D&D 5E Your best suggestion for a spellcaster's feat?

[CapnZapp]

Most 5E feats in the PHB are either for roleplay/background purposes, or they benefit martial characters. Sure there is War Caster and a few more, but what feat would you love to see in 5E that spellcasters would find interesting?

(Note: I said interesting, not OMG powerful mandatory, since I'm not asking for a feat tax)

But there are thousands of previous edition feats. There must be some good ideas

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

When playing spellcasters, I tend to find being able to cast spells interesting enough by itself that I look toward feats for something that isn't more or improved spellcasting - like Actor, or Dungeon Delver, or even Skilled.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

My spellcasters tend to spend their ASIs on either raw ASIs, Spell Sniper (if warlock), or defensive abilities like Inspired Leader, Mobile, Lucky, and Moderately Armored.

I don't believe that feats mostly only benefit "martial characters."

 

[CapnZapp]

When playing spellcasters, I tend to find being able to cast spells interesting enough by itself that I look toward feats for something that isn't more or improved spellcasting - like Actor, or Dungeon Delver, or even Skilled.

My spellcasters tend to spend their ASIs on either raw ASIs, Spell Sniper (if warlock), or defensive abilities like Inspired Leader, Mobile, Lucky, and Moderately Armored.

I don't believe that feats mostly only benefit "martial characters."

That's fine, but do you have any favorite spellcaster feats you saw in previous editions that you hope will be added to 5E?

 

[Mistwell]

I would like to see a shadow magic feat that lets you make your illusions partially real.

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

That's fine, but do you have any favorite spellcaster feats you saw in previous editions that you hope will be added to 5E?

Nope.

I basically dislike all spellcaster-specific feats from previous editions because what feats primarily did in prior editions was not a thing that I was into. All I can even really remember of prior edition spellcasting feats are things that gave boring bonuses that someone would take because their character didn't really function well without them and feats that enabled certain things which are now already covered in some way (like reserve feats being basically covered by cantrips being relevant at higher level play).

 

[Yunru]

Arcane Archer, a la pre-release.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

That's fine, but do you have any favorite spellcaster feats you saw in previous editions that you hope will be added to 5E?

No, 5E is the first edition I've played in with "feats". 2nd edition had something similar in the Skills and Powers series, but those books were an abomination and I never used them.

 

[CapnZapp]

Thank you, Mistwell and Yunru Keep it up!

 

[discosoc]

Honestly, I feel like the mages are inherently less required to use feats by design. If you think about it, all the customization and focusing options are already baked into the magic system (via spell selections with a variety of effects), so it makes sense for the bulk of feats to deal with making martial characters stand out a bit.