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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When precisely can you spend a Luck Point?
The Lucky Origin Feat indicates you can occasionally give yourself advantage and impose disadvantage.
Advantage. When you roll a d20 for a D20 Test, you can spend 1 Luck Point to give yourself ...
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Rules on Feats When Creating Custom Backgrounds with Player's Handbook (2024)
In the 5e Player's Handbook (first printed in 2014), the text provides the option of "Customizing a Background" on page 125 but makes no reference to Feats.
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Boon of combat prowess when you can only attack once
If I'm playing as a life cleric, and I get the feat "Boon of Combat Prowess", does that basically mean "if you miss, actually no you don't", assuming I don't use a bonus action or ...
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Does the opportunity attack from Polearm Master also proc the speed of 0 from Cavalier's Hold the Line?
I wondered how this feat and class ability synergized.
Polearm Master says:
While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, quarterstaff, or
spear, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from ...
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Would a feat allowing thrown weapons to be counted as melee be overpowered?
I am considering adding the following feat:
Thrown Weapon Commander
You have honed your skill with thrown weapons to the point that your weapons acts like a natural extension of your arm granting you ...
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Between the half-orc's Savage Attacks trait and the Elven Accuracy racial feat, which is better?
In a mathematical comparison of the Half-Orc Savage Attacks trait and the Elf/Half-Elf feat Elven Accuracy (XGtE, p. 74), which one increases average damage more at level 10 for a Fighter-Champion 5 / ...
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Which origin feat matches with each character background in the 2024 PHB?
There are 16 character backgrounds in the 2024 PHB and each corresponds with one of 10 origin feats.
Which feat matches up with which background?
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Do Cat Fall and Gliding Membranes work together?
Cat Fall:
Treat falls as 10 feet shorter
Gliding Membranes:
Treat falls as 25 feet shorter
When I have both, do I treat falls 35 feet shorter?
They are not bonuses, so should work together, but I ...
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Does the kapania dancers' elasticity arcana allowthe bladed scarf to quality for the tangled limbs feat?
I just want to double check because everything I'm looking at as well as prior knowledge is pointing to yes, but it never hurts to double check ya know?
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When is Split Shot beneficial?
Split Shot seems very weak, if I spend a class feat and an action, I expect a big benefit.
You fragment a ranged spell into a pair of smaller shots. If your next action is to Cast a Spell without a ...
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Can you combine Polearm Master with War Caster to cast Booming Blade as enemies approach?
The Polearm Master feat (PHB, p. 168) says:
While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.
The ...
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How does the Crusher feat's push interact with opportunity attacks?
The second benefit of the Crusher feat says (TCoE, p. 79):
Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an attack that deals bludgeoning damage, you can move it 5 feet to an unoccupied space, provided ...
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Does Bravery feat makes you immune to Frightened 1?
The last part of Bravery feat description is this:
In addition, anytime you gain the frightened condition, reduce its value by 1.
Does this mean that Frightened 1 gets reduced to 0, thus rendering ...
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How to get Shield Block at level 1 on a non-human Kineticist?
I want to create an Air Kineticist in Society, with Bastion Dedication on level 2,to have a meaningful way of spending my reaction.
For Bastion however, you need Shield Block, and I can only see 2 ...
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Wording clarification for remastered powerful shove feat
The remastered rules text for Powerful Shove reads as follows (emphasis mine)
You can push larger foes around with your attack. You can use Aggressive Block or Brutish Shove against a creature up to ...
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Do spells taken by the Magic Initiate feat require material components that cost gold?
Good afternoon, I have a question about the Magic Initiate feat.
I am a cleric, I chose the cleric spell Ceremony, however this ritual requires a material component that has a cost (25 gp worth of ...
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Do spells from the Ritual Caster feat need to be prepared when taken by a Warlock?
Say I have a Warlock that takes the Ritual Caster feat. Do the spells learned from the feat have to be prepared by the Warlock before being cast as a ritual or do they always have the spells available ...
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How does the Blind-Fight feat interact with the Murky Eyed flaw?
I am creating a character for a game where Feats and Flaws are permitted and when I finished my character background I came to the conclusion that both the Blind-Fight feat and the Murky Eyed flaw are ...
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What feats should a human rogue take to be stealthy?
I am helping a player to make a level 1 human trickster rogue in D&D 4e, but we cannot decide on a good feat. He is looking to be good at stealth both in and out of combat as well have good melee ...
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Are features that allow −5 to attack to get +10 to damage mathematically advantageous?
Some class features, monster traits, and feats allow you to take a −5 to your attack roll in order to gain a +10 to your damage roll. At first glance this looks really good, but when will it deal more ...
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Is the damage of a higher-level Monk's unarmed strike reduced by the Heavy Armor Master feat?
At 6th level, Monks get the Ki-Empowered Strikes feature which states (emphasis mine):
Starting at 6th level, your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and ...
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Does the bonus action attack from Polearm Master receive the bonus to attack and damage rolls from a magic weapon?
If I have the Polearm Master feat and am wielding a +1 Glaive, the bonus action attack will use the same modifier as the standard attack (STR). However, does it also receive the +1 bonus from the fact ...
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What's the best magic item for punching monsters in their stupid faces?
My character, a barbarian with the feat Improved Unarmed Strike,1 occasionally eschews his greataxe and punches monsters. After reading this 2009 thread and this 2009 thread, I don't know what works ...
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Does the Gunner feat let you ignore the Reload property?
The Gunner feat says: "You ignore the loading property of firearms."
Does this also apply to weapons with the Reload property (such as a revolver)?
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Druid Wild Shape + Increased Ability Score from Feats [duplicate]
If a Feat grants an ability score increase as part of its benefits, does that ability score increase get applied to the new ability scores when a druid wild shapes?
Wild shape says:
Your game ...
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How can a 14th level Artificer with the Metamagic Adept feat restore their sorcery points?
Considering a 14th level artificer with the Metamagic Adept feat in D&D 5e:
I'm assuming that the feat does not grant the ability to restore sorcery points by expending spell slots (since it ...
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Does a Polearm Master with 10' reach get an opportunity attack vs an enemy 10' away when they step to only 5' away?
Polearm Master states:
While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter the reach you have with that weapon.
So ...
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What ways can a pure martial get Find Familiar at level 1?
I want to have a familiar on a character of a class without access to Spellcasting or Pact Magic features, and I want this to occur at level 1.
The way I know how to do it is with a feat that gives ...
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Meld into Stone and its interaction
As a feat for my Tempest Domain Cleric, I will pick Metamagic Adept (Distant Spell). Looking through spells that would benefit most from this feature, I became curious about Meld into Stone, as it ...
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How important is the War Caster feat? [closed]
I've seen multiple people who have beelined for the feat of War Caster, but I never really understood this. While I can see some situations that this would be good (Polymorph comes to mind...), it ...
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Can you keep the feat gained from Variant Human when changing to a Reborn lineage? [duplicate]
I have a question regarding the Reborn race. I've been playing a Variant Human Rogue who had recently died (killed by a Mummy Lord), and the DM has given me the option to return as a Reborn. But the ...
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When replacing the Variant Human race with a lineage, do you keep the skill proficiency gained through the Prodigy feat?
Each of the lineages from Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft has a feature called Ancestral Legacy, which states:
If you replace a race with this lineage, you can keep the following elements of that ...
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Can Warlocks take feats that require the "Spellcasting Feature"?
In the past we've seen feats that require ("The ability to cast at least one spell"), the War Caster feat (PHB, p.170), is an example of that.
I recently aquired the book "Bigby ...
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What is a "spellcaster" for the purpose of magic item attunement?
Several wands and other magic items in the DMG cite "spellcaster" as an attunement requirement, specifically "requires attunement by a spellcaster" while others list multiple ...
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What feats would work well for my character and the campaign if the goal is to guide new players to have fun? [closed]
I'm playing a chaotic good Path of the Giant fairy barbarian, and we're level 3 right now. I was wondering about whether I should take a feat or an ability score increase when we level up, since there ...
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How does metamagic adept interact with flexible casting and the sorcery points cap?
You gain 2 sorcery points to spend on Metamagic (these points are added to any sorcery points you have from another source but can be used only on Metamagic). You regain all spent sorcery points when ...
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Level 6 Gun Fighter Optimization
The setting: The setting is Brancalonia, an E6-like low magic 5e setting. Gold is low, magic items are low. Long rests take a week. The setting is modeled after Italian spaghetti fantasy. Levels are ...
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Can feats received due to race traits be retrained?
In Pathfinder certain races receive bonus feats due to their race(Such as Half Elves receiving skill focus feat as a bonus feat.) The text for retraining reads as such:
You may change one feat to ...
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How does the Firbolg’s Speech of Beast and Leaf trait interact with the Telepathic feat?
The Telepathic feat (TCoE, p. 81) gives you the ability to:
[...] speak telepathically to any creature you can see within 60 feet of you. Your telepathic utterances are in a language you know, and ...
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Do I need additional retraining to transfer a feat from one slot to another?
Let's say my Fighter takes Sudden Charge at level 1, and at level 8 I want to learn Sudden Leap and replace Sudden Charge with something else. Can I rearrange which feats are in which level slots, to ...
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How long does the temp HP from the Inspiring Leader feat last, and how often can the character with the feat give a speech?
I understand that each individual creature/ally can gain the temporary HP from the Inspiring Leader feat once per short or long rest, but I have some questions:
How long does the temp HP granted by ...
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Why would I put an ASI into Con instead of taking the Tough feat?
I know that raising your Constitution modifier increases your maximum health. However, the Tough feat also does this, but gives twice as much health. What other benefits does a +2 to Con give, and ...
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Piercer Feat with Sneak Attack and Critical [duplicate]
So my rogue/ranger is facing a problem with a crit atm.
When you score a critical hit that deals piercing damage to a creature, you can roll one additional damage die when determining the extra ...
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How does Savage Attacker interact with Great Weapon Fighting style?
The Savage Attacker feat states (PHB p169):
Once per turn when you roll damage for a melee weapon attack, you can reroll the weapon's damage dice and use either total.
The Great Weapon Fighting ...
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Does the Magic Initiate feat require another focus? [duplicate]
Put simply, if say a druid wanted to take the Magic Initiate feat to gain access to sorcerer spells, would that require them to have a component pouch or arcane focus to cast those spells, as it would ...
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What is the casting time of a spell cast using the War Caster feat?
The third benefit of the War Caster feat states (PHB, p. 170):
When a hostile creature's movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to cast a spell at the creature, ...
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How to rewrite a Homebrew feat that interacts with Two-Weapon Fighting?
In my current campaign, I have added a new feat that intentionally makes Two-Weapon Fighting much stronger:
Dual Flurry
Prerequisite: Extra Attack, or an equivalent feature
Once per turn, when you ...
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If you're Githzerai or have the Telepathy feat, are spell components required for the spell-slot-powered castings?
The typical concept of innate telepathy is that you just have to "think at something" in a certain way and it happens. You're not casting a spell and using magic, so you don't expect the ...
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Does the Keenness of the Stone Giant feat's Stone Throw receive the ability mod to damage?
Pretty straightforward question-- the Keenness of the Stone Giant grants the ability "Stone Throw":
Stone Throw. As a bonus action, you can take a rock and make a magical attack with it. ...
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Does the AC bonus from artificer infusions affect the Shield Master feat?
The Shield Master feat contains this:
If you aren't incapacitated, you can add your shield's AC bonus to any Dexterity saving throw you make against a spell or other harmful effect that targets only ...
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