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Feat Chains are Incompatible with Easy CharGen + 1st Lev Feats
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<blockquote data-quote="NaturalZero" data-source="post: 8747225" data-attributes="member: 55705"><p>I feel like the ideal way to do this is to have higher level feats synergize with lower specific level feats but not actually be part of a tree or require them as prerequisites. </p><p></p><p>The tavern brawler might give you an unarmed strike and then a different 4th level feat might let you perform stunts with unarmed strikes. Both feats synergize, but you don't need the tavern brawler as a hard prereq and the higher level feat benefits other builds that don't have tavern brawler. You could have an elemetnal adept feat at 1st level that gives you access to some elemental spells. At 4th level, there's a feat that gives you special benefits when using specific elements. The feats synergize like a tree would but you don't need the 1st level feat to benefit from the 4th level feat or even take it at all.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately, this looks like yet another situation where 4e had it right all along - you didn't need lower level feats as prereqs for higher level feats, and you could just take any feat that was available at your tier or lower. At higher level, you could swap out any lower tier feat you had and it wouldn't invalidate your build because it wasn't a prereq for anything you were still using. It was up to you to find synergies between all of the feats you picked up instead of being locked into trees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NaturalZero, post: 8747225, member: 55705"] I feel like the ideal way to do this is to have higher level feats synergize with lower specific level feats but not actually be part of a tree or require them as prerequisites. The tavern brawler might give you an unarmed strike and then a different 4th level feat might let you perform stunts with unarmed strikes. Both feats synergize, but you don't need the tavern brawler as a hard prereq and the higher level feat benefits other builds that don't have tavern brawler. You could have an elemetnal adept feat at 1st level that gives you access to some elemental spells. At 4th level, there's a feat that gives you special benefits when using specific elements. The feats synergize like a tree would but you don't need the 1st level feat to benefit from the 4th level feat or even take it at all. Ultimately, this looks like yet another situation where 4e had it right all along - you didn't need lower level feats as prereqs for higher level feats, and you could just take any feat that was available at your tier or lower. At higher level, you could swap out any lower tier feat you had and it wouldn't invalidate your build because it wasn't a prereq for anything you were still using. It was up to you to find synergies between all of the feats you picked up instead of being locked into trees. [/QUOTE]
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