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David Alex Lamb wrote:
> In article <1126243245.291205.145590@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
> Hadsil <forumite@netzero.com> wrote:
>
>>David Alex Lamb wrote:
>>
>>>NK requires that your character maintain an intimate relationship with a good
>>>fey, many of whom are limited in how far they can move from a designated place
>>>e.g dryad, thus making it hard to both adventure and maintain the NK benefits.
>>>Feytouched count as fey IIRC and the two are accompanying each other, and
>>>presumably maintaining the relationship.
>>>--
>>>"Yo' ideas need to be thinked befo' they are say'd" - Ian Lamb, age 3.5
>>>http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~dalamb/ qucis->cs to reply (it's a long story...)
>>
>>Nymph's Kiss does not require you to maintain within a specific
>>distance of the fey, nor does it require the fey to travel with you.
>>"Intimate" doesn't have to mean sexual, either. Also, there's no
>>prerequisite of "must first befriend a fey". The feat can be taken at
>>first level, and it just presumes you already have such a fey friend.
>>Taken later doesn't mean you have to first befriend a fey. It can jsut
>>as easily mean a fey has heard of you, taken a liking to you, and
>>initiates the friendship (or more) which you accept by virtue of taking
>>the feat.
>
>
> That's certainly one plausible interpretation. I don't agree with it because
> (1) it seems to me that NK is overpowered as a feat even just looking at the
> skill bonus, and the relationship was meant to be a "roleplaying restriction"
> on the character. Your interpretation doesn't seem to be enough of a
> penalty. (2) The two feytouched characters' players seem not to take your
> interpretation.
>
> Not that roleplaying restrictions are all that great. Several readers here
> have rejected NK for this reason, or that even with the restriction it was too
> powerful for them.
Yep. It's a borked feat, and such an obviously borked feat that someone
was clearly asleep at the wheel when BoED was published.
- Ron ^*^