In response to a discussion in the combat & magic thread on interative attacks, I would like to propose the following feat
Feat: Follow through attack
"You swing your weapon in a broad arc and backhand your opponent with the return swing"
Should your first melee attack succeed in hiting your opponement, you may immediately make another melee attack against the same target with the same weapon as a free action.
Pre-requisite
BAB +3, Combat expertise or fighter class
Pros:
* Iterative attacks are in
* The remain an halmark of the fighter class while being open to other classes
* Combat is speed up as only fighters are likely to have this feat and because you only roll the second dice if you hit first.
* The second attack has a decent chance to hit but this is balanced by the fact that you only get to roll if you hit first.
* Fighter get their secondary attack earlier in the progression
Cons:
* You lose the ability to engage multiple targets. This is made so that you can't target a minion to trigger the feat which I would see as an exploit
Additional work
* Should you envisage a penalty on the second roll? (need to calculate some probabilities on this)
* Should fighter automatically get this feat at level 3?
Please discuss. Like it or not?
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* Should fighter automatically get this feat at level 3?
Most definitively, yes.
Also, other martial classes (barbarian, paladin, ranger, and monk) should get it for free at a later level - thus preserving the advantage for the fighter class. If they've already taken the feat, they should get a generic bonus feat from a list.
Ok changing the way the attacks work at this level changes to much from 3.5 its done been stated by jason it will not be done. good call I think.