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Well, I'm glad I was totally wrong with my impression. Go Paizo!

I had played Dungeons and Dragons 3, and used the SRD to update to 3.5 without buying any new books. I hadn't purchased any third party books, and only found Pathfinder through a link from RPG.net. I grossly underestimated the following the Paizo had in the industry.

Consider this:

You need a BAB of +11 to take the feat. Using this feat means you cannot take a full attack, since this feat requires a standard action.

You give up 2 attacks to crit with one. Seems balanced enough for me. I would assume that you would use this feat every attack you plan on moving before or after.

Consider:

2. Part of the tactical consideration for classes that fight a lot is that you can either stand still and do a full attack or move and do a single attack. That was a big trade off. Now, you can move and do almost as much damage as a full attack (depending upon your weapon), and possibly throw a higher power attack into the mix too, since you don't have to worry about making your extra attacks too weak with the power attack attack penalty tradeoff.

I don't think it's terrible or broken, at least not yet. But to me, it's definitely a big change.

I am well aware that when someone starts a discussion with, "I am not trying to be a ____, but" it usually means they are, in fact, a ____. I hope to be an exception.

I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but how many people on these forums, or who are among the 15,000 downloads of Pathfinder Alpha 2 so far, plan on buying the release product?

I am generally pleased with everything I've seen, and I can't think of a single change I dislike. However, it's one thing to see Pathfinder (or, for that matter, Dungeons and Dragons 4) as an improvement over what is currently available and another to consider it such a notable improvement as to be worth a purchase.

For the sake of the gaming industry in general, and the obvious hard work of the people at Paizo in particular, I hope my discussion is met with dozens or hundreds of pledges to purchase the finished product. I just want to be honest - I like it and I like it more than DnD 3/3.5/what I've seen of 4, but I don't like it enough to buy.

The Devastating Blow feat allows the user to make a hit a critical hit with a normal standard attack, and the text does not limit uses per day.

Is that intentional? I assume every melee combat class that had the feat would use it every time they made a standard attack.