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<blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 8187646" data-attributes="member: 6801286">A 'trap' suggests that your chosen feat makes your character worse, or even broken. I don't know of any feat in 3e that does any of those things. Is Skill Focus a lousy feat and a total waste? In my opinion, yes. There are comparatively many feats that are far more useful. But Skill Focus will improve a skill, and make your character better at it. It will not break your build, or weaken your character.Not everything is about building the most optimized character that beats every other class in every skill. You are not competing with anyone. In 3e, if you want to be good at intimidation, there are multiple options to get your ranks to a decent sufficient level. You don't need to max everything out. Will high charisma characters have an easier time improving a charisma based skill? Obviously. I don't see that as a flaw of the system.If I dump a few extra ranks into intimidation, I can easily get it up to +8 or +10 with any class if I want to. That will allow me to succeed at an intimidation check almost every time. What more do you want?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imaculata, post: 8187646, member: 6801286"] A 'trap' suggests that your chosen feat makes your character worse, or even broken. I don't know of any feat in 3e that does any of those things. Is Skill Focus a lousy feat and a total waste? In my opinion, yes. There are comparatively many feats that are far more useful. But Skill Focus will improve a skill, and make your character better at it. It will not break your build, or weaken your character. Not everything is about building the most optimized character that beats every other class in every skill. You are not competing with anyone. In 3e, if you want to be good at intimidation, there are multiple options to get your ranks to a decent sufficient level. You don't need to max everything out. Will high charisma characters have an easier time improving a charisma based skill? Obviously. I don't see that as a flaw of the system. If I dump a few extra ranks into intimidation, I can easily get it up to +8 or +10 with any class if I want to. That will allow me to succeed at an intimidation check almost every time. What more do you want? [/QUOTE]

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