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<blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 8630005" data-attributes="member: 6780330"><p>I get what you are saying. The Dragonlance test, though, does seem to indicate how this might be avoided: by making the Feat fungible, just as Background Features are currently. The rules might say that a Criminal Background usually gives the Dungeon Delver Feat for free...but Feats are transferrable, and maybe a player could swap out an alternate desired Feat if they have a story for it and DM approval. That would let WotC R&D have their cake and eat it, too: players are given straightforward narrative reasons to go with the flow for the normal Background and Feat for their build ("Ok, I'm a Rogue, they suggest Criminal, that gives me Dungeon Delver, that al makes sense, let's go!") while allowing for people who want to tinker and get creative without breaking anything really ( I also expect the pool of Feats in the rules revision to be more well tuned than the already pretty good 5E core Feats were).</p><p></p><p>There is a lot of potential here. It would allow for Background to essentially recreate the Prestige Class design space while avoid a lot of the flaws from the 3E implementation, and even to replace Multiclassing. instead of doing a "Fighter Dip," take the Soldier background and get a Fighting style at Level 1, and take advantage of some Level 4 Feats. The limited trees also opens up space for some more interesting Feats, within reason.</p><p></p><p>Heck, eventually I could see mid-level Themes make a comeback, and even Epic Destinies...</p><p></p><p>There is potential here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Parmandur, post: 8630005, member: 6780330"] I get what you are saying. The Dragonlance test, though, does seem to indicate how this might be avoided: by making the Feat fungible, just as Background Features are currently. The rules might say that a Criminal Background usually gives the Dungeon Delver Feat for free...but Feats are transferrable, and maybe a player could swap out an alternate desired Feat if they have a story for it and DM approval. That would let WotC R&D have their cake and eat it, too: players are given straightforward narrative reasons to go with the flow for the normal Background and Feat for their build ("Ok, I'm a Rogue, they suggest Criminal, that gives me Dungeon Delver, that al makes sense, let's go!") while allowing for people who want to tinker and get creative without breaking anything really ( I also expect the pool of Feats in the rules revision to be more well tuned than the already pretty good 5E core Feats were). There is a lot of potential here. It would allow for Background to essentially recreate the Prestige Class design space while avoid a lot of the flaws from the 3E implementation, and even to replace Multiclassing. instead of doing a "Fighter Dip," take the Soldier background and get a Fighting style at Level 1, and take advantage of some Level 4 Feats. The limited trees also opens up space for some more interesting Feats, within reason. Heck, eventually I could see mid-level Themes make a comeback, and even Epic Destinies... There is potential here. [/QUOTE]
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