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<blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 5898920" data-attributes="member: 7859">Could you not just have three pillars of feats? Could one also just gain feats from each pillar at different rates, if you wanted?Thus maybe at Third Level every class gets a feat from every pillar. A Bard, however might get an extra social feat at 2nd level, and a Fighter an extra combat feat.It is much easier to balance Feats within a pillar. Alertness, Cosmopolitian etc are balanced for the most part against each other.&nbsp; I also think it is a&nbsp; Good Thing (tm), to require people to do a minor amount of branching out .&nbsp; Sometimes Torg the De-Horner says nothing, and just kills things because his player is shy, or just does not know how to move beyond dice roles.&nbsp; Whenever I as a DM make a character for a newbie, I always gave a free non combat thing, like Skill Focus Rope Use, because it is often just that thing that gives someone the courage to not just roll dice, but to try to encourage the narrative to allow them to use that Skill Focus, in a way of their choosing.It could also lead to moments like this: &quot; So me and Torg were all alone in the Swamp of Doom, and somehow we booth fell asleep.&nbsp; Alls a sudden we hear a evil laugh, and Dvalck, The Silent Scaled Horror is there, and we are dead, and then Torg, he that never says nothing to anyone, gets up and tells this joke, the funniest thing you ever heard, and Dvalk let us go&quot;Because even your most ardent Combat min-maxer is going to try any Hail&nbsp; Mary pass when a TPK is evident, even if it is Skill Focus: Dirty Jokes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="satori01, post: 5898920, member: 7859"] Could you not just have three pillars of feats? Could one also just gain feats from each pillar at different rates, if you wanted? Thus maybe at Third Level every class gets a feat from every pillar. A Bard, however might get an extra social feat at 2nd level, and a Fighter an extra combat feat. It is much easier to balance Feats within a pillar. Alertness, Cosmopolitian etc are balanced for the most part against each other. I also think it is a Good Thing (tm), to require people to do a minor amount of branching out . Sometimes Torg the De-Horner says nothing, and just kills things because his player is shy, or just does not know how to move beyond dice roles. Whenever I as a DM make a character for a newbie, I always gave a free non combat thing, like Skill Focus Rope Use, because it is often just that thing that gives someone the courage to not just roll dice, but to try to encourage the narrative to allow them to use that Skill Focus, in a way of their choosing. It could also lead to moments like this: " So me and Torg were all alone in the Swamp of Doom, and somehow we booth fell asleep. Alls a sudden we hear a evil laugh, and Dvalck, The Silent Scaled Horror is there, and we are dead, and then Torg, he that never says nothing to anyone, gets up and tells this joke, the funniest thing you ever heard, and Dvalk let us go" Because even your most ardent Combat min-maxer is going to try any Hail Mary pass when a TPK is evident, even if it is Skill Focus: Dirty Jokes. [/QUOTE]

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