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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9171588" data-attributes="member: 7030563">It is not that you "could" plan your 1-20 build, it is that you pretty much had to plan it, because if you didn't you would not qualify most feats when you gained a level.  This whole philosphy is disconnected from the idea of story-driven characters.For example, I believe the Fighter had about 50 different fighter feats, but only 10 of those or so had no prerequisites at all.  Over 30 of them required another feat as a prerequisite.  For example, if I build an average, run of the mill Fighter S16, D16, C14, W12, I10 CH8 with Weapon Focus and Blind Fighting and I decide at 2nd level that I want to get Whirlwind attack and Cleave, what level will I finally be able to have those two feats, and what ASIs and feats will I have to give up going forward ... if I decide this at 5th level, I think I am locked out of it completely when I am only 25% of the way done the game.  And this is with a figher that gets bonus feats every other level.I am guessing that total there were about 150 feats in official 3E, and the majority had prerequisites.I think there are about 90 total feats in 5E, and most of them do not have prerequisites.  I think there are about 25 feats that require a prerequisite in 5E and most of those are race-specific feats.So yes, when you are talking about feats you can actually take at a given level, 3.5E does not have way more choices.  What it actually has is way more feats that a given character can't choose to take.</blockquote>

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