the character and how/when you decide to charge into combat does.It's the same point I made to Ryujin with regards to his Feyborn Charm feat.  If he wants his character to be known as a feyborn charmer... that feat is in no way a requirement.  He can still be a feyborn charmer without it.  And in fact... if he decided to to forsake Feyborn Charm (a +1 attack bonus to charm spells) to take Expertise instead (a +1 attack bonus to everything)... since that +1 includes all his charm spells, he can still be known as a charm-based character.  His attack bonus on charms is the same, regardless of the feat that got him there.  And what if that feat never existed in the first place?  Does that mean he could never be a fey arcane character who exphasizes charm spells?  Of course not.  Because the feat does not define him.Now sure... it'd be nice to be able to have just the right feat with just the right fluff with just the right bonus to be exactly what you want your character to be, because then you could look on your character sheet and see all those pretty keywords that match your character's concept.  But even if you did... it doesn't mean jack if you don't actually roleplay it.  If Ryujin roleplays his character like your average generic spellcaster even *if* he has taken the Feyborn Charm feat... then having that feat doesn't mean diddly.So to get hung up on the fact that you have to delay a feat slot or two to take those supposed "character defining" feats that will somehow, someway now bring your character into some sort of roleplay focus is in my opinion just ridiculous.  If you can't roleplay your character the way you want him to be regardless of what the little writing says on your character sheet... no amount of feats will help the cause.</blockquote>

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