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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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.
Its a cloaker ...
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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:
When a hostile ...
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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.
Other ...
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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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Alchemist and Healer's Touch interaction
How does the feat Healer's Touch interact with an alchemist?
From my initial reading, since alchemist extracts are considered 'spells' it would work, so long as it was used on others via infusion.
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Can becoming a familiar make an Improved Familiar worse: Pathfinder edition
As per this 3.5e question, I believe Pathfinder also has flat tables about familiar advancement - ones that aren't granting "+X to existing statistic", I mean - and thus I find myself ...
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How can I use Taste Blood on level 5?
Taste Blood is a 5th level ancestry feat for Dhampirs. It has one hard prerequisite, and a soft one if you do not want to commit an evil act; your last action must have been a fangs Strike.
However, ...
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Where can I find the Drink Blood ability?
The Taste Blood feat has a prerequisite:
Cel Rau, Straveika, Svetocher, or another lineage from a vampire with the Drink Blood ability
However, when I check these lineages, there is no mention of ...
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How do Multiclassed Bard/Class-With-Performances calculate their benefits from feats affecting Bardic Performance?
Viewing my question about how classes that grant bardic performances interact with Pathfinder Chronicler may be useful pre-reading, because it lists a whole bunch of the classes that grant bardic ...
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Is this half-feat version of sharpshooter balanced?
I am considering letting my players pick an altered version of the Sharpshooter feat, or replacing the existing one. The idea is to remove the -5/+10 mechanic and make it into a half-feat. We don't ...
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Does a Weapon Siphon make a weapon alchemical?
A Weapon Siphon is an alchemical adjustment for a weapon.
If I load an Alchemist's Fire into it and I have Burn it!, do I deal extra damage?
How much will it be?
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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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Can an Aegis Brawler using Hardened Strike astral suit mod or Cestus use Bleeding Attack feat without the Improved Unarmed Strike?
Can an Aegis Brawler using Hardened Strike or Cestus astral suit mod use Bleeding Attack feat without Improved Unarmed Strike?
Hardened Strikes: The aegis is considered to be armed even when unarmed, ...
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How does the Charger feat work with Fighter's Extra Attack feature?
If I have a 5th-level fighter that has the Charger feat, can I take my Extra Attack after using my bonus attack with the Charger feat?
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What land speed would be the minimal requirement for utilising Spring Attack?
In many build guides (e.g. RPGBOT), I see people saying this feat sucks for having so many prereq feats and providing so few character tactical options, except for certain classes like the Scout, who ...
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If a weapon attack moves the creature within 5ft of a second creature, such as with Crusher, can Horde Breaker be used to attack the second creature?
Horde Breaker states: "Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that is within 5 feet of the ...
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Cataphract—homebrew martial adept base class
This is a defensively-minded Tome of Battle martial adept. As with most of my work, I strive to make it stand-alone: ideally, this class should just work, as-is, without any meta commentary, and fit ...
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When using elven accuracy, do you have to take the results of the reroll?
The Elven Accuracy feat says:
"Whenever you have advantage on an attack roll using Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma, you can reroll one of the dice once."
Assuming you meet the ...
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How does Polearm Master's extra attack work with magical properties? [duplicate]
The feat Polearm Master states that:
When you take the Attack action and attack with only a glaive, halberd, quarterstaff, or spear, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the ...
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Crusher and opportunity attacks
Crusher feat says:
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 the target is no more than one size ...
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If I play as a Faerie Dragon can I use dragon-born feats or Fey Touched?
I want to have a feat, but most feats either
are unusable (e.g. weapon feats (can only use undersized weapons plus only one-handed, I use the tail to wield them)
offer no benefit (armor feats, I have ...
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Can the Sudden Charge and Shielded Stride feats be used together?
Can the Sudden Charge and Shielded Stride feats be used together?
The description of the Sudden Charge feat says:
Two actions
With a quick sprint, you dash up to your foe and swing. Stride twice. If ...
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Deadly Simplicity with Unconventional Weaponry for Warpriest Doctrine
I'm trying to figure out if Unconventional Weaponry makes Katanas work with Warpriest features but its looking like it doesn't.
The Warpriest Doctrine says:
If your deity’s weapon is a simple weapon ...
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How do I create a Feat with charges in D&D Beyond?
I'm trying to create a homebrew feat on D&D Beyond that allows the PC to cast two different spells, in any combination, a total of 5 times per day. The specific spells are not the important part, ...
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Feat that allows sleeping in heavy armor without becoming fatigued?
I was shocked to discover today that Endurance doesn’t do this:
Benefit: […] you may sleep in light or medium armor without becoming fatigued.
Normal: A character without this feat who sleeps in ...
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Does Kreighton's Cognitive Crossover's attempt benefit from one-time effects used on its triggering check?
Kreighton's Cognitive Crossover lets a character reattempt a Recall Knowledge check as a reaction. I want to know whether Kreighton's Cognitive Crossover's attempt benefits from effects used on its ...
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What character options (except spells) increase AC as reaction?
Some monsters, (e.g. the Death Knight) have a reaction called Parry which enables them to increase their AC.
Are there any character options that work the same way, i.e. increase AC as a reaction? I ...
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Do the "narrow surfaces" need to be made of stone or earth to use the Rock Runner feat in Pathfinder 2e?
I have a doubt about the Rock Runner feat in PF2e.
Your innate connection to stone makes you adept at moving across uneven surfaces. You can ignore difficult terrain caused by rubble and uneven ...
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Are Bonus Feats from Class usable without prerequisites?
I was looking at a Dragon Magazine Wizard Alternate Class, the Fleshcrafter (DM #312). At level 1, one of the class features given is:
Craft Construct: A fleshcrafter gains Craft Construct as a bonus ...
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Are there any other options to mitigate the Volley trait?
The Barricade Buster in Treasure Vault is really cool. I’ve been theorycrafting a few builds around it and keep coming up against the same problem; specifically, without either a Fighter or Archer ...
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As a bard, can the feat prodigy give me expertise on a skill that my bard expertise is on? [duplicate]
I am currently playing a half orc bard and have been considering what feat to choose once I hit level 4. I currently have expertise on my perception and I saw I can take the prodigy feat, where I can ...
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Mage Slayer saving throw advantage vs Web spell
So the Mage Slayer feat says:
You have advantage on saving throws against spells cast by creatures within 5 feet of you
If a caster were to use web on a Mage Slayer user, does the Mage Slayer have ...
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How do I make a version of Armor of Agathys on D&D Beyond that scales with my Pact Magic spell slot levels?
A while ago I was given a free spell from my benevolent GM, and I chose Armor of Agathys with the caveat that I could change the damage type (let's leave aside the balance concerns of that for now) ...
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Can a Beguiler benefit from Greyhawk Method?
Beguiler
The Beguiler class is a fixed-list spontaneous arcane caster; a Beguiler PC gets access to spells from the Beguiler list as it levels up and can cast them spontaneously.
A beguiler casts ...