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<blockquote data-quote="KidSnide" data-source="post: 5886594" data-attributes="member: 54710">I haven't seen enough to really evaluate how well &quot;themes as feat bundles&quot; will work, but I can speak to the experience of some of my players.&nbsp; I have seen a number of players who want/need the mechanical advantages of feats (if not too complicated), but who find the process of picking feats to be too fiddly.&nbsp; Like all players, they want to make decisions about their characters, but only the decisions they consider important.&nbsp; If you don't think a lot about the mechanics of your character (a characteristic more common in the greater community than in the subset that participate in message boards), then picking individual feats is below the level of &quot;important&quot; and becomes unpleasant make-work of picking through the PH (or convincing another player to pick your feats for you).&nbsp; If WotC can manage the challenge of producing better balance among feats, then feat-bundle-themes can let players customize their characters at a less granular level.&nbsp; I recognize there is a hefty &quot;if&quot; in there, but with that caveat its a potentially significant win, at least in the character creation sub-game.-KS</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KidSnide, post: 5886594, member: 54710"] I haven't seen enough to really evaluate how well "themes as feat bundles" will work, but I can speak to the experience of some of my players. I have seen a number of players who want/need the mechanical advantages of feats (if not too complicated), but who find the process of picking feats to be too fiddly. Like all players, they want to make decisions about their characters, but only the decisions they consider important. If you don't think a lot about the mechanics of your character (a characteristic more common in the greater community than in the subset that participate in message boards), then picking individual feats is below the level of "important" and becomes unpleasant make-work of picking through the PH (or convincing another player to pick your feats for you). If WotC can manage the challenge of producing better balance among feats, then feat-bundle-themes can let players customize their characters at a less granular level. I recognize there is a hefty "if" in there, but with that caveat its a potentially significant win, at least in the character creation sub-game. -KS [/QUOTE]

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