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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6293481" data-attributes="member: 221">OxybeI am sorry you found my suggestions as less than a desirable place to begin a discussion.Reading through your complaints, it sounds to me that what you are actually looking for is a single class game (or classless) where all the characters have access to all the exact same choices.I don't remember telling you that you were a bad DM. I was trying to suggest ways in which to improve your game, or at least look at the situation from a different angle. Let me address a few points though...While "we" may not understand the purpose of feats, "I" understand it just fine. The purpose of feats is to allow greater flexibility and customization of each individual character. They are meant to be all over the place. If they were not, they would not be fulfilling their purpose. Perhaps you would like each character to be able to pick one combat feat, one utility feat, and one spell feat per level, but personally I like it better the way it is. I don't think it desirable to force non-magic-users into having spell abilities or magic-users into having combat abilities if the players do not think those things fit their concept.The skill "deficiency" in certain classes is intentional, forcing players to sacrifice in one area if they want their characters to excel in another. I personally like more skills in a character, but it is what it is for a reason. To counter, why should an average intelligence fighter be skilled in a variety of non-fighting skills? If you are playing the quintessential farm-hand who is big on brawn but not too well endowed intellectually, why should you be able to have half a dozen skill sets?  On the other hand, if you want to play a more classy sort of fighter who knows a little bit of everything, it makes sense that you put some ability into intelligence and drop a feat or two on your education. No offense, but it sounds like you want benefits without sacrifices or meaningful choices.Also, seriously, though you dismissed this out of hand, do try naming weapons and giving them a history before giving them to your characters. It may seem superficial to you but it works wonders for gameplay. Its good advice if I do say so myself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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