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Do you hate having to pick between ability score increases and feats? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My paladin is now level 4 and has 19 strength and 15 charisma. I know it is probably better to take the ability score increase and get another +1 on the majority of rolls I'll be making but that's just so boring!

I'm taking Shield Master instead.

Does anyone else have this conflict?

Most people seem to be misunderstanding. I don't mind having to make "tough choices" in general, only when the obviously correct choice is boring and the suboptimal one is the cool fun one.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I heard one DM say that they let the players choose, either they get to pick a feat, or they pick an ASI and the DM chooses a feat for them. The reason being that it means that the player has the chance to pick one of the big power spike feats (GWM, PAM, Sentinel, War caster) or get an ASI and get something thats not quite as big an impact mechanically, but helps develop the flavor of their character ( think like actor, charger, heavily armored). I haven't tried it, but I want to give it a shot some time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We got a book off DM's guild several years ago that was something like 'Talents', which were basically like a minor feat. Something like that would be cool to flavor in periodically.

I have one that lets me add my Charisma bonus to smites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love the idea!