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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7204790" data-attributes="member: 6785785">This is one of those topics where you'll ask, and get any number of answers and all of them will be valid. It really boils down to what you want for your game, and what your players want, and a few other factors. I think a big factor that gets overlooked is how often you play, and how many characters players tend to go through. The more frequently that players create and play new characters, the addition of feats may help to maintain variety. Feats can help characters seem different, beyond the background and subclass options that already serve to differentiate. But if your players tend to stick with characters long term, feats may not be as necessary in that regard. So you have to weigh that benefit against the "drawback" of feats. The drawback being that they tend to greatly increase PC power in a narrow way, as opposed to the more standard but broad increase of a Stat Increase. I personally don't think that Feats are all that powerful when compared to an ASI....some more so than others (most notably the ones that increase damage output since combat is such a big part of the game), but an ASI is nothing to sneeze at, either. So I think the player perception and the style of play are big factors. If you have players who really like to focus on mechanical builds and damage output and things like that, they may very well want feats. If your players are not as concerned with their power, and the game is more story-oriented, they may be fine without feats. I allow feats in my game, but a couple of our PCs don't have them and instead opted for ASIs only....and I don't think that there is a huge difference between the PCs with feats, and those without.</blockquote>

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