D&D 5E Krynn's Free Feats: setting-specific or the future of the game?

[overgeeked]

yeah cause that fighter with 13hp and a +4 to hit for 1d8+2 damage is totally superman...

Infinite regeneration over an 8 hour sleep. As long as you have 1 hp, you won’t have anything wrong with you the next day. Broken ribs, missing limbs, poof. All better tomorrow.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I like it. I had been thinking about allowing a free feat at first level anyway and now I think that one at 4th as well would be fine. I would also be ok with different worlds having different curated lists of feats. One for first level and another for fourth level.

 

[jayoungr]

i get what you mean, but if they are baked into the backgrounds isn't that still just 1 choice 'what background do I want'?

It makes your background choice more about power and less about RP, though, which is a step away from my preferred direction.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Infinite regeneration over an 8 hour sleep.

I missed that rule... I just know that the fighter will have full hp not full everything after a long rest (that isn't always 8hours)

As long as you have 1 hp, you won’t have anything wrong with you the next day.

um... you do know you ONLY get hp back right... you get 1 level of exhustion and sometimes ability score/perm hp damage (sometimes they take magic) and you aren't at full unless you don't spend HD... now being 1st level you DO get your HD back but next level you only get 1 of your 2 back...

Broken ribs, missing limbs, poof. All better tomorrow.

what game are you playing where a missing limb grows back without a regeneration spell?!?!? I want YOUR super nice DM that lets you get a free 7th level spell every rest at 1st level.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

It makes your background choice more about power and less about RP, though, which is a step away from my preferred direction.

backgounds have never been fluff only... they give you your skills (and in most cases they give you the only access you have to skills... some classes give you 1 or a race here or there but giving more then 1 is rare) your tool profs and your feature.

 

[Monayuris]

Feats were promised to be optional.

If it is no longer to be the case I will be out for 5.5.

I’ll use feats when I feel like it but there are times I will want to say no. I prefer to have the choice based on the my own preference.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Feats were promised to be optional.

and they are in 5e

what ever 2024 brings 5.5/6e/anniversary edition may change that though

 

[Monayuris]

and they are in 5e

what ever 2024 brings 5.5/6e/anniversary edition may change that though

That’s fine. I just likely won’t be updating to 5.5.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Infinite regeneration over an 8 hour sleep. As long as you have 1 hp, you won’t have anything wrong with you the next day. Broken ribs, missing limbs, poof. All better tomorrow.

Unfortunately, it is impossible either to break ribs or to sever limbs in 5e. The states of being are alive, dying, dead, and undead.

 

[Micah Sweet]

backgounds have never been fluff only... they give you your skills (and in most cases they give you the only access you have to skills... some classes give you 1 or a race here or there but giving more then 1 is rare) your tool profs and your feature.

Every class gives you skills. Some races do too. Skills come from everywhere.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Unfortunately, it is impossible either to break ribs or to sever limbs in 5e. The states of being are alive, dying, dead, and undead.

where I don't know of any mechanic for broken ribs (in any of the 6 versions of D&D I have played) why can't you chop off a hand/arm? I know you can't do it mid fight (and I agree with that) but thieves loosing there hand as a punishment seems to not go against any rule...

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Every class gives you skills. Some races do too. Skills come from everywhere.

most give you 1 skill, most races 0.

 

[jayoungr]

backgounds have never been fluff only...

Never said they were. But a feat is a bigger deal mechanically than some skills and tool proficiencies. As for the feature, it is usually RP-related or at least encourages some RP.

where I don't know of any mechanic for broken ribs (in any of the 6 versions of D&D I have played) why can't you chop off a hand/arm?

You can if the GM agrees it makes sense for the situation you're in.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Never said they were. But a feat is a bigger deal mechanically than some skills and tool proficiencies. As for the feature, it is usually RP-related or at least encourages some RP.

okay I thin most (not all) feats encourage rp too. being a knight or a squire isn't just some battle master manuvers

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I wonder if the future of d20 system will be two different leveling up. One pillar would be the rank, how powerful, and the second one would be the grade, how much the PC knows.

 

[jayoungr]

okay I thin most (not all) feats encourage rp too. being a knight or a squire isn't just some battle master manuvers

I just think it gives too much of an incentive to select a background based on its mechanical impact.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I wonder if the future of d20 system will be two different leveling up. One pillar would be the rank, how powerful, and the second one would be the grade, how much the PC knows.

not my first choice but I like it...

I always invisioned mixing Call of Cthulu skill system with 2e when I was younger (like how all the theif skills where %) and you could up the skills by useing them, so a 3rd level fighter and a 10th level fighter were better at BEING in combat... but the 3rd level one might have better skills

 

[ninjayeti]

I like that backgrounds are just, well, background. Adding feats into all of them just turns them into another vehicle for trap choices and power gaming shenanigans. I am not opposed to it for certain settings and circumstances, but I would rather it not become a blanket part of backgrounds.

 

[overgeeked]

I like that backgrounds are just, well, background. Adding feats into all of them just turns them into another vehicle for trap choices and power gaming shenanigans. I am not opposed to it for certain settings and circumstances, but I would rather it not become a blanket part of backgrounds.

Well, there are 9 players for every DM. Players constantly push for more power, so it's kind of inevitable that when WotC puts out a survey they get an overwhelmingly positive response to power creep.

 

[John R Davis]

Increased options = power creep.
Inevitable really.