Feats

The Chords of Chaos uses three books for feats: The Player's Handbook, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. Some of the feats are off-limits, however. Below is a list of which feats we do and do not use. Note: I don't mention the ones that have prerequisites for Artificer or Races not currently in the game.

Allowed Feats

• Actor (PHB)
• Alert (PHB)
• Athlete (PHB)
• Charger (PHB)
• Crusher (TCE)
• Defensive Duelist (PHB)
• Drow High Magic (XGE)
• Dual Wielder (PHB)
• Dungeon Delver (PHB)
• Durable (PHB)
• Eldritch Adept (TCE)
• Elemental Adept (PHB)
• Fey Touched (TCE)
• Fighting Initiate (TCE)
• Grappler (PHB)
• Great Weapon Master (PHB)
• Healer (PHB)
• Heavily Armored (PHB)
• Heavy Armor Master (PHB)
• Inspiring Leader (PHB)
• Keen Mind (PHB)
• Lightly Armored (PHB)
• Linguist (PHB)
• Mage Slayer (PHB)
• Magic Initiate (PHB)
• Martial Adept (PHB)
• Medium Armor Master (PHB)
• Metamagic Adept (TCE)
• Mobile (PHB)
• Moderately Armored (PHB)
• Observant (PHB)
• Orcish Fury (XGE)
• Piercer (TCE)
• Poisoner (TCE)
• Polearm Master (PHB)
• Prodigy (XGE)
• Resilient (PHB)
• Savage Attacker (PHB)
• Sentinel (PHB)
• Shadow Touched (TCE)
• Sharpshooter (PHB)
• Shield Master (PHB)
• Skill Expert (TCE)
• Skilled (PHB)
• Skulker (PHB)
• Slasher (TCE)
• Spell Sniper (PHB)
• Squat Nimbleness (XGE)
• Tavern Brawler (PHB)
• Tough (PHB)
• Warcaster (PHB)
• Weapon Master (PHB)
• Wood Elf Magic (XGE)

Banned Feats

The below feats are not allowed during the Stone Age of the campaign. I made a note to briefly explain why.

• Crossbow Expert (PHB): No crossbows.
• Dwarven Fortitude (XGE): We tend to only get in one combat per session, and I don't think we've ever taken a short rest. This basically gives Dwarves nearly unlimited healing for free, which feels unbalanced for our campaign.
• Elven Accuracy (XGE): Because we get Inspiration so often, an Elf with this would probably never miss anymore, which feels unbalanced for our campaign.
• Fey Teleportation (XGE): No Sylvan, and Fey Touched is basically the same feat, but better.
• Gunner (TCE): No guns.
• Lucky (PHB): This feat on top of all the Inspiration we get means you'd never fail a check again.
• Mounted Combatant (PHB): No mounts.

Reworked Feats

The below feats can be taken, but have been modified in one way or another.

• Chef (TCE): Works as normal, except the "Treats" you cook must be eaten prior to combat starting. This isn't Skyrim, you can't pause the game to chomp on some bread mid-combat.
• Ritual Caster (PHB): Requires the ability to Read/Write in Dwarven. Must be done on a Stone Tablet. The Stone Tablet must be 1 pound per level of the spell, and requires a crystal worth 50 gp per level of the spell as well.
• Telekinetic (TCE): Must be a Spellcaster to take this feat, and it is assumed you are doing this with magic, not some innate ability.
• Telepathic (TCE): Must be a Spellcaster to take this feat, and it is assumed you are doing this with magic, not some innate ability.