"Bludgeoning is Strength only." Monks, with their unarmed and their quarterstaves: "Damn, guess I need to start getting that protein powder..."

"Bludgeoning is Strength only." Slings, I'm sorry but everyone has forgoten about you again.

Telekinetic on a Psi Knight would be more Jedi action. I think it's my favorite new feat

Seeing as Wizards generally don't have much they can do as a bonus action, Telekinetic seems like a great option. Aside from using it defensibly, you can potentially use it to nudge an extra creature into place before casting an damage AOE spell, or push them into an active effect on the battlefield (Wall of Fire, Prismatic Wall, Blade Barrier etc.), or off the edge of a building/cliff. Not to mention, having an invisible and/or 30 extra range on Mage Hand has tons of potential uses. Honestly this is a good pick for any character lacking bonus action options.

The Chef feat is so wonderfully flavorful! It gives you something like a Song of Rest and False Life through food. I don't have a character that would go for it right now, but when that happens I'll definitely take it.

Hilarious that your vid and the dungeon dudes vid are like pretty much up at the same time about the new feats.

The crusher feat changing broke one of my player's hearts when they realized they no longer get a mixed dex from taking crusher as a kensei monk

There are no finese but monks can use DeX on bludgeoning

I'm currently playing a bard, and while I really wanted subtle spell to make my illusions and enchantments more potent in social situations, I was reluctant to take three level dip in sorcerer just for that purpose. Being able to take Metamagic Adept is incredibly appealing - I can get the feature that I really wanted, without slowing down my class progression. I like it a lot.

The weird thing about the "Proficiency with a Martial Weapon" requirement is that all classes except Sorcerer, Warlock, and Wizard can meet that requirement. Bards have Rapiers, druids have scimitars, martial clerics typically have martial weapons, and even classes like the Monk or Rogue get Shortswords. Ironically however, the caster that most likely wants this feat is the Warlock, who can use a martial weapon as though they were proficient is not technically so.

Telekinetic and Arcane Trickster is an interesting combination. You can pick locks, pick pockets, and interact at 60 feet rather than 30 as there is no maximum range listed in Ranged Legerdemain. So being able to pick a lock from 60 feet away seems fun.

Variant Human Soulknife Rogue with the Shadow Touched feat is something I may want to play as.

My psi warrior will get telekinetic feat because the bonus action shove work so well with how my character is built. Piercer will be next, rerolling a die is always fun imo

The PHB specifically says that if you are asked to divide or multiply your proficiency bonus, you can only do it once no matter how many features you have that are acting at any given time. Therefore, doubling your proficiency bonus and Expertise can't stack and Expertise can't stack with itself. From Chapter 7 of the Basic Rules, under Proficiency Bonus: Occasionally, your proficiency bonus might be multiplied or divided (doubled or halved, for example) before you apply it. For example, the rogue’s Expertise feature doubles the proficiency bonus for certain ability checks. If a circumstance suggests that your proficiency bonus applies more than once to the same roll, you still add it only once and multiply or divide it only once.

Wait Telekinetic has no use limits on the shove? I had assumed it was once per short rest. That's nuts.

In response to the comment about Jeremy Crawford saying people weren't interested in new feats... I feel like people are overlooking how much of the UA that made it into Tasha's felt like a response to the release of Pathfinder 2.0. The optional class variants and feats seemingly made it more similar to aspects that were present in Pathfinder in terms of character customization.

Eldritch Adept is my favorite feat. I like playing druid and I’m gonna be grabbing Beast Speech on all my druids from now on

Druids can get Fighting Initiate though right? Scimitars are martial weapons if i recall correctly.

Sad to see shield training and tandem tactician get cut. Those were the ones I was most excited for.

The real devil in the details in Fey Touched is that it lets you poach Dunamancy spells. It DOES NOT specify that it has to be from a class list, and just says it needs to be Enchantment/Divination. Gift of Alacrity is Divination.

Telekinetic is great. The fact that the bonus action ability doesn't have a limit on the amount of times you can do it is nuts and it seems really strong to me.

Telekinetic seems really good. It gives you something to always be doing with your bonus action and can be used to push targets into terrain hazards (and more importantly disengage your fellow PC's if they need to move). I'm imagining a well placed Sleet Storm and just constantly forcing the enemies back into it while letting a few trickle out to be cleaned up by the rest of the party.

Kinda wished that Ted went a bit more into those feats, saying if they're good or bad, or something like that

The best Eldritch adept choice to make is "devil's sight" Its not 120 dark vision. It's 120 normal (bright light) vision in darkness and magic darkness.

My favorite feat is Fey Touched because you get the ability bonus, Misty Step (which combines get with Find Familiar), as well as another good spell such as Hex or Hunter’s Mark! 👍🏻

Via Dungeon Dudes: Telekinetic gives Wizards a bonus action to shove stuff in AoE.

I certainly like the Slasher/Crusher/Piercer feats as they help push characters to take up weapons beyond swords. Many times, it's a sword you'll see, at least in my instances at the table. The Gunner feat, when a player asked about using guns years ago, I suggested just taking the crossbow feat as it made the most sense and worked more or less the same to the feat we have now. All of the feats are pretty great with some better than others but they're all going to be situational. Shoot, even the cooking feat is situational and could be a key feat to take in the right campaign.

Would love to see a top 10 for these feats!

I really like Fey Touched feat for my warlock character since it means I don’t have to waste a precious spell slot for Misty Step and I really value the mobility it brings, plus the other 1st level spell you can choose can be Hex, another very good spell that I don’t have to waste a spell slot on.

My favorite feat is the eldrich one. While you can’t get all the good ones, it enables people to get devils sight and utility spells (mage armor, detect magic, etc) at will.

I literally designed my own feats for bludgeoning/slashing/piercing just before reading there were designs for them in the new source book. I'm really glad they've done this, because weapon choice was never something that had to be considered in D&D due to being a fairly solved concept. It'd be like having no real choices in spell options because there are always 'Tier 1' spells, with everything falling well below that. Now with these feats, you have to consider what kind of weapon you're using. The only difference in my design however, was the ability to swap out one of the three feats (Crusher/Slasher/Piercer) with another upon levelling up. This alleviates some of the annoyance of finding a sweet slashing weapon but having 'Crusher' as your feat. You want your combat classes to be malleable to some degree with the way they do combat, and because combat classes rely quite heavily on their equipment, the last thing you want to do is force your Fighter to have to either use a Flametongue and have their Crusher feat sit there being useless for the rest of the campaign, or continue to use Crusher and have this awesome Flametongue in your inventory, unused.

Note that Artificer Initiate was nerfed to keep in line with the removal of Spell Versatility. It's still more flexible than Magic Initiate because you can cast your new spell with your own spell slots, but you can't change it every level.

Crusher is now Until the start of your next turn.

I've said this before, but I really like the idea of a blasty bard with Eldritch Adept and Metamagic Adept. Bards can very easily get Eldritch Blast for themselves as well, so I do really like the idea of this.

If anyone wants some more comments on what the feats can do, and how they might be useful on different characters, then this is the place to go. Feel free to add comments as well! I will not be commenting on all of them, just the ones I like the most, but thats still a lot of them. Crusher: Great for monks, if you ask me. Of course this is great on any character that uses Bludgeoning attacks, but there is just something about the ability to push something back when you make an attack with unarmed strikes. The critical ability is also good here, because monks make so many attack rolls, and its very thematic, as it is very similar to Open Hand Technique, that the Way of the Open Hand gets. Even better if you have an odd constitution score! Eldritch Adept: Great for Warlocks. Its not the best on other classes, as a lot of the invocations have requirements, in which case you have to be a Warlock, so Agonizing Blast is out of the picture. Still amazing for Warlocks, and possibly for characters with a race that doesn't have darkvision, to get Devils Sight. This is also really good on an Arcane Trickster, for the unlimited Disguise Self, with Mask of Many Faces, or for an Abjuration Wizard, who can fill of their arcane ward for free, with Mage Armor, from the Armor of Shadows invocation. Fey Touched: This feat is just great for wide variety of classes. I would say its probably best on a fighter or monk, because of the spells it allows you to cast, though its probably best for fighter, and even better for an Eldritch Knight. The Hex spell is of the enchantment school, and Hunters Mark is divination. A d6 to all damage roll for a minute? Plus a bonus action teleport? yes plz, and its also extra spells known for an Eldritch Knight. Bless is another good one, if you want a d4 to your attack and saves (its an enchantment spell). Also good for a Bard, Sorcerer, or Warlock, who all don't get a lot of spells known. Meta Magic Adept: Obviously good on any caster, but just like Eldritch Adept, its best on a Sorcerer. Two extra meta magic options, and to extra points? Ill take it! Piercer: Plus one to strength or dex, plus a little buff to your damage output is great. The critical ability is just like the Half Orcs, or the Barbarians Brutal Critical. This also stacks with Brutal Critical, If you are using a spear, or even better a Pike, since it has the Heavy feature, so you can combine it with Great Weapon Master. Again, even better if you have an odd Strength or Dex score! Shadow Touched: A very thematic feat. This is the Fey Touched for Arcane tricksters. Invisibility, and a free illusion or necromancy spell like Disguise Self. This is also great for Bards and Sorcerer, as well as Warlocks, since these are spells you probably want anyways, and they don't get a lot of spells known. Like all half feats, its great for when you have an odd casting score. Slasher: In my opinion, this feat isn't as good as Crusher or Piercer, but still vary viable for a Fighter or Barbarian who wants to encourage enemies to stay in melee. Makes criticals even more brutal than they already are, and +1 to strengt or dex. Still a pretty decent Feat! Telekinetic: I feel like this steps a little bit too far on the Arcane Tricksters territory, but makes mage hand even better, especially for the Arcane trickster. Great video Ted, though I would have like a few more comments on some of the feats, but maybe thats just me. And again, I would love to turn this into an opportunity to talk about the possibilities of these feats, so all input is encouraged!

Imagine playing an eldritch knight with sorcery points. You can now cast spells as a bonus action, use of all of your attacks, and don't sacrifice changing your hit die to a d6

I'm looking forward to picking up Metamagic on my wizard! Some cool options with subtle spell and either the duration or distant that work nicely. I've also had a few counterspell battles with various spellcasters in game and being able to subtly cast counterspell or cast it from outside their range for it will be a cool twist ;)

Oh yeah, my life cleric is definitely taking metamagic adept. Twin and distant are too useful for emergency healing to turn down

Honestly... I would make a Soulknife Rogue with Telekinetic. It's perfectly thematic if you ask me. I was originally thinking of doing a Soulknife/Arcane Trickster hybrid Rogue to get their invisible Mage Hand, but I think this feat almost fixes that for me right there. The invisible Mage Hand is perfect for making a psychic character a bit more thematic and the utility of having the telekinetic shove get enemies out of your way if you need to make a clever move is also pretty slick.

Right before they released the UA Chef feat I had made a custom one for my fiance that was almost identical to it. I just handled temp HP differently, other than that it was the same thing.

Ok, hear me out: Custom Mountain Dwarf Wizard (INT+CON @16, DEX @ 14 for Medium Armor) Order of Scribes - and at 4 pick the Crusher Feat. Use Bludgeoning Damage on Attack Roll spells like Scorching Ray and become... the Hammer Mage.

Crusher, piercer, and slasher don't specify you need to use weapons if you read it carefully.

My favorite feat is Gunner! Many of the official adventures have fire arms in them, it’s nice to finally be able to be proficient in them.

So i understand why crusher was changed but the dex boost was nice for my monk

Dex for Crusher was for Monks that use quarterstaves. Wisdom for Chef was from the ability to smell and taste food as a part of perception.

Shnikies the Metamagic Adept has opened up so many opportunities. That is the one that I am most interested in. There are cleric or wizard spells that I would LOVE for them to have a longer duration. Yes you can only do that twice a day but that can come in clutch. Of how about Life Cleric that cast a distant Cure Wounds at like 5th level?

Hi Ted. Since you asked about my favorite of the new feats, I figured I'd try and answer for once. Personally my favorite feats from this is a definite tie. Between the Shadow Touched and the Fey Touched feats. not only does it allow the spellcasting classes a small chance of spells they possibly normally won't have access to on their own, it also allows a bit of roleplay if you have taken them. Such as how your features morph from say human to looking more half-elven for the Fey Touched or your skin gets darker or more ashen than normal for your race if you were Shadow Touched. All in all, I do believe that all of these new feats will be of use to someone somewhere. But these two are my favorites right now. (lol I have a druid with inflict wounds!)

I rolled up a Half-Orc Cavalier crit-fisher with a Hexblade dip. Using a lance with Piercer & getting more crits means that I am celebrating tonight!

I think the custom origin is what I'm most excited for in Tasha's, as it says you're a Humanoid and you get to choose your appearance. So you can technically be any Humanoid that doesn't have racial traits for players atm, so like a Giff with the Gunner feat, or a Xvart warlock with Raxivort as your Patron, or a Fire Newt warlock with Imix as your Patron.

The fighting iniatiate is very good for someone who is playing a class that doesn't get a fighting style and wants to be a dualwielder. For example a variant human barbarian could get the feat at first level and get the dualwilder fighting style and the dualwileder feat at 4 level.

ב"ה A dao ginnie warlock can add bludgeoning damage to it's attacks once per turn, so the crusher feat could even be used with an eldritch blast ^_^

Really liked Crusher on Monks before as a hald feat to play a bit like an open hand.

Being able to choose con is very nice on Crusher, if you already have maxed your strength score as of this book releasing.

Slasher sounds fun, just imagining taking out someone's hamstring lol

I like the idea of the chef feat I may have to get this book

I'm really excited about the poisoner feat

Interesting thing about Telekinetic, strict RAW the range increase does nothing. Mage Hand says "A spectral, floating hand appears at a point you choose *within range* . The hand lasts for the duration or until you dismiss it as an action. *The hand vanishes if it is ever more than 30 feet away from you* or if you cast this spell again. " So RAW the increase the Feat gives will allow you to *cast* it to 31+ feet ("within range" would update if the spell's range is updated), but then would instantly pop for being over 30 feet away as "ever more than 30 feet" is explicit rather than referencing the range even if under base conditions they're the same number. The RAI is obvious as it would be nonsense to publish an option that literally does nothing ever, but that's the RAW

The shadow Touched is really busted Getting invisibility and disguise self

Elves and dwarves both get proficiency in martial weapons.

People are interested in feats but being tied to ability score modifiers make them hard to pick up specially when using point buy or standard array as you need to raise your scores at least 2 times before you can start picking up feats. The time i picked the most feats was as a paladin that rolled 2 18s and a 16 which allowed me to ignore ability scores for the rest of the campaign. A good method would be to give both feats and asi or that a feat replaces one of the 2 increases you get for asi or tie acquiring feats to the character lvl rather than class lvl, hell you could just say the dm can grant feats based on roleplay and achievements or campaign milestones.

Definitely Shadow Touched. Free Invisibility, plus you can learn Inflict Wounds

Dao Patron Gennie warlocks add Bludgeoning damage to any attack role, that includes Eldritch blast, or weapons that deal other damage types. They also have Spike growth on their spell list, to knock enemies into.

You can get the invocation that allows you to cast mage armour at will on an Abjuration wizard now... I feel that I don't need to explain why this is busted

Definitely using Slasher on my Swashbuckler :3

Crusher on a monk would be great.

Currently running an Abberant Mind Sorcerer with the Telekinetic and Telepathic feats, it's the most fun hahaha

The crusher nerf is a bit rough. No dex, plus only lasts until *start* of your next turn rather than end of your next turn - crit on your last attack and you won't benefit at all from that part (your party still will). A lot less useful for a Monk now.

Telekinetic with a control wizard is stupid useful.

Lol you and the dungeon dudes did the same topic on the same day. 😁

I love these feats.

did you notice that Crusher works with Martial Arts? or the other two with Shifter or Tabaxi?

Crusher changes hurts the monk but only very slightly, since they get dex bludgeoning weapons.

so now they have made unique things from some classes available to everyone so I think there should be a channel divinity version and some others to make it fair. I have also found I got screwed over for loving to play healers because 5e doesnt treat then as good as damage dealers

I LOVE the Metamagic Adept

A variant race can choose the unarmed fighting style then go monk. So a level one monk can do 2d8 damage. (Short swords are martial weapons.)

Anyone else noticing the figurine is wearing the sheathes for left hand draw, but is holding the sword how a righty swings a bat? And the hands are smashed up against each other instead of with a space in between? Does anyone here do the same thing?

I preferred the original UA weapon feats: Fell Handed, Blade Master, etc.. Their grouping of weapons by usage made a lot more sense than grouping them by damage type. Crusher, for example, lumps together punches, slings and mauls which are going to be used in completely dissimilar ways. The psionic feats could add some nice flavour to a character. Same for fey touched and shadow touched. Chef has great roleplay potential. Overall the feats strike me as good but not great. Nothing like sharpshooter, great weapon master, or polearm master that define entire fighting styles. I'd like to see some similar feats for spear and shield, and sword (or axe, flail, hammer, pick, etc.) and shield styles.

Eldridge Adept. I like Devil's Sight. I wouldn't mind having an on all my characters

I'm really confused about some of the magic items in TCE They say something requires a saving throw, but doesn't specify which Ability Score

Why doesn't Eldritch Blast taken with either the Spell Sniper, or Magic Initiate feats allow you to take Agonizing Blast from Eldritch Adept?

I did hope i could convince them for an elemtanl touched with similar as fey and shadow for evocation and conjuration but it seems they did not like my suggestion or did not read it.😅 maybe next time

Hey! sorry if I missed it but will you be covering the changes to bladesinger?

Crusher is amazing on a monk, so I'm a little disappointed that it isn't strength or dexterity That being said, my monk already has 20 dex and has 9 str, so it works well

I love feats. He’s nuts

Man, Shadow Touched got nerfed... Sure, Invisibility is cool, but it dissipates on the first thing you do. Darkness lasts a while, and having picked it as a Warlock with access to the Devils Sight invocation it was a real gamechanger for me.

You are just reading the feats could you do a video where you have an opinion on these feats? Cause i think most here already read the feats themselfs

So if an Artillerist Artificer has the Metamagic Adept feat with the Eldritch Cannon could they use their Arcane Turrets with Metamagic?

Sheild training my Palidan will miss you greatly a dream unfulfilled lol

The Crusher feat is not applicable to melee weapons only, there is one bludgeoning ranged weapon, the sling that requires dex as well as the monk using dex for melee.

Poisoner. I wonder if you can take Alchemy Jug infusion, get 1 Basic Poison a day. worth 100g. Can that be the 50g material for a batch of poisons? While you can't break down 100g into two instances of poison. I can't think of a reason why it can't count as material. You're basically concentrating it, or adding alchemical /poison stuff to it

Taht with the eldrich blast cantrip is really stupid. Was this intended?

he do be like *breath*

I was disapointed there were not more feat?

im so taking fey touched with my eldritch knight to take Hex

I like your videos and appreciate your commentary on the topic of DnD 5e. Not really too keen on videos where you pretty much just read out the rules twice. This could have worked better as a top 5 video as you seem to have little to no passion for going through the full list of these. At least that is what I got from the video. Or maybe a video about the feats and could they bring something new to the table. I really hope the video about the spells isn't just them being read out with minimal amount of commentary on them.

Fey Touched is nice, getting misty step known is nice, and you can take either hex, hunters mark, or a number of other great spells. the fact that it also increases an ability as well is huge. really nice for the Spell-Sword play style I enjoy.

Dex would have been nice for monks

Lol, nothing uses dex for bludgeoning. Cries in monk

Kinda dissappinted skill expert replaced all the skill feats, but overall I'm pretty happy with them

Eldritch Adept is my favorite. The Warlock invocations were always the most interesting part of the class to me, and this feat is basically ten feats in one. The limitations are a bit unfortunate, but there are still a lot of really great options. Imagine Scribe Wizard with Eyes of The Rune Keeper, or a Shadow Monk with Devils Sight, a Druid with Beast Speech, an Assassin with Mask of Many Faces, or a Thief with Eldritch Sight. Awesome thematic abilities that work amazingly on other builds, but until now required a full dip into Warlock.