I really love the machinesmith from Louis Porter Design. It's great. However, I don't like my players to have crafting feats other than brew potion and scribe scroll. So, what's a good alternative for the crafting expertise feat? I know two archetypes replace it, but I'm just looking for something general to swap out for it. Any ideas? Feedback from the developers themselves would be extra appreciated.
Based on how often I bugged Palmer about it, I consider myself a developer of it :p
One idea could be to just let them do it as an exception to all others. Makes them a bit more special, y'know?
Or turning it into a bonus feat list, and letting them choose from Super GEnius Games' machinesmith feats product.
I like that second idea. I'm not opposed to them having special crafting abilities necessarrily, but I just dislike the reliance on magic items so I avoid feats that cater to that.,
You can remove the ability entirely and not lose too much from the class.
Alternatively you can jsut use the archetype's abilities by themselves quite easily without losing any of the machinesmith's primary themes.
I may have more suggestions later but for now I should really be going to bed.
The thing about replacing the abilities with the archetype ones is that they have more specific flavor than what I'm looking for.