Unless I'm missing something, the level requirement is completely pointless and just wastes word count. There are no features before your 4th level feat that let you choose any feat that's not an origin feat.
Unless I'm missing something, the level requirement is completely pointless and just wastes word count. There are no features before your 4th level feat that let you choose any feat that's not an origin feat.
How would you define a General Feat vs an Origin Feat?
Simple answer is, one has a 4+ level requirement, and the other does not.
I see. However, it would have saved a lot of words if the book just said that all general feats have a level 4+ prerequisite.
Not saying that leaves open other options in the future. Maybe they’ll never say level 5+ or 8+ or whatever. But they have the option if they ever want to implement feat trees.
I see. However, it would have saved a lot of words if the book just said that all general feats have a level 4+ prerequisite.
This creates a clunkiness in the future if they want to release a general feat without that prerequisite, or a modified version of it
Generally speaking you want to package as much of, if not everything, you need to use the game option in the game option. Having a general rule for general feats tucked away elsewhere means it can get missed
I see. However, it would have saved a lot of words if the book just said that all general feats have a level 4+ prerequisite.
Part of D&D is having the parts all out in the open with precise as can be language because it gives Homebrewers and newcommers to the game or a module a scaffold to understand. Cutting stuff down or out runs into the "Bob WorldBuilder's statblock" problem where things that have meaning and use in the game are left out for the sake of brevity, but something that works dependent on one of those tags suddenly doesn't work because that tag was removed.
Those words are there for a reason most of the time.
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The basic intent is that general feats can't be taken at origin, and they just say level 4+ because that's when all classes get their first ASI; it wouldn't change anything to give them a level 2 prerequisite instead, but it might be confusing because there's no way you can actually take them before level 4.
Unless I'm missing something, the level requirement is completely pointless and just wastes word count. There are no features before your 4th level feat that let you choose any feat that's not an origin feat.
Because the intent was for you to choose your Origin Feat at character creation and General Feats at the level you are supposed to earn them.
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Unless I'm missing something, the level requirement is completely pointless and just wastes word count. There are no features before your 4th level feat that let you choose any feat that's not an origin feat.
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How would you define a General Feat vs an Origin Feat?
Simple answer is, one has a 4+ level requirement, and the other does not.
I see. However, it would have saved a lot of words if the book just said that all general feats have a level 4+ prerequisite.
Not saying that leaves open other options in the future. Maybe they’ll never say level 5+ or 8+ or whatever. But they have the option if they ever want to implement feat trees.
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Part of D&D is having the parts all out in the open with precise as can be language because it gives Homebrewers and newcommers to the game or a module a scaffold to understand. Cutting stuff down or out runs into the "Bob WorldBuilder's statblock" problem where things that have meaning and use in the game are left out for the sake of brevity, but something that works dependent on one of those tags suddenly doesn't work because that tag was removed.
Those words are there for a reason most of the time.
He/Him. Loooooooooong time Player.
The Dark days of the THAC0 system are behind us.
"Hope is a fire that burns in us all If only an ember, awaiting your call
To rise up in triumph should we all unite
The spark for change is yours to ignite."
Kalandra - The State of the World
The basic intent is that general feats can't be taken at origin, and they just say level 4+ because that's when all classes get their first ASI; it wouldn't change anything to give them a level 2 prerequisite instead, but it might be confusing because there's no way you can actually take them before level 4.
Because the intent was for you to choose your Origin Feat at character creation and General Feats at the level you are supposed to earn them.