Supernatural Gifts are kind of like Feats. Indeed, the option is given to take a Feat instead of a Gift, with the GM's approval, if none of them seem suitable.
Otherwise, no, there are no new Feats in the book, Racial or otherwise.
If i was Dming, i personally would let leonin use the Tabxai only feats cause i think they are just buffer tabxai. Plus with tasha cauldron out you can invest into Dexterity then have ferocious claws feat now you have finesse 1d8 claws and a scary roar.
Edit:you can also give them the feline agility to if using my logic.
I think we've probably seen the last racial feat we'll ever see in an official publication. WotC is clearly moving away from racial gated content, so it's hard to imagine them putting any development time in to feats for specific races.
VulcoreTheGreat is citing some homebrew that's sitting in GMBinder, "ferocious claws" and "feline agility" are there per my Google fu when I saw the post and went "huh?" too. Basically almost ten month old thread discussing content in Theros (I think) necro'd so the poster could push these homebrew. I mean they're not wrong, one could do this for Leonin traits if your table was open to the homebrew, but it's not really what this thread was asking.
Anyone else getting a little (lot) fed up with all the jabs at Tasha's? All the "well, Wizards is moving away from species-gated content so nah you get nothing" and the like?
Species feats are a cool way to highlight the different traits of a given species without setting nasty limiters on what that species is allowed to be. It'd be cool to see a fresh batch of them, or some Official Guidance from the company on how to craft your own. Expanding the qualitative options available to a given species is a whole different bag than "Oh, you're a leonin? Well, you're terrible at being any kind of spellcasting class but you're pretty good at up-front bruisers - run a fighter or barbarian, maybe a paladin, or get the **** away from my table."
I like racial feats. It is an easy way to customize your character to reflect a mixed race character without touching homebrew too much. I can create a half-orc and give them Drow High Magic to reflect that their other half is drow rather than human.
Well, we did have a couple of extremely long and tedious threads about whether a Custom Lineage character can take racial feats (put to bed by Sage Advice, thankfully) and a bunch of others about powergaming; I'd say the issues with Tasha's are firmly on the players' side, so they'll vary from table to table. I don't like floating modifiers or CL and I do like racial feats, but on the whole Tasha's still a useful book for me and I won't complain if someone willing to DM for me allows some optional rules I personally don't. Leonin Rangers, Tortle Sorcerers and Gnome Paladins are welcome here too. Honestly, DM life is much more fun if you only look at other tables for things you may want to steal - stuff you don't agree with shouldn't have any bearing on what you do at yours.
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I'm not taking a jab at Tasha's at all. I love Tasha's and I'm super happy with the flexibility for things like reassigning racial stats.
I'm just pointing out that Wizards is absolutely moving away from racially gated content and I am speculating that this means we won't see any more feats for specific races. I wouldn't mind getting them, mind you, especially if they opened them up to other races that were left out of the last racial feat list. But then that introduces its own problems where they don't like to include content in one non-core book that requires you to own another non-core book to reference what they're talking about. So the fact that Leonin racial feats weren't published with the Leonin in Theros (which was just published last year, during the development on Tasha's, I will add) also indicates that Wizard's isn't thinking much about adding new racial feats.
Wizards isn‘t adding new racial feats because they added too many player races. We would need another 40+ feats if all current PC races would get just 2 race specific feats.
One could wish that new feat options were introduced whenever a new species was introduced, as part of bringing that species into the game. Clearly that ship has sailed, but I still maintain that everybody should get a feat at level 1, not just humans, and species-based feats are an excellent choice for Starter Freat on those species that have them. It's something I very much hope changes when 6e inevitably drops, though at least it's easy to hack into character sheets even with DDB.
He was asking me whether Variant Human and CL get an 'extra' feat, under my assumption that every PC gets a starter feat and not just those two.
My general answer to that has been "variant human doesn't exist in games which use starter feats" - humans either use the vanilla stat block, one of the Dragonmarked blocks if Dragonmarks are a thing, or a homebrew block that substitutes an actual species feature for the feat. I've got a version of the Vhuman stat block that has a Human Ambition-style ability designed to punctuate humanity's refusal to admit defeat, though nobody's used that version yet. Nobody at our table's bothered with CL yet so I don't know, but usually the table finds solutions other than CL so it seems moot.
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Just asking...
I hope there are some racial feats in this book, could you let me know.
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There are not any Leonin racial feats.
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thanks for the quick answer... oh well.
~Mad
No problem.
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Were there ANY feats in this book?
I don't think so, but I'm not certain.
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Supernatural Gifts are kind of like Feats. Indeed, the option is given to take a Feat instead of a Gift, with the GM's approval, if none of them seem suitable.
Otherwise, no, there are no new Feats in the book, Racial or otherwise.
If i was Dming, i personally would let leonin use the Tabxai only feats cause i think they are just buffer tabxai. Plus with tasha cauldron out you can invest into Dexterity then have ferocious claws feat now you have finesse 1d8 claws and a scary roar.
Edit:you can also give them the feline agility to if using my logic.
I think we've probably seen the last racial feat we'll ever see in an official publication. WotC is clearly moving away from racial gated content, so it's hard to imagine them putting any development time in to feats for specific races.
VulcoreTheGreat is citing some homebrew that's sitting in GMBinder, "ferocious claws" and "feline agility" are there per my Google fu when I saw the post and went "huh?" too. Basically almost ten month old thread discussing content in Theros (I think) necro'd so the poster could push these homebrew. I mean they're not wrong, one could do this for Leonin traits if your table was open to the homebrew, but it's not really what this thread was asking.
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Anyone else getting a little (lot) fed up with all the jabs at Tasha's? All the "well, Wizards is moving away from species-gated content so nah you get nothing" and the like?
Species feats are a cool way to highlight the different traits of a given species without setting nasty limiters on what that species is allowed to be. It'd be cool to see a fresh batch of them, or some Official Guidance from the company on how to craft your own. Expanding the qualitative options available to a given species is a whole different bag than "Oh, you're a leonin? Well, you're terrible at being any kind of spellcasting class but you're pretty good at up-front bruisers - run a fighter or barbarian, maybe a paladin, or get the **** away from my table."
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I like racial feats. It is an easy way to customize your character to reflect a mixed race character without touching homebrew too much. I can create a half-orc and give them Drow High Magic to reflect that their other half is drow rather than human.
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Well, we did have a couple of extremely long and tedious threads about whether a Custom Lineage character can take racial feats (put to bed by Sage Advice, thankfully) and a bunch of others about powergaming; I'd say the issues with Tasha's are firmly on the players' side, so they'll vary from table to table. I don't like floating modifiers or CL and I do like racial feats, but on the whole Tasha's still a useful book for me and I won't complain if someone willing to DM for me allows some optional rules I personally don't. Leonin Rangers, Tortle Sorcerers and Gnome Paladins are welcome here too. Honestly, DM life is much more fun if you only look at other tables for things you may want to steal - stuff you don't agree with shouldn't have any bearing on what you do at yours.
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I'm not taking a jab at Tasha's at all. I love Tasha's and I'm super happy with the flexibility for things like reassigning racial stats.
I'm just pointing out that Wizards is absolutely moving away from racially gated content and I am speculating that this means we won't see any more feats for specific races. I wouldn't mind getting them, mind you, especially if they opened them up to other races that were left out of the last racial feat list. But then that introduces its own problems where they don't like to include content in one non-core book that requires you to own another non-core book to reference what they're talking about. So the fact that Leonin racial feats weren't published with the Leonin in Theros (which was just published last year, during the development on Tasha's, I will add) also indicates that Wizard's isn't thinking much about adding new racial feats.
Wizards isn‘t adding new racial feats because they added too many player races. We would need another 40+ feats if all current PC races would get just 2 race specific feats.
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One could wish that new feat options were introduced whenever a new species was introduced, as part of bringing that species into the game. Clearly that ship has sailed, but I still maintain that everybody should get a feat at level 1, not just humans, and species-based feats are an excellent choice for Starter Freat on those species that have them. It's something I very much hope changes when 6e inevitably drops, though at least it's easy to hack into character sheets even with DDB.
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Out of curiosity, do Variant Humans and Custom Lineage get two feats then?
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He was asking me whether Variant Human and CL get an 'extra' feat, under my assumption that every PC gets a starter feat and not just those two.
My general answer to that has been "variant human doesn't exist in games which use starter feats" - humans either use the vanilla stat block, one of the Dragonmarked blocks if Dragonmarks are a thing, or a homebrew block that substitutes an actual species feature for the feat. I've got a version of the Vhuman stat block that has a Human Ambition-style ability designed to punctuate humanity's refusal to admit defeat, though nobody's used that version yet. Nobody at our table's bothered with CL yet so I don't know, but usually the table finds solutions other than CL so it seems moot.
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