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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7735931" data-attributes="member: 6799649">I'm of the opposite opinion.Take a feat (AND an extra skill), where the extra feat is perfect for your PC (because you chose it to be) and may even give you a +1 to your primary, secondary or tertiary stat...OR...at the cost of a feat and a skill, add +1 to each of the 3 or 4 stats that you don't care about?No contest. Variant human wins (almost) every time. In fact, the only time I would consider a non-variant human is if I want a barbarian, and forced to use point-buy, and want three 16s at first level, so my stats are 16/16/16/9/9/9.But even then I would probably choose a feat that added +1 to one of the three physical stats, because 16/16/16/9/9/9 is objectively worse than 16/16/16/8/8/8 with an extra skill and half feat.What I find curious is that the two claims (humans are the most common PC race, most play without feats) seem to be contradictory (for 5e, anyway) because humans are the only race that can start with a feat.Some possible explanations:-* perhaps most D&D players in the world are new to the game and haven't started to read all the game mechanics or realised the possible combinations, so they (foolishly) play non-variant humans* some DMs don't like feats, so their players aren't allowed to <s>like</s> use them either* feats are rarely available because they are once every 4 levels (rarer for most multi-class PCs), and there is evolutionary pressure to make your main stat 20 and most games end at low levels* JC's data includes many/all editions of D&D, so the editions that never had feats dilute the dataIn my current campaign my PC is the only human; the rest are: wood elf, tiefling, dragonborn.In my last campaign, my PC was an aasimar who looked/disguised himself as a human; the rest were: gnome, shield dwarf, tabaxi, kenku.A friend at work has heard of D&D for a while, and her son just offered to run her first game. She's going to play a tiefling cleric. As you can tell, optimisation is not a factor. Nor are the rest of the game mechanics to be honest. If newer players don't care much about the mechanics then feats won't matter to them.</blockquote>

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