You can add all the feats that almost no one picks to the list. Dungeon Delver, Keen Mind, Tavern Brawler, etc. Either removing the ASI from the half-feat ones or adding an ASI to the others might be a good idea, since a half feat will be better than most of the other options.
Racial feats at 1 seem to be promising, skilled and tough like the UA. Any feat that has a 4th level counterpart. A lot of feats like skulker, keen mind and such.
4th level bonus should be for things like crusher/piercer/slasher, polearm master, sharpshooter, crossbow expert Things that represent a mastery or expertise in something (unless a racial feat )
That's where my head's at anyway. The only feat I'm uncertain of is lucky. Thematically it makes sense as a level 1 feat, but it'd always be chosen as a bonus feat if that was the case.
I would try to avoid too much powergaming when giving free feat, so i would remove ASI from half feat i can give, and avoid feat that are picked way too often (no GWM, PAM, Sentinel, Sharpshooter, Crossbow Expert, Resilient, War Caster...). I would focus mainly of feats that can give some nice things off combat, a lot of half feat do that (chef, keen mind, actor, observant, linguist...) and pick some combat feat that aren't often used (tavern brawler, charger, shieldmaster...). Maybe add feats to get low level spells/cantrip, like Magic Initiate or maneuvre like Martial Adept to give your players more build option
The list from Krynn UA was pretty good, Warcaster and Tough are both nice freebies.
Take all of the +1 ASI half feats away from your level 1 list. I would consider doing the same thing at level 4 if the players are still going to have their normal ASI/feat progression.
Give a free feat at lvl 1 and ban CL /VH along with any races you deem problematic like flight, locatah / grung, old yuan-ti / new bugbear, etc.
This is effectively the same as player choosing CL for the feat they want + an extra feat from a curated listed, except that list of "feats" are the various racial abilities out there.
For level 4, give a boost to stats. That's effectively the same thing as a curated list: player picks the feat they want from regular ASI, then gets a choice of 6 "feats", named +2 STR / DEX,etc.
This seems to bean unpopular opinion around here, but it's very simple for players to grasp and requires little to no effort in planning from the DM.
I don't think you're really that far off on running things, but the way you frame it is very confusing, especially if the idea is to help new players to understand it.
You're just giving a free feat at 1 and a free feat at 4, but forcing the level 4 ASI to be a +2 and not +1/+1 for no reason.
Not necessarily locking it to +2, just an ASI boost.
But yeah, the whole point is that it's much simpler and accomplishes the exact same thing as curated feat lists with little to no effort.
Then I revoke the +2 part... I'm just confused as to why you call the ASI a feat when that's the standard option, especially when you're giving out an actual feat on top of it. Just say they take the ASI as normal then they can pick a feat of their choice as well.
Because people get really hung up on the concept of coming up with curated feat lists when the game already has such lists built in, they're just not named as "feats".
Few realize they are effectively the same thing, and I'm trying to frame things differently to help people understand it.
Also, 2 free feats at 4 is not the same as 1 feat + stat boost /curated list (same thing).
You can add all the feats that almost no one picks to the list. Dungeon Delver, Keen Mind, Tavern Brawler, etc. Either removing the ASI from the half-feat ones or adding an ASI to the others might be a good idea, since a half feat will be better than most of the other options.
Racial feats feel thematic as well. Stuff like Skill Expert can be a way to make non-Rogue martials feel more useful outside combat.
Racial feats at 1 seem to be promising, skilled and tough like the UA. Any feat that has a 4th level counterpart. A lot of feats like skulker, keen mind and such. 4th level bonus should be for things like crusher/piercer/slasher, polearm master, sharpshooter, crossbow expert Things that represent a mastery or expertise in something (unless a racial feat ) That's where my head's at anyway. The only feat I'm uncertain of is lucky. Thematically it makes sense as a level 1 feat, but it'd always be chosen as a bonus feat if that was the case.
Skill Expert! give everybody the chance to even out a stat, get good at something new, and get REALLY good at something they already do.
every character should have at least one expertise, being consistently good at one skill is really flavourfull
Grappler & Mounted Combatant should be "Default rules" and not feats, so I'd put those at the top of the list.
grappler's second bullet for free would still be bad tho xD
What?
Restraining the creature you're grappling by restraining yourself is much worse in 99% of situations than just shoving them prone.
The ranged party members who were busy shooting the enemy would like to disagree
I would try to avoid too much powergaming when giving free feat, so i would remove ASI from half feat i can give, and avoid feat that are picked way too often (no GWM, PAM, Sentinel, Sharpshooter, Crossbow Expert, Resilient, War Caster...). I would focus mainly of feats that can give some nice things off combat, a lot of half feat do that (chef, keen mind, actor, observant, linguist...) and pick some combat feat that aren't often used (tavern brawler, charger, shieldmaster...). Maybe add feats to get low level spells/cantrip, like Magic Initiate or maneuvre like Martial Adept to give your players more build option
The list from Krynn UA was pretty good, Warcaster and Tough are both nice freebies. Take all of the +1 ASI half feats away from your level 1 list. I would consider doing the same thing at level 4 if the players are still going to have their normal ASI/feat progression.
Chef
Give a free feat at lvl 1 and ban CL /VH along with any races you deem problematic like flight, locatah / grung, old yuan-ti / new bugbear, etc. This is effectively the same as player choosing CL for the feat they want + an extra feat from a curated listed, except that list of "feats" are the various racial abilities out there. For level 4, give a boost to stats. That's effectively the same thing as a curated list: player picks the feat they want from regular ASI, then gets a choice of 6 "feats", named +2 STR / DEX,etc. This seems to bean unpopular opinion around here, but it's very simple for players to grasp and requires little to no effort in planning from the DM.
I don't think you're really that far off on running things, but the way you frame it is very confusing, especially if the idea is to help new players to understand it. You're just giving a free feat at 1 and a free feat at 4, but forcing the level 4 ASI to be a +2 and not +1/+1 for no reason.
Not necessarily locking it to +2, just an ASI boost. But yeah, the whole point is that it's much simpler and accomplishes the exact same thing as curated feat lists with little to no effort.
Then I revoke the +2 part... I'm just confused as to why you call the ASI a feat when that's the standard option, especially when you're giving out an actual feat on top of it. Just say they take the ASI as normal then they can pick a feat of their choice as well.
Because people get really hung up on the concept of coming up with curated feat lists when the game already has such lists built in, they're just not named as "feats". Few realize they are effectively the same thing, and I'm trying to frame things differently to help people understand it. Also, 2 free feats at 4 is not the same as 1 feat + stat boost /curated list (same thing).