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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pamphylian" data-source="post: 9888687" data-attributes="member: 7053769"><p>Personally, I hope that 5e/D&D doesn't go in this direction - I'd be happy to leave feat chains to the Pathfinders. 5e occupies a nice middle zone of character build complexity between TSR/OSR type games and Pathfinder 2e etc. that it actually doesn't have much competition for, and I think it'd be a shame to move strongly out of that niche. I think feats as a once-every-few-levels-at-most choice fits well with this style. My experience with extensive feet trees is that it tempts both designers and players to think about a lot of gameplay as choices between feats - even if not the intention, they seem to move things out of in-world thinking and toward video-game like "which feat should I use now" thinking. Because so much of in game behavior gets defined by them, they also can become a sort of extended body of rules for adjudicating situations, which I don't think is ideal.</p></blockquote><p></p>