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WotC's hesitation on tackling the feat tax.
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<blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5681138" data-attributes="member: 94022"><p>Well, off the top of my head I can think of 3 potential reasons (not saying these are absolute truths or that there isn't plenty of room for disagreement, so please just take it as face value and not a flame, etc.).</p><p> </p><p>1. Its simple enough to house rule it anyway if groups decide to.</p><p>2. Its still arguable whether or not they're needed. The defense feats in particular were never taken by my players until the Superior feats came out in the essentials books -- suggesting that the added bonuses were what appealed to them rather than the defense boost.</p><p>3. Adding the house rule also means updating and/or essentially eliminating a lot of feats. </p><p> </p><p>For instance if you house rule the bonuses, do you make them feat bonuses so they don't stack? Or do you still want to allow the players to take those feats and get all of the benefits (as opposed to just the kickers)? If you allow them to stack then many players will still see them as a feat tax since it would be strictly better to have both than just the house ruled "feat". </p><p> </p><p>From a purely personal standpoint, I always take an expertise feat, but I have yet to take a defense feat (though I've not played a character in paragon or higher so that might change then). The main reason for this is that I can probably count on one hand the number of times my NAD's have been hit exactly (or even within 1) such that taking the feat really wouldn't help me all that much. I expect though that will change when I reach paragon, particularly since the kickers on the Superior feats will be more important then too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riastlin, post: 5681138, member: 94022"] Well, off the top of my head I can think of 3 potential reasons (not saying these are absolute truths or that there isn't plenty of room for disagreement, so please just take it as face value and not a flame, etc.). 1. Its simple enough to house rule it anyway if groups decide to. 2. Its still arguable whether or not they're needed. The defense feats in particular were never taken by my players until the Superior feats came out in the essentials books -- suggesting that the added bonuses were what appealed to them rather than the defense boost. 3. Adding the house rule also means updating and/or essentially eliminating a lot of feats. For instance if you house rule the bonuses, do you make them feat bonuses so they don't stack? Or do you still want to allow the players to take those feats and get all of the benefits (as opposed to just the kickers)? If you allow them to stack then many players will still see them as a feat tax since it would be strictly better to have both than just the house ruled "feat". From a purely personal standpoint, I always take an expertise feat, but I have yet to take a defense feat (though I've not played a character in paragon or higher so that might change then). The main reason for this is that I can probably count on one hand the number of times my NAD's have been hit exactly (or even within 1) such that taking the feat really wouldn't help me all that much. I expect though that will change when I reach paragon, particularly since the kickers on the Superior feats will be more important then too. [/QUOTE]
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