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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6779186" data-attributes="member: 6701872">Feats do have a great value and a large impact in the game. That does not mean the value of feats is universal.What you see on this board, or any board, is in no way a guaranteed to be accurate indication of what D&amp;D players or people in general think at large. That's just a truth of the matter, since less than 1 in 6 D&amp;D players visit any online conversation hubs regarding D&amp;D, and not even 100% of the people that do visit a conversation hub regarding D&amp;D visit all of them, and not even 100% of the people that do visit a particular conversation hub actually participate in any given conversation.As for people that dislike feats: If you were to give me and my group of players a feat at 1st level for any character we play, there would be times where a feat is chosen because it happens to fit the character concept in mind, and times where having to select a feat would be seen as irritation because there aren't any feats that fit the concept in mind so the concept has to be changed to include at least one feat or a feat must be selected despite not actually fitting the concept... and my wife, in particular, would likely end up saying what she has been saying since being introduced to D&amp;D 10 years ago, &quot;I hate feats.&quot; In fact, she hates feats so much that she prefers AD&amp;D 2nd edition over every other version of D&amp;D she has played, despite it being the third version of D&amp;D she was exposed to, because then she never has to deal with feats. Her hate of feats is mitigated in 5th edition only by the fact that she can raise ability scores instead whenever there isn't a feat that she actually feels like taking - so not giving her that choice and mandating a feat be chosen would just start her back on the now ended, every-session reminder that she'd rather be playing AD&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6779186, member: 6701872"] Feats do have a great value and a large impact in the game. That does not mean the value of feats is [I]universal.[/I] What you see on this board, or any board, is in no way a guaranteed to be accurate indication of what D&D players or people in general think at large. That's just a truth of the matter, since less than 1 in 6 D&D players visit any online conversation hubs regarding D&D, and not even 100% of the people that do visit a conversation hub regarding D&D visit [I]all[/I] of them, and not even 100% of the people that do visit a particular conversation hub actually participate in any given conversation. As for people that dislike feats: If you were to give me and my group of players a feat at 1st level for any character we play, there would be times where a feat is chosen because it happens to fit the character concept in mind, and times where having to select a feat would be seen as irritation because there aren't any feats that fit the concept in mind so the concept has to be changed to include at least one feat or a feat must be selected despite not actually fitting the concept... and my wife, in particular, would likely end up saying what she has been saying since being introduced to D&D 10 years ago, "I hate feats." In fact, she hates feats so much that she prefers AD&D 2nd edition over every other version of D&D she has played, despite it being the [I]third[/I] version of D&D she was exposed to, because then she never has to deal with feats. Her hate of feats is mitigated in 5th edition only by the fact that she can raise ability scores instead whenever there isn't a feat that she actually feels like taking - so not giving her that choice and mandating a feat be chosen would just start her back on the now ended, every-session reminder that she'd rather be playing AD&D. [/QUOTE]

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