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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7229290" data-attributes="member: 71699"><p>I agree with your sense of caution. My sense for the overall balance is that most feats are under the desirable bar, and a few are over it. Great Weapon Master is the best example of that. It was taken 16 times over 26 groups (compared with Magic Initiate being taken 6 times). We're seeing Feats taken in about a 2:1 ratio to ASIs and that could be about right: characters get 3 picks over the most played levels and it feels correct to me that they should spend 1 of those on ability scores. A game balance where ASIs were taken more often than feats would be a less interesting one, I think, with fewer concept characters.</p><p></p><p>Overall my intent is emphatically not to power-creep feats. Rather it is to trim back the tall poppies and make as many feats as possible mechanically viable picks. So that players enjoy more real choices. A design goal is to fix "trap" feats, like Savage Attacker. My change to Great Weapon Master tones it down hugely. As does the one to Sharpshooter. On the other hand, Durable merges into Tough to put that feat just about exactly on the value of +2 Constitution.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Can you give a link please?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 7229290, member: 71699"] I agree with your sense of caution. My sense for the overall balance is that most feats are under the desirable bar, and a few are over it. Great Weapon Master is the best example of that. It was taken 16 times over 26 groups (compared with Magic Initiate being taken 6 times). We're seeing Feats taken in about a 2:1 ratio to ASIs and that could be about right: characters get 3 picks over the most played levels and it feels correct to me that they should spend 1 of those on ability scores. A game balance where ASIs were taken more often than feats would be a less interesting one, I think, with fewer concept characters. Overall my intent is emphatically not to power-creep feats. Rather it is to trim back the tall poppies and make as many feats as possible mechanically viable picks. So that players enjoy more real choices. A design goal is to fix "trap" feats, like Savage Attacker. My change to Great Weapon Master tones it down hugely. As does the one to Sharpshooter. On the other hand, Durable merges into Tough to put that feat just about exactly on the value of +2 Constitution. Can you give a link please? [/QUOTE]
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