D&D 5E (2024) New Feats, avenues to diversity?

[TorgoTheWhite]

If this monk took up levels of Rogue (Assassin), you could get someone like Subzero from Mortal Kombat.

Without being any more MAD than the average monk too. Very nice

 

[TorgoTheWhite]

I can see Spellfire Adept working on Paladin.
waiting for a crit then smite. adding +4d10 on a smite few times per day might be worth a feat.

bear totem barbarian could have good usage of Bloodlust,

Yeah, I also thought of Totemic barb for the character shell, that would be a great choice. I went Zealot to meet in the middle a bit - more sword & board dmg, particularly with 1 fighter... but still boasting a heck of an unarmored AC (CON is 20). Like your totemic, it is with more strategic use of reckless attack. Alot of redundancy of self heals. Also, enjoy the flavor of a Zealot that anointed in the blood of enemies. The human choice was partially to get the skilled feat and craft my own Periapt of wound closure, instead of relying on the kindness of the DM's heart

 

[Mephista]

I don't know if I'd call it diversity, but I feel like I should be glad we finally have actual warlock-styled and sorcerer-styled origin feats. Shadowmore Hexer and Spellfire Spark. It annoys me slightly when we have "default wizard," "default cleric," "default rogue," etc options for most of the classes, but not anything that really resonates with the others.

 

[TorgoTheWhite]

I don't know if I'd call it diversity, but I feel like I should be glad we finally have actual warlock-styled and sorcerer-styled origin feats. Shadowmore Hexer and Spellfire Spark. It annoys me slightly when we have "default wizard," "default cleric," "default rogue," etc options for most of the classes, but not anything that really resonates with the others.

I think to some extent that leads to more diverse characters, or realization of different flavors of character. Also, I totally agree. They did that pretty well without eating those classes' lunch