Questions tagged [feats]
For questions about interpreting what a feat does or understanding specific feats, which are abilities of a character that provide small bonuses in specific circumstances in Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition and higher, as well as Pathfinder.
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What instruments are wind instruments for purposes of being a Windsinger?
In the game I am running, there are several characters who are bards with the Windsinger feat (Stormwrack p94). The players and I have been debating what qualifies as a wind instrument for purposes ...
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What if your character is both trained in category and group of a weapon, does your character get 2 bonuses because of its proficiency when attacking?
I am making a dwarf barbarian character and as a barbarian he is trained in simple, martial and unarmed attack. I also choose dwarven weapon familiarity as its ancestry feat so now he is also trained ...
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What's the benefit of choosing Cartomancy over Metamagic Adept?
I was looking at Cartomancer as a handy way to use normally tactically unwieldy spells in the heat of a fight. Here's the relevant quotes:
Card Tricks. You learn the Prestidigitation cantrip and can ...
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Possibility to gain magic items as feats, class features, or background
Besides the three "default" ways of getting a magic item by finding, buying, or crafting, are there other ways for a player to gain them? I found the second level artificer feature "...
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Does the Leshy Ancestry Feat Grasping Reach reduce Deadly/Fatal damage dice?
The Leshy ancestry feat Grasping Reach allows the Leshy to use most two handed weapons as Reach weapons, in exchange for reducing the weapons damage die by one step.
Does this reduction apply to the ...
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Can a psion with Metamorphosis and Assume Supernatural Ability create an army of Scythers of Thoon under his command?
Metamorphosis yourself and your psicrystal into Madcrafters of Thoon.
Use Assume Supernatural Ability: Launch Spawn to create as many Scythers of Thoon you want. Use some form of infinite healing to ...
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Is this verstatile fighting style and feat combination well balanced?
(original title: "How to artfully min-max the hell out of this verstatile fighting style and feat?")
So, given all the answers to my previous question, we have come up with what we think ...
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Does Psicrystal Containment prevent a Psicrystal with the Wild Talent feat from psionically focusing itself?
You can spend a full-round action attempting to psionically focus your psicrystal. At any time when you need to expend your psionic focus, you can expend your psicrystal’s psionic focus instead, as ...
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Can battle medicine feat work together with the ward medic feat?
I have made a character that has the Medic dedication and has both the battle medicine and the ward medic feats. See below for description.
Can my character heal multiple allies during combat ...
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Does the Vital Sacrifice feat cause Fireball or Magic Missile to deal additional damage? If so, to whom?
The Vital Sacrifice feat from Tal’dorei Campaign Setting: Reborn says you can expend a blood boon to gain the following benefit:
When you hit with an attack or spell, you deal an additional 2d6 ...
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Does the Remarkable Recovery feat cause you to regain hit points when you stabilize as a result of rolling your third successful death saving throw?
The Remarkable Recovery feat from Tal’dorei Campaign Setting: Reborn says:
When you are successfully stabilized while dying, you regain hit points equal to [...]
It's unclear to me whether this ...
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Do the Friends cantrip and War Caster feat allow a PC to heal another PC as a reaction?
The Friends cantrip turns a creature hostile.
When the spell ends, the creature realizes that you used magic to influence its mood and becomes hostile toward you.
Opportunity attacks can be made ...
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Does Cartomancer's Hidden Ace require you to expend a spell slot?
The new Cartomancer feat from The Book of Many Things has a feature, Hidden Ace, that says "when you finish a long rest, you can choose one spell from your class's spell list and imbue that spell ...
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Does Cartomancer's Hidden Ace allow you to bypass the casting time of a spell with a long casting time?
The new Cartomancer feat from The Book of Many Things has a feature, Hidden Ace, that says "when you finish a long rest, you can choose one spell from your class's spell list and imbue that spell ...
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Does Cartomancer's Hidden Ace allow you to cast a spell you normally couldn't prepare?
The new Cartomancer feat from The Book of Many Things has a feature, Hidden Ace, that says "when you finish a long rest, you can choose one spell from your class's spell list and imbue that spell ...
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Does Cartomancer's Hidden Ace require the imbued spell's components at the time of casting or imbuing?
The new Cartomancer feat from The Book of Many Things states that "You can use a card deck as your spellcasting focus." It also has a feature, Hidden Ace, that says "when you finish a ...
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When using a deck of cards as a spellcasting focus (with Cartomancer), can you flourish a single card (for Hidden Ace) with the hand holding the deck?
The new Cartomancer feat from The Book of Many Things states that "You can use a card deck as your spellcasting focus." It also states that you can "imbue" a spell "into a ...
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Thrown Arms Master and Returning Weapon Infusion
Thrown Arm Master is an interesting feat from the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn, but I'm curious about its interaction with the Returning Weapon infusion. Namely the following part about Thrown ...
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Looking for RAW features or items that allow a PC to modify the outcome of a d4+1 that also isn't damage
I'm looking at Time Stop and wondering if there is any way at all to modify the rolled d4+1. I know that Extend Spell doesn't work because the duration is Instantaneous despite the extra rounds it ...
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Can Greater Metamorphosis or Assume Supernatural Ability be used to acquire supernatural class features??
The ability to change into various forms using Greater Metamorphosis includes the assumption that when there are more than one creature of a particular race, they do NOT count as a unique individuals ...
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Is there any way to use Dexterity for spellcasting or as a named spellcasting ability?
I've always wondered about creating a character who trains to use every spellcasting ability.
The publication of Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants introduces the possibility of using Strength in a ...
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Can a magic item be multi cursed when using the Blood Artisan feat to add new abilities to the item?
The Blood Artisan feat was a 3.0 feat that was upgraded to 3.5 in the Dragon Mag #318 (p39) Oriental Adventures update article.
Benefit: When you make magic arms and armor or wondrous items, you pay ...
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Fire Immunity as a racial feat
I want to give one of my players a racial feat for his custom race (basically a goliath).
The race is heavily influenced by the ifreet/efreet of Final Fantasy - and therfore it seems appropriate to ...
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Nymph's Kiss as a first-level character
Nymph's Kiss is a feat from the Book of Exalted Deeds that states, among other things:
Starting with the level when you take this feat, you gain 1 extra skill point per level.
If I take this feat on ...
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Epic Holy Strike and its applicability to Unarmed Strikes
Under the Unarmed Strike subsection of the Monk class it states:
A monk’s unarmed strike is treated both as a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that ...
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Is the Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting feat not worth it?
The description of the Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting feat says (Complete Adventurer, p. 111):
You are adapted at wielding larger than normal weapons in your off hand.
Prerequisite: Str 13, Two-Weapon ...
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'Shove' feats and 'shoving' weapons
In 2E of Pathfinder - there is a number of fighter feats that allow to automatically shove opponent in certain conditions, icluding Agressive Block and Brutish Shove.
But, at the same time Shove as ...
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Risky Surgery and resistance to slashing damage
Is taking the slashing damage necessary to get the benefit of Risky Surgery? If the target's resistance1 to slashing completely blocks the damage, is it still a critical success?
like a Cosmos Oracle
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Can I combine Assurance and Risky Surgery to consistently get Critical Successes for Treat Wounds?
I am currently playing a Rogue who is the party's 'healer'.
I put that in quotes because he's taken a background of Back Alley Doctor, meaning he has the Risky Surgery feat which says:
Your surgery ...
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When you receive a physical attack and Shield Block it, if it deals multiple types of damage, how is damage reduced?
Shield Block states that:
Trigger While you have your shield raised, you would take damage from a physical attack.
You snap your shield in place to ward off a blow. Your shield prevents you from ...
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Are there any abilities in Dnd 5e where a clause effects the entire ability? [duplicate]
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Okay, was talkin' with a bit of friends about a character idea of a thief rogue with the healer feat due to the fast hands feature:
Fast Hands
Starting at 3rd level, you can ...
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How would Snowcasting and Mastery of Elements interact?
Mastery of Elements
The archmage can alter an arcane spell when cast so that it utilizes a different element from the one it normally uses. This ability can only alter a spell with the acid, cold, ...
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How does Tail Spin increase MAP?
Tail Spin is a Goblin feat:
Attempt a single Athletics check to Trip up to two adjacent creatures.
Trip has the Attack trait, so it increases the MAP. However, it says you make a single check, does ...
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Building a Cleric (Persist and Turn Undead Optimization)
I'm looking to develop the progression for my cleric character. The concept involves a cleric with multiple domains (Sovereign Speaker and an additional 1-level dip into Divine Disciple, Contenplative ...
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Can Lightning Dash affect the same enemy more than once?
In the new Rage of Elements, the 4th level Kineticist feat allows you to move 30ft through creatures. I was wondering if there was any way to trigger the damage on the same creature more than once. ...
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Why do I need the Raging Intimidation feat in order to Demoralize while Raging?
While building a Barbarian, I was reviewing the rules for Rage and Intimidation. The Barbarian has a level 1 class feat called Raging Intimidation that states:
While you are raging, your Demoralize ...
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What's the price of blood?
The class Tainted Sorcerer from Unearthed Arcana (p. 191) has, among other abilities, the class feature "Blood Component":
Blood Component
A tainted sorcerer must use blood in place of any ...
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Enlightened fist and split ray
In one of my recent games a friend brought an enlightened fist (Complete Arcane) to the table: while I'm glad he is showing to like it, I also think to understand where the build is pointing, and ...
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How do I handle the Alert feat and surprise?
I have a situation in a game that I am DMing, and would like thoughts.
4 Players in a room, one of them, Player A, decides to investigate the cloak hanging on a hook for keys/treasure.
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Can the Healer Feat be used through an Imp familiar with a healer's kit?
While familiars have been commonly used to deliver potions of healing because "your familiar acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands" and "can take other actions as ...
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Does the Draconic Aura feat improve by character level or class level?
Let's say you're a silverbrown human and have the draconic aura feat. Normally you'd be stuck with a +1 aura, but since you have the dragonblood subtype, the feat states that:
If you are of the ...
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Should I Remove the +1 ASI from fey and shadow touched and give them one more use per spell
I think that for what they give, fey and shadow touched seem a lot better than the +1 to an ability score you sacrifice for them, but not quite good enough to justify sacrificing a +2, do you think ...
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When does the bonus damage of Booming Blade trigger when combined with Warcaster?
Picture the following scenario: I have an enemy in melee range who decides to move away without Disengaging, triggering an Opportunity Attack. However, I have the Warcaster feat:
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With the Chef feat, can I cook more treats if I spend more hours cooking?
The Chef feat says:
With one hour of work or when you finish a long rest, you can cook a number of treats equal to your proficiency bonus. These special treats last 8 hours after being made. A ...
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Is there a way to keep the versatile bonus while mounted, like a feat or anything?
I have a player who wants to wield a Warhammer in one hand while mounted, and is trying to keep the d10 for dice? Is there a feat or bonus that does it? If not would it be a problem balance wise if I ...
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Can a Swashbuckler use Confident Finisher in Crane Stance?
In Crane Stance you can only use Crane Wing:
but the only Strikes you can make are crane wing attacks. These deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage; are in the brawling group; and have the agile, finesse, ...
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Is there a limit to how many metamagic feats can be put on a spell if you are using the spell point system?
In my current campaign I'm playing a Kobold sorcerer using the spell point system and I have recently gained a few metamagic feats and this question popped into my head.
When using spell points is ...
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Are the save-boosting feats really worth it?
I see in some mix/max guides saying that "since your warrior will have a poor Will save, take Iron Will at this level to boost it up a little".
But I feel the Will save will be in the trash ...
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Does the Alert feature allow a character to automatically detect pickpockets?
The Alert feature states the following :
Always on the lookout for danger, you gain the following benefits:
You can't be surprised while you are conscious.
You gain a +5 bonus to initiative.
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How do Supernatural Transformation and Meta-Spell-Like-Abilities Feat work together?
Let's say a Pit Fiend turn its own spell-like ability, fireball, into a supernatural ability with the feat "Supernatural Transformation".
And before doing so, he has also taken Quicken Spell-...
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