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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8845903" data-attributes="member: 6790260">They obviously are not feats and hardly even compare to the weakest mechanical parts of the half-feats like Actor or Keen Mind. None of the background features resemble what feats (whether &quot;half&quot; or not) do. This is exactly what I mean; this is an obvious and rather tenuous stretching of the definitions of things in order to smooth away an obvious difference in order to deny that a change has occurred. I just don't understand why. The difference is really obvious.Well, the big difference would be that they are, in fact, actually spells now. Like, they don't work in an antimagic field, they have casting times and defined areas of effect and spell schools, they can (at least in theory) be counterspelled, literally all but 5 (out of 71) spells have verbal components meaning they cannot be cast in a zone of silence or when gagged. In particular, Hunter's Mark has a verbal component.So...yeah. They actually did change the mechanics so that these things are spells, and because they're spells, they're subject to all the frustrating characteristics that the neo-Vancian spellcasting system enforces on things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8845903, member: 6790260"] They obviously are not feats and hardly even compare to the [I]weakest[/I] mechanical parts of the half-feats like Actor or Keen Mind. None of the background features resemble what feats (whether "half" or not) do. This is exactly what I mean; this is an obvious and rather tenuous stretching of the definitions of things in order to smooth away an obvious difference in order to deny that a change has occurred. I just don't understand why. The difference is really obvious. Well, the big difference would be that they are, in fact, [I]actually spells[/I] now. Like, they don't work in an antimagic field, they have casting times and defined areas of effect and spell schools, they can (at least in theory) be counterspelled, literally all but 5 (out of 71) spells have verbal components meaning they cannot be cast in a zone of [I]silence[/I] or when gagged. In particular, Hunter's Mark has a verbal component. So...yeah. They actually did change the mechanics so that these things are spells, and because they're spells, they're subject to all the frustrating characteristics that the neo-Vancian spellcasting system enforces on things. [/QUOTE]

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