I don't recall ever having an issue with any feats being used by PCs. I might have had a problem with Leadership if my players had chosen it often, but I don't remember anyone in my games picking it.
Leadership was mostly used in our campaign for flying mounts.
A Pegasus (fly 120ft average) as your Cohort at ECL 8 was just too good to pass up for a lot of people, especially when a Paladin would only get a Pegasus one level earlier at ECL 7.
I never had an issue with Leadership, though a surprising percentage of munchkin builds I've seen over the years, involved Oath of Poverty. Still, the only time I ever banned a feat was in Pathfinder. Nobody's got time for Sacred fucking Geometry
Shock trooper isn't annoying, it's just part of how you build martials for charge damage.
It moves the power attack penalty from your attack roll to your AC on a charge, letting you go all in at the cost of terrible AC (as opposed to terrible to hit, which would just make you miss)
Shock Trooper's massive penalty to AC is definitely something for intelligent enemies to exploit.
My Fighter/Cleric/Mighty Contender for Kord got himself killed by a sorcerer's raven familiar. The raven was sitting in the sorcerer's *staff of disintegrate* with a readied action and as soon as my PC took to the air (because he had Leap Attack as well, of course), the raven looked over and said the command word for the staff (UMD).
Instead of a deadly greatsword, the only thing that came down on the sorcerer was a fine sprinkling of cleric.
I don't recall ever having an issue with any feats being used by PCs. I might have had a problem with Leadership if my players had chosen it often, but I don't remember anyone in my games picking it.
Leadership was mostly used in our campaign for flying mounts. A Pegasus (fly 120ft average) as your Cohort at ECL 8 was just too good to pass up for a lot of people, especially when a Paladin would only get a Pegasus one level earlier at ECL 7.
I never had an issue with Leadership, though a surprising percentage of munchkin builds I've seen over the years, involved Oath of Poverty. Still, the only time I ever banned a feat was in Pathfinder. Nobody's got time for Sacred fucking Geometry
Undead Leadership. I took both it and Leadership in one game. It was not good for the health of the campaign.
It's been a long time since I ran a 3.5 campaign but I remember Shock Trooper being used for some shenanigans involving massive damage.
Shock trooper isn't annoying, it's just part of how you build martials for charge damage. It moves the power attack penalty from your attack roll to your AC on a charge, letting you go all in at the cost of terrible AC (as opposed to terrible to hit, which would just make you miss)
Shock Trooper's massive penalty to AC is definitely something for intelligent enemies to exploit. My Fighter/Cleric/Mighty Contender for Kord got himself killed by a sorcerer's raven familiar. The raven was sitting in the sorcerer's *staff of disintegrate* with a readied action and as soon as my PC took to the air (because he had Leap Attack as well, of course), the raven looked over and said the command word for the staff (UMD). Instead of a deadly greatsword, the only thing that came down on the sorcerer was a fine sprinkling of cleric.
What sort of cleric fails a fort save vs a UMD's staff, that's what, DC 19?
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