I'm just imagining this guy at a screening of Star Wars.
"What, Han Solo is a SMUGGLER? I DEMAND YOU STOP THIS FILM IMMEDIATELY! I WILL NOT CONDONE FILMS WITH PROTAGONISTS WHO BREAK THE LAW!"
The common argument about races and ability scores in this thread is word-for-word the exact same argument as those who used to want women to have strength penalties in D&D, just with the word 'women' and 'men' replaced with 'halflings' and 'minotaurs'. I suspect it's also the same people, but I...
This pretty much exists already in at least two books.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/314622/Ancestry--Culture-An-Alternative-to-Race-in-5e
and
https://www.levelup5e.com/
Thinking about it, I realize they have been mentioned. Just the half-feats aren't called feats. They're exploration knacks and maneuvers. All classes learn exploration knacks as they gain levels (faster than feats) and all the martial classes have a maneuver progress with ascending numbers f...
Feats haven't been mentioend yet.
This is in. There's a choice of 3 things at each level.
They have expertise dice which appear to do a lot of the heavy lifting of advantage, with 3 levels of granularity (d4, d6, d8).