Quote Originally Posted by Lynnabel View Post
Law/Chaos ED Feat Musing:

Several thoughts in no particular order:

  • We could just boost the damage on these feats considerably. Say 1d12 vs opposite alignment, 1d8 vs everyone else
  • That would feel kind of bad though, it means you'd feel obligated to drop a flavorful melee/ranged scaling imbue for a different one based purely on DPS
  • Its also kind of bad to have an obviously best Imbue out there.
  • Counterpoint to the above, unlike other imbues, this one costs a Feat slot instead of just AP, so since its a higher cost doesn't that mean it should be better?
  • What if these also gave bonus imbue dice if you match the alignment of the feat, say Embodiment of Law also granted +2 dice if you were lawful, even if you don't actually use it as your imbue. That would mean that there's some additional bonuses to vectoring alignment into your builds (since right now people tend to gravitate towards Neutral if available).
  • That being said, its also very very late in the game to be giving an imbue. So following the previous thought, maybe these should simply grant you a bunch of stats if you're the matching alignment (and then some of those stats are imbue dice) and we forgo the actual imbue altogether?
  • This would also mean that non-imbue characters can take these feats for the regular boost in DPS, and further encourage players to step out of True Neutral.


Lots to noodle on.
I do like the bonuses to matching alignments, would give a reason to actually care about your alignment again, but would likely swing a bit too hard in the opposite way, I would think. That said, one thing that needs to happen is that each imbue you get after the first needs to add a dice alongside it.

If every imbue (after your first) came caked in with at least one die, it would make picking up imbues still worthwhile. For instance, if I wanted to make an inquisitor, the feat would do literally nothing for me, despite being perfectly flavored, and worse, if you were an EK, you would just never want to pick it up, as it would scale worse.