Opinion: Impressiveness should NOT be a factor when scaling a character (unless you use narrative)

Hey guys. It’s me with my second post of today. Honestly I have to make this post because honestly I wanted to do it for like the longest time already lol. But now here we have it.

Usually from what I see, when people scale a Character low. The reasons are usually like “their feats aren’t so IMPRESSIVE and I have seen nothing good about it” and this is the reason why I am making this post today. impressiveness should not be a factor when scaling intelligence.

REASONING:

before I start I’m not saying that impressiveness isn’t good for a feat. In fact they make the feats better so they could draw attention. However only if the feat WORKS

let’s say a character thinks and plans a very “impressive“ and outstanding feat he will be using against an opponent. Everything about the feat he is gonna use is explained, However the opponent acts first Or Counters it when he is applying the feat against the opponent, which invalidates the feat Or in better words, The feat did not work against their opponent which makes the feat loses all effect, i bet you 50 cents, you wouldn’t find it “impressive“ and you would scale the character lower than before if the feat doesn’t work.

here comes effectiveness, effectiveness is a better way of scaling a feat than impressiveness. The reason being that we only know how a feat is really good when it actually works on an opponent, effecting their plans and stuff to slow them down and even outsmart them. And impressiveness doesn’t apply here because it has nothing to do with effectiveness.

its the same for powerscaling, the strongest of attacks no matter how well planned or powerful they are don’t matter if they don’t hit and damage the enemy/target, which also applies the same to here In SCD.

The impressiveness part only applies to narrative scaling and Parts of normal scaling. (Normal scaling is mostly more about feats than narrative tho), as I agree that narratives just clash when comparing and are just statements.

so yeah, this is why I don’t think impressiveness should be a factor when scaling a character. Instead, we should look at how effective a feat is instead when it works.

(ps. If you don’t get it, clarify with me, I’m bad at explaining shit)