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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 8696833" data-attributes="member: 2525">1) While I like &quot;Proficiency bonus times per day&quot; as a generalization, I don't like the over-use of that mechanic. And this UA way uses that mechanic.2) One good thing about 5e was the reduction of many many prior bonuses and penalties down to advantage or disadvantage. That sped combat up a lot. Now they seem to be adding back in tons of fiddly little bits that don't gain much but cost a lot of time. For example, adding 1d4 damage once a round on a hit proficiency bonus times per day (like CARTOMANCER) is nearly meaningless at levels even mid-levels, but adds both another die roll and another proficiency bonus times per day tracking of a power. This is going backwards on the progress 5e made to speed things up.3) I do not like level-based feat requirements or background based feats. I also think this is adding a level of complexity which gains very little for the game over all.4) Punishing rolling a 20 on a d20 (CHAOTIC FLARES) is a bad idea.5) There are way too many needless &quot;increase an ability score by +1&quot; feats here that wouldn't have been half-feats if WOTC hadn't become so enamored of the half-feat lately. Because balancing those half-feats is causing them to turn to issue #1, being the actual unique thing it does is only available proficiency bonus times per day rather than always available like it probably would have been if it were not a half-feat.6) Too many of these feat choices don't account for scaling with level. Many of them do a reasonable amount of damage at low levels and a meaningless amount of damage at mid and higher levels. Adding &quot;proficiency bonus&quot; doesn't make it scale because one extra point of something every 4-5 levels is not how scaling works in this game. 1d10+prof bonus is a whole lot at level 2, and very little at level 16. Scaling involves increasing the number of dice, not the small bonus added after the single die is thrown.7) A lot of the &quot;full feat&quot; options are particularly weak and seem like half-feats without the bonus to an ability score.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 8696833, member: 2525"] 1) While I like "Proficiency bonus times per day" as a generalization, I don't like the over-use of that mechanic. And this UA way uses that mechanic. 2) One good thing about 5e was the reduction of many many prior bonuses and penalties down to advantage or disadvantage. That sped combat up a lot. Now they seem to be adding back in tons of fiddly little bits that don't gain much but cost a lot of time. For example, adding 1d4 damage once a round on a hit proficiency bonus times per day (like CARTOMANCER) is nearly meaningless at levels even mid-levels, but adds both another die roll and another proficiency bonus times per day tracking of a power. This is going backwards on the progress 5e made to speed things up. 3) I do not like level-based feat requirements or background based feats. I also think this is adding a level of complexity which gains very little for the game over all. 4) Punishing rolling a 20 on a d20 (CHAOTIC FLARES) is a bad idea. 5) There are way too many needless "increase an ability score by +1" feats here that wouldn't have been half-feats if WOTC hadn't become so enamored of the half-feat lately. Because balancing those half-feats is causing them to turn to issue #1, being the actual unique thing it does is only available proficiency bonus times per day rather than always available like it probably would have been if it were not a half-feat. 6) Too many of these feat choices don't account for scaling with level. Many of them do a reasonable amount of damage at low levels and a meaningless amount of damage at mid and higher levels. Adding "proficiency bonus" doesn't make it scale because one extra point of something every 4-5 levels is not how scaling works in this game. 1d10+prof bonus is a whole lot at level 2, and very little at level 16. Scaling involves increasing the number of dice, not the small bonus added after the single die is thrown. 7) A lot of the "full feat" options are particularly weak and seem like half-feats without the bonus to an ability score. [/QUOTE]

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