D&D 5E Unearthed Arcana: 16 New Feats

"Today’s Unearthed Arcana presents a selection of new feats for Dungeons & Dragons. Each feat offers a way to become better at something or to gain a whole new ability."

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The feats include Artificer Initiate, Chef, Crusher, Eldritch Adept, Fey Touched, Fighting Initiate, Gunner, Metamagic Adept, Poisoner, Piercer, Practiced Expert, Shadow Touched, Shield Training, Slasher, Tandem Tactician, and Tracker.

 

[CapnZapp]

Once I started enforcing the disadvantage to perception checks made with Darkvision suddenly everyone wanted torches and light spells again.

Not sure if or how this comments on the lamentation for low-light vision...

 

[SkidAce]

(Thank you. Covid makes every single hour of working in retail noticeably more stressful, especially as a front of store manager at a company that isn't enforcing mandatory masks and is barely enforcing social distancing or giving us adequate tools to mitigate the risks posed by noncompliant idiots that I can't kick out of the store unless they get belligerent. We don't even have any sort of clear barrier at the counter. People are literally talking at me, unmasked, from maybe 6 ft away, with nothing in the way. It's super great.)

We at least have plexi barriers for the cashiers, everything else is relevant to my work though.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

It's power comes when NOBODY is without it, so you can drop those torches altogether.

Maybe a reference to you mentioning dropping torches?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

We at least have plexi barriers for the cashiers, everything else is relevant to my work though.

Yeah, and the excuse seems to be that we have to put parts on the countertops, but our closest competitor has a plastic sheet hanging down over the counter between counter people and customers, so...

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I'm reminded of Battle Chef Brigade. It's a lovely videogame I really ought to replay.

Yes, with the Chef feat, I can now play the campaign I always wanted to: Delicious in Dungeon - Wikipedia

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

In my country we have retail workers wearing welding masks. It's pretty badass.

 

[Minigiant]

I'm just realizing how big a deal Practiced Expert is.

Practiced Expert is a large bump for bards, rangers. warlocks, and monks. It lets the pseudo rogues catch up to the rogue well.

+1 ability, Expertise and + 1 skill on a feat is huge.

 

[Undrave]

It's weird that there's no MC feat for Paladins... You can pick up Cleric or Druid spells with Magic Initiate, and fighting styles from the Fighter... but nothing from the Paladin.

Would have been cool to see a way to get some Lay on Hands on other characters, adding to the Paladin's pool of HP at the same time.

 

[BookBarbarian]

I just realized with Tandem Tactician I can make a Shouty Barbarian. I'm all for that.

 

[Weiley31]

For anybody complaining bout the "Goldfish" memory, you can take care of that via:

Having feats like Fighting Initiate, Gunner, Chef, Shield Training, Eldritch Adept, etc etc be award to the PC if they spend "adequate" Downtime training. A Martial character focusing time to "improve" their Martial aptitude, via learning a new Fighting Style/Gaining Superiority Die (via Martial Adept/Superior Technique), makes RPing sense. A Warlock studying Eldritch Texts from a vanquished Larva Mage, using downtime, to earn another Invocation also makes sense from a RPing stance as well.

Yes it requires giving a feat outside the normal "choose ASI or feat" rule, but if your table isn't using feats normally then it's not a big deal.


Another option is to take a Locathatha and reflavor it as a Goldfish. Congrats: your team's Battle Master is a Great Axe wielding Goldfish voiced by a disgruntled Tom Hanks. *He has a unique NPC only feat called Lost Seeker's Fury: which allows him to wield Large Weapons despite being small."