Min/Max Boards

No, I completely get where you're coming from. I had similar opinions before I got bored enough for a week-long binge, and the way the whole thing is structured it's impossible to get into at this point without the dedication to start at the beginning and go through it fairly thoroughly. Especially because you don't get the speculation time people did as it was happening, which means you don't have the people with too much free time pointing tiny details out before they become important, which in turn meant that there was another couple of weeks after I "finished" when I'd read somebody's discussion about something and go "Oh, now it makes sense."

Basically, from a comprehensibility standpoint, Homestuck is constructed terribly. And the fanbase, while not as extreme as Touhou's, isn't much more than an order of magnitude away from that, and the use of common English phrases as key parts of the story (such as troll, like you mentioned) more than compensates for that in terms of making it irritating to non-fans.

The problem is now that I'm part of that base, these are all things that draw me in. It's all so fascinating.

Kuroimaken is either the Last Son of Krypton, or an amazing teller of stories. Either way, I am impressed.

So, I'm aware of the leveling guidelines in the PHB that spell out the order in which the various facets of gaining levels actually take place. The important bit is that you gain feats after you choose your class level. I've realized that my games always have let people choose feats before class levels (allowing you to take a feat at level 6, for instance, and use it to qualify for a PrC) or vice versa (if you need a particular class feature to qualify for a feat), and I'm wondering if that's a houserule or something that has a legitimate ruling anywhere.