Talk:Massage Therapy (3.5e Feat)

Who gets the Damage Reduction?

So I have to ask, who is getting the soft ability damage reduction? Because the wording is "Gain Soft Ability Damage Reduction (Dexterity) 1." which I cant help but feel 'gain' would give the one taking the feat the damage reduction as a permanent thing, which would kinda make this a pretty awesome feat for free (sure it costs a feat) damage reduction every turn. True its only dexterity and its only one point but reduction is reduction. Could be quite useful if you have an item that requires a point off of dex to activate it each turn or something along those lines.

If this reduction is going to the one getting the massage, I would instead word it "Grant Soft Ability Damage Reduction (Dexterity) 1." and I would also state for how long they get it, as otherwise it would be kinda permanent. Probably an hour for every increment of ten minutes of massage up to the masseur's ranks in (massage), or something of that nature.

Its a good feat, I'm just trying to see who is getting the damage reduction here. (If I've missed something here and I'm entirely wrong, please do inform me) Grand Showmanship (talk) 21:36, 19 December 2017 (MST)

Yeah, going to reword it a bit. The taker of the feat gets the SADR as the sole passive benefit of taking the feat. --Ganteka Future (talk) 17:01, 20 December 2017 (MST)

Ah, thanks for the clarification. It is a useful benefit, but I'd think with a good enough massage, maybe they could temporarily give that ability damage reduction to dex, or maybe any one physical trait, but it only blocks damage once and ends after that one use, and only like 1d3 of damage at most, that or 1 point. Would probably be a higher balance if that was added but it could be an option, would maybe be good for the party buffer, though it would probably be quite funny to watch that prep, having the whole party just getting massages outside the dungeon entrance.

Either way just throwing in my two cents as it were. Still a neat little feat all and all, gives use to a profession, which I feel those skills should get a bit more love from time to time. Grand Showmanship (talk) 00:28, 24 December 2017 (MST)