Brawler Combat Feats

[darrenan]

Is it intentional that the Brawler Bonus Combat Feats class feature includes the following sentence, while Martial Flexibility does not?

Quote:

These bonus feats must be ones that affect or improve her defenses or melee attacks.

It doesn't make sense to me that one source of bonus combat feats would be treated differently than the other.

[Eltacolibre]

This sentence doesn't mean anything.

[KainPen]

The sentence means a lot, it mean you can't use used ranged combat feats with it. thus you can get point blank shot and stuff like that with these feats.

[Owen K. C. Stephens]

Think of it this way:

A brawler's combat feats are restricted to those that can be considered related to "brawling," by which we largely mean melee.

Martial Flexibility is designed to be flexible, so ranged feats are allowed. However, since you have to meet the prerequisites for martial flexibility, and all of your bonus feats are braking-based, your still likely to be more melee-flexible than ranged-flexible.

Bonus feats represent being good and pummeling things.
Martial flexibility represents being good at adapting to the flow of combat, and sometimes that's going to involve adapting to ranged combat.

[blahpers]

darrenan wrote:

Is it intentional that the Brawler Bonus Combat Feats class feature includes the following sentence, while Martial Flexibility does not?

Yes.

Quote:

It doesn't make sense to me that one source of bonus combat feats would be treated differently than the other.

Why?

[Malwing]

Looks like a relic from how Martial Flexibility was worded in the playtest packet. I ignore the line since Martial Flexibility changed.