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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 2435479" data-attributes="member: 18837">IMHO, a basic class ability or a bonus feat (especially the feat) is equally useful at all levels.  With a 2000 XP cost, it's saying that a bonus feat is equivalent to going from 2nd level to 3rd, but only worth 1/5 of the way going from 10th to 11th.  If I was a player in your game, I certainly wouldn't use the option at 2nd level, but once it became economical (say around 6th level), I'd use it from then on.  If there's a limit to how often I can use it, say once a level, I'd use it every single level thereafter to get a bonus feat.  If there was no limit, well... 3 feats in place of advancing from 6th to 7th sounds very worth it; while my allies advance from 6th to 10th, I could stay at 6th and have... 3+3+4+5=  wow, 15 bonus feats.  Even at one feat per level, I'd probably only be one level below those not using the option; when my friends are at 20th, I'll be at 19th with 14 extra feats. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm not trying to squelch the idea of XP cost per feat, it just seems like it should be a cost based off your current level.  Perhaps 40% of the cost of a level, so at 1st level it would cost 400 XP, and at 10th it would cost 4000.</blockquote>