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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 3346491" data-attributes="member: 1288">Oh, I totally forgot one important detail when I was listing my ideas earlier.Specifically, the rules should be written so that you never require a feat to accomplish something; the feats just enable you to do it better.Want to take a mighty swing with a weapon, sacrificing accuracy for damage? Doesn't require a feat. But Power Attack (or its 4E equivalent) makes you better at it.Want to wield a small weapon with Dex instead of Strength? You can do it, but there's a penalty. Weapon Finesse removes that penalty.And so on, and so forth. The presence of a feat in the game should only ever benefit the person taking it; it should never limit the options of people without it.(Obviously, things like metamagic might have to be an exception to this rule. But honestly, maybe not. I think it would be possible to design a metamagic system where, again, you didn't need the feats, but metamagic was largely suboptimal without them.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 3346491, member: 1288"] Oh, I totally forgot one important detail when I was listing my ideas earlier. Specifically, the rules should be written so that you never [i]require[/i] a feat to accomplish something; the feats just enable you to do it [i]better[/i]. Want to take a mighty swing with a weapon, sacrificing accuracy for damage? Doesn't require a feat. But Power Attack (or its 4E equivalent) makes you [i]better[/i] at it. Want to wield a small weapon with Dex instead of Strength? You can do it, but there's a penalty. Weapon Finesse removes that penalty. And so on, and so forth. The presence of a feat in the game should only ever benefit the person taking it; it should [i]never[/i] limit the options of people without it. (Obviously, things like metamagic might have to be an exception to this rule. But honestly, maybe not. I think it would be possible to design a metamagic system where, again, you didn't [i]need[/i] the feats, but metamagic was largely suboptimal without them.) [/QUOTE]

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