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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Blake" data-source="post: 3907607" data-attributes="member: 57267">I dont' think anyone is claiming you can "decipher" a feat you've never seen before just from the name.My dislike of Golden Wyvern Adept is that it doesn't tell me anything about what it does. Does this feat help the adept brew potions? Improve his Teleport range? Let him summon more monsters (wyverns)? No idea.Once this feat is on a list with over a thousand other feats with equally meaningless names, nobody is going to remember what all of them do.I know in 3.5e I have over 1200 feats on my feat list. I can look at the name of almost all of those feats and know what they do. I could possibly forget the exact mechanics of Power Attack (well, not likely, but I'll allow for the possibility) but at least when I look at it on some monster's stat block, I will know it must do something to add power to his attack. Maybe the players negotiate with thsi monster (or NPC) and there never is any combat. Which means that if I forgot what Power Attack does, I didn't have to delay the game to look it up because it never applied to the encounter.But if that NPC had a feat called Golden Wyvern Adept and we were negotiating with him, I would probably have to look that up to make sure it didn't improve his ability in negotiation type encounters.Which means that for cryptically named feats, there is more time spent at the gaming table pawing through reference books than for obviously named feats.It's not the "golden wyvern" that is annoying. It's the "adept" that annoys me. That part, at least, should be changed to represent the feat.</blockquote>

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