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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 4788036" data-attributes="member: 2303">This is very true and I was going to write something along these lines.Also, feats used to be the major means of customization for all classes. These days, all classes have a selection of powers, and you can use multiclassing to transcend even those barriers. There simply is not as much need for "enabler" feats as there were in earlier editions.Perhaps the easiest place top see this in the development of the fighter. Fighters used to gain bonus feats from a limited list. A few of the more boring (and often more powerful as well) of those feats still exists or have inheritors in 4E, but most have disappeared and become fighter powers.Feats as they existed in 3E and 3.5 are dead. The 4E feat is a different beast, a small remnant of the old mixed with a healthy portion of new. I used to be a part of a 3E netbook of feats that published thousands of new feats. There is no call to do that in 4E, as feats are no longer the sexy, exiting beasts they were. These days, they are grey but useful drudges. The power, particularly the martial power, is the new enabler feat.[This is absolutely not an edition war post. I'm not protesting the change of what feats have become, merely reporting it.]</blockquote>