I'm not sure how I feel about the 19th level bump. Where would they put that rule? If it is feat-only, the beginning of the feat section? Does that cap increase interact with other ability increases from other sources?I'm not in love with raising a stat to 22 at 19th level. I'm guessing that will be dropped before this finalizes.
Also, I think you should either only be able to take the ASI feat once or have it only give +1 to 2 stats (no more +2 to 1).
if you make every feat half feat with floating +1 and make ASI +1 to two scores you have done that.Decouple ASIs from Feats.
remove +2/+1 racial ASI, default array:There is another option: Only have feats and increase the point buy during character creation so players can get their PCs to 18 first level. Account that +4 will be the highest anyone gets. After that, it's always a feat.
That is not decoupled. That is lodging the inflected splinter in deeper.if you make every feat half feat with floating +1 and make ASI +1 to two scores you have done that.
Primary ability will increase at the same rate in both case, just the "simple" option boosts secondary ability and feat gives more options.
Nah. It's a power balance thing. In 5e (2014) there are a tiny number of feats worth putting off a primary stat boost (PAM, GWF, SS, XBE, maaaaybe a couple of others situationally). But with the D&Done half feats being good and the normal starting primary stat being 17 at 4th level taking a half feat is almost always best and by L12 three half feats are great. Which means that the L8 feat is a much more genuine choiceBecause it's a choice between optimization and actual choices.
Bounded Accuracy makes every point you can squeeze out so precious that sacrificing customization for basic competency for the non-rogue, non-bard is almost a given