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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9886634" data-attributes="member: 4937">Feats were deceptive.  Because they were short, people assumed they were easy to design.  In fact, the opposite is true.  Designing a good feat is very hard.3e's biggest problem was the absolute flood of mechanical content that flowed out of it and into it.  Everyone wanted to get in on the design bandwagon.  Almost no one was doing a good job of it, including the folks at WotC.  The original rules were a masterpiece that just needed a bit of cleaning up.  Instead, the profit motive caused WotC to focus heavily on just offering more and more stuff.Not sure what you mean by that.It failed by being too conservative, or at least too conservative about the wrong things.  It did fix some things I think, but too much of it was arbitrary things people weren't asking for like, "No Paladins anymore." while unifying NWPs without actually figuring out what to do with them.</blockquote>