Removing Dedication limits with Free Archetype


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Hey all,

I'm running a campaign using the Free Archetype variant but without the limitation of needing to complete three feats before taking a new Dedication. Philosophically, there are very few basic Dedication feats that are so powerful as to mess up the balance as compared to a 4th or 6th level feat of a class.

What are the potential pitfalls of allowing this? I'm modelling super hero characters, so the freedom of being able to take Martial Artist or Acrobatics Dedication and then stopping has proven helpful.


I don't see any significant pitfalls in it.

I use the same rule, but what I do is I limit the total number of dedication feats you can get over all.

Using the base rules you couldn't have more than 4 dedication feats total. So that is the only limit I place since the system seems pretty self-balancing to me.

Heck I don't even see a big deal in letting players gain their dedication feats all at once at level 2 and simply reducing the number of archetype feats they can get after.

Actually, I kinda like that idea.
I think I'll try developing it further.

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