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Silam reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses with
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Undesirable to who? I don't imagine a wave of PCs all want to be liches. It's not even the most beneficial build considering you give up... -
Silam reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses with Like.
Long chains are bad. This is at best three feats. We already have several two feat chains. This adds an additional feat for a specific...
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Silam reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses with Like.
A PbtA style playbook is an example of a class without levels. Your starting character has a role and distinct abilities that can be...
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Silam replied to the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses.That's an intriguing distinction, which I don't think I'm fully able to grasp right now. What is a class without levels?
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Silam reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses with Like.
I will prefer a feat tree solution over bbn1/ftr2/rog3/prestige class X builds.
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Silam replied to the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses.I hear you… but the issues you describe are exactly the ones I have with the class system… Each level of a class is a "unit of...
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Silam reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses with
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could be an interesting role play opportunity - the obsessive alchemist working to find the secret of immortality who fails to notice... -
Silam reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses with Like.
And would require a lot of feats. But this ties into my core problem with 5e from the player's side. How few character development...
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Silam replied to the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses.They’re not the same but they’re still quite similar… Consider the PHB, which has 12 classes with ~4 subclasses each. These are 48...
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Silam reacted to Horwath's post in the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses with Like.
subclasses are just feat chains that are preselected for you.
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Silam replied to the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses.Got it, so then what you dislike in "feat chains" is the feats, not the chains. The chains are a feature, not a bug. I can see that...
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Silam replied to the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses.To each their own, and no system can be appreciated by all, but that being said… I think there is common knee jerk reaction in this...
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Silam posted the thread D&D General Miss at Most Once per Duel with Studied Attacks, Elven Accuracy and Vex? in *Dungeons & Dragons.The Fighter’s 13th level feature seems under-discussed… (or perhaps under-studied?) This, in combination with Elven Accuracy and a Vex...
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Silam reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses with Like.
More than the chains themselves, I'm happy they are experimenting with feats that require level 8+ and 12+. Having every feat be...
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Silam reacted to Morrus's post in the thread D&D General Path of Feats: a Superior Design than Subclasses with Like.
I very much doubt that! But if they did, that's fine--it's not like A5E didn't take inspiration from D&D!