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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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