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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7965896" data-attributes="member: 58197">What it means is that, based on available data, most PCs do not have feats. That is what WotC has said, and it is all that WotC has said.Things WotC has not said, that people (including some folks on this site who should know better) have misinterpreted the above statement to mean:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&quot;Most tables do not allow feats.&quot; (Fallacy: Just because PCs do not have feats does not mean the table has made a rule to forbid them.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&quot;Most players are not interested in feats.&quot; (Fallacy: The overwhelming majority of PCs are low-level, where the cost of taking a feat is extremely high--you have to either play a variant human, or sacrifice +2 to your prime stat, and the latter option isn't even available until level 4. If you look at PCs of level 12+, who do not face these tradeoffs, well over 50% have feats.)</li>
</ul>I'm perfectly willing to believe what WotC tells us. But it's vitally important to listen to what WotC actually says and not blindly accept summaries and interpretations from third parties.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7965896, member: 58197"] What it means is that, based on available data, most PCs do not have feats. That is what WotC has said, and it is [I]all[/I] that WotC has said. Things WotC [B]has not said[/B], that people (including some folks on this site who should know better) have misinterpreted the above statement to mean: [LIST] [*]"Most tables do not allow feats."[I] (Fallacy: Just because PCs do not have feats does not mean the table has made a rule to forbid them.)[/I] [*]"Most players are not interested in feats."[I] ([I]Fallacy: [/I]The overwhelming majority of PCs are low-level, where the cost of taking a feat is extremely high--you have to either play a variant human, or sacrifice +2 to your prime stat, and the latter option isn't even available until level 4. If you look at PCs of level 12+, who do not face these tradeoffs, well over 50% have feats.)[/I] [/LIST] I'm perfectly willing to believe what WotC tells us. But it's vitally important to listen to what WotC actually says and not blindly accept summaries and interpretations from third parties. [/QUOTE]

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