Ranking EVERY Feat in D&D 5e: Tasha's Cauldron of Everything 

Honestly, Chef is pretty close to being a great Feat. If treats simply granted "1d6+Prof" Temp HP it'd feel way better taking even though that isn't a huge increase.

If playing survival campaign, it is S tier. But those are rare

@@Twisttheawesome The feat says that you gain a set of treats at the end of a long rest OR after an hour of work, so with little effort you can create more treats throughout the day and give out double or triple the amount of temp HP then just one set. Xanathar's also lets you use the cooking utensils to create meals during a short rest to give an additional +1 HP per Hit Dice spend for anyone that eats one of your meals. When combines with this feat, means that you're giving out at least 1d8+1 HP to anyone who eats one of your meals and spent a Hit Dice during a short rest

The only thing I've ever been able to think was that the writing team got drunk scrambling to finish the Cleric section of Tasha's right before the deadline. They took the unplayable Twilight UA Cleric--which understandably was throwing some wild concepts at the wall for playtesting--and effectively changed a couple nominal things to make it look like they edited the subclass meaningfully. And don't even get me started on the Peace Domain. That makes Shield and Wall of Force seem like reasonable and balanced spells. 😂

Can't argue, it's pretty sweet (and savoury)

2 sorcery points is not a lot but quickened spell once a day or subtle twice a day plus the ability to switch them around a bit every API. It is so clutch queen you need it.

Yeah, metamagic adept is basically a 3 level sorcerer dip for casters. Sorcerers are just a worse wizard prior to that point. It's like if you didn't have rage or sneak attack until level 3, you essentially would have been a worse fighter over those levels

@@chrislieu6757 I'm not a fan of quickened spell for metamagic adept (I think it's a great option for sorcerers, though) because the cost is high for such a limited metamagic pool... but Subtle Spell and Extended spell at high lvls are very useful. Wasting high lvl spell slots is a terrible feeling and subtle spell is the most guaranteed way to prevent that.

@@elliotbryant3459 I disagree... Metamagic adept still doesn't open most of the better uses of metamagic - or open those options, but just once while sorcerers could do it multiple times. Also: sorcerers have a "free feat" being the only full casters proficients in con saves. They also have access to better options to multiclass, and have more roles they can play in a party. They should have a worse spell selection than wizards, because than can cast those spells more efficiently. The PHB sorcerer was too weak, but Tasha's sorcerers correction was overtuned IMO. I wouldn't say sorcerers are straight up mechanically better than wizards, but they're very close and they're much more flexible.

@@tmzFRM I prefer distant and subtle myself. Could be a case of the encounters I'm in being unorthodox, or tending towards staying far out of the mid-ranges of combat, but being able to drop down a spell on someone despite them being too far, or counterspell an enemy who's out of range, casting a 120ft range or even targetting someone else (and even ensuring I don't get counterspelled unless they have distant too!) is just too nice for me to pass up. That, and being able to distant spell an already massively long ranged spell like Dimension Door has been exceedingly useful.

Yeah, one time I was playing a cannibal, so of course I was going to take Chef.

After the Delicious in Dungeon series I bet many will use it for a build as well.

I like the existence of flavorful feats. Sometimes a feat (or background, or class feature) doesn't need to be optimal to be perfect for your character.

Took Chef on my barb as part of his back story. I think for the RP feats, it kinda behoves the DM to lean into them...like if I don't have the ability to find or make some kinda magical spatula weapon, I will be miffed lol.

If you were a galley chef then I'd say you should suck at cooking but be an expert knife fighter.

Absolutely agree here. Getting d8 instead of d6 weapons was worth 10 points on Dual Wielder. Gunner upgrades what would have been a longbow user with a d8 to a musket user with a d12. A heavy crossbow user would be d10 to d12, but most builds that have a reason to use heavy crossbows either already have firearms (Artificers with Returning Shot) or would benefit more from using a hand crossbow (anything with CBE and a free bonus action).

It might be undervalued because guns/ black powder aren't incorporated/ allowed into most campaigns.

Yeah, the real limitation of Metamagic Adept is that it only gives you 2 sorcery points. The 2 metamagic options just give you different options in how you use those 2 points. In other words if metamagic only gave you one option, the feat wouldn't be half as strong, but if eldritch adept gave you 2, it would be (almost) twice as strong.

​@@benl2140Agreed. I think the best to way to balance Eldritch Adept is giving a +1 to on mental score of your choice.

@@Zecteiro I honestly think it could be good enough if it just let you use your character level as your warlock level for prerequisites, and also let you swap out your invocation on level-up.

Same with Devil's Sight, or Eldritch Sight. Or Mask of Many Faces, lots of useful invocations

And if playing with playtest warlock the pact or the blade invocation lack any prerequisite! Very character defining on a paladin...

@@patrickbodiou3357 I would guess that most DM's wouldn't be playing with UA but, even a non Warlock but still Spellcaster like Sorcerer or Paladin, can get some major game changing Invocation. My Sorcerer could pick up MoMF and they suddenly can become an infiltrator or scout kind of player. Just Cantrip spamability. Or a Paladin getting Eldritch Sight to just cast Detect Magic constantly to help the party avoid magical traps. Any Caster or Half Caster can benefit in some way, which those make up more than half of the available classes

Eyes of the Rune Keeper and Eldritch Sight can also be very powerful. Having a character that just always senses all magic, or one that can read anything regardless of language or legibility, can easily trivialise some campaigns.

agreed, eldritch adept is severely underrated in this. devils sight alone makes this 35 for me, plus all the other options you can potentially get.

Right there with you. Abjuration Wiz/Armor of Shadows, Devil's Sight/Darkness, Illusionist/Misty Visions, Fiendish Vigor & any low level tank, Eldritch Sight/Any fun table Hell, Treantmonk gave War Caster 30 points for advantage on Concentration saves alone - which you can get from Eldritch Mind. He dramatically underrated this one.

Wouldn't actual changeling be better than Custom Lineage -> Eldritch Adept: Mask of Many Faces?

I think Mask of Many Faces is even better than changeling because it lets you change what you're wearing and holding. It also lets you disguise as non-humanoids such as undead and demons. Combine with kenku to mimic the sounds of those creatures for maximum effect.

@@dylanboczar999 Changeling doesn't change your clothing or anything [possibly not even tattoos], just your physical form

It's a great feat for shadow monk only if DM allows it since the feat has the prerequisite of spellcasting and unless multi-classed then unfortunately it doesn't work for monk unless you have a DM who allows it

Repeated three times. Three whole class levels. Can't wait to get my hands on the 2024 PHB instead!

Yikes, I never noticed that, but yeah that hurts!

Craziest part is that even Half-Orcs get that feature at level 1. That's only ONE of their traits btw.

​@@someusername9591yeah this says more about how little barbarians get at level 9 than about the strength of the tasha's feat, seeing as a phb race gets the same feature

Tbf, you also generally get a bunch of hit points for your level-up but yeah, brutal critical is shit.

Indeed. It makes it a lot better.

Especially if you're a forgetful player. Every time we talk to an important NPC I regret that I didn't think of casting Detect Thoughts before approaching them, since casting it in the middle of a conversation would be too obvious.

The fact that it doesn’t limit which stat you can take makes it a bit better.

Correct.

Eldritch Adept (for the Eldritch Mind invocation) is my top priority feat on any mage for who the two other traits of War Caster is redundant due to not carrying a shield and avoiding melee combat (i.e., having a hand free for somatic components and not being in a position to make opportunity attacks). My DM is very fond of the following paragraph (PHB, p. 204): "The GM might also decide that certain environmental phenomena, such as a wave crashing over you while you’re on a storm-tossed ship, require you to succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell." Eldritch Mind will remain my favorite feat though you put it in F-tier and War Caster in S-tier. The 2024 PHB might alleviate this so-called mage tax. It seems War Caster will be a half-feat and the Eldritch Mind invocation could be available via a 1-level dip in Warlock.

While Eldritch Adept doesn't give you access to all the invocations. Some of the ones available are more powerful than other feats that are rated above it. Definitely was a little lazy on ranking this one by not taking a hard look at the options available.

at will silent image can be the core of an entire character build, if you talk to your DM about how you'll run illusions

Hard agree, it is a wierd feat because it is good in a niche. Him taking fighting initiate but thinking primarily of archers, then not thinking of specific builds for eldritch adept (which core to some builds) feels a bit inconsistent

Agreed, and the shear versatility of the invocations should be worth some extra points - its a feat that lets you get features better than in many other feats, and not be locked into that one feature forever. And being able to choose which spell-casting ability should be worth a bump too, as it opens up that highly versatile feat's supplied spell options to the druid etc - they may well want Silent image to round out their skillset right now, but definitely don't want it on their wrong score... Plus even if you are getting levels in warlock an extra invocation is often of outsized effectiveness as you don't actually get to choose very many until you have many levels of warlock, I'd say once you hit 4 maybe 5 invocations you have probably got all the ones you could consider 'required' for whatever build you are doing and the rest you may pick up are just are nice to have. But that is 7+ levels of warlock, or you go to level 4 or level 6 and take the feat you can spend levels in other classes for all that lovely frontloaded goodness in the lower levels...

Fair, I didn't consider that

Lightly Armored mostly gets its points from increasing an ability score (probably Dex), while Eldritch Adept doesn't give anything beside the Eldritch Invocation.

An elf with trance can make 45 Temp HP worth of trail mix every long rest at level 5. Not sure it’s automatically stronger than telekinetic or fey-touched, but Chef can be weirdly good

Wow, I've overlooked that optional hour of work. Which I'd say definitely isn't light or non-strenuous activity for a Short/Long rest, but not everyone needs to short rest while the party is spending an hour to. Anytime there's just extra downtime before/after adventuring allows for many more sets of treats. The Cooking Utensils I feel are usually overlooked too. While anyone can grab this proficiency through Background, it does improve short rest Hit Die recovery further. You and 5 others can get +1hp per Hit Die spent. Just need your tools and the food in supply.

@@tatewalquist7523 I'm not saying it's as good or better then telekinetic or fey-touched, but sense you can easily repeat the process throughout the day to easily double or triple the temp HP and the extra benefits from Xanathar's (that he might not have included in the analysis), it can inch up a little bit higher.

@@Guyoverthere07 I know that I was pushing it a little with the idea of using it during a long or short rest, but you got the idea that I was going for. With little effort, you can easily double or triple the temp HP you can give out. I thought about mentioning the extra benefits you gain from Xanathar's, but I wasn't sure if he wasn't considering Xanathar's because it's kind of optional, but that definitely raises every tool proficiency.

I don't disagree that some invocations are better than he's giving them credit for, but you missed that the Archery fighting style gives +2 to to-hit, not damage, and that's really big.

Well 5e is designed around combat

If you are able to avoid a fight or get some other benefit with a good use of silent image or disguise self, it feels super neat. But I find it hard to call them build defining as there will also be plenty of situations where these will not help you at all. That is why I agree with the score. I have taken eldritch adept before for disguise self at will, but that was for the fun of it. For a hard combat campaign, I would never take it. Now you are going to say I value stuff towards combat and that is correct. If I die or underperform in the first combat of a hard combat campaign, silent image or disguise self (being able to help me out of some situations, but being useless in others) is not doing me any good. At the end of the day this is an optimisation channel. You win at dnd because of the fun you have, but you lose when your character dies. Thats how things are weighted from my point of view.

Yep. It's not a top tier feat, sure, but placing it in F... illusionist (and some abjurers) would not approve this X)

An interesting limitation of Eldritch Adept is that it requires you to have the spellcasting or pact magic features. It can't be taken by any Barbarian, Fighter, Monk, or Rogue, except for Eldritch Knights, Arcane Tricksters, or multiclassers. I think this is the biggest limitation of the feat. To those martial classes, this feat would be massively valuable. However, most other spellcasters either already have access to what Eldritch Adept offers, or have better options. I think the only reason I would take this is to add Devil's Sight onto a character, which is super situational unless your party uses Darkness or related spells much more often than usual. The only uses for this feat are super situational utiliity options or allowing the Warlock to gain more invocations (most low-level Warlocks will want this, and most high-level Warlocks will regret taking it, which isn't great). I think Treantmonk may have been overly generous here

Elf race is another great combo, as RAW you can trance for 4 hours and then make trail mix for the next 4 hours during a long rest. At level 5, you’ve got 45 temp HP to distribute amongst the party, which is really quite comparable to Inspiring Leader, especially as a half-feat.

@@tatewalquist7523 Reborn coffeelock.

They were originally going to be one video, which is why the color is the same.

Not sure if you noticed but the tiles for Xanathar’s and Tasha’s have different coloured boarders. Maybe that helps.

Something people forget about Eldritch adept and Eldritch Invocations is they have character level requirements, not warlock level requirements. The options really open up at higher levels.

@@endtimer1 thats not true. All invocationswith levle requirements have Warlock level requirements. There is Sage Advice to clarify that too.

@@Apfeljunge666 Ascendant Step Prerequisite: 9th level Far Scribe Prerequisite: 5th-level warlock, Pact of the Tome feature Chains of Carceri Prerequisite: 15th level, Pact of the Chain feature I checked the Sage Advice compendium and didn't find such ruling. The quoted text above is from DnD beyond. Note the different wording for the pre reqs. Only Far Scribe specifically calls out Warlock levels.

@@endtimer1 "A level prerequisite refers to your level in this class." it wasnt in the SAC, this is in the actual rules text preface for all Invocations

​@@endtimer1 If you look again at the feat, it says for any invocation with pre-requisites that "you must be a warlock who meets the requurements." It's an easy mistake to make, but those high level invocations aren't supposed to be available from the feat.

That's a very.....flexible...reading of the feat! But I've gotta admit the text does seem to leave that possibility open....and it does make me smile when I imagine how one could cook food with a buring torch while on the march.

And if you use the rules for Xanathar's about Cooking Utensils, each one of those dice heals an extra HP. 3 free HP when you rest at low level is like basically another HD as well (since you have to spend 1HD to get the extra 2HD).

Vulnerabilities are actually really uncommon in this edition. For damage types [excluding bludgeoning, piercing and slashing due to limit spell coverage] there are only 80 monsters [this number includes the republications] with vulnerability on d&d beyond, and for my money, the majority of those vulnerabilities are probably radiant. And many times a creature resistant or immune to fire damage is also resistant to the other elements as well. Also, I wouldn't describe an element focused concept as gimmicky. It's iconic of many characters from fiction.

Damage vulnerabilities were almost entirely eliminated from 5e, only selected creatures have them and half the time it’s not true vulnerability but simply having some of their features suppressed while under one damage type. So really the only real strategy in 5e is to hit harder or more times.

Same. I kinda struggled with this too. But for games I run, unless they're first time players, I let them get both asi and feat until they max out their primary ability score and then it's either/or. Part of the reason is my games tend to stay in the lower levels and it really opens up their choices. It's also just fun, and something I'd want as a player. I also let all martials power attack without feats

Metamagic is actually much stronger on a sorcerer. It is also much stronger early in gaining more SP for quicken spell and twin spell. 4 metamagic options early is wonderful. Subtle spell and careful spell are excellent. Hypnotic pattern careful spell is so very very encounter ending.

@@curtisridenour I agree, I just valued Telekinetic higher as a Half-Feat, since it gave me the opportunity to round out my Charisma, and gave me something else to do with my Bonus Action. 😊

Can't really agree with that 'Martial are so reliant on' comment - All things like Polearm master are is an easy/obvious way to make a good build, very far from the only way. Sure with how they are scored here many of these easy feats are high scorers into the S tier, but you really don't need them. Also more than a few of the 'martial feats' are great for some spellslingers too - rounding out their abilities or letting them pull some great interactions. You can be very capable as a martial class in battle without - the core class mechanics for most martial have some great and powerful features you can really make shine with a bit of multiclassing, the right tactics and/or some of the lower rated feats here. All looking for something that has a synergy or fills in the weakspots of the class to create a good build of the type you want. So many of the lower rated feats here are really great for martial as they bring that little bit of magic in combat, let you really make use of a tactic (Athlete for instance is really good (I'd argue it should be A tier) - go prone and all the ranged attacks probably miss, plus more mobility to get to the better spots tactically on the map) or let you spend your downtime ritually casting yourself...

@@foldionepapyrus3441 Make a high tier dual wielder, or a shield martial without a spear/quarterstaff. And if you're forced to not be a martial to be a better martial... then something is plain wrong.

@@Thrashlock You really are never forced to be 'not a martial' you have so many great choices that stick to being very martial. Or you can choose to diversify a bit with the feats. And both directions have more than one very valid and capable path.

@@foldionepapyrus3441 I agree that you *can* make a 'valid and capable martial' without S-tier feats, but it just comes with falling behind in combat optimization (the only thing pure martials even get to participate in), and that sucks. Like I mentioned, two very fashionable melee archetypes (sword n board and dual wielders) are just not participating at the top of martials, and being a middle of the road martial more often than not will feel awful to play next to even a half-caster who did take those feats. If you pick a different weapon set up you need to come up with good reasons *not* to take at least one of the compatible S-tier feats. And most of the solutions to making a martial like that better... is making them more like a caster through feats and multiclassing. I find that sad. Many characters concepts just don't get better than 'valid and capable', and the gap between them and 'hiGhLy oPtiMiZed' builds has been nothing but fuel for toxic discourse.

@@Thrashlock Those default "'hiGhLy oPtiMiZed' builds" tend to be complete and absolute trash at something, there is usually a cost to it. Which means those builds generally only work once, or even only on paper. So then you are the most unoptimised build possible when the situation ever stops you pulling off whatever the 'optimal' move. And you really don't have to make a martial more caster like to be really effective, but in a high magic setting really strictly wanting to be magic free is a bit odd. If you insist on no magic at all you are much more likely to take the martial S tier feats, which is why they are there... However as a large part of the only martial classes effectiveness in game comes from their endurance I'd argue its still not actually required. Though if you insist you don't want to splash any magic at all you are running out of options once you get your important ability scores maxed out and yet another ASI/feat to choose... Maybe you should be a cunning killing linguist, with the linguist feat.. Even pure Monk for instance can do a great deal of powerful, cool and useful stuff in combat. Yet they are usually regarded as the weakest of the martial - their big superpower is very much mobility and its a potent one if you have the tactical gameplay skills to make good use of it. A monk with a ranged attack option and/or mobile is going to reliably hit every single turn probably even against flying enemy with their fists - as they can't actually stay far enough away and actually ever hit a PC at all. All whiled quite likely never taking a hit in return... Also in the process the monk can improve the effectiveness of the rest of the team, at least if your play well together. Baiting NPC to group/line up for the lighting bolt, maybe pulling off a stunning stike when it matters, etc. You don't get any massive easily calculated big damage numbers on a round to make you look really great on paper, but that has no actual bearing on how well they handle in game, or the damage output in reality. And the same sort of thing is true of any of the more pure martial options, they just keep on trucking doing whatever they are good at all day. Where the wizard with Shield and misty step might be able to take positional risks to do lots of flashy damage in the first combat of a day and survive. Which is great fun to play, and looks really impressive. However once they run out of those spell slots they are just going to become a squashy cantrip machine entirely reliant on the less flashy party members...

Chris only values cantrips slightly higher than a ribbon, despite they can define a play style, e.g., a Cleric with Booming Blade or Thorn Whip to trigger Spirit Guardians; or a Ranger with Shillelagh to focus on Wisdom (combined with the Dueling or Defense fighting style). Not being able to cast the MI spell again with your own spell slots just feels super bad though, so I would award more points to the cantrips than the 1st-level spell.

Yeah, the artificer spell list is nothing to write home about especially for repeat castings. Absorb Elements for a cleric or paladin, Sanctuary or Cure Wounds for a wizard, longstrider or some other spell you could already access for everyone else?

@@SortKaffe I mean it is bad that you "cant" cast it again with your own slots, but honestly is there a DM that wouldnt allow that? That would be crazy. I picked Magic initiate as a human paladin to have guidance, light and one free casting of bless(since I'm playing more of a support paladin because I don't want to overshadow my party) and my dm said that's how most dms do with magic initiate...I did the same when ran a campaign last year

Crusher is super neat if your party is clever with area effects that inflict damage upon entering each turn (like Spirit Guardians). I want to find room for that or Telekinetic on any build, but I try not to be too repetitive

@@SortKaffe Yeah, I'm aware of some of the tech. I still remember the minotaur build Chris made with it. Even trying to run a Sling wielding Swarmkeeper Ranger with the Spike Growth spell in a game. Unfortunatelly not the best tactic considering it's PVP, and most of the matches have been against casters.

For Chain there are no must haves but Investment of the Chain Master is quite useful

@@User-he6zd I think voice of the chain master is pretty much a must have. If the DM is playing familiars correctly and in general I think this is true for most tables having plane of existence connection on an imp is much much stronger for scouting and handling certain obstacles than 100 feet on say an owl or even 100 feet on an imp. I think this is where the real power of the pact comes in. Investment is nice too for early level damage boost, and the sprite poison save, but it really drops off towards the back of tier 2. Granted the strength of voice is a bit table dependent, and the strength of investment will be really consistent, but the same can be said of book of ancient secrets which is just straight up a better ritual caster feat which sits in A tier here.

True, but the poison is only good for 1 minute

The only character I took that feat on was a Geralt knockoff applying it to melee weapons.

Sorry but the majority of poisons lose their effectiveness after 1 minute so applying it outside of combat is more likely to just end up with you wasting your poison.

@@AtelierGod"the majority of poisons lose their effectiveness after 1 minute" The only poison that loses its effectiveness after a minute is the one created by the poisoner feat. The rest of the poisons found in the DMG do not expire: "Injury poison can be applied to weapons, ammunition, trap components, and other objects that deal piercing or slashing damage and remains potent until delivered through a wound or washed off."

It can be argued they have less versatile*/impactful passive and crit effects [* though I'm slightly dubious of how valuable Slasher's reducing an enemies speed really is]

​@@elliotbryant3459speed slow has been helpful at least to me, especially if you also have a means of negating AoO, or if you're trying to be a wall (per turn so slows on AoO as well). Heck, a blade singer using slasher and ray of frost could slow up to 30ft of movement speed, stacking or splitting as needed at no resources. Then the crit boost is helpful because it could negate some damage you may take.

Yeah, that's a misinterpretation, but the DM makes the rules. From the RAW, If the invocation has a prerequisite of *any kind* , you can choose that invocation *only if you’re a warlock* who meets the prerequisite. Warlock level wasn't written in the invocations prerequisite text because it would have been unnecessary at the time of publication since they were only available to warlocks at the time. The alternative interpretation of prerequisite would allow a [whatever class] of level 15 to take level a 15 prerequisite invocations, which a multiclassed warlock with that character level can't even do. Also casting the polymorph in this way requires "using a warlock spell slot"

an arti-wizard could use any of their infusions [such as worn mindsharpener armor or an enhanced armor shield] as a focus for the artificer spells, doesn't need take this as a feat tax to function

@@elliotbryant3459 Except that Artificers get infusions at 2nd level, and because artificer spell levels round up when multiclassed, the wizard really prefers only 1 level in artificer

@@TeaRanosaur That's fair, I took that for granted

Its funny how the designers thought ASIs are over powered compared to almost all feats and made some half feats to compensate. Sure, some feats suck, but some are pretty good despite the lack of ASI boost. Maybe give some feats more features? Tough and Durable (even without the +1 Con) wouldn't be bad for example.

@@slydoorkeeper4783 The designers wanted to have ASIs being the default and feats optional. They ended up not being basically not optional in actual play, particularly for a number of builds. I think having feats and have some being half feats would have been good. It also would have helped alleviate the "race to 20" for stat bumps (say +1 to two stats of choice) to happen at particular levels, e.g., 4, 8, 12, 16, and separate the ASI from feats entirely. Or just get rid of half feats entirely and have feats not be quite as cool but give some nifty feature. Some feats really should just be class features, e.g., the ability to power attack for martials, with power attacking being indexed to the die of the weapon or to tier. If every two handed weapon type basically has to take GWM, it's a tax, not an option.

@@crimfan I'm aware, same thing with multiclassing, that was optional too. Overall, I like how 3.x/pf1e did it. You get feats at every odd level (granted they didn't provide as much as 5e typically has them) and ASI are every 4 levels (granted only a +1 to one instead of a +1 to two or +2 to one). Both of these are tied to character level as well, not a class feature (really hate that design choice, same with extra attack).

Taking Metamagic Adept for Quickened Spell is a complete waste. You want to pick up Subtle, Extended, or Empowered as they all cost one so you get 2 casts per day. It is of course a godsend for Sorcerers as you can double your known Metamagics for most campaigns.

Yeah, but they stack so you can have a lot of them. 18 even at level 1, since you get a stack just after a long rest. I wouldn't mind 36 temp HP to spread around at first level. Granted it is 2hp at a time, but when you are a wizard or something with 8hp it matters. Make the treat a ring pop, so you don't need a free hand to eat them. Heck, feed one to your familiar so that it has temp HP now. And it scales up to 324 temp HP at level 17 (yes, 6hp at a time, but you have SO MUCH CANDY). Feed one to every creature that you summon. Heck, have a familiar shove it into someone's mouth if they already use their bonus action. Capping at 8 hours makes sense when you look at it that way. Plus the bonus healing on short rest stacks with Song of Rest, so if you are in a game where such things matters it is extra nice. But in most games it does not matter.

@@RandomToon1you cannot stack temporary hit points, whenever you gain a new set of temporary hit points the old ones are overwritten.

​@@AtelierGod I never said you could - I said you could stack having the TREATS. Hence, you only get 2HP at a time per person, but the POOL is up to 36 points, and each person can refresh 2 temp HP a round.

It still means that you can spend one hour of work right before a long rest, and then eat last night's treats first thing in the morning and set out for adventure with both temporary HP and the freshly-made treats you cooked up at the end of the long rest. If they lasted longer, you could really stack up on an endless supply of them whenever you have a few hours of down time.

I mean, most food is definitely less delicious 8 hours after it was cooked, for a thematic/'flavor' justification for the mechanic anyway.

Chris' argument is that it's dull if S-tier spells are must-picks (in order to do decent damage as a martial character) while many F-tier feats don't deliver on the fantasy they promise. Playing at a table with a good mix of optimizers and casual players, I hope that the new PHB lands every class, subclass, species, and feat at around A-tier, such that we can all make build choices based on flavor without worrying about a great disparity in power level.