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Is this 5E feat for Technologist reasonable?
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<blockquote data-quote="hirou" data-source="post: 7598058" data-attributes="member: 6776023"><p>My knowledge of 5e is limited to one-shots and reading through playtests and PHB, so take this with a grain of salt. Feats in 5e are very rigidly defined in their value, they must have an equal value to ability score improvement, e.g. +1 modifier to a specific field of tasks. If you look through available feats, almost all of them have a general benefic, which is advantageous almost all the time. Therefore, your proposed feat should also have some garanteed advantage, which is useful to the character all the time. I guess it mostly depends on concrete game, so ask yourself: how often drone is hindered by difficult terrain? how often fly speed would be useful out or in combat? how often the drone is destroyed, so extra hit points would be useful? how often enemies wield one specific type of damage?</p><p></p><p>I would say that fly speed, remote view (if you can make the drone stealthy), hit points increase and autopilot are among the most useful here, while others are situational. I would maybe allow taking one of "generally useful" upgrades and 1-2 of situational ones. More than 3 in total seem just a bit too much, you have to be able to easily remember what exactly are your drone's abilities. </p><p></p><p>On second thought, I wouldn't tie these to a specific feat at all. Martial scientist gain new attacks by observing others and learning from books, so maybe technologist can do the same? There's advanced Bleak Gate golem in adventure 2, tech fair in adventure 3, technological advances related to Tinker Oddcog, I think you can find a way to squeeze an upgrade into every adventure if you want to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hirou, post: 7598058, member: 6776023"] My knowledge of 5e is limited to one-shots and reading through playtests and PHB, so take this with a grain of salt. Feats in 5e are very rigidly defined in their value, they must have an equal value to ability score improvement, e.g. +1 modifier to a specific field of tasks. If you look through available feats, almost all of them have a general benefic, which is advantageous almost all the time. Therefore, your proposed feat should also have some garanteed advantage, which is useful to the character all the time. I guess it mostly depends on concrete game, so ask yourself: how often drone is hindered by difficult terrain? how often fly speed would be useful out or in combat? how often the drone is destroyed, so extra hit points would be useful? how often enemies wield one specific type of damage? I would say that fly speed, remote view (if you can make the drone stealthy), hit points increase and autopilot are among the most useful here, while others are situational. I would maybe allow taking one of "generally useful" upgrades and 1-2 of situational ones. More than 3 in total seem just a bit too much, you have to be able to easily remember what exactly are your drone's abilities. On second thought, I wouldn't tie these to a specific feat at all. Martial scientist gain new attacks by observing others and learning from books, so maybe technologist can do the same? There's advanced Bleak Gate golem in adventure 2, tech fair in adventure 3, technological advances related to Tinker Oddcog, I think you can find a way to squeeze an upgrade into every adventure if you want to. [/QUOTE]
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