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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stonehead" data-source="post: 9766538" data-attributes="member: 7047885">At least earlier editions had loads of "+<number> bonus to <thing>" feats. The designers decided that they didn't want players to be able to specialize their bonuses. Every level 3 character will have a bonus in their trained skills within +/-2 of eachother. I think the big difficulty is that feats need to interact with something, but most people run non-combat very loosely, without any concrete systems beyond roll a d20 and add a number.Hero points are a great idea, because it is a system that most people use, and it gives you something to play around.I know there are a lot of useless "utility" spells in this system, like <a href="https://2e.aonprd.com/Spells.aspx?ID=867" target="_blank">Befitting Attire</a>. Maybe some of them would work better as skill feats than slotted spells. (although, Befitting Attire itself would probably still be too weak for a skill feat). Although there, part of the struggle is that the designers seem to shy away from giving outright supernatural abilities to non-magical skill feats. <a href="https://2e.aonprd.com/Feats.aspx?ID=6485" target="_blank">Improvise Tool</a> is a perfect example. As written, it interacts with the Craft downtime activity, and basically gives you the recipes to a small number of mundane items. So, it basically does nothing. Crafting in downtime is clunky and rarely comes up, and more importantly, anyone good at it will have a recipe book (or play in a campaign where recipes aren't tracked). It's easy to imagine though, a version of Improvise Tool that instead said "you're always treated as having these items on hand, unless the DM says it would be physically impossible." I don't know if that would be a very strong feat, but it would at least be more interesting.</blockquote>

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