Morithias
2010-12-18, 02:40 PM
I've been looking through my feat indexes and such and have come to a realization that almost every feat is designed without variants in mind. Half the smiting feats require "Smite Evil" not "Smite Any", and there are very few multi-classing feats that can be used with variants.
I'm wondering if there's ever actually be an official stance on this. Like in the Draconium where it's talking about swapping out your Paladin Mount for a dragon, or your Blackguard Fiendish Servant for a Dragon. Good enough, until you realize that the feat that allows you combine ranger and paladin levels flat out says "Smite evil" and RAW can't be taken with Blackguard, when the whole point of the Blackguard originally was to be basically an evil Paladin on every level.
You can't even take Ranged Smite, RAW with blackguard.
So has there actually been any official word, or common consent about what you can and can't assume is swappable?
And no, I don't want "Ask your DM". It's obvious rule 0 is final answer, and a lot of the time such things only come into problem when we're dueling our builds.
I'm wondering if there's ever actually be an official stance on this. Like in the Draconium where it's talking about swapping out your Paladin Mount for a dragon, or your Blackguard Fiendish Servant for a Dragon. Good enough, until you realize that the feat that allows you combine ranger and paladin levels flat out says "Smite evil" and RAW can't be taken with Blackguard, when the whole point of the Blackguard originally was to be basically an evil Paladin on every level.
You can't even take Ranged Smite, RAW with blackguard.
So has there actually been any official word, or common consent about what you can and can't assume is swappable?
And no, I don't want "Ask your DM". It's obvious rule 0 is final answer, and a lot of the time such things only come into problem when we're dueling our builds.