D&D 5E New Feats Survey!

[Nefermandias]

I think feats work fine in 5E, but I also think the game is better balanced not assuming their presence. Let them be a special add-on rather than a de facto requirement for play.

Everything is fine as an optional rule, I just want to keep those the heck away from my own game.

 

[Nefermandias]

why?

should subclass be only "customizable" variant of a character? and even that is set what you get.

Get rid of subclasses too.

 

[dave2008]

Pretty banal -- do you like the PHB feats, have you taken them, have you played with those that have?

That is good for a survey IMO. There is also a comment section is there not? That is were I would typically get into the details when I take a WotC survey.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

With all my books of 3.5 I have an enough list of feats, but I like the idea of racial feats because these help the PC races could enjoy options that have a special touch. I loved that idea from Pathfinder 2, where the PC races aren't typecasted into certain classes (fight, spellcasting, wealth) but they can keep an exclusive style.

Sorry, maybe I am not explaining it with the right words.

 

[Nod_Hero]

I griped about the usuals and and raved about the usuals.

I also suggested that they tweak more feats to use "You can select this feat multiple times."
Included in my list of suggestions was:
Linguist
Magic Initiate
Martial Adept
Resilient
Ritual Caster
Skilled
Spell Sniper
Weapon Master

 

[Parmandur]

That is good for a survey IMO. There is also a comment section is there not? That is were I would typically get into the details when I take a WotC survey.

There is one comment box at the end.

 

[ART!]

I'm part way through it now, and so far I'm just rating each feat on what is basically a 7-point scale, with the mid-point inappropriately named "slightly satisfied" - the mid-point should be neutral, otherwise the survey is skewing respondents to favor things.

I don't think you should have to spend an ASI on a feat to get a proficiency, and I told them as much.

There's a lot of feats I've never chosen for a character because they have features that are very hit-or-miss, and I feel weird blowing an ASI on something that might be helpful sometimes.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Get rid of subclasses too.

No, subclasses play a major role in preventing new classes and thus keep the game from becoming a hot mess of power creeping base classes.

 

[Horwath]

Get rid of subclasses too.

then you would get pretty boring game, without many repeatability.

all rogues would be the same, all fighters the same, etc...

 

[EzekielRaiden]

This is the issue with basically all their surveys. I don't think they can get much useful data.

Yeah, survey design is not, and never really has been, a particular strength of WotC. Even when the questions or answers aren't biased, they're often collecting a single data point on something that's really a collection. "Disliked because weak," "disliked because OP," and "dislike because don't like the very concept of X" are all treated the same, and there's just not enough comment space to specify everything (not that that would be particularly useful for analysis anyway--that requires reading every person's response and correctly condensing it down to data!)