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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7735995" data-attributes="member: 6799649">Excellent questions, but the answers are simple. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />You argue that feats/MCing are equally as 'optional' as things like the optional rules for facing or rest length. I argue that unlike the optional rules in the DMG, feats/MCing are really part of the core game, only made 'optional' to make the game easier for new players, in the full expectation that they can start to use them if they want, on an individual and PC to PC basis, as soon as they get the hang of the game; that each game expects to use them.But it's not what you think or I think that counts. What does WotC think?Two bits of evidence supporting my 'core game' stance: first, they are in the PHB as options players can make for their PCs, just like any other option, like class, race, background, spells, weapons, subclasses, etc.Second, Adventurers' League. The rules assumption of AL is the way WotC expects the basic game to be played, and doesn't use ANY of the 'optional' rules; y'know, the one's in the DMG. It treats feats/MCing as part of the basic game.And so do I.</blockquote>