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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8847078" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Neither of them is "bad."* I personally want feats to be NOT optional. I want feats to be readily accessible.What I do not like is people trying to have their cake and eat it too. The second example you gave would avoid making feats non-optional; but it would do so by enforcing one (and only one) benefit from backgrounds, which is not the point of the changes. The point of the changes is to enable a meaningful, solid mechanical benefit.That's my problem. It is extremely clear that the new background rules:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Intentionally want to make modular benefits that can be, in part, constructed by the player</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Want these benefits to be solid, something more than just a ribbon like existing background benefits</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Are in fact actually a change compared to the existing background rules.</li> </ol>These efforts to pretend that the new rules are somehow not using feats, or somehow using "lesser" feats that don't count as feats, and therefore don't actually count as a real change, are both confusing and frustrating. They seem to be openly denying either that feats are the thing being provided, or that providing feats in this way is a clear and obvious change compared to the way things used to be done.Feats in "One D&D" are not optional. I, personally, think this is a step in the right direction. I think it's a pathetically small one, but it is a step in the right direction. I am confused and frustrated by posters pretending that it either somehow isn't an actual change because these aren't real feats, or that it couldn't be a change because feats are totally what backgrounds always provided all along. Both of these statements seem to be openly and intentionally denying something obviously true: either that "One D&D" first-level feats are, in fact, feats in every sense of the word, and run the gamut from golden to garbage); or that backgrounds in 5e currently already do provide (non-selectable) feats or the equivalent in addition to the baseline 2 skills, when they emphatically do not.*Though if you're asking of my personal preference between the two, it would be the first. I like feats, so effectively forcing me to only choose the Skilled feat when I could have at least had the option to choose others is a clearly inferior offering, because, as I have said many times in this thread, I like feats.</blockquote>

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