Talk:Versatile Skill (3.5e Feat)

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Ganteka Future dislikes this article and rated it 1 of 4.

Well, this feat is... problematic in its intent to push the concept of Min-Maxing further. The design of making characters as single-ability dependent as possible allows this feat to give a character the ability to step all over the roles of other archetypes, and that's not great. Even on something like, say Strength replacing Dexterity, on a basic Strength-maximized character to remove drawbacks of that Min-Maxing, this gets you: Strength for Initiative, Strength on all Dexterity-based skills and Strength for skill points. You displace the skillful character archetype by stronging your way through everything. Its a huge benefit and certainly not Moderate in any way for how it rebalances roles and numbers and broadens what a character can do and compete at (well, not just compete, excel, "competing" is fine, this is out-doing). Heck, taking a feat that just gives you any score instead of Intelligence for skill points is probably inherently problematic because of what it does to one of the bigger draws of skill-based classes. I lost my train of thought, anyway, not something I would recommend ever unless you really needed it as a patch for someone specific on a case-by-case basis. Dislike.