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Thread: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
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2010-04-30, 10:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
Crucial Moment [Fighter]
You have learned to notice those moments in a fight when a single action can swing the battle one way or the other.
Benefits: Once per round, you may declare a single d20 roll that you are about to make against an enemy (see below) to be a 'crucial moment.' If you overcome the enemy, then you gain a +1 stacking circumstance bonus to all d20 rolls against that opponent for the next minute. If you do not, you lose any bonus that you have gained from using this feat against all opponents.
Special: A roll is defined to be against an opponent if it is a saving throw caused by an ability of that opponent, an attack roll to hit that opponent, an opposed skill check being opposed by that opponent or rolling initiative to enter combat with that enemy. Further rolls may, at the DM's option, be included in this list. 'Overcoming' an enemy on such a roll is either succeeding on the roll (in the case of an attack roll or a saving throw) or scoring higher than your opponent (as when rolling initiative or making an opposed skill check).Last edited by Fortuna; 2010-05-01 at 02:52 PM.
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2010-04-30, 10:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
What happens if you roll a natural 1 but would normally succeed on the roll? Failure?
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2010-04-30, 10:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
If I creep into your house in the dead of night and strangle you while you sleep, you probably messed up your grammar.
I'm always extremely careful to hedge myself against absolute statements.
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2010-04-30, 10:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
This isn't worth a feat slot to me. It's kind of a small bonus, doesn't scale with level, and I might get a penalty instead. If I was reasonably sure I could get the bonus then I don't really need it anyway. And it's once per day? I would not take this feat.
I could see maybe if you built for initiative and declared this on a slow looking opponent who you thought you could out-initiate, but even then it's a situational +3 once per day.
It might be more useful to be able to declare the roll you are making to be a crucial moment and get a bonus on it that scales with level (or BAB, or skill ranks, or whatever floats your boat).
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2010-04-30, 10:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
Honestly, +3 to d20 rolls 1/day isn't all that powerful. Might as well get rid of the requirement that you 'overcome your opponent.' Either that, or just make it an opposed d20 roll. Seems more straightforward, with less room for abuse or required DM discretion.
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2010-04-30, 11:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
I've edited the feat a bit to reflect that. What do you think now?
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2010-04-30, 11:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
... did it just get worse?
What do you mean by +1 stacking? You mean its typeless, and thus will stack with anything?
Because it looks the same now, but with a smaller bonus.
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2010-04-30, 11:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-05-01, 01:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
It's still pretty weak for 3.5.
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2010-05-01, 01:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
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2010-05-01, 04:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
True, unless, you fail to overcome that enemy in which case you lose the entire bonus. Overcoming an enemy has not been defined clearly yet, but my context tells me that you have to go "against an opponent" and win, which can be tricky to do 3 or more times in a row.
If that is the case, then the question isn't "how high can I get the bonus?"*, the question is "how high do I want to get this bonus before I am satisfied?"
*most DnD battles I've been in usually have a clear winner by turn 3 or 4, so I would not count on having this bonus be ridiculously high anyway.Avatar by me.
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2010-05-01, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
I like this, at least in theory. It promotes tactical thinking.
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2010-05-01, 11:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
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2010-05-01, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Crucial Moment [3.5 feat, PEACH]
If I creep into your house in the dead of night and strangle you while you sleep, you probably messed up your grammar.
I'm always extremely careful to hedge myself against absolute statements.