Eschew Materials feat (level 1) is suboptimal.

[Oakblade]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the whole point of having this feat is to give a break to people using two-handers, so they don't have to do the "free hand" - "interact" shuffle to cast a three-action spell with a material component and eat attacks of opportunity doing so while wasting precious actions.

Instead it specifically requires a free hand. Who would use this?

The baby got thrown out with the water.

To add insult to injury, raise a tome feat requires you to hold a book. Do any of the published ancestries have access to prehensile tails?

Or is this only something an unarmed magumonk would use?

[mrspaghetti]

Oakblade wrote:

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the whole point of having this feat is to give a break to people using two-handers, so they don't have to do the "free hand" - "interact" shuffle to cast a three-action spell with a material component and eat attacks of opportunity doing so while wasting precious actions.

Instead it specifically requires a free hand. Who would use this?

The baby got thrown out with the water.

To add insult to injury, raise a tome feat requires you to hold a book. Do any of the published ancestries have access to prehensile tails?

Or is this only something an unarmed magumonk would use?

I think "suboptimal" is a very mild way to put it. "Utterly useless" is closer to the mark.

[GM OfAnything]

This is literally the same feat as the Wizard's from the Core Rulebook. It has a particular use that is not to super-power two-handers. Not an issue.

[Tweets]

GM OfAnything wrote:

This is literally the same feat as the Wizard's from the Core Rulebook. It has a particular use that is not to super-power two-handers. Not an issue.

That "particular use" seems to be "A feat tax on people whose GM constantly destroys their component pouch". If that's seen as a pressing-enough problem that it needs an out, why not just say all casters have the relevant materials to hand, but they need a free hand to manipulate them?

No point having it cost a feat for something so incredibly niche, IMO.

[Squiggit]

GM OfAnything wrote:

This is literally the same feat as the Wizard's from the Core Rulebook.

Right, and the CRB feat is also terrible.

So less "not an issue" and more "still just as bad as ever"

[Bast L.]

Squiggit wrote:

GM OfAnything wrote:

This is literally the same feat as the Wizard's from the Core Rulebook.

Right, and the CRB feat is also terrible.

So less "not an issue" and more "still just as bad as ever"

Aye. It saves you 5 sp and L bulk. When would it even be used? Imprisoned with your book, needing to summon something, but not having your pouch? So few spells require material components.

Should've removed the free hand requirement. Then it could have some use, maybe, though I doubt I'd still take it ever.

[ExOichoThrow]

Barely any spells have M components anymore. It's a pointless feat IMO.

[graystone]

ExOichoThrow wrote:

Barely any spells have M components anymore. It's a pointless feat IMO.

Not pointless... Just a niche feat [with an unneeded requirement] for equally niche selection of spells requiring a niche campaign... You play a shipwrecked game, it's got some point: you don't and the point is saving 5 sp. :P