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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silam" data-source="post: 9890761" data-attributes="member: 7055898">These below are all valid arguments, but they’re also not absolutely true. Feats can be designed either as cohesive or not.Let’s say we wanted to give Fighters more options, but by following a feat-based approach rather than a subclass approach. We could achieve this by setting a feat’s prereq as one of the Fighter class features. Here’s an example, below:Is there any reason why you wouldn’t let both a Champion and a Battlemaster have this feature? Then it’s better as a feat than as a subclass feature. Is it cohesive? I think so…I think that’s an artificial constraint. If it were true, feats like War Caster would not exist, but clearly they do. Furthermore, there is nothing inherently wrong with making a feat have a prereq that’s even more restrictive than War Caster (as in the example above). Elven Accuracy is another example of a fairly restrictive prereq. Of course, it’s fine to make feats that are more accessible as well (e.g., having Weapon Mastery as a prereq which can be gotten from many classes and even from another feat). There is really no requirement that a feat needs to be accessible to all characters, neither in existing feats nor in future feats that have not been printed yet.Agreed, but I don’t know why that’s a problem. Any class or subclass feature of level 11 or above is by definition a feature you can only ever get from a single class/subclass. So the whole bottom half of every class table is made up of very very expensive currency. But it’s fine right? I don’t think anyone is seriously complaining that they can’t be a Monk 10 / Fighter 11 (to get 3 attacks per action and 3 per bonus action). It’s just accepted as a fact of life. Getting somewhere between 4 and 7 feats is par for the course.Unless the other required feat is an origin feat, but yeah, some could take a while to get. Just like Epic Boons also take a while to get and most games never get them at all. But is it a design issue that Epic Boons exist at all? I don’t think so…</blockquote>

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