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Savant - Feat 1
[General]
Pick one aspect of your character in which you have Proficiency, such as an attack, a defense, a skill, or spellcasting tradition. Your proficiency in that attack, defense, skill or spellcasting tradition increases by one level (from trained to expert, expert to master, or master to legendary). This feat cannot raise your chosen proficiency to master if you are below 7th-level, or to legendary if you are below 15th-level, nor can it grant you training in a new attack, defense, skill, or spellcasting tradition.
Don't most classes already max you out in your primary schick? How is a +2 bonus to a secondary trait way too good? What am I missing?
Don't most classes already max you out in your primary schick? How is a +2 bonus to a secondary trait way too good? What am I missing?
In terms of weaponry and armor, classes generally get their proficiency upgrade to Master(for martials)/Expert (for non-martials) at lvl 11-13. You can get a general feat at lvl 7, so this feat would let you get that upgrade quite a few levels early at the least (assuming this doesn't stack with the natural proficiency progression).
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Don't most classes already max you out in your primary schick? How is a +2 bonus to a secondary trait way too good? What am I missing?In terms of weaponry and armor, classes generally get their proficiency upgrade to Master(for martials)/Expert (for non-martials) at lvl 11-13. You can get a general feat at lvl 7, so this feat would let you get that upgrade quite a few levels early at the least (assuming this doesn't stack with the natural proficiency progression).
So maybe I should slow the feat progression by a few levels then?
Well for one it would make multiclass characters almost as powerful in their secondary schtick. It makes all non fighter martials as accurate as fighters,and everyone else as accurate as martials.
Not to mention making Multiclass casters as good at their spells as full casters.
That's quite literally the whole point.
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That's quite literally the whole point.
But that's not a good plan. Let's look at Fighter, their superb accuracy is almost literally all they have going for them as opposed to other martials (on a strictly mechanical level, anyway).
Barbarians can already out DPR them (slightly) without multiclassing shenanigans. Add Legendary Weapons to the Barbarian and there's suddenly almost literally no mechanically valid reason to be a Fighter any more.
General 11 - Increase weapon proficiency from trained to expert
General 13 - Increase armour proficiency from trained to expert
(Both require the prior pre-requisite proficiency feat)
(Maybe add two to the levels above)
No feats to raise spell casting proficiency as they are too strong. If a warpriest could raise their proficiency to legendary even right at the end game there is no reason to be cloistered
Don't most classes already max you out in your primary schick? How is a +2 bonus to a secondary trait way too good? What am I missing?
Conversely if +2 was not that pick a deal then this homebrew feat wouldn't be necessary surely...?
Same with all of the threads about the restrictive proficiency system which make up half of the main board now
For skills this feat is definitely something the game is lacking.
For armor and weapons proficiency tiers are very limited by design. A better choice would be a feat that allows all weapons you're proficient with to scale at the same rate as your normal weapon proficiency.
Or not a feat and just make it a baseline rule since it's a really bad mechanic anyways.