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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 5840304" data-attributes="member: 5100">I'm going to agree with one thing, in particular: Feats should not be a vast miscellany of forgotten abilities. They try to be too many things to too many people. I think the answer is to parse them out into other systems -- some of which may be new.I'm not sure whether the tiered skill system is going to come to pass (I kinda hope it does). If so, you won't be seeing Rogues with 32 starting skill points. I'm not sure anything but a skill monkey class even warrants getting a skill point every level, under that model. Some feats (Tracking immediately springs to mind) are little more than a modification of how a skill works. Crib the 3.5 skill tricks system and let people choose whether to get better-deeper or better-broader with a skill. Not entirely sure that some things like TWF, Weapon Finesse, and Spell Focus don't belong here, though I'm not quite ready to advocate it.Other feats are really geared toward a specific class or set of classes. Maybe these should be turned into selectable class features, kinda like the Rogue had in 3e. There might be some duplication, but it would serve the three-fold purposes of thinning the herd of feats, building a customization mechanic into classes, and giving some focus to the ineffable splat-books. My understanding is that 3e feats started out as a fighter-specific mechanic. Even if not true, it's believable.So, what would I leave in the feats category? Thinks that tweak characters in ways that don't just make them a better fighter, wizard, etc. Really, if there are any feats that are brain-dead for members of a certain class (or race) to take, they shouldn't be feats. The 4e PHB had enough of these that I thought 4e had actually made that shift.</blockquote>

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