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<blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 5363886" data-attributes="member: 6562">Well, you're saying you want to be able to pick the Fighter's feats, but the Riding Dog shouldn't be allowed to trade Alertness for Weapon Focus.Perhaps it was uncharitable of me to assume you wanted to limit the dog's choices in an attempt to win the argument. If I'm mistake, please accept my apology.Let me ask you explicitly: why should the Riding Dog not be allowed to take Weapon Focus, like his brother Wolf did?&nbsp;A +1 vs. one opponent isn't the same as a +1 vs. all opponents. Even at 1st level, you can expect to fight more than one opponent at a time (e.g. 4 kobolds is a level 1 encounter; 8 kobolds is a level 2 encounter, which is perfectly kosher for a party of level 1 PCs; heck, 4 kobolds + 1 white dragon wyrmling is only a level 3 encounter, which is acceptable as a difficult encounter for 1st level PCs).Dodge is one of the feats I dislike most in all of 3.5e. The idea is decent, but the execution is bad. If it were reworked into something like &quot;once per round as an immediate interrupt, gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC&quot;... but we didn't have immediate interrupts back then.&nbsp;... with fast movement, a better AC, better saves, better skills, a free feat slot, he can't be disarmed, and he has a better version of Improved Trip? Sure thing.(... plus he can Track like a Ranger, with Scent, and he has a better carrying capacity, so the dog is quite useful out of combat ... but that really is irrelevant to the discussion.)&nbsp;Your opponent is a Large quadruped who doesn't use a weapon.What fun options are there for the Fighter?Cheers, -- N</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nifft, post: 5363886, member: 6562"] Well, you're saying you want to be able to pick the Fighter's feats, but the Riding Dog shouldn't be allowed to trade Alertness for Weapon Focus. Perhaps it was uncharitable of me to assume you wanted to limit the dog's choices in an attempt to win the argument. If I'm mistake, please accept my apology. Let me ask you explicitly: why should the Riding Dog not be allowed to take Weapon Focus, like his brother Wolf did? A +1 vs. one opponent isn't the same as a +1 vs. all opponents. Even at 1st level, you can expect to fight more than one opponent at a time (e.g. 4 kobolds is a level 1 encounter; 8 kobolds is a level 2 encounter, which is perfectly kosher for a party of level 1 PCs; heck, 4 kobolds + 1 white dragon wyrmling is only a level 3 encounter, which is acceptable as a difficult encounter for 1st level PCs). Dodge is one of the feats I dislike most in all of 3.5e. The idea is decent, but the execution is bad. If it were reworked into something like "once per round as an immediate interrupt, gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC"... but we didn't have immediate interrupts back then. ... with fast movement, a better AC, better saves, better skills, a free feat slot, he can't be disarmed, [u]and[/u] he has a better version of Improved Trip? Sure thing. ([size=0]... plus he can Track like a Ranger, with Scent, and he has a better carrying capacity, so the dog is quite useful out of combat ... but that really is irrelevant to the discussion.[/size]) Your opponent is a Large quadruped who doesn't use a weapon. What fun options are there for the Fighter? Cheers, -- N [/QUOTE]

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