Xeviat
Hero
Hi everyone.
One of the things I appreciated about 5E was their attempt to balance the (combat feats) around Feat = +2 to your primary stat. This is a really nice balance point (whether or not this was achieved is up to opinion; I think there are some real stinkers amongst the feats). But since ability scores are capped at 20th level, I've noticed players rushing to get their 20 in their primary stat before they pick up feats; incidentally, this has made human a little more popular in my games.
I kind of miss feats being part of character progression. From the beginning, I've wanted to split the feats in half and give out feats in addition to ASIs (cut feats in half, remove the +1 stat portion of feats).
Now, if I keep ASIs where they are (due to them being part of level progressions, and removing them would really mess with multiclassing), and gave out feats as part of a level progression (on the 3's or 2's perhaps), this would be a pure boost in power for characters.
But how much of a boost do you feel like this would be? Which feats do you think would get picked above and beyond others? What would you watch out for?
Just some homebrewing thoughts.
One of the things I appreciated about 5E was their attempt to balance the (combat feats) around Feat = +2 to your primary stat. This is a really nice balance point (whether or not this was achieved is up to opinion; I think there are some real stinkers amongst the feats). But since ability scores are capped at 20th level, I've noticed players rushing to get their 20 in their primary stat before they pick up feats; incidentally, this has made human a little more popular in my games.
I kind of miss feats being part of character progression. From the beginning, I've wanted to split the feats in half and give out feats in addition to ASIs (cut feats in half, remove the +1 stat portion of feats).
Now, if I keep ASIs where they are (due to them being part of level progressions, and removing them would really mess with multiclassing), and gave out feats as part of a level progression (on the 3's or 2's perhaps), this would be a pure boost in power for characters.
But how much of a boost do you feel like this would be? Which feats do you think would get picked above and beyond others? What would you watch out for?
Just some homebrewing thoughts.