Feats Overhaul

Overview

Yet another take on rebalancing vanilla feats! This mod aims to vastly improve the diversity of feats to choose by making them all much closer in power. Most feats receive buffs to some degree, while the very strongest feats (Alert, Great Weapon Master, Sharpshooter, and Tavern Brawler) receive nerfs but remain on the stronger side. Additionally, any ability score increase you get from feats (except the actual ASI feat which gives you two ability points to use) can now stack with other bonuses to increase your ability above 20. See below for all details.

This mod is inspired by the existing excellent feat rebalance mods: Rebalance - Feats by Syrchalis and Feat Rebalance Pack by WoolToque. While this mod goes in a different direction for some feats, it also uses some of the ideas from those mods and I highly recommend that you check them out in case you prefer the changes they made. This mod was developed together with Ajax, who helped provide many of the ideas for the feats and provided input on balancing.

Ability Score Increase Rework

This mod changes the mechanics behind how ability score increases from feats work. In vanilla, all ability score increases from feats, whether from the actual ASI feat, from a feat that gives you a limited selection of abilities to increase (e.g. Weapon Master), or from a feat that increases a singular ability that you don't choose (e.g. Heavily Armoured), are capped at 20. This cap is hardcoded and so a different implementation is required to get around it.

• []Done through directly selecting the ability to increase.[/]

  []Ability score increase does not stack with other bonuses to bring the ability above 20, meaning it does nothing when the ability is already at or above 20.[/]

  • []Done through selecting a passive, through which the respective ability score increased is tied to.[/]

    []Stacks with other bonuses, meaning the ability score increase from the feat will still be added even if the ability is at or above 20[/]

    Note that unfortunately, due to the way the ASI feat works (where it can be taken multiple times), that makes it difficult to change using this same implementation. However, I think it's fine to keep as is, as this helps prevent players from being able to turboboost an ability above 20, and hence helps curb power creep. Big thanks to Goonsack for the idea and implementation of this mechanic in his Stackable ASI Feats mod.

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    Mod Patches/Add-ons

    Note: load all patches after the main mod.

    FeatsOverhaul AlertPatch: Reverts this mod's changes to Alert back to the vanilla version (+5 initiative, no proficiency in Perception). Meant for users who play with d20 initiative, in which case this mod's nerfs to Alert would make the feat too weak.

    FeatsOverhaul GWMPatch: Changes GWM: All In to have the attack roll reduction and damage bonus apply to all melee attack rolls, whether or not they use your weapon damage (e.g. Pommel Strike, which uses a 1d4 instead of your weapon damage die). In vanilla, and the base version of this mod, the bonus damage from GWM is not applied.

    The reason why this is a patch instead of part of the main mod is because there are numerous instances across both vanilla and mods where this implementation causes the GWM bonus damage to unintentionally double dip (the DRS problem). This patch fixes all instances that I know of to prevent the double-dipping on damage, but there are doubtless many cases that I don't know of. If you use this patch and come across any such issues, please let me know and I'll add them to the patch. See the Great Weapon Master below for more details. Note that I did not make t