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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7285318" data-attributes="member: 6802951">The designer narrative was an insight into how they design feats: That they should be thematic, self-contained enough to benefit almost any character who takes it, and add a layer of flavour and texture to a character without becoming more important that their actual class abilities.Hard analysis of who would get the most benefit out of it, or how the feat stacks in power given assumption X against an ASI or other feat Y isn't a priority.Even on this forum, which has a much higher proportion on optimisers than the general D&D playerbase, they're in the general minority. Hence why feats aren't usually designed with min/maxing in mind. And they will likely be very useful to those of a similar attitude to yours when it comes to feats and character design. I'm just explaining why the official feats designed for the wider D&D community don't fit within the design criteria you were using, since you mentioned that you didn't understand. I'm pretty sure that I understand what you're getting at. I just don't agree that this is the approach that has been taken for the wider community. The feats aren't designed to only benefit a small pool of possible character concepts each. They're designed to add flavour and additional options rather than a mathematical +X% to theoretical DPR or character survivability.Amongst the optimiser subset who actually worry about things like the local meta, or mathematical effectiveness? Definitely. The broader D&D community however? Not so much.</blockquote>

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