Do any of you remember the D&D 3.5 supplement Races of Destiny? PF1 invalidated more content from that book than any other D&D 3.5 book in terms of Pathfinder applicability.
At this point, I am wondering how many PF1 feats will have "grown up" and how many will have to be "buried" because of systematic game changes.
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Whirlwind attack. Requiring 5 prerequisite feats which are based on moving in order to stand still and attack everything in reach. IMHO whirlwind attack should have either came next after great cleave or replaced it as the cleave upgrade.
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'Improved' Great Fortitude
'Improved' Iron Will
'Improved' Lightning Reflexes
Typically, when I see something say 'Improved', it should indicate... y'know, a mechanical increase from the 'base model'.
But no, these are called 'Improved' for 'a single reroll per day'.
When 'Improving' should be something like +4 to a given save, or if the clunky reroll mechanic is retained, something like 2-4 times per day.
This could also lead to Greater 'Save Boost' being reroll at will plus a higher bonus on the reroll.
We are not even sure that regular great fortitude, iron will, or lightning reflexes even exist in this system.
Do any of you remember the D&D 3.5 supplement Races of Destiny? PF1 invalidated more content from that book than any other D&D 3.5 book in terms of Pathfinder applicability.
At this point, I am wondering how many PF1 feats will have "grown up" and how many will have to be "buried" because of systematic game changes.
God i love that book. Illumian are the single most interesting race ever created, and the charmeleon where pure genius.
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Fleet; I love faster move speed, but a whole feat for a meer 5 feet of movement? When comparable class features, magic items, and spells work in 10 ft increments? Nope, just not tenable.
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I guess I'd go with Endurance, it can really put an emphasis on having a tough as nails character, but it's benefit depends on the type of game being run. The ability to sleep in medium armor is the bright spot IMO, but it only really applies when there are night time battles, which depends on GM style. I've had GMs who did so rather often, other who never did so.
In a gritty low level, low magic campaign it may be worth taking, in most games I've played in it's only good if you can get it with little investment, like the half-orc racial to trade a -2 to intimidate for the feat.
Speaking of half-orcs Endurance leads to several other cool themed feats, the Deathless line, with 3 feats in that line. They really give the flavor of a tough as nails character that refuses to die (similar to die-hard). The problem is spending feats to gain benefits when you're at negative hit points, isn't optimal, to say the least. By the time you get deathless initiate if you're in the negatives the character is probably not going to make it, since many enemies at that level will have their secondary attacks. I had a GM allow a character of mine, a half-orc to take deathless initiate early (I had met the other pre recs), I never really used it, but I felt it added to that character's flavor.
To really shine Endurance and the associated tree, would need to apply to things that happen more often, such I suppose as reduce bleed damage, help resist poison, being transformed against your characters will (like turned to stone, or baleful polymorph), ect...
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Fleet; I love faster move speed, but a whole feat for a meer 5 feet of movement? When comparable class features, magic items, and spells work in 10 ft increments? Nope, just not tenable.
Especially since it doesn't work if you need it. I mean... if you've got heavy armor. I'd be totally okay with the feat if a full plate wearing character could pick it up four times to get +20 to movement. I mean, how awesome would move 40 be? For the price of four feats. But no.
I actually like fleet but rarely had enough feats to invest in it.
I've got a whole orphanage just by myself.
Not all of these feats are orphans, but a good chunk of the ones in the "free feats" section and some of the ends of the feat chains are. Those that are either "Really, I need a feat to do that?" or "Man, this feat seems cool; sucks that it requires so many annoying prerequisites though..."
Oh, here's another one: Improved Counterspell; counterspelling sounds so cool, but is oh-so-terrible in practice. It's so bad that I've been giving it away for free for years and it still doesn't see much use.
But if counterspelling is an automatic reaction for one or more spellcasting classes, then it will happen more often because nobody who would be any good at it would have to pay the opportunity cost of readying an action to do it.
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But if counterspelling is an automatic reaction for one or more spellcasting classes, then it will happen more often because nobody who would be any good at it would have to pay the opportunity cost of readying an action to do it.
Oh definitely! The handful of options that let you perform counterspells as an immediate action in PF1 are excellent (even a bit cheesy for how they just shut down enemy casters so effortlessly) and serve as good models for how PF2 could do counterspelling better. It's the basic counterspelling feature that I'm complaining about, which without some sort of action economy boost just doesn't get used.
Catch Off-Guard / Throw Anything.
Has anyone mentioned the whip mastery feats?