Gentle Giant (Large)

Prerequisite: Large

Though other races might naturally fear your kind for your great stature and raw power, most now recognise that you wouldn't hurt a fly… or at least you'd try not to, and only if it doesn't hurt you first. You gain the following benefits:

Increase your Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20.
You have advantage on Persuasion checks when convincing a smaller creature that you mean them no harm.
At the start of a combat you can choose to make no hostile acts. For each round in which you make no hostile acts of any kind, you gain a cumulative +2 to all attack rolls for the first round in which you do attack, up to a maximum of +10. Hostile acts include moving directly towards an enemy, attacking, grappling, shoving, casting damaging or debilitating spells, assisting with an ally's attacks, and anything else your DM warns you will be viewed as hostile. You can do this once per short rest.

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Posted Aug 3, 2020
Just to give a little of my thought process on this one:

This feat is intended for Large player races, such as those added in Brute (Large) Player Races

The persuasion bonus has a very specific use case, as with my Large races this acts as a way to counteract disadvantage when dealing with most smaller races, so this benefit is more minor than it might seem.

The no hostile acts bonus can sound powerful, with a possible cumulative bonus of +10 to all attacks when you finally attack, however to get to that point you'd have to effectively skip five rounds of combat before attacking in the sixth. A lot of D&D combats don't last that long in the first place, and every turn you take no hostile actions is a turn in which you do no damage. In reality I expect most of the time you're going to get a +2 or +4 out of it, unless you're happy for your (probably smaller) party mates to carry the battle for you while you just dodge and take defensive actions. The boost is also only for a single round.
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