Creating my character and after 2d level, I could note that there are so many feats that I can get from race, class and other ways. However, looking for an specific rule I couldn't find that there is a specific restriction about the amount of feats that a player can use to build a Character. I know that some feats are acquired after certain race levels but, if the building allows to add more feats is true that we couldn't add more than one each 4 levels?
Please help me to know if a chracater has any restriction or is free to use any feat granteed in character creation in Beyond D&D.
There's no such thing as Race levels. There are Class levels and Character levels. There are 2 races that grant a feat. A few backgrounds that grant a feat. The rest is granted as part of your Class - and it can be different for each class. Classes have a feature "Ability Score Increase" (or ASI) at certain Class levels and you can choose to increase your Ability Scores (one score by +2, or two different scores by +1 each) or gain a feat. For example a Fighter gets an ASI at 4th, 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 19th Class Levels, whereas the Wizard gets an ASI at 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th Class Levels.
However, feats are an optional rule and subject to DM approval. Check with your DM.
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There's no such thing as Race levels. There are Class levels and Character levels. There are 2 races that grant a feat. A few backgrounds that grant a feat. The rest is granted as part of your Class - and it can be different for each class. Classes have a feature "Ability Score Increase" (or ASI) at certain Class levels and you can choose to increase your Ability Scores (one score by +2, or two different scores by +1 each) or gain a feat. For example a Fighter gets an ASI at 4th, 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 19th Class Levels, whereas the Wizard gets an ASI at 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th Class Levels.
However, feats are an optional rule and subject to DM approval. Check with your DM.
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Nods, above is currently RAW.
I dislike it though and prefer the 3e way where your ASI is every 4 character levels, not class levels and they come in addition to rather than instead of feats taken at every 3 levels.
I'm not sure if 5e specifies this, but the DM can award additional feats than the level dependent ones as a reaction to actions taken within the game. I don't know if there is a limit to those, but it's usually something selected by the DM not the player. 5e also gives the impression that ASI's are exclusively level dependent, but that is not necessarily so either, and there used to be ways to build your stats over the course of the game to reach goals beyond what merely leveling up could get you. This may have gone away with "The Bounded Accuracy System" though.
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GMs have always been able to award extra feats, but it's always been an options house rule. There are some suggestions in the DMG about it but no hard rules. And ASIs are explicitly tied to class level advancement in 5E, it's not a suggestion, you only get one when you reach a level in a class that grants an ASI. It's not like 3E where they were tied to character level.
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There's no such thing as Race levels. There are Class levels and Character levels. There are 2 races that grant a feat. A few backgrounds that grant a feat. The rest is granted as part of your Class - and it can be different for each class. Classes have a feature "Ability Score Increase" (or ASI) at certain Class levels and you can choose to increase your Ability Scores (one score by +2, or two different scores by +1 each) or gain a feat. For example a Fighter gets an ASI at 4th, 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 19th Class Levels, whereas the Wizard gets an ASI at 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th Class Levels.
However, feats are an optional rule and subject to DM approval. Check with your DM.
@Iankavic
Nods, above is currently RAW.
I dislike it though and prefer the 3e way where your ASI is every 4 character levels, not class levels and they come in addition to rather than instead of feats taken at every 3 levels.
There's pros and cons to making it a choice between feats and ASI (think about what PAM/GWM would look like if point buy could get the combo with 20 STR online at 8th level), but I think tying it to class level is definitely a good thing because it creates a soft penalty to multiclassing as a trade-off for getting at the additional class features.
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Hi guys.
Creating my character and after 2d level, I could note that there are so many feats that I can get from race, class and other ways. However, looking for an specific rule I couldn't find that there is a specific restriction about the amount of feats that a player can use to build a Character. I know that some feats are acquired after certain race levels but, if the building allows to add more feats is true that we couldn't add more than one each 4 levels?
Please help me to know if a chracater has any restriction or is free to use any feat granteed in character creation in Beyond D&D.
Thank you
There's no such thing as Race levels. There are Class levels and Character levels. There are 2 races that grant a feat. A few backgrounds that grant a feat. The rest is granted as part of your Class - and it can be different for each class. Classes have a feature "Ability Score Increase" (or ASI) at certain Class levels and you can choose to increase your Ability Scores (one score by +2, or two different scores by +1 each) or gain a feat. For example a Fighter gets an ASI at 4th, 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 19th Class Levels, whereas the Wizard gets an ASI at 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th Class Levels.
However, feats are an optional rule and subject to DM approval. Check with your DM.
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@Iankavic
Nods, above is currently RAW.
I dislike it though and prefer the 3e way where your ASI is every 4 character levels, not class levels and they come in addition to rather than instead of feats taken at every 3 levels.
I'm not sure if 5e specifies this, but the DM can award additional feats than the level dependent ones as a reaction to actions taken within the game. I don't know if there is a limit to those, but it's usually something selected by the DM not the player. 5e also gives the impression that ASI's are exclusively level dependent, but that is not necessarily so either, and there used to be ways to build your stats over the course of the game to reach goals beyond what merely leveling up could get you. This may have gone away with "The Bounded Accuracy System" though.
Thank you for your time and please have a very pleasant day.
GMs have always been able to award extra feats, but it's always been an options house rule. There are some suggestions in the DMG about it but no hard rules. And ASIs are explicitly tied to class level advancement in 5E, it's not a suggestion, you only get one when you reach a level in a class that grants an ASI. It's not like 3E where they were tied to character level.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
There's pros and cons to making it a choice between feats and ASI (think about what PAM/GWM would look like if point buy could get the combo with 20 STR online at 8th level), but I think tying it to class level is definitely a good thing because it creates a soft penalty to multiclassing as a trade-off for getting at the additional class features.