A feat is like a Magic card...

[MerricB]

A feat is like a Magic card, because lots of different feats can be designed, they have various costs (prerequisites), and they do different things.

And given the costs, prerequisites and suchlike, they're meant to be balanced against each other.

(The same applies to classes, magic items, prestige classes, skills and spells, to greater or lesser degrees).

What makes balancing all of them so much harder is the timeframe D&D is played on compared to Magic. A single game of D&D takes months if not years - a single game of Magic takes 20-30 minutes.

Just a thought.

Cheers!

 

[Crothian]

Well, I can;t spend a bit of money and get 15 feats for my character like I can for magic.

Though oddly, I think I do have more feats then magic cards........

 

[MerricB]

You don't put all the Magic cards you own into the same deck, either.

Well, I've seen a couple of people do that and play for ante... that was amusing.

Cheers!

 

[Crothian]

well, if put all the magic cards I owned intom the same deck, the deck would be illegal.

 

[Darkness]

I've heard people compare Exalted's Charm system to CCGs.

The reasoning is similar to Merric's, with the added point that you can directly buy Charms with XP and so tend to amass quite a few of them over time.

'course, both in Exalted and D&D it's not just Feats (or Charms); there are also other things influencing the system.

Also, the Power Combat system in the Exalted Player's Guide moves the game a bit away from this (if indeed it's a useful comparison for Exalted in the first place).

 

[Cheiromancer]

How many different Magic Cards are in existence? There must be several thousand by now. Though some of them do the same thing. Of course, you could say the same thing about feats.

Given the number of d20 publishers, I imagine the number of feats is also pretty huge- does anyone know how many? I bet that even if you added all the prestige classes in, the number of magic cards would still outnumber them.

 

[Darkness]

True, and not all of the various d20 feats were designed to be used with one another...

But then, maybe that's the case with Magic as well; I don't know enough about the various series to be able to tell.

 

[ph34r]

Next thing you know WotC is going to be selling booster packs with feats in them! You can't take a particular feat unless you can show the DM that you have the Feat Card. Some will be rarer than others meaning you are going to have to trade around to get that Super Secret Rare Foil Whirlwind Attack Feat Card!

 

[Robbert Raets]

MerricB, ph34r, you've given me a great idea for Munchkin d20. Thanks!

 

[Cerubus Dark]

lol, next time we play I am going to tell my players they have to tap X mana before they can use a feat.