[RPG] a game feature

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There is a passage in the DMG on p. 252 that talks about game features of the same name not stacking (emphasis mine):

Different game features can affect a target at the same time. But when two or more game features have the same name, only the effects of one of them – the most potent one – apply while the durations of the effects overlap. (…) Game features include spells, class features, feats, racial traits, monster abilities, and magic items.

This list says game features "include" the items listed, but that does not mean this list is exhaustive. For example, it does not list equipment, nor does it list actions such as opportunity attacks, which are referred to in the Sage Advice Compendium as a game feature.

So, what would count as a game feature?

Best Answer

Anything and everything

"Game feature" is not defined as a game term. In plain English I don't think is ever possible that anything that causes a game effect is not a feature of the game.

It is also pretty evident that this is also the RAI of that passage at least to the point that I would scold any player at my table that tries to argue otherwise for wasting my time.

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