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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Feldspar" data-source="post: 2788737" data-attributes="member: 20450">I don't think it was overpowered.  Of course, that's based on how I remember being able to use it.  Some of the ways people were interpreting it, including even the sage in the FAQ seemed wrong to me in that the feat would trigger more often ...What if they canned it not over power balance reasons but because they continued to get a lot of custserv and sage questions that indicated that people weren't struggling to figure out in various complicated scenarios whether it could be used?   Errr, in my opinion, that's exactly what they did by renaming it.  Replacing it with a new feat seems to be a pretty clear admission of "whoops, we screwed that up."There are feats from the 3.0 splat books that didn't get carried forward - to me its not clear whether those can still be used.  Didn't they say or imply when change over occured that 3.0 material was still considered valid unless reprinted?  (Probably so that lynch mobs wouldn't burn them, and the now useless 3.0 material, at the stake.)However, when a feat shows up in 3.5 with the same name but a different mechanic than a 3.0 feat (that's right Improved Shield Bash and Improved Sunder, I'm talking about you!) then you kind of half to consider those feats to be D-E-A-D.Of course, there's also the flipside when they rename a feat without changing the mechanic like Chink in the Armor becoming Deft Strike.  What's that all about? <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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