D&D 5E Unearthed Arcana: 16 New Feats

"Today’s Unearthed Arcana presents a selection of new feats for Dungeons & Dragons. Each feat offers a way to become better at something or to gain a whole new ability."

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The feats include Artificer Initiate, Chef, Crusher, Eldritch Adept, Fey Touched, Fighting Initiate, Gunner, Metamagic Adept, Poisoner, Piercer, Practiced Expert, Shadow Touched, Shield Training, Slasher, Tandem Tactician, and Tracker.

 

[Marandahir]

If that were true, I should be dead several times over.

Have you taken Cast-Iron Stomach?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Does sugar do that to you? It certainly doesn't to me.

No, but again, D&D isn't real life, and food does give people more energy sometimes. It feels like you're being nitpicky and just want an excuse to hate this, at the moment.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Do you have a refrigerator?

When I was in the Peace Corps, my host family didn't understand that refrigerators had to be plugged in overnight to function correctly. So they would unplug their at night to save money.

 

[Mistwell]

This UA has a lot of good ideas, but it made a mess of them.

I love the idea of a chef feat, for example, but doesn't make much sense in the fiction. Why temp HP and not a bonus to attack rolls speed. Those could also be described as energy. Even still, food doesn't really give me a sudden boost of energy. The feat doesn't provide much of an explanation.

Also, ice cream isn't made by chefs. It resides in the realm of confectioners.

Your tastes seem to differ from the overwhelming majority of people's tastes on this one. Which is not a bad thing, but it does make claims like it's a "mess" as opposed to "this is not something I prefer" a bit of an odd choice.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

As a chef, this isn't true. All chefs worth their salt (no pun intended) know how to make ice cream, and do often as on demand special flavors.

If you don't believe me, watch a few episodes of Chopped or Iron Chef

I'm sure that's true. But if the purpose of the feat was to make ice cream, the name would be confectioner, not chef.

 

[Marandahir]

No, but again, D&D isn't real life, and food does give people more energy sometimes. It feels like you're being nitpicky and just want an excuse to hate this, at the moment.

Hey hey, let's be fair. WOTFE seems to like some of the feats (like the arcane magic ones).

We're all entitled to piece apart the new UA. It's what we do. Some of us are going to like everything (me), some of us are going to like some but not all, and some may well hate it all, and that's fine. That's the point of a UA, to gauge community interest in these feat(ure)s.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Your tastes seem to differ from the overwhelming majority of people's tastes on this one. Which is not a bad thing, but it does make claims like it's a "mess" as opposed to "this is not something I prefer" a bit of an odd choice.

Which is why unless evidence and sources are provided, all statements from all people should be mentally prefaced with the words "I think."

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Hey hey, let's be fair. WOTFE seems to like some of the feats (like the arcane magic ones).

We're all entitled to piece apart the new UA. It's what we do. Some of us are going to like everything (me), some of us are going to like some but not all, and some may well hate it all, and that's fine. That's the point of a UA, to gauge community interest in these feat(ure)s.

Point taken.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Hey hey, let's be fair. WOTFE seems to like some of the feats (like the arcane magic ones).

We're all entitled to piece apart the new UA. It's what we do. Some of us are going to like everything (me), some of us are going to like some but not all, and some may well hate it all, and that's fine. That's the point of a UA, to gauge community interest in these feat(ure)s.

Really, I just wish WotC returned to the fiction-first approach, as opposed to their new mechanics first approach.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Really, I just wish WotC returned to the fiction-first approach, as opposed to their new mechanics first approach.

Isn't in your mind the "temporary hit points from food" fictional?

Also, it seems to me that having a magical chef that serves healing food is very on par with fictional characters. Also, they don't "playtest fiction" in UA. They playtest mechanics.