Talk:Extreme Strength (3.5e Feat)

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Ganteka Future opposes this article and rated it 0 of 4.

There's just some probably incorrect terminology used in here and this thing gets real weird real fast because of that. This is all of course, beside getting a bonus on your Strength and a multiplier that goes on top of that bonus that scales a character, which doesn't exactly play nice with expected values for numbers and such. So, ECL is Equivalent Character Level, it's used to show what effective level a character is in the case of character's with Level Adjustment and levels in classes and racial hit dice all mixed in and such. Increasing that value with a feat... is awful. It's just awful. If the author intended to have "effective fighter level for the purposes of qualifying for feats", that's a whole different beast, with the highest feat that even requires that being... 16th maybe? Greater Weapon Specialization is only 12th, which is already irrelevantly leveled at the +11 BAB benefit of this feat. We could do some math for fun on what exists here as is though: Let's go with a Level 16 Fighter, 18 base Strength, +2 racial, +1@4th/8th/12th/16th from leveling, some item for +4 enhancement as well. A modest 28 Strength (+9 modifier). At 16th level, he somehow gets this feat. BAM, great! We count our Fighter levels tripled (48) to determine our ECL, which gives us a morale bonus of +48, giving our Level 16 Fighter a Strength of 76 (+33 modifier). Now, the best part of this, our hero, the champion our people need, can't basically ever level up. Experience rewards are based on your ECL. He also screws over the entire party. But hey, if the other PCs gang up and take him out, they probably get enough XP to level once, because that's also how that works. As a feat, no, this just doesn't work at all. Oppose.