Re: Ho Much Rule fiddling Is Tolerable?

From: Paul King <paul_at_nAzNB2qKrQ307suIuF-3h6hIdpY5THPUBs2G5LkBCWo_U2splEP_uOUZilXm-aklT-sh9GC>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:35:30 +0100

On 17 Jul 2007, at 08:03, Simon Phipp wrote:

>

> Restricting an initiate, and even a Devotee, to being able to only
> improvise named feats means that you don't get the situation where,
> say, a worshipper of Finovan, for instance, improvises the Blazing
> Spear feat using his Combat Affinity, even though neither Orlanth
> nor Finovan is known for Blazing Spear as it is an Elmal Combat Feat.

That doesn't really work as an explanation of the rule because it doesn't apply to Devotees.

More likely it's just to increase the gap between Devotees and Initiates. Or to simplify the rules a little by not having to worry about how the penalty for an Initiate improvising feats stacks with the penalty for improvising a feat. Limit the Initiate to a few "well-known" feats and you can simply provide a standard penalty - which is what the current rules do.

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