From the Strixhaven students to the Initiate of high sorcerer the background feats It seems that a lot of the general design from caster focused feats are variations of magic initiate, however the martial feat is kind of lack-luster squire of solamina very niche and has too much overlap for types of characters that would be likely to take that background. Similar to the design of the pretasha's mountain dwarf they felt overlap of features was enough to go against the standard racial stat design.
What do y'all think of the direction that the background feat that are being/have been release?
Overall I like the direction, but to your point I wish martials got more love. A fighter isnt going to get much out of taking the Squire feat but a spell caster will always appreciate free spells.
I've felt like they need to give some sort of ability to use on bonus actions PB times per day. A block, defensive stance, something to make it enticing.
Overall I like the direction, but to your point I wish martials got more love. A fighter isnt going to get much out of taking the Squire feat but a spell caster will always appreciate free spells.
I've felt like they need to give some sort of ability to use on bonus actions PB times per day. A block, defensive stance, something to make it enticing.
Yes! you could do something that could have a reaction or bonus action that restores HP similar to Second Wind or raise your AC like Shield. Both of those could work especially at lower or mid levels. Something with saving throws could also work.
Overall I like the direction, but to your point I wish martials got more love. A fighter isnt going to get much out of taking the Squire feat but a spell caster will always appreciate free spells.
I've felt like they need to give some sort of ability to use on bonus actions PB times per day. A block, defensive stance, something to make it enticing.
The Star Wars 5E system (which as the name suggests, is basically 5E reskinned for star wars) made a number of changes to martial classes I'd love to see carried over back to 5E at some point. Things like more interesting fighting styles, fighting masteries only fighters get without a feat which are more advanced versions of fighting styles for additional benefits, rogue subclasses giving them a system where they can trade two sneak attack dice to do a maneuver, making fighter maneuvers baseline and then buffing their maneuver based subclass, etc. I don't know if I could go back to playing a pure martial character in 5E afterwards. Hopefully the 5E update thing in a couple years will do something similar.
I agree that more should be done for the "fighter types" in background but I do not really have a great idea what could be done except having combat and non-combat abilities included maybe 1 of both for every background.
Overall I like the direction, but to your point I wish martials got more love. A fighter isnt going to get much out of taking the Squire feat but a spell caster will always appreciate free spells.
I've felt like they need to give some sort of ability to use on bonus actions PB times per day. A block, defensive stance, something to make it enticing.
The only thing I can think of is using it on a the slightly tropey, thief turned squire/knight as that would hae a character actually get the most benefit from the feat. and while that seem too niche in comparison with the numerous caster based backgrounds with feats.
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From the Strixhaven students to the Initiate of high sorcerer the background feats It seems that a lot of the general design from caster focused feats are variations of magic initiate, however the martial feat is kind of lack-luster squire of solamina very niche and has too much overlap for types of characters that would be likely to take that background. Similar to the design of the pretasha's mountain dwarf they felt overlap of features was enough to go against the standard racial stat design.
What do y'all think of the direction that the background feat that are being/have been release?
Overall I like the direction, but to your point I wish martials got more love. A fighter isnt going to get much out of taking the Squire feat but a spell caster will always appreciate free spells.
I've felt like they need to give some sort of ability to use on bonus actions PB times per day. A block, defensive stance, something to make it enticing.
Yes! you could do something that could have a reaction or bonus action that restores HP similar to Second Wind or raise your AC like Shield. Both of those could work especially at lower or mid levels. Something with saving throws could also work.
The Star Wars 5E system (which as the name suggests, is basically 5E reskinned for star wars) made a number of changes to martial classes I'd love to see carried over back to 5E at some point. Things like more interesting fighting styles, fighting masteries only fighters get without a feat which are more advanced versions of fighting styles for additional benefits, rogue subclasses giving them a system where they can trade two sneak attack dice to do a maneuver, making fighter maneuvers baseline and then buffing their maneuver based subclass, etc. I don't know if I could go back to playing a pure martial character in 5E afterwards. Hopefully the 5E update thing in a couple years will do something similar.
I agree that more should be done for the "fighter types" in background but I do not really have a great idea what could be done except having combat and non-combat abilities included maybe 1 of both for every background.
The only thing I can think of is using it on a the slightly tropey, thief turned squire/knight as that would hae a character actually get the most benefit from the feat. and while that seem too niche in comparison with the numerous caster based backgrounds with feats.