nockermensch wrote:Come on, guys. This is 2013.
Whoever wrote the damn feat must have a facebook or twitter account. Could someone please write the author and ask what was their fucking intention?
Yes. This was done like five years ago. The author's intention was for it to do exactly the thing it obviously is supposed to do once you realize that feats not stacking with each other when you take them multiple times in succession is the normal rules of the game. Taking it four times gives you a
total of four extra Inspiration points. But you see, that makes it terrible and not abusable at all, so the people who jerk off about the Factotum on the internet refuse to accept that. And then when people bring up the author's obvious and confirmed intentions, they rant about how it does something stupid and quadratic "by RAW" even though it totally doesn't do that either.
It's very mysterious. In many ways, it's exactly like the Sarrukh bullshit. It doesn't do that by RAW. It doesn't do that by RAI. It doesn't do that
at all. But a sloppy reading of it makes it
look like it does something amazing, and armchair optimizers would feel very foolish if they admitted that they had fallen for a scam. So they never, ever, ever admit that they don't have a killer combo on their hands. Not when people walk them through the rules as written in a step by step fashion to show that they are wrong. Not when the authors or editors come out and tell them they are wrong explicitly. Not under any circumstances.
It's just really weird. Especially considering how many of these people will flip their shit if you suggest sneak attacking with alchemist fire or some other
actual moderately cool combo that they don't know about. My personal theory is that it is all about pride and echo chambers. Probably not one person in a hundred who rants about Sarrukhs or Factotum Fonts
actually owns a copy of Serpent Kingdoms or Dungeonscape. They haven't personally done any of this scholarship, they just get these combos prepackaged for them by their "in-group", and acknowledging the fact that the combos don't work and never worked would be simultaneously admitting that they had been taken for a ride
and admitting that their "friends" were totally full of shit. Simultaneously betraying "the group"
and showing personal weakness. And they just aren't going to fucking do that.
Even though the text is right there and it totally doesn't fucking say what they claim it says.
-Username17