Talk:Feat Purchasing (3.5e Variant Rule)

Ratings
Why do you want to make it not quite free? So the person who dumps INT feels sad that they don't get any skills whatsoever? Making things have a price increases depth only when you could conceivably choose not to pay it. Well, there's also the flaw option, where you certainly will get your full allotment, but each one gives you a flavorful penalty that can be used for some silly roleplaying, but that's not really a price so much as an opportunity. --Foxwarrior (talk) 01:51, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

so if feat training is not a class skill, you can only put in 1/2 ranks, meaning that it will cost 6 skill points for the bonus feat 173.33.2.57 15:46, April 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yep. -- Eiji Hyrule 21:54, April 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * If it takes 6 skill points to get a bonus feat, and you're going to spend 6 skill points whether it be class or cross-class, and ranks don't matter at all... wait, why are you making it a cross class for everyone? Why not just make this a class skill for everyone where you get a new feat every 6 ranks and save people from doing division and having arguments about feats or class abilities that give people new class skills not applying to this one (because it already would be a class skill)? Why the extra layer of complication? - TarkisFlux 23:22, April 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree actually. Mind you, I didn't make this, this is old work from an author long forgotten.  Since my wording is off today, wanna ive a short at rewording it? -- Eiji Hyrule 23:46, April 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * OK. You can has reword. - TarkisFlux 01:18, April 30, 2010 (UTC)

Feat Gained Levels
If you start with a first or second level character, you have to make yourself weaker than others now to become stronger later. This messes with an equal power curve (if DnD had one...). Also, you gain feats when you would already gain feats, (levels equal to 3+6n) so those levels become doubly important with this variant. These are perceived problems to me that I would solve by making it so that you gain a feat when you spend skill ranks equal to 4+6n, so you get feats at levels 1, 7, 13, and 19. I'd also allow you to get another feat when you have 24 skill ranks so that you have a reason to take this at level 20 if you don't use epic rules, giving a capstone to this skill, which needs one for utility. --Havvy 04:19, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Though the page states you gain feats at levels X, Y, and Z, there's no one to stop you from delaying your purchase a level or two (or more). -- Jota 13:25, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see what the hububub is about. If you put your skills into it at low level, you get a feat at 3rd, 9th, and 15th.... and if you store up all your points til you're like level 16 or something, you dump them all at once and get three feats still.  Which is fine and all, but either way if you spent them or stored them, you aren't using those skill points so they're a "waste".  I don't see the advantage of waiting til high level. -- Eiji-kun 15:47, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I wasn't passing judgment, merely making a point. Waiting is good because you can fill pre-reqs, but other than that a feat now is almost always better than a feat tomorrow, what with tomorrow's uncertainty and all. -- Jota 21:37, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * My play-style is that I don't change which skills I choose to increment from level to level unless I'm either trying to meet prerequisites or my intelligence modifier changes. Thus, when I choose somewhere to spend skillpoints, I want it to be useful at levels 1 and 20 specifically, and gain some bonus at other levels in-between.  Ultimately, it is to each, their own, but this skill usage messes my easy level up progression a lot.  --Havvy 23:35, 9 February 2011 (UTC)