Jastermereel
2010-01-01, 04:39 AM
A player in my group is currently a Saurian Shifter (a Dragon Magazine variant of the race), but we're having some trouble with the mechanics. The rules make sense, but the number of feats that can be usefully taken at any time are very low, but most of her racial bonuses depend on taking more and more of them. We went through a round of leveling tonight and it was hard finding feat choices that didn't feel like flavor-boosted versions of Skill Focus or Dodge.
Consequently, I was thinking of house-ruling that anytime the number of Shifter Feats is used for something (# of shifts daily, bonuses based on shifter feat counts, shifter feat prerequisites) that we'd treat it as Shifter Feats + 1/2 the number of Regular Feats. That is, at level 3 (with a flaw) she'll have 3 feats, one of which would be a shifter feat and two which are not. So she'd have the equivalent of two shifter feats, giving her an extra daily shift, and letting her qualify for later feats requiring two shifter feats.
Is this a reasonable modification to the limiting feat-cult of Shifters, does it need tweaking (1/3 rather than 1/2 the number of other feats) or is it a bad idea all together?
Consequently, I was thinking of house-ruling that anytime the number of Shifter Feats is used for something (# of shifts daily, bonuses based on shifter feat counts, shifter feat prerequisites) that we'd treat it as Shifter Feats + 1/2 the number of Regular Feats. That is, at level 3 (with a flaw) she'll have 3 feats, one of which would be a shifter feat and two which are not. So she'd have the equivalent of two shifter feats, giving her an extra daily shift, and letting her qualify for later feats requiring two shifter feats.
Is this a reasonable modification to the limiting feat-cult of Shifters, does it need tweaking (1/3 rather than 1/2 the number of other feats) or is it a bad idea all together?