D&D 5E Houseruled: Feats, Rolled Stats, MCing Pick One

[Zardnaar]

How so?

Consider level one 5 person party.

1d6+5 healing. Per person per short rest. Assuming two short rests that's 15 uses.

Compare with life cleric spell slotsand how many got dice each character gets.



Let alone the regain 1hp/part on a thief character.

 

[Zardnaar]

I'd probably walk. The DM is banning things but lacks a coherent enough rationale to be committed to which two things need to go, which makes me think they are on an arbitrary power trip.

But, for the sake of a hypothetical I'd take rolled stats. I have plenty of ideas for featless and singleclassed characters I'd like to try, but not rolling stats just feels dirty.

Reasons is balance and class and feat design in 5E.

20 dex and sharpshooter archery style level 1 powergamer. Casual player doesn't pick either.

-1/+10 in effect vs the casual player.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Reasons is balance and class and feat design in 5E.

20 dex and sharpshooter archery style level 1 powergamer. Casual player doesn't pick either.

-1/+10 in effect vs the casual player.

Sure. But a DM feeling that banning any two out of the three will equally be the magic balance bullet doesn't give me confidence that they have really thought it through.

 

[Zardnaar]

Sure. But a DM feeling that banning any two out of the three will equally be the magic balance bullet doesn't give me confidence that they have really thought it through.

I'm not doing it but it's something someone else commented on about broken builds.

 

[Shiroiken]

As a player I'd choose feats. I almost never multiclass, so that's not an issue. Rolled stats, point buy, or array all work for me.

Oh, and I'll throw my hat in the ring about feats. The problem isn't the power feats, which are about equivalent to +2 on your primary ability*, but the sheer number of terrible feats. Add in the fact that you're only going to get a handful (at best) over the course of a campaign, and you're going to see the same ones over and over again.

*Sharpshooter is slightly above the norm, but only because two abilities negate most penalties for ranged attacks, making the -5/+10 easier to do.

 

[Magister Ludorum]

I'd pick feats. I prefer point buy over rolling if level based ASI is used (as per RAW). I don't multiclass, but feats are non-negotiable. I play 3 times a week. I don't need to play a game without feats.

 

[Don Durito]

Feats. I hate rolled stats, and if I'm playing a class system I'd generally rather lean into the classes than try and break them.

But it's not all or nothing with feats.

Allowing feats does not mean you have to allow all feats.

There's a few feats I'd be really reluctant to ever strip out such as the resilient feats.

I feel like feats need to be tiered. (Not so much in terms of power, but rather to the extent they introduce further exceptions to the base rules).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

As the title says.

DM says the player can use feats, multiclassing or roll for stats. BUT you can only pick one your choice.

Thoughts?

Feats. The game is broken without them. Rolled stats the game is broken with them.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Healer shatters the attrition based 6-8 encounters expectation and/or easy mode.

You can't break something that is already broken. 6-8 encounter days is a pile of steaming nonsense. Healer is irrelevant.

Latter two make concentration rolls trivial.

Casters need all the concentration help they can get.

 

[Zardnaar]

You can't break something that is already broken. 6-8 encounter days is a pile of steaming nonsense. Healer is irrelevant.

Casters need all the concentration help they can get.

Well concentration was one of the things added to tone casters down.