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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5886835" data-attributes="member: 2067">If you want to pay attention to detail, you pick your own feats. If you don't pay attention to detail, you pick a theme and it tells you your feats for you, and you only have to worry about the stuff on your own character sheet. If you REALLY don't want to pay attention to detail, you don't use themes at all. None of those three options work for you?So you want some themes that aren't collections of feats, but rather completely different things that are equivalent to collections of feats?This seems semantic. An e-knight is, results-wise, not a lot different from a 4e fighter where your powers are chosen in advance. It's different in the details, of course, but I don't think they're at the point in the 5e dev cycle where they're nailing down details. They're thinking about results. If they have "themes = feat packages" in mind for results, then they can design within that rubric without necessarily adhering strictly to a bland one-for-one trade.That is to say, as long as the vertical and horizontal power of a theme is roughly the same, it can be a list of 5 feats, or a single ability that is the equivalent of those 5 feats, or whatever you want. I don't think they're implying that themes can only be lists of pre-selected feats, just that this equivalence is the broad design goal.</blockquote>