R5e Equivalent: the heccin' class feature

Lulz.  ASI is now a feat.  Actually has some pretty hefty connotations, since it can be selected/awarded any time your DM gives you a feat.  Having ASI be a single feat everybody can gain access to instead of technically thirteen different class features that all just share the same text is a systematic improvement, and allows DMs to award an ability boost as a campaign boon thingus without having to invent a random feat for it.  A subtle difference, yes, but I think it's an important - and positive - one.

R5e Equivalent: Actor

Actor didn't change much thematically, though the execution of it was changed.  The Impersonation bullet drops Deception as an applicable skill for impersonating someone, which makes me wonder if this is guidance for the DM on letting people actually use Performance for something, or if it's intended that Actor be made explicitly weaker.  As an already niche pick of a feat, losing Deception kinda stinks.  Mimicry more-or-less works the same but has been made independent of other creatures' Insight scores; instead you make a DC 15 Performance check and get the benefits of Mimicry for one hour on a success.  That...feels like a net buff, but also weird.  Instead of simply mimicking stuff and having people roll to Spot the Not if they need to, you get a mother-may-I Performance roll up front.  Not a super huge fan of that to be honest, I almost always prefer it when rolls are made at the moment of contention rather than at the beginning of the action.  Overall, not a massive fan of this new wording, though I do appreciate the (unfortunately unsuccessful) attempt to make the feat less janky.

R5e Equivalent: Athlete 

So this one's funky.  It is, for the most part, the same as R5e Athlete in that it gives you a +1 to your choice of physical stat (though this one does offer a choice of Constitution as well, which R5e Athlete does not), lets you climb without penalty, and lets you kip up from Prone with only five feet of movement.  The final bullet deals with the new Jump action though, and I'm real curious whether 'The Jump Action' replaces the jumping rules found by default in the PHB or supplements them.  Can you extend a regular PHB jump with The Jump Action, or is jumping now strictly an action you cannot perform with just movement?  Either way, gaining advantage on The Jump Action's check is a very nice bonus.  I don't like the uncertainty of it, but since the actual total rolled on the die is important, advantage is a bigger deal for The Jump Action than most.  Seems like an improvement over halving the distance one needs for a running start on a jump.  Overall seems like an improvement, if a relatively subtle one.

R5e Equivalent: Charger 

Charger is a much different feat in 1DD UA than in R5e.  All of the original Charger's text has been replaced, making the feat much more attractive overall.  You gain a half-ASI, as is the case with all feats I can see of 4th level or higher, and you gain an extra ten feet of Speed on your Dash Action.  Note: as written it's ambivalent ifo that's ten feet of base speed (i.e. an extra 20 feet of Dash) or simply ten extra feet of Dash total, but more speed is more speed.  The second bullet is also no longer contingent on Dashing, instead simply requiring ten feet of straight-line movement prior to an attack (which mostly follows the most popular homebrew alterations of Charger, which seems to be a theme with 1DD so far).  Note that the Shove effect in UA Charger does not require a save - you just dropkick somebody ten feet away.  This version of the feat is a dramatic improvement to the R5e version and makes Charger a real contender for certain Warrior archetypes.  Classes with access to bonus-action Dashes, i.e. rogues and (presumably) monks, gain Extra Bonus benefit but anybody can make use of the damage bonus and battlefield control.  Dropkicking fools off of cliffs has never been easier.

R5e Equivalent: Cheesebow Haxpert 

Cheddarbow Exasperation gained a point of Dex that it really didn't need, but that's a new rule with Level-Gated Feats so eh.  It retained the Melee Shooter ability and the Rapid Reload that allows you to Glock it up, and it acts as a Two-Weapon Fighting Style for hand crossbows.  This feels egregious, but remember - the new megabuffed Light property means that the whole "offhand crossbow" thing was built into the weapon to start with now, and note: nuLight requires the 'off-hand' attack to be made with a different Light weapon.  A single hand crossbow's mainhand attack no longer fulfills the condition for its own bonus action shot, you need to attack with something else.  And because Colbybow Exblurgh allows you to ignore Loading but not Ammunition, the Glocksbow Expert builds are dead in the water for anything other than thri-kreen and/or artificers using Repeating Shot.  The later get to do badass Cutlass and Pistol Handbow builds, and thri-kreen are busted beyond reason anyways.  So...overall?  Crossbow Expert actually becomes dramatically more niche and significantly lessens the emphasis on handbow exploits, while still being really cool for people that use two-handed crossbows.  I approve.

R5e Equivalent: Defensive Duelist 

So one of the game's classic Meme Trap Crap Feats might actually be semi-usable now.  Semi usable.  The only difference is that 1DD DD (Deedee get out of my laboratory!) is that the 1DD version gives you a point of Dex as well as a Parry reaction.  That...might honestly be enough for some builds if you're using a Finesse weapon already, and allows it to compete with things like Piercer for filling out an odd score.  the actual Parry reaction is more powerful than people tend to give it credit for given that it has unlimited uses - you can ALWAYS Parry, and even if a single parry won't save you from an entire godawful five-blow Multiattack, there's times when you just desperately cannot allow something to land.  Any damage you don't take is pressure off your team after all, and sometimes a single wiff can be the difference between narrow victory and TPK.  I think the ol' scrapbucket feat may actually start seeing use in 1DD, and people will start coming around on it.

R5e Equivalent: Dual Wielder

So we've got some notable changes here.  1DD Dual Wielder gives you a one-point boost to STR or DEX, which is cool, but it removes R5e Dual Wielder's +1 to AC and R5e Dual Widler's ability to pair up two non-Light weapons.  With 1DD Dual Wielder you need to have at least one Light weapon; can't do battleaxe and warhammer anymore, as one example.  Rapier/dagger yes, but not Dwarven-Style Dual Wielding.  Combined with the loss of the inherent +1 to AC (which could stack with other sources of AC and aided heavy armor users in gaining back some of the defense lost from ditching the shield) and the utter worthlessness of the "Draw/Stow two weapons at once" ribbon feature (point me at one single DM who doesn't let a dual wielder draw both their weapons at the start of combat), and we have a candidate for a feat that's kinda categorically worse than its R5e version.

Verdict: put back either the +1AC or the ability to wield two different non-Light weapons.  Removing both of those things is unnecessary, this is already a super nichey feat that gets meme'd at.  It doesn't need the double-slap nerf, especially since Dexy dual-wielders are almost certainly using light weapons in the first place and don't really care.

R5e Equivalent: Durable

Hoo boy.  1DD nuDurable has the same name as R5e Durable, but it is an entirely different beast.  This is basically Wizards replacing R5e durable with the popular homebrew "Die Hard" feat; you get a point of Con, you get advantage on death saves, and you get the ability to burn a Hit Die and heal up as a bonus action.  You don't get to add your Con modifier to the bonus-action healing roll, but you also get no uses/day restriction on how often you can do it (outside of needing to burn a Hit Die every time you do).  To compare: OG Durable gives you the point of Con, and says "if you roll lower than your Con modifier on the Hit Dice when healing with Hit Dice during a short rest, you can use your Con modifier instead."  So...you 'lose' a mostly pointless floor on how much each Hit Die is worth on a short rest, and gain the ability to defy Death itself and to patch yourself up throughout the day with your Hit Dice.

Massive win, with the sole caveat that R5e Durable had no prerequisite but 1DD Durable requires you to have a Constitution score of 13 or higher.  No picking up Durable on Con-dumped characters, which shouldn't be a problem for most people interested in the feat.  if you do qualify for it?  Durable is a huge bonus to your survivability and a great deal more fun to use in play.  Actively using your Hit Dice in combat is cool, gaining advantage on death saves and doubling your chance for that super heccin' awesome Determinator rise-from-the-grave nat 20 is cool.  This is a fantastic improvement and probably one of the biggest hashmarks in the "Win' column from this document.

R5e Equivalent:  Elemental Adept

This is pretty much the same feat, just with a +1 INT/CHA/WIS bolted on.  You get half an ASI to whatever your casting stat is (probably), and the same ignore-Resistance and treat 1s as 2s dealie.  Still kind of a butt feat, I really wish they'd just let you reroll 1s instead.  Resistance is much rarer than outright immunity, which EA still doesn't do anything about.  Cool that you get a bump to your casting stat, but still doesn't really make Elemental Adept exciting or helpful to take outside niche circumstances.  Ho-hum.

R5e: Fighting Initiate (Tasha's Cauldron)

So Fighting Styles are all feats now, and if you start as a Warrior-group class (fighter, GARbarian, monk) you gain access to them from level 1.  Ranger gains one for free at second level, and I presume anythihng else with a 'Fighting Style' class feature will do so when their Fighting Style comes in as well.  Rangers (and presumably dingdongs) can also take Fighting Style feats on level-up despite not being Warrior classes.  The various PHB fighting styles seem mostly unchanged save for Protection, which goes from imposing disadvantage on an attack to imposing a flat -2 penalty on the attack - effectively giving your ally the benefit of your shield.  That's a big honkin' nerf if the attack did not have Disadvantage, and a modest buff if the attack already did.  But really, what this means is that the Human Fighter Guy can start with three Fighting Styles - one from their background feat, one from being human, and one from the first level of fighter.  And anybody in the Warrior group can start with a Fighting Style, even barbarians or monks that normally don't gain access to Fighting Styles.  Monk no longer has to do weird junk to gain Dueling or TWFS (or Archery! Shortbow monks are cooler than you think!), GARbarian can gain Great Weapon Fighting if it wants. 

Gonna call this an overall win, even if I was kinda hoping fighting styles would be made more impactful.  Making them more accessible is still a plus, and some of the neat combos you can pull off with chargen-accessible fighting styles are, in fact, neat.  I look forward to Archery on shortbow/dart monks, and to the nonsense that is the Triple Threat Human Fighter.  

R5e Equivalent: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA memes.

Hey!  Hey, guys!  Guess what?  Grappler actually does shit now!  You get a point of STR or DEX, you're no longer Slowed when dragging a grappled target (wooof), and you can Punchand Grab to deal damage with an unarmed strike and also Grapple with the same strike.  Plus you keep the "Advantage on targets you're Grappling" bullet from OG Grappler.  Combined with Tavern Brawler and the same single Unarmed attack could theoretically do damage, shove an enemy 5 feet, and Grapple it, though you'd have to have bugbear arms to make it work.  Bugbears can finally live the meme:


We're starting to see the Unarmed Brute Brawler playstyle actually become valid; between Unarmed Fighting Style from TC, Tavern brawler, and now 1DD Grappler?  Your face-smashing, chair-trashing, Suplex-launching Street Fighter-esque pugilist character isn't gonna need extensive homebrew anymore.  The memes are coming home to roost.  Luchabear is coming.

R5e Equivalent: Gouda Weapon Muenster

Ahhhh...on this day, the Munchkins received a grim reminder. A great disturbance, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in outrageand were suddenly silenced typing furiously on every social media service known to man.  Why?

Power Attack is gone.  Donezoes.  Dedskies.  Kaput.  Or at least if the Munchkin's -5/+10 does still exist, it's in a different form, as neither of the two feats that previously featured a Power Attack retain it.  Instead, GWM gains a +1 to Strength and the ability to add your proficiency bonus to the damage of a Heavy melee weapon hit once per turn.  GWM also retains its previous Cleave feature, letting you make a bonus action attack after scoring a crit or reducing a critter to zero HP.  I actually think it's a really good feat in this form - the Cleave is a super cool moment that lets you chew through the enemies' ranks, gaining a point of Strength helps round off odd scores, and PB to melee damage once per turn is solid, reliable, always-on bonus damage. 

I'd already been tinkering with a new 'Power Strike' house rule that lets you add proficiency to your damage roll instead of your attack roll as a means of letting everybody take that same -5/+10 gamble without being as obnoxiously overtuned as the R5e Power Attack.  I'll absolutely take versions of Sharpcheddar and Gouda Weapon Muenster that omit the Power Strike in exchange for better tuned abilities.  Eat it, optimancers.

R5e Equivalent: Heavily Armored

The only difference between 1DD Heavy Armor Training and R5e Heavily Armored is you can choose to gain +1 to Constitution  as well, instead of being limited to solely Strength.  A very nice boost, but nothing that really needs expounding on.  Even if Heavy Armor Training is drastically better than R5e Heavily Armored due to external factors...but that's for later.

R5e Equivalent: Heavy Armor Master (Haaaaaam!)

HAM also allows a choice between STR or CON instead of strictly +1-ing STR, and the reduction is upgraded from a flat +3 to PB, which means it scales better in late-tier play.  HAM also protects against magical B/P/S, while R5e HAM specifically excludes magical weapon damage from the reduction.  A solid defensive bulwark, though it's rarely going to make or break a combat.  Still, all the dozens/hundreds of attacks you take over a campaign?  HAM may well add up, and at least now you can use it to plug an odd Constitution score so it's a more versatile overall feat. 

R5e Equivalent: Inspiring Leader 

Inspiring Leader has slowly been losing its status as a Meme Feat in the last couple of years as people wake up to the fact that it can generate a freaking ton of overall THP.  The 1DD version adds the ability to bump Wisdom instead of just Charisma and adds Wisdom as an alternate prereq, but it drastically changes the actual 'Inspiring THP" thing.  It's no longer a ten-minute period, and it's no longer limited to once per long rest.  Instead, you give the THP at the end of any short or long rest, but the amount you give has been brutally nerfed.  2d4+PB is nowhere near as cool as level+CHA mod past Tier 1 play.  Being able to give it (theoretically) more than once a day provided your DM actually lets you short rest is cool, and allows it to catch up to the R5e version, but you don't get remotely as thicc a shield from any given use.  Probably worth it given the increased ease of use and the half-ASI, but I'll admit I'm gonna miss people saying "wait, how many?!" when Star gives an Inspiring Star Speech and hands out THP.

R5e Equivalent: Keen Mind 

Okay, I actually hate that 1DD Keen Mind has a 13+ Intelligence requirement.  My circle has long used Keen Mind as a starter feat on sub-10 Int characters to indicate a character with a...well, keen mind, but one with minimal formal education or book-learning.  It's been an honestly cool dynamic.  Buuuuut...well.  Not anymore.  That said, 1DD Keen Mind completely blows up the original feat, retaining absolutely nothing from R5e Keen Mind save the +1 to Intelligence.  Instead, you gain proficiency in an untrained Intelligence skill or Expertise in an INT skill you're already trained in, and you gain the ability to take The Study Action as a bonus action.  I don't know how much I care for these formalized rules for shit we could already do, but eh.  I really don't think this is much of anything, DMs already refuse to acknowledge Intelligence/"knowledge" skills as valid.  They're sure as shit not gonna give you anything in the middle of a fight, which is the only time when being able to do The Study Action as a bonus action would matter. 

Ehh.  I suppose technically better than R5e Keen Mind, but I just don't really vibe on this version.  Not when DMs absolutely refuse to use knowledge checks correctly in the first place.

R5e Equivalent(s): Lightly Armored, Moderately Armored

Hooooooo boy.  They rolled Light and Medium Armor Training into the same feat and made it a level 1, chargen-applicable feat.  You can now make literally anything a medium armor-and-shields class from the start, no more needing an Armor Dip into cleric or fighter.  Any caster can now obtain medium armor and shields with a single feat, which also dramatically lowers the feat tax for Heavy Armor Training - you can have a straight wizard with no multiclassing in heavy armor by level 4, regardless of species.  Irritated that Dwarves no longer get Armor Training?  Well hey - now they do again!  As does anyone else who grew up in a martial culture, regardless of class!  Man, I almost can't imagine the grognards letting this one stick.  It's such a game changer, even if all it really does is narrow the gap between Hyper-Optimized Multiclass Dippers and 'regular' characters, and allow other characters to get in on the fun of magical armor.  Want your sorcerer in glamoured studded leather and wielding a spellguard shield?  Now you can, without burning half your feats on it!

Hearty approval, love the widely expanded options this decision brings in.

R5e Equivalent: Mage Slayer 

Mage Slayer gains a point to STR or DX, aligning it with every other Level-Gated Feat in the book, and trades passive advantage on saves against magic from enemies you're on top of for the ability to flat-out No Sell one mental save effect per long rest.  Vampire Lord tryin'a put the whammy on you?  "No" - stab him in the kidney.  Archlich tryin'a Hold your Person so he can monologue?  "No" - stab him in the kidney.  Ancient Dragon tryin'a Fearbomb the party so nobody can fight it properly while it cooks you all with godawful lizard breath?  "No" - stab it in the kidney.  Mage Slayer gives you one chance to ignore a supernatural creature's supernatural nonsense and get close enough to do uncouth things to its kidneys with your Uncouth Things Implement of choice, which is frankly all any properly built slayer-of-mages should need.  You effectively gain a limited single-use Legendary Resistance, which is awesome.  A splendid change, and one I dearly hope sticks past the grognards inevitable complaining about it.

R5e Equivalent: Medium Armor Master

MAM trade nullifying the disadvantage on medium armor for a +1 to STR or DX.  You still get the extra DX bump to medium armor, getting to go up to +3 rather than +2.  If you're using MAM to patch a 15DX into a 16DX, neat.  In most other circumstances the feat remains deeply mediocre, especially since it no longer lets you stealth in half-plate.  yeah, technically a 16DX character in half-plate is equivalent to a Plate Armored fighter.  So is a regular character with the Defense fighting style and they don't need to pump DX or wait until level 4 to do it.  Just...underwhelming in general, really.

R5e Equivalent: Mounted Combatant

A +1 to STR, DX, or WIS, which is one hell of a spread.  1DD's version keeps the Advantage against enemies smaller than your mount, though it changes from "Melee Attacks" to "Attacks against a creature with 5 feet of your mount", so close-combat spell attacks and arrows work too I guess.  It also keeps Mount Evasion, though it specifies that you have to be on the mount and neither of you can be incapacitated.  Which...y'know, duh, but rules lawyers so okay.  The big nerf now though is that you need to burn your reaction to redirect an attack against your mount to you, instead.  No more Invincible Super Horse that's absolutely invulnerable to all forms of attack so long as the iron-plated AC 25 heavy knight is on its back.  That feels fair, honestly.  It does mean we'll need better rules for mounts, but that was a given anyways.  Overall, seems fine to me, though I also never bother fighting mounted sooooo....grain of salt.

R5e Equivalent: Observant

Yaaaay, Observant is no longer ******* stupid!  No more players demanding to use their passive scores for everything because their passive score is over 30 and they feel (not without some merit, sadly) that rolling and possibly failing is dumb when their passive score is over 30!  Elsewise this operates like nu-Keen Mind, giving you proficiency in an untrained Search-type skill or Expertise in a trained one and allowing you to do The Search Action as a bonus action.  Unlike Keen Mind, I think this one's an interesting experiment.  How often do players try and wheedle some manner of "Can I see/tell if...?" as a bonus or free action during a fight?  Now DMs have an answer - do you have Observant?  Sure.  Do you not have Observant?  No, use your action like you're supposed to.  Good change overall, I'll take anything that nixes the +5 to passive scores bologna.

R5e Equivalent: Polearm Muenster

So PAM got heavily nerfed, but in ways that kinda make sense.  It gains a +1 STR, which is cool sure I suppose, but its reaction attack is no longer an "Attack of Opportunity" (no more interaction with Sentinel) and to get the bonus-action Butt Bonk you need to use a weapon with the Heavy and Reach properties.  No more nimble PAM spear-and-shield skirmishers, which I'm honestly super sad about as I'd just gotten done building an awesome spear-and-shield skirmisher based on PAM.  Still, it kinda needed the hit - PAM/Sentinel was dumb and needed to be looked at, and I can understand Wizards wanting you to have to give something up for the bonus-action bonk.  The feat is still quite potent and lets you cause a lot more damage with a qualifying weapon, but it's definitely talking about warfighting heavy weapons now.  No quarterstaves, no spears.  Saaaadness.  Ah well.

R5e Equivalent: Resilient

Feat is identical to the R5e version.  Yes, the 'No' in 'Repeateable' is important.  You've never been able to take Resilient more than once, DDB treating Resilient as six different separate feats is not correct and never has been.  So nothing to comment on, really.  Still one of the most impactful options for plugging an odd score, especially if you're plugging DX, CN, or WS.  Still boring.

R5e Equivalent: Ritual Caster

Absolutely not.  No.  This is a deep and heavy failure, and probably the first time I've seen anything in 1DD that provoked an instant and unremorseful "over my dead body" reaction from me.  This is not Ritual Caster.  I want my ritual book, Wizards.  I want the ability to learn rituals as I adventure, and to become a learned master of ritual magic.  I do not f@#$ing want "Magic Initiate: Find Familiar and Detect Magic" and a Quick-Casting bullet.  That is not the character fantasy I am looking for when I allocate Ritual Caster.  This doesn't remotely feel like a 'master of rituals' feat, and I honestly hate it.  Meme at me all you want, but I just can't with this version.

R5e Equivalent: Sentinel

So Sentinel no longer specifies that creatures that have Sentinel don't count for the 'Guardian' bullet.  You can get Sentinel on all of your Bonkliners and create a Spartan Shieldwall where every time somebody hits a shield they provoke half a dozen reaction attacks.  Brutal, and absolutely delightful.  Sentinel now makes for an excellent "Formation Fighting" feat  and allows a pair of martial characters to coordinate their efforts in a way that makes for a better game.  The reaction attack also now counts as an Attack of Opportunity regardless of what triggered it and is triggered by an enemy taking the Disengage action outright instead of the feat ignoring Disengage, which makes Sentinel noticeably better at locking people down.  Plus you get a STR or DX boost.  Feat was already excellent; feat is now fantastic and might honestly be a little overtuned, but **** if I don't love the tight-knit formation-fighter teamwork this version promotes.

R5e Equivalent: Sharpshooter

Mmmm.  See, while I am absolutely okay with Power Attack dying an ignoble death and becoming as forgotten/meme'd at as THAC0, I dunno how I feel about trading Power Strike for "Firing in Melee."  On the one hand I get it, that's very much the sort of thing a sharpshooter should be good at, but on the other hand pressing an archer in melee combat should give you an edge against that archer.  Kinna ambivalent overall, as this mostly just removes a lot of the decision-making from ranged combat.  'Course, it always has, so ehh.  Suppose we'll have to see how it shakes out.

R5e Equivalent: Shield Master

See, this is a juicy one.  Shield Master benefits from the universal half-feating of everything else in the EC doc, but it bundles the Shove you used to have to burn a bonus action for into an attack during your Attack Action.  Means all the attack synergy of Ye Olden Reading of Shield Master comes back and without chewing up your bonus action to boot, giving you much expanded options for battlefield control.  It also more closely mimics actual HEMA/historical martial combat tactics, for those who care - the shield bash wasn't a separate motion from your attack, it was often a simultaneous action to striking with your weapon.  The pseudo-Evasion bullet is still there, and overall the package is quite nice for shield users.  Everything Shield Master used to do, but with streamlined action economy and just smoother overall gameplay.  Well done.

R5e Equivalent: Skulker

Man.  What a bump.  This is another one where they more-or-less threw out the old feat entirely and rebuilt it from the ground up.  Instead of being able to ignore disadvantage from dim light, you get ten feet of blindsight (which I'm not entirely convinced is as big a Win as people no doubt think).  Instead of being able to Hide while lightly obscured, you gain advantage on any Stealth checks you make to Hide in combat.  You still don't reveal yourself when you whiff a ranged attack, and you get a +1DX.  Having actually sunk some playtime into the original Skulker...I'll say that I'm actually of two minds about this.  Losing disadvantage on perc checks in dim light meant that characters with Darkvision could see perfectly well even in total blackness (within the reach of their Darkvision), which was a legitimately cool trick for my tunnel-fighting drow paladin.  Being able to hide in light obscurement also comes up more than one might think.  Sure, ten feet of Blindsight and advantage on all combat Stealth checks is cool, but the 1DD version of the feat is obviously aimed purely and solely at rogues.  Anybody who isn't a rogue need not apply, whilst the original had plenty of applications for nonrogues.  It's much stronger from a combat perspective than it used to be, but I'm gonna miss 120 feet of "don't give me 'you don't see anything', I said I search for danger" on said Drowadin.  Ah well.

R5e Equivalent: Mobile

Oof.  Mobile "Speedster" got massively nerfed.  It has a steep prereq now, needing DX or CN of 13+.  it no longer gives you the ability to escape an enemy un-Oppotunity'd when you hit them with a melee attack.  Its speed boost only applies if you're not wearing heavy armor.  Sure, it gets the same half-feating as everything else, but you're losing a lot of what made Mobile such an attractive option in the first place.  Literally Mobile skirmishers that relied on the feat to allow them to flit in and out of battle get to suck eggs - if you're not a rogue, you get to eat a hundred AoOs per fight.  Blugh.  Still perfectly usable, just not nearly as fun and evocative as it used to be, especially as the 'Dash Over Difficult Terrain' bit may come one once per campaign or so.

R5e Equivalent: Spell Sniper

Spell Sniper gains a half-feating, the same "Firing in Melee" thing as Sharpshooter and Crossbow Expert, and trades "double spell range" for a flat +60-foot boost to any spell with an attack roll.  No more memey interactions with Eldritch Spear, but ninety-foot Thorn Whips are gonna be their own memes, methinks.  The thing also loses the bonus cantrip it used to grant, which really stings.  Overall, kinda feels like a mostly-sidegrade minor nerf - losing the cantrip definitely sucks and the flat range boost feels weird, but half-feating is an upside and Eldritch Bonkers are gonna enjoy no more melee disadvantage.  Seems to still be a very niche choice, but the people who liked it before will still like it.

R5e Equivalent: the most over-selected, worn out, boring, and annoying feat tax in all of R5e.

War Caster gets half-feated, which makes it even more mostly-mandatory on spellcasters, but otherwise does everything it used to do.  I still hate that you can't take five steps with a character sheet for a spellcaster that doesn't have War Caster without some goomba literally bursting through the walls to bellow "Y U NO WAR CASTER?!" at you, but we all knew this was here to stay.  Nothing really to say about it.  it's very good, and if you've played D&D for more than fifteen minutes you've probably taken it at least once.  Blegh.

R5e Equivalent: Weapon Master

Feat is at least functional now.  Take class without martial weapons proficiency.  Add martial weapons proficiency, and a +1 STR/DX.  Not a lot of cases where this is going to be useful, if you're an Attack-y class you're gonna have proficiency with the things your class is meant to be attacking with.  Getting martial weapons on a sorcerer doesn't do you any good, no matter how much you like Green Flame Blade.  Only really there as a means of allowing a caster that loots a super spiffy magic weapon they really want to try out to burn a feat to do so, and that's gonna be a trap kinna no matter what.  So...meh?