WoD - Feats

A feat is a special feature that either gives your character a new capability or improves one he or she already has. For example, Geral (a borderlander armsman) chooses to start with the Improved Initiative feat at 1st level. That feat adds a +4 circumstance bonus to his initiative check results. At 3rd level, he gains a new feat and chooses Dodge. This feat allows him to avoid attacks of an opponent he selects, improving his Defense against the attacker.

Unlike a skill, a feat has no ranks. A character either has the feat or does not.

Unlike skills, feats are not bought with points. You simply choose them for your character. Each character gets one feat when the character is created plus additional feats depending on his background or class. At 3rd level and every three levels thereafter (6th, 9th, 12th, etc.), he or she gains another feat.

Some feats have prerequisites. You must have the listed ability score, feat, skill or base attack bonus to select or use that feat. A character can gain a feat at the same level at which he or she gains the prerequisite. For example, at 3rd level, Geral could spend 1 skill point on the Ride skill (gaining his first rank in Ride) and select the Mounted Combat feat at the same time.

You can’t use a feat if you’ve lost a prerequisite. For example, if your Strength drops below 13 because of poison, you can’t use the Power Attack feat.

Prerequisite: A minimum ability score, another feat or feats, a minimum base attack, a skill, or a level that a character must have in order to acquire this feat. This entry is absent if a feat has no prerequisite. A feat may have more than one prerequisite.

Benefit: What the feat enables you (the character) to do. If you have the same feat more than once, its benefits do not stack unless indicated otherwise in the description. In general, having a feat twice is the same as having it once.

Normal: What a character who does not have this feat is limited to or restricted from doing. If not having the feat causes no particular drawback, this entry is absent.

Special: Addition facts about the feat that may be helpful when you decide whether to acquire the feat.

The following feats cover a wide variety of capabilities and features that enhance almost any sort of character. With the exception of a few special feats (labeled as such), there are generally available to all characters who meet the prerequisites, if any.

- Alertness	- Martial Weapon Proficiency
- Ambidexterity	- Mimic
- Animal Affinity	- Mobility
- Armor Proficiency (heavy)	- Mounted Archery
- Armor Proficiency (light)	- Mounted Combat
- Armor Proficiency (medium)	- Nimble
- Athletic	- Persuasive
- Blind-Fight	- Point Blank Shot
- Cleave	- Power Attack
- Combat Expertise	- Precise Shot
- Combat Reflexes	- Quick Draw
- The Dark One's Own Luck	- Rapid Shot
- Dodge	- Ride-By Attack
- Endurance	- Run
- Exotic Weapon Proficiency	- Sharp Eyed
- Fame	- Shield Proficiency
- Far Shot	- Shot on the Run
- Great Cleave	- Simple Weapon Proficiency
- Great Fortitude	- Skill Emphasis
- Heroic Surge	- Spirited Charge
- Improved Bull Rush	- Spring Attack
- Improved Critical	- Stealthy
- Improved Disarm	- Toughness
- Improved Initiative	- Track
- Improved Trip	- Trample
- Improved Two-Weapon Fighting	- Trustworthy
- Improved Unarmed Strike	- Two-Weapon Fighting
- Infamy	- Weapon Finesse
- Iron Will	- Weapon Focus
- Lightning Reflexes	- Weapon Specialization [Special]
- Low Profile	- Whirlwind Attack

Benefit: You ignore all penalties for using an off hand. You are neither left-handed nor right-handed.

Normal: Without this feat, a character that uses his or her off hand suffers a -4 penalty to attack rolls, ability checks, and skill checks. For example, a right-handed character wielding a weapon with her left hand suffers a -4 penalty to attack rolls with that weapon.

Special This feat helps offset the penalty for fighting with two weapons. (See the Two-Weapon Fighting feat.)

Benefit: You get a +2 circumstance bonus on Handle Animal checks and Ride checks.

You are proficient with heavy armor. (See Table 3-4: Armor, in file: Equipment, for a list armor types.)

You are proficient with light armor. (See Table 3-4: Armor, in file: Equipment, for a list armor types.)

Benefit: When you wear a type of armor with which you are proficient, the armor check penalty applies only to Balance, Climb, Escape Artist, Hide, Jump, Move Silently, Pick Pocket, and Tumble checks.

Normal: A character that is wearing armor with which she is not proficient suffers its armor check penalty on attack rolls and on skill checks that involve moving, including Ride.

You are proficient with medium armor. (See Table 3-4: Armor, in file: Equipment, for a list armor types.)

Special: Armsmen, nobles, and woodsmen have this feat for free. Algai’d’siswai do not.

Benefit: In melee, every time you miss because of concealment, you can reroll your miss chance percentile roll one time to see if you actually hit (Don’t worry if you don’t understand, a GM will take care of this.)

An invisible attacker gets no bonus to hit you in melee. That is, you don’t lose your positive Dexterity bonus to Defense, and the attacker doesn’t get the usual +2 circumstance bonus. The invisible attacker’s bonuses do still apply for ranged attacks, however.

You suffer only half the usual penalty to speed for being unable to see. Darkness and poor visibility in general reduces your speed to three-quarters of normal, instead of one-half.

Normal: Regular attack roll modifiers for invisible attackers trying to hit you apply, as does speed reduction for darkness and poor visibility.

Benefits: If you deal a creature enough damage to make it drop (typically by dropping it to below 0 hit points), you get an immediate extra melee attack against another creature in the immediate vicinity. You cannot take a 5-foot step before making this extra attack. The extra attack is with the same weapon and at the same bonus as the attack that dropped the previous creature. You can use this ability once per round.

Benefit: When you use the attack action or full attack action in melee, you can take a penalty of as much as -5 on your attack and add the same number (up to +5) to your Defense. This number may not exceed your base attack bonus. The changes to attack rolls and Defense last until your next action. The bonus to your Defense is a dodge bonus.

Normal: A character not capable of the Combat Expertise feat can fight defensively while using the attack or full attack action to take a -4 penalty on attacks and gain a +2 dodge bonus to Defense.

You can respond quickly and repeatedly to opponents who let their defenses down.

Benefit: When foes leave themselves open, you may make a number of additional attacks of opportunity equal to your Dexterity modifier. For example, a character with a Dexterity of 15 can make a total of three attacks of opportunity in a round – the one attack of opportunity any character is entitled to, plus two more attacks because of his +2 Dexterity bonus. If four Trollocs move through the character’s threatened area, he can make attacks of opportunity against three of the four. You still only make one attack of opportunity per enemy.

Normal: A character not capable of this feat can make only one attack of opportunity per round and can’t make attacks of opportunity while flat-footed.

Benefit: Once per day, you may reroll any one die roll you have just made, provided the issue being decided is primarily or largely dependent upon luck rather than skill. For example, a Craft or Perform check is generally more a measure of skill and style than pure luck, but a Spot check might be more luck-related. Will and Fortitude saving throws are not generally luck-dependent, but Reflex saves are. Attack rolls are always sufficiently luck-dependent to invoke this feat. Sometimes an attempt can be framed in a manner that makes it more luck-dependent, such as choosing randomly which direction to search in, rather than trying to reason out the odds.

In short, if your GM agrees that luck is a primary factor in the attempt, you can invoke this feat. Make the roll over again. You may take the higher of the two results.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time you take the feat, it adds one to the number of times per day you may reroll.

Benefit: During your action, you designate an opponent and receive a +1 dodge bonus to Defense against attacks from that opponent. You can select a new opponent on any action. Note: A condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Defense (if any) also makes you lose dodge bonuses. Also, dodge bonuses stack with each other, unlike most other types of bonuses.

Benefit: Whenever you make a check for performing a physical action that extends over a period of time (running, swimming, holding your breath, and so on), you get a +4 circumstance bonus on the check.

Choose a type of exotic weapon, such as an ashandarei or a hand crossbow (See Table 3-3: Weapons, in file: Equipment, for a list of exotic weapons). You understand how to use that type of exotic weapon in combat.

Normal: A character who uses a weapon without being proficient with it suffers a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new weapon. Proficiency with the Trolloc scythesword requires Strength of 16 or higher.

Benefit: When you use a projectile weapon, such as a bow, its range increment increases by one-half (multiply by 1.5). When you use a thrown weapon, its range increment is doubled.

You can wield a melee weapon with such power that you can strike multiple times when you fell your foes.

Prerequisites: Str 13+, Power Attack, Cleave, base attack bonus +4 or higher.

Benefit: As Cleave, except that you have no limit to the number of times you can use it per round.

Benefit: You may take an extra move or attack action, either before or after your regular actions. You may use Heroic Surge once per day for every four character levels you have attained, but never more than once per round.

Benefit: When you perform a bull rush, you do not draw an attack of opportunity from the defender.

Choose one type of weapon, such as longsword or hafted axe. With that weapon, you know how to hit where it hurts.

Benefit: When using the weapon you selected, your threat range is doubled. For example, a longsword usually treatens a critical hit on a 19 or 20 (two numbers). If a character using a longsword has Improved Critical (longsword), the threat range becomes 17 through 20 (four numbers).

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. The effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new weapon.

Benefit: You do not suffer an attack of opportunity when you attempt to disarm an opponent, nor does the opponent have a chance to disarm you.

You are trained not only in tripping opponents, but also in following through with an attack.

Benefit: If you trip an opponent in melee combat, you immediately get a melee attack against that opponent as if you hadn’t used your attack for the trip attempts. For example, at 11th level, Morten gets three attacks at base attack bonuses of +11, +6, and +1. In the current round, he attempts to trip his opponent. His first attempt fails (using up his first attack). His second attempt succeeds, and he immediately makes a melee attack against his opponent with a base attack of +6. Finally, he takes his last attack at +1.

Prerequisites: Two-Weapon Fighting, Ambidexterity, base attack bonus +9 or higher.

Benefit: In addition to the standard single extra attack you get with an off-hand weapon, you get a second attack with the off-hand weapon, albeit at a -5 penalty. (This is a little complicated.. If you are considering getting this feat and do not understand, go see a GM.)

Normal: Without this feat, you can only get a single extra attack with an off-hand weapon.

Benefit: You are considered to be armed even when unarmed – that is, armed opponents do not get attacks of opportunity when you attack them while unarmed. However, you still get an attack of opportunity against any opponent who makes an unarmed attack on you.

Your crimes and evil deeds are known far and wide (whether you actually committed those deeds or not).

Benefit: Your rate of Reputation gain is 1 point every five levels, regardless of your class. This does not retroactively affect your current Reputation score nor any Reputation points gained from future actions.

Normal: Without this feat, a character gains Reputation at a rate determined by his or her class.

Choose a type of martial weapon, such as longbow (see Table 3-3: Weapons, in file: Equipment, for a list of martial weapons). You understand how to use that type of martial weapon in combat.

Use this feat to expand the list of weapons you are proficient with beyond the basic list in the class description.

Normal: A character who uses a weapon without being proficient with it suffers a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new weapon.

Benefit: You get a +2 circumstance bonus on Disguise checks and Perform checks.

Benefit: You get a +4 dodge bonus to Defense against attacks of opportunity caused when you move out of or within a threatened area. Note: A condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Defense (if any) also makes you lose dodge bonuses. Also, dodge bonuses stack with each other, unlike most types of bonuses.

Benefit: The penalty you suffer when using a ranged weapon from horseback is halved: -2 instead of -4 if your mount is taking a double move, and -4 instead of -8 if your mount is running. (See GM, for more info.)

Benefit: Once per round when your mount is hit in combat, you may make a Ride check to negate the hit. The hit is negated if your Ride check is greater than the attack roll (essentially, the Ride check becomes the mount’s Defense if it’s higher than the mount’s regular Defense).

Benefit: You get a +2 circumstance bonus on Escape Artist checks and Pick Pocket checks.

Benefit: You get a +2 circumstance bonus on Bluff checks and Intimidate checks.

Benefit: You get a +1 circumstance bonus on attack and damage rolls with ranged weapons at ranges of up to 30 feet.

Benefit: On your action, before making attack rolls for a round, you may choose to subtract a number from all melee attack rolls and add the same number to all melee damage rolls. This number may not exceed your base attack bonus. The penalty on attacks and bonus on damage apply until your next action.

Benefit: You can shoot or throw ranged weapons at and opponent engaged in melee without suffering the standard -4 penalty.

Benefit: You can draw a weapon as a free action instead of as a move action.

Benefit: You can get one extra attack per round with a ranged weapon. The attack is at your highest base attack bonus, but each attack (the extra one and the normal ones) suffers a -2 penalty. You must use the full attack action to use this feat.

Benefit: When you are mounted and making a charge, you may move and attack as with a standard charge and then move again (continuing the straight line of the charge). Your total movement or the round can’t exceed double your mounted speed. You do not provoke an attack of opportunity from the opponent that you attack.

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