Outside of completely BS shenanigans, I hardly ever see Equipment Trick or Magic Trick or Weapon Trick...
So, I was wondering, would it be bad/unbalanced to have them each just be one, non-specific feat?
Like the prerequisites for each Weapon Trick remain the same, but having the one Weapon Trick feat would open up everything you qualify for.
Equipment Trick would work with boots and cloaks and sunrods, all with just one feat.
Magic Trick, because magic is cool, let it apply to everything you qualify for as if you had taken every Magic Trick feat.
Or hand out the specific Trick feat for free as soon as other prerequisites are met? Just to encourage new and fun things to be used?
The prerequisites are often just far too niche for anyone to get multiple benefits out of the Trick feats in a specific category, so making them more accessible is a good idea.
I usually try meet as many of the prerequisite possibilities as possible when I take Weapon Trick, to open up the most options. Get the most bang for my buck, so to speak... make them less niche/useful in more situations. When it comes to the Ranged Weapon Trick, I don't take the Weapon Trick feat until I meet all the prerequisite feats for both options first.
However, it would be awesome if when I was using my Bardiche or Longspear, I automatically got the two-handed options even though I am using a polearm. I need Choke Up, and Close Sweep is nice to have. I am also using two hands, though, and things like Cleaving Smash, Crush Armor, and One-Handed Lunge would be nice to have. Meeting the prerequisites to activate everything I just mentioned should be payment enough once you take Weapon Trick one time. If I get the ability to one-hand my polearm, I should get all the one-handed trick options I have the qualifying feats for, too.
A sword and board Ranger or Buckler Duelist Fighter could qualify for lots of the TWF, one-handed, two-handed, and sword and board tricks if they put their minds to it... but no one would ever try because that's like 4 more feats on top of all the qualifying feats to get the options you want. It's stupid. Lol.
I am most familiar with weapon tricks, but I see some fun stuff looking at the equipment tricks, too. I would love for someone at my table to use cloak tricks! Or boot tricks. That would be so much fun.
The magic tricks involving Mage Hand and Unseen Servant for Aid Another are things I only recently found out about, too. And who doesn't like Aid Another? Lol. Granted, I have never had a Cluster Bomb/Concentrated Fire Fireball specialist at my table, either.