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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4718988" data-attributes="member: 19675">A thought just occurred to me: there are a few things in D&D you can "buy" with XP to improve your PC or gain a temporary advantage:1) A new level.  This is the primary function.2) An unusually large gap (greater than 2 levels) between classes when multiclassing outside of favored classes.  This is the secondary function.3) A magic item you construct.  This is the tertiary function.4) The effect of a spell, power or other ability that has an XP cost.  This is the quarternary function.I was wondering if there would be any real problem with adding another item to that list- additional Feats- in the interest of promoting character design creativity.  Yes- this does boost the power curve of the game a bit, but the more you spend on buying feats, the slower you progress...I haven't done the math, but I can see a few ways of doing it.  Note: all % listed below are chosen arbitrarily to make the math easy- I'm sure they're too low, and figuring out what the actual costs should be is open to discussion:1) Give each feat an XP cost.  This means that it will be hard to buy them at low levels, but easy to buy at high levels.2) Assign each feat a cost of a % of the XP cost to gain the next level.  You can only take up to 20% of your XP at any given level that way.  All prereqs must be met.Example: Feat X costs 5%, Feat Y costs 10%, and Feat Z costs 15% based on their power and utility.    A PC who wants to take Feat Y before he makes 2nd level must pay 100 XP to take that feat (5% of 1000XP).  He can spend no more than 200XP to buy feats this way.PC #2 wants to take Feat X and Feat Z between 3rd and 4th level- he must pay 1200XP to do so.3) Any PC can take any feat for which he meets the prereqs for 20%, +5% per additional feat.4) Any PC can take any feat for which he meets the prereqs for 5%, an additonal one for 10%, the next for 20%, the next for 40%.5) Any PC can buy an additional feat for which he meets the prereqs for 5%.  At his next level, he can purchase an additional feat for 10%.  At the next level, he can purchase an additional feat for 20%, etc., with no upper limit.6)  Give each feat an XP cost + 10%- it wlll be harder to buy feats early on, but easier at higher levels.  However, the cost will scale up somewhat.7...N) some other way.Thoughts?</blockquote>

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