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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dkyle" data-source="post: 5896956" data-attributes="member: 70707">I think that Themes, as simply pre-gen lists of feats, are really lame. They're just going to end up being a trap option in any game that permits hand-picking feats.What I'd like to see is a slight tweak, to give the Themes a bit of a boost, and make them viable options in and of themselves.We've already been told that Themes will span 5 levels.  You take one at level 1, than another at level 6.  Supposing we get 1 feat per level, each theme would have those 5, plus 2 more. These bonus feats would be applied at level 2 and level 5 of the Theme progression. This gives the Theme some real substance, not just dev-recommended feat least.When customizing feats, those Theme feats can still produce those bonuses. Basically, the 7 feats in the Theme would produce a "feat set". Take 2 of those feats (any of them), get a third free.  Take 3 more of them, and get that seventh free. This gives Theme a real mechanical meaning, and should provide interesting choices between sticking with the thematically-related feats (at least to some degree), and mixing-matching freely.Even though I really like 4E, and feats, I like this solution even better than the one I described above. There's really no reason why Themes have to be entirely composed of feats.  Just make them do things similar to what feats do, but as a cohesive whole.</blockquote>