The dagger is a fast and nimble weapon, and your mastery of it, shows how elegance can be lethal. When you select this feat, you gain the following benefits :
• You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with the weapon.
• Attacking at long range doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls made with daggers.
• Your critical hit range with daggers increases by one integer. (So, if you would normally score a critical hit on a 20, you now score a critical hit on a 19 or a 20. Likewise, if you would score a critical hit on a 19 or a 20, now you would score a critical hit on a 18,19, or a 20.)
• When a creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the creature, with a dagger you are holding.
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Posted May 1, 2018I'm not sure the prerequisite is relevant, I can't find a class that lacks dagger proficiency.
I'm leery of anything that moves back towards the "threat range" mechanic of 3rd edition. There are only a handful of features that expand the rolls which produce a crit, and none of them stack. The reliable reaction counterattack already makes this feat a huge draw for rogues, and the crit improvement makes a 3 level champion multiclass dip frighteningly valuable.
That's the obvious route for a feat like this, but there's another build that doesn't require multi-classing. A 5th level hexblade warlock with this feat can cause critical hits on an 18+ and (with the Eldritch Smite invocation) turn a 3rd level slot into an automatic 8d8 bonus damage.
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Posted May 8, 2018It does make sense that one would need to be proficient in something in order to be a master of it, however, your pretty much right. The prerequisite is for fluff.
5e doesn't really have many things that increase crit range so that's one reason why I included it in this feat. I'm aware that the features that increase crit range don't stack, but I think that's lame (however this might make this feat OP, so it might get changed to fit more with how the PHB is).
Whenever I create a feat, I try to take the design philosophy of 5e into consideration, which is essentially, make things less niche and more universal. As you mentioned, a Fighter Champion or Hexblade Warlock (which are inferior to regular warlocks, so this could help them) could have fun with this feat, not just rouges (though it might be too good for them admittedly, but they lack damage in my opinion), heck even a Paladin could get use out of this feat (smiting as a reaction actually makes paladins want to use daggers).
If you or anyone who reads this, wants to playtest this feat and give me feedback on it, that would be pretty dope.
Thanks for you criticism Vaegrim!