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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 5553632" data-attributes="member: 60886">I liked themes in DS, but I'm a little surprised to see people criticize the lack of feat and PP support for the new themes.1) The theme feats were kinda cruddy.  Almost all of them provided buffs to the theme power, but this is generally a worse choice than a feat that'll buff all your powers.  And even when they weren't cruddy, it still stank that it took a feat to make the theme power awesome.  Why wasn't it already awesome?  And I thought we all agreed feat bloat is a bad thing.  I'm glad the new themes don't have feats.2) The "theme" paragon paths were great and all, but I don't think a single one actually  needed to have the theme as a prerequisite.  They were connected only thematically, and would've been just fine (or even better) as standalone PPs.  So maybe we'll see standalone PPs to go along with these new themes.  An "Academy Master" PP (oh wait, that already exists)... or maybe an "Alchemist Savant" PP (oops, already exists too)?  Seriously, a lot of the concepts the new themes cover have already been done as PPs.  Do we really need more?The new themes do exactly what they need to do (provide another flavor "axis" at the heroic tier), and no more.  IMO that's important.  There might be some tweaking left to do for balance, though...</blockquote>