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Favorite Feat
« on: September 22, 2011, 10:25:16 AM »
Okay! Favorite feat game, just like the others, but with feats. To start, everyone can list five feats and we'll gather a list. Once we have the submissions, we'll do a preliminary round of voting to prune it down to 50, and start as normal from there.

I'll get the ball rolling:

Power Attack
Quicken Spell
Knowledge Devotion
Law Devotion
Natural Spell




Damn. It's hard to keep it to five!
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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2011, 03:15:21 PM »
Chicken infested
Skill Focus(Craft[Basketweaving])

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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2011, 03:42:14 PM »
Is Chicken-Infested a feat? No, that isn't one of my favorite feats, if it is. I just thought it was a flaw or trait...

My favorite 5:
Nymph's Kiss*****
Divine Metamagic: Persist ****(I think the feat is pretty dumb for most other uses)
Earth Sense***This feat is insanely flavorful
Collegiate Wizard**for the low-magic, can't-buy-scrolls campaign
Diehard* I really like this feat, if only Endurance weren't a prereq

Hope I didn't miss anything I thought was cool...
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I don't know if the designers meant you to take Skill Focus for every feat.
Sounds a little OP.

The monk is clearly the best class, no need to optimize here. What you are doing is overkill.

It's like people who have no idea what a turn signal is. They ruin it for everyone else.
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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2011, 03:59:19 PM »
Invisible Spell
Leadership
Mindsight
Mad Foam Rager
Lightning Maces (replacing Mage Slayer)
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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2011, 04:04:26 PM »
Dragonfire Inspiration
Initiate of Mystra
Craft Contingent Spell
Uncanny Forethought
Planar Touchstone
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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2011, 08:09:14 AM »
Improved Trip
Combat Reflexes
Shagging the DM (munchkin players guide)
Dragonwrought kobold

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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2011, 09:24:16 AM »
Is Chicken-Infested a feat? No, that isn't one of my favorite feats, if it is. I just thought it was a flaw or trait...
It's a flaw. A commoner-only flaw.

...because commoners needed a nerf. :p
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Quotes
[spoiler]
Quote from: Cafiend
It is a shame stupidity isn't painful.
Quote from: StormKnight
Totally true.  Historians believe that most past civilizations would have endured for centuries longer if they had successfully determined Batman's alignment.
Quote from: Grand Theft Otto
Why are so many posts on the board the equivalent of " Dear Dr. Crotch, I keep punching myself in the crotch, and my groin hurts... what should I do? How can I make my groin stop hurting?"
Quote from: CryoSilver
I suggest carving "Don't be a dick" into him with a knife.  A dull, rusty knife.  A dull, rusty, bent, flaming knife.
Quote from: Seerow
Fluffy: It's over Steve! I've got the high ground!
Steve: You underestimate my power!
Fluffy: Don't try it, Steve!
Steve: *charges*
Fluffy: *three critical strikes*
Steve: ****
Quote from: claypigeons
I don't even stat out commoners. Commoner = corpse that just isn't a zombie. Yet.
Quote from: CryoSilver
When I think "Old Testament Boots of Peace" I think of a paladin curb-stomping an orc and screaming "Your death brings peace to this land!"
Quote from: Orville_Oaksong
Buy a small country. Or Pelor. Both are good investments.
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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2011, 12:15:00 PM »
Is Chicken-Infested a feat? No, that isn't one of my favorite feats, if it is. I just thought it was a flaw or trait...
It's a flaw. A commoner-only flaw.

...because commoners needed a nerf. :p
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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2011, 01:59:43 PM »
Halfling Commoner Chicken Wrangler

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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2011, 02:06:04 PM »
Is Chicken-Infested a feat? No, that isn't one of my favorite feats, if it is. I just thought it was a flaw or trait...
It's a flaw. A commoner-only flaw.

...because commoners needed a nerf. :p

Really? Damn. Does that mean I can choose six feats for my serious list, then?

Shape Soulmeld
Invisible Spell
Adaptive Style
Bind Vestige
Aberration Blood (and by extension, the [Aberrant] feats)

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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2011, 09:11:24 PM »
Well I suppose I have a certain reputation to maintain, so here goes:

Shadow Blade
Dead Eye
Weapon Finesse
Boomerang Daze
Lightning Mace
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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2011, 11:15:59 PM »
ShockTrooper
Martial Stance
Imperious Command
Robilars Gambit
Karmic strike
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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2011, 07:24:43 AM »
Improved Initiative
Blessed by Tem-Et-Nu (it had to be said)
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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2011, 11:54:00 AM »
It looks like we have 44 so far. I suppose we should get at least six more.

How about if no one else enters any ideas 24 hours from now, we can each put one more in? That should get us to about 50 or so.
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Elemental mage test game

Quotes
[spoiler]
Quote from: Cafiend
It is a shame stupidity isn't painful.
Quote from: StormKnight
Totally true.  Historians believe that most past civilizations would have endured for centuries longer if they had successfully determined Batman's alignment.
Quote from: Grand Theft Otto
Why are so many posts on the board the equivalent of " Dear Dr. Crotch, I keep punching myself in the crotch, and my groin hurts... what should I do? How can I make my groin stop hurting?"
Quote from: CryoSilver
I suggest carving "Don't be a dick" into him with a knife.  A dull, rusty knife.  A dull, rusty, bent, flaming knife.
Quote from: Seerow
Fluffy: It's over Steve! I've got the high ground!
Steve: You underestimate my power!
Fluffy: Don't try it, Steve!
Steve: *charges*
Fluffy: *three critical strikes*
Steve: ****
Quote from: claypigeons
I don't even stat out commoners. Commoner = corpse that just isn't a zombie. Yet.
Quote from: CryoSilver
When I think "Old Testament Boots of Peace" I think of a paladin curb-stomping an orc and screaming "Your death brings peace to this land!"
Quote from: Orville_Oaksong
Buy a small country. Or Pelor. Both are good investments.
[/spoiler]

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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2011, 12:23:39 PM »
Arcane Strike
Martial Study
Martial Stance
Summon Elemental
Darkstalker
The mind transcends the body.
It's also a little cold because of that.
Please get it a blanket.

I wish I could read your mind,
I can barely read mine.

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

[spoiler]
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill

To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
[/spoiler]

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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2011, 03:52:35 AM »
Vow of Poverty!

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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2011, 06:57:10 PM »
It looks like we're still down one or two. I know Veekie had at least one repeat. If everyone else lists one more feat, we should have more than 50 to start.

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Quotes
[spoiler]
Quote from: Cafiend
It is a shame stupidity isn't painful.
Quote from: StormKnight
Totally true.  Historians believe that most past civilizations would have endured for centuries longer if they had successfully determined Batman's alignment.
Quote from: Grand Theft Otto
Why are so many posts on the board the equivalent of " Dear Dr. Crotch, I keep punching myself in the crotch, and my groin hurts... what should I do? How can I make my groin stop hurting?"
Quote from: CryoSilver
I suggest carving "Don't be a dick" into him with a knife.  A dull, rusty knife.  A dull, rusty, bent, flaming knife.
Quote from: Seerow
Fluffy: It's over Steve! I've got the high ground!
Steve: You underestimate my power!
Fluffy: Don't try it, Steve!
Steve: *charges*
Fluffy: *three critical strikes*
Steve: ****
Quote from: claypigeons
I don't even stat out commoners. Commoner = corpse that just isn't a zombie. Yet.
Quote from: CryoSilver
When I think "Old Testament Boots of Peace" I think of a paladin curb-stomping an orc and screaming "Your death brings peace to this land!"
Quote from: Orville_Oaksong
Buy a small country. Or Pelor. Both are good investments.
[/spoiler]

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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2011, 11:29:07 PM »
Frightful Prescence from Draconomicon is pretty hardcore.
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SneeR
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I don't know if the designers meant you to take Skill Focus for every feat.
Sounds a little OP.

The monk is clearly the best class, no need to optimize here. What you are doing is overkill.

It's like people who have no idea what a turn signal is. They ruin it for everyone else.
When another driver brandishes a holy symbol and begins glowing with divine light, seek cover or get spattered with zombie brains. I do not see what is so complicated about this.
[/spoiler]

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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2011, 01:58:37 AM »
Leap Attack is pretty bawler, too.

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Re: Favorite Feat
« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2011, 03:35:28 PM »
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