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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7671880" data-attributes="member: 2067">I would expect more future survey questions on that stuff. Things like "Do you use feats?" and maybe a section on which feats are good/bad/broken/etc. Questions like "when you play a melee-focused character, what 'build' is your favorite?"Alternate explanations include that it is the "strongest build" being an issue with the GWM feat (it's too good) or an issue with the other fighting style feats (they're not good enough). Yeah, and, prudently, Wizards is looking at why that might be from an abundance of angles, rather than just jumping to the conclusion that small races need to be able to use heavy weapons. I'm not suggesting they're mistaken, I'm just suggesting that perhaps the small-races-are-weak perception comes from somewhere beyond a niche optional build. That doesn't seem to adequately account for the perception to me. I mean, if most folks are 1-6, and only a fraction of tables even use feats, then how many active characters are being played with the GWM feat right now? How many are being played in a game where small characters are trying to be melee machines? There's zilch in my current campaigns. It's possible I'm an outlier, but I'd wager the number of people who see this in practice are pretty low - and if I' right, those numbers would be too low to account for folks wanting gnomes with greatswords affecting this poll. I could be wrong, though. Maybe there are thousands of halfling players out there who want to use mauls as well as half-orcs and my tables are outliers. In which case I kind of wonder why I'm such an outlier.</blockquote>

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