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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kinak" data-source="post: 6118466" data-attributes="member: 6694112">I feel like they were mostly a response to the complaints that "every fighter/rogue/X is the same" from 2nd Edition. As such, I'm not sure they're needed at all between choices being added to those classes and stuff like backgrounds.Your suggestion is a good idea, but doesn't really appeal to me. Every time I run a game, we end up with several characters that are story-wise very specialized. I'd rather not have the "there are no feats for you" conversation again, if I can help it.Honestly, I'd prefer if they made them into an analogue for spells on the martial side. Don't make them once per day, but let people change their feat selection fairly easily. Make most of them actions so you don't have to worry about stacking and crazy combat math. Maybe a couple "stances" or whatever that provide static bonuses but explicitly don't stack.Then dipping into other classes can be handled by multi-classing, stuff you learned in your youth can be handled by backgrounds (and race and subrace), and things outside everyone's specialty can be handled by skills or their own rules subsystems.I just feel like feats are being forced on everyone when only a handful of classes really want them. And any of the half-dozen other character elements could pick up the slack.Cheers!Kinak</blockquote>