thanson02
Explorer
I never thought of it, because I immediately thought of the use of the word 'feat' in Celtic mythology, the moment I saw them in 3.0, so, to me, they were something extraordinary a hero could do that ordinary folk couldn't.
There are plenty of blah - have a small bonus, patch a bad design, pay your taxes - feats in D&D (every ed that has feats, anyway), but there're always some good ones worthy of the label, too. Great Cleave in 3.0 certainly felt like a feat a mighty hero might perform, for instance.
And in 3rd Edition/ 3.5 they were. But many of the abilities that were feat like were worked into the Power structure in 4E. I think someone once made a comment that the powers, at least with the Martial Classes, were more feat like then the feats in 4E.