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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 7735949" data-attributes="member: 6795602">So here's some considerations (leaving out multiclassing).#1  At level 1-3 the only characters that use feats are variant humans.#2  At levels 4-5 the only characters that use feats are those that pick a feat at level 4 or those that were #1#3  At levels 6-7 the only characters that use feats are #1, #2, or fighters that take one at level 6#4 At levels 8-9 the only characters that use feats are #1, #2, #3 or any character that takes a feat at level 8.If we take the data that 25% of people choose human as their race then that would mean at most 25% of level 1-3 characters have feats.Monks, Rogues, Druids, Sorcerers, Warlocks, Wizards, Clerics, Bards usually don't take an ASI at level 4 for a combination of reasons.  The +2 ASI is much stronger.  The ability the feat grants would feel out of place to suddenly obtain.  General purpose feats they may have wanted may seem less necessary or useful after getting a feel of how the game is playing through the first 3 levels.Barbarians, Fighters, Paladins and Rangers have a lot more interesting feat options as some of the only feats that can directly compete with the +2 ASI while not feeling out of place are the weapon feats.  Even then, such characters may still take the ASI first and wait on the feat.  So of these 1/3 class choices maybe somewhere between half and 1/3 of them take a feat at level 4.  That's 10-15%.  However some of those could have already been variant humans and we don't want to count them twice.  As such we are looking at maybe +10% of characters gaining a feat for the first time at level 4.  We are now at around 20-35% of all characters with a feat by level 4.  For many characters in many games they may not get another chance to take a feat before the campaign ends.  If they do go past level 7 then it's likely they only have 1 more chance to take a feat before the campaign ends or nearly ends.Basically, for characters actually played I would expect less than 50% of such characters to take feats before they are retired.If planning out a whole 1-20 build I expect to see feats pop up quite a bit more in the 12-20 level ranges.</blockquote>

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