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

[TorgoTheWhite]

I dunno, I actually felt inspired with the two builds I proposed in this thread and personally I think Cold Caster works better on Open Hand Monk with 3 levels in Winter Walker because, well, you need to have something to use with these penalties.

On another thing, I finally found a good class to pick for the Purple Dragon Rook/Commandant/Boon of bloodshet build combo - Bladesinger Wizard. If only because out of all melee classes this one WILL be bloodied the most. And the image of a nerd beating enemies while bruised and battered is appealing to me.

Purple Commandant is really neat/versatile too because they dabbled in the prerequisite alternatives: EITHER have Purple Rook OR martial wep proficiency.. this is just versatile design to me

 

[eclair~]

Yeah, why would you do this as someone who already gets the abilities!

A Barbarian in tune with nature and animals is an excellent story.
A Rogue-Thief using their communion with animals to help them steal is a wonderful trope without past support in 5e barring a multiclass dip.

I could see a fun way to Paladin this too. Oath of the Ancients tale connects rather well here to expand the story.

Then you make a character who is forced to take suboptimal ASIs, due to 2024's draconic backgrounds mechanic—a mechanic that exists solely so that other players can make Wrong Choices—just to receive very situational abilities that don't synergize with any of your class features or options.

(If you think backgrounds aren't made purely to placate optimizers and give them Right Choices over Wrong Choices: one of the new backgrounds in the Faerun book is a Dex/Int/Cha ASI with Magic Initiate Wizard as its origin feat. This is blatantly about giving access to the Shield spell for Noble Genie paladins, as they know that said origin feat is considered top-tier for almost every character and that said subclass is deliberately overtuned.)