Useless / reduced effectiveness feats.


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion


Does anyone else here think that there are certain feats that make absolutely no sense or are no where as useful as they should be?

1/2 the feat is pointless...

Siege Gunner

"You take no size penalty for aiming a direct-fire siege weapon larger than yourself. If you operate an indirect-fire siege weapon and miss, you misdirect fire by 1 square per range increment."

But from the rules on direct fire siege engines.

"Creatures that have ranks in Knowledge (engineering) or use a targeting platform (see below) are not adversely affected by their size when firing direct-fire ranged siege engines."

While reigning in a stray shot from an indirect siege weapon is nice, this feats does nothing to help anyone with Knowledge Engineering when dealing with Direct Fire Siege engines. Worse yet, Siege Gunner requires Siege Engineer which requires 5 ranks of either Engineering or Profession: Siege Engineer. It is a self de-feat-ing feat.

Three oddly overlapping feats...

Point Blank Master
Choose one type of ranged weapon. You do not provoke attacks of opportunity when firing the selected weapon while threatened.

Sword and Pistol
When you use the Two-Weapon Fighting feat while wielding a melee weapon and a crossbow or firearm, your attacks with the crossbow or firearm provoke no attacks of opportunity from foes that you threaten with your melee weapon.

Gunslinger
When you attack with a firearm, you do not provoke attacks of opportunity.

While they are all just different enough to justify them, the mass of prerequisites on Sword and Pistol make it vastly outclassed by gunslinger for anyone using a handgun. Point Blank Master is far easier to get than Sword and Pistol and while it is class limited those two classes are Fighter and Ranger, Those who are most likely to need it.

Any others people would like to point out?

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