Talk:Promising Student (3.5e Feat)

Umm...
This looks like a really hard way to get a simple class feature retraining, and like there's not a lot of benefit from taking the feat otherwise. Am I missing something? - Tarkisflux Talk 02:09, 7 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Changing a Bilbo-Baggins-like character into a Garion-like character (or vice versa) should be really hard. Since I don't have the book with retraining in it, I don't really know how that rule compares. --Ideasmith 02:51, 7 April 2012 (UTC) --Ideasmith 02:53, 7 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Retraining is in the PHB2, but in retrospect it's not a necessary part of my complaint here. It looks like a hard way of doing something that would wind up being a non-improvement in most cases (balance level jumps and stupid build replacements notwithstanding), and that looks like taking a feat for no benefit other than being able to "change your mind". Which looks like a poor use of a feat to me. - Tarkisflux Talk 04:53, 7 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Given the nature of the unfledged class, the feat cost is only temporary. Any changing your mind about what your class levels, feats, and skills will be once you've decided to stop being useless is well worth a temporary feat cost. --Ideasmith 12:33, 7 April 2012 (UTC)


 * But I thought the whole point of an Unfledged is that you don't actually know whether you're Bilbo-Baggins-like or Garion-like, because the essential traits that you will have once you metamorphose haven't shown themselves yet. Why should there be a significant cost to changing details of the parts of a story that haven't been written yet? --Foxwarrior (talk) 19:55, 3 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Actually, the events in the first chapter of The Hobbit are very appropriate to this class. "You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do. It's all the same to us." The default fluff involves the unfledged not knowing; who else might know is up for grabs. (This feat is intended to match different fluff.)--Ideasmith (talk) 19:33, 5 March 2013 (UTC)