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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7358143" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!O_O  ...that's ...that's a lot of posts!Just to clarify my stance; having "more options" doesn't automatically mean it's "less creative". But those options DO have to be handled right. For example, there are a LOT of options in a lot of DIY games like GURPS or HERO System. But in those systems, someone could make a "damage dealing fighter" in several different ways. You could have two big damage dealing fighters in the same party and each could be wildly different in how they deal that damage; one could go more accuracy, another could just spend points on beefing up his physical strength stat, or one could hedge their bets and spend some on several complimentary options...the end result is that all of those fighters using a 2-h sword would be doing roughly the same damage over the course of a combat. But each does it in their own way.With 5e..this isn't really that easy. If you want to do a lot of damage with a two handed sword, you pretty much have to take GWM weather you like it or not simply because there isn't much else you can do to increase your damage capability with a two-handed sword. The way that Feats are in 5e, my group and I found that it limited our "reasonable choices" for making a big damage dealing fighter with a 2-h sword (as an example). Take GWM or you will never be able to deal as much damage as someone with the same stats that does have GWM. The -5 is big at low levels...once you are approaching 10th (we noticed it at 6th/7th level), that -5 becomes a LOT less of a hurdle.The OP's claim of "if you don't have the feat...you can't do it" is something we found with 3.x/PF mostly. With 5e, a little less so. But that's probably because of how I interpret skill checks and such. (short version: if you don't have a skill taken, your BEST success will be slightly better than the average check by someone who does have that skill... ie, you will never be able to 'know more' than someone who has the skill). So someone with the "Actor" feat would be the equivalent of someone who was 'skilled' in it...and if they had both the feat and the 'skill', they would be that much better than someone who just has the skill. (oh, and for those Feats that just use an ability check thing?...you have the 'skill' if you have the Save proficiency bonus on that ability).Bottom line: Games built around "options" tend to do it a LOT better. With 5e and Feats, they should have made them more generic so a Feat could cover many different aspects of play (combat, skill use, etc). The way 5e feats are, for us at any rate, all they served to do was place great pressure on a player to take certain feats ALL THE TIME when making some type of character. When the player bucked the system, they were effectively punished (mechanically) for not "taking the optimal Feat" for their build.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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