Tome Skill Feats

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These feats were introduced in Races of War and scale with your ranks in a given skill.

Skill Feats

Name	Prerequisite(s)	Summary
3.5e Fighter Feats, Special
3.5e Mounted Feats
3.5e Music Feats
Accelerated Balancing		You are adept at moving quickly while balancing.
Accelerated Climbing		You are adept at moving quickly while climbing.
Accurate Assessment		You can accurately judge how good someone is at something.
Acquirer's Eye		You know what you want, even if other people have it right now.
Acrobat		You are a professional acrobat.
SRD:Acrobatic
Acrobatic Attack		You can use acrobatic maneuvers to get around an opponent's defenses.
Acrobatic Charge		Your unexpected attacks have great effect.
Acrobatic Combat		The use of acrobatics and jumping to always be on the move to avoid attacks.
Acrobatic Strike		You may use your acrobatic skill to catch your enemy off guard.
Acrobatic, Tome		You can totally flip out and kill someone with your gymnastic prowess.
Actor	3e Prerequisite Feat::Improved Disguise (3.5e Feat), 3e Prerequisite Feat::Smooth Talker (3.5e Feat)	By applying your skills of deception, you become a more capable actor
Additonal Skill Training		You have received training in one skill which is not usual for your class, and you seem to be good at it.
Aggressive Feint		Use Intimidation during a Feint
SRD:Agile
Agile Climber		You are not as vulnerable to attack while climbing.
Agriculture		You are a farmer.
SRD:Alertness
Alertness, Tome		Your ears are so sharp you probably wouldn't miss your eyes.
Altered Form Familiarity		You have spent enough time in your Alternate form(s) that you have become as accustomed to it/them as you have your monstrous form.
SRD:Animal Affinity
Animal Affinity		You're one of those people animals just won't leave alone for no apparent reason.
Animal Feat Training		Teach your animal lethal tricks.
Animal Ken		You have an innate ability to handle animals.
Animate Wall		You can make your wall spells move.
Apothecary		You have extensive knowledge of poisons and how to distill and manufacture them.
Applied Scholastics		Your scholarly knowledge is helpful in nearly every situation.
Aqua Adrenaline, Greater	3e Prerequisite Feat::Aqua Adrenaline, Improved (3.5e Feat)	You live for the deep
Aqua Adrenaline, Improved	3e Prerequisite Feat::Aqua Adrenaline, Lesser (3.5e Feat)	You live for the deep
Aqua Adrenaline, Lesser		You live for the deep
Aquatic Leaping Attack		You can propel yourself from the water and strike your foes.
Arcane Cantata		You can boost the power of your spells with the sound of music.
Arcane Surgeon		Your studies of the magical world have given you knowledge of medicinal practices.
Artisan		Your apprenticeship to an artisan has made you more capable in your craft.
Astonishing Leap
Astrogator		You know how to navigate wildspace.
OGC:Astrologer (5e Feat)
SRD:Athletic
Athletic Drill		You trained especially athletic maneuvers with your combat forms.
SRD:Augmented Alchemy
Aura Chameleon		You may fool divination spells, or powers, in the same way as you can deceive magic items.
SRD:Autonomous
OGC:Avatar		You've tamed the flood of lost memories to unlock the potential of each past life.
Avatar of Learning (3.5e Epic Feat)	3e Prerequisite Feat::Master of Learning (3.5e Feat)
Avoidance		You do not provoke attacks of opportunity moving past opponents.
Barber-Surgeon		Your training as a barber includes various medical techniques.
Battle Hymn		You can inspire your allies to true acts of heroism.
Battlefield Surgeon		You like to cut people open with a saw. But it's good for them. Seriously.
Black Medicine
OGC:Bloodkeeper Arts (5e Feat)
OGC:Bondsman		You are a master of ropes and manacles, which helps both when you’re trying to escape and when you’re binding an opponent.
Bookworm		You seem to have a knack for locating information needed when performing research
Bootlicker		With sweet words you can trick people into liking you.
Calm Skill		You have used this skill so many times that it is second nature to you.
Camouflage		You have mastered the art of concealing objects and other creatures.
Cannibalize Item		Choose either arcane, divine or psionic. You can draw the energies from an item of that type to offset the XP cost of creating a new item of the same general type.
Captain		You are a Captain of Men, either on the Sea, or on Land.
OGC:Careful Listener		You have a talent for studying expressions and reading the true thoughts of a speaker.
Chant of Solitude		You can channel the power of your bardic music to sustain your allies, allowing them to function even after receiving wounds that would cause others to falter.
Child of the Sea		You have inherited the affinity for the sea of an ancestor (perhaps an aquatic elf).
OGC:Chosen of Fortune (5e Feat)
SRD:Combat Casting
Combat Casting, Tome		Having a sword sticking out of your chest doesn't noticeably impede your ability to do... well, just about anything.
Combat Intimidation		You are capable of intimidating others more easily in combat.
SRD:Combat Manifestation
Cometeer		You are a crewman of a Spelljammer ship.
Con Artist		You can fool some of the people, all of the time.
Concentration Mastery		You can maintain your concentration even under stress or amidst distraction.
Concentration Spell		You can extend the duration of your spells through concentration.
Contact Other Plane	3e Prerequisite Feat::Clairvoyance (3.5e Feat), 3e Prerequisite Feat::Telepathy (3.5e Feat)
Courtesan		You are professional courtesan, who lures men with a smile.
Craftsman		You have a greater understanding on how to create things
Creator		You are a professional inventor, artist, and craftsman.
Criminal		You are practiced in the arts of petty crime.
Critter Care		You learn to care for the animals that you handle.
Cross-Class Learning		Two selected skills become class skills for all your classes.
Cryptographer		You're good at reading things no one intended you to.
Dancer of Music	3e Prerequisite Feat::Dancing Bard (3.5e Feat)	Allows Bard levels to stack with Dancer levels for Bardic Dance.
Dancing Bard		Allows a Bard to use Perform (dance) for Bardic Music
Dancing Dodge		You can dance your way around your opponents attacks.
SRD:Deafening Song
SRD:Deceitful
Deckard's Polyscience		Through your studies you have learned the general basis of all knowledge.
Deft Fingers		Your amazing manual dexterity is the talk of princes and princesses.
SRD:Deft Hands
OGC:Destiny Denied		You've failed. Whatever destiny you had before you is forever doom, and you find yourself for once in charge of your own future.
Detect Poison		You are a student of poisons and how they are used.
Detective		You're good at finding things out just by conversing with townsfolk.
Device Knowledge		You know your way with all things mechanical.
Dexterous Instrumental		What you lack in charisma, you more than makeup for in technical ability with your instrument.
SRD:Diligent
SRD:Disguise Spell
Dragon's Inspiration		You can boost the power of your spells with the sound of music.
Dreadful Demeanor		People know you're a badass motherfvcker the instant you enter the room.
OGC:Dwarf Line		You know not how long it's been since, but the memories of dwarven life are still fresh in your mind.
Educated Upbringing		You grew up in a community that valued your intelligence, and provided education to enhance it.
Engineer		A master mason who supplies architectural and engineering direction to the construction of all manner of structures.
SRD:Epic Inspiration
SRD:Epic Reputation
SRD:Epic Skill Focus
Expert Counterfeiter		You aren't a common forger, you're an artiste.
Expert Healing		You can use a healing kit to heal damage.
SRD:Extra Music
Fake Spell		You can mimic the casting of spells
Falconer		Falconry is a popular sport and status symbol among nobles.
Farsight		Your penalties due to range are halved.
SRD:Fast Healing (Feat)
Fencing Combat School		You were trained at a combat school.
Flashes of Brilliance		You are brilliant but erratic with a specific skill.
Forceful Intimidation		Due to being brutish in nature, you have learned how to make others cower by having a larger muscle mass.
Forger		You are an accomplished forger.
OGC:Forgotten Lore		Unhindered by normal constraints, you've mastered knowledge the likes of which has been lost to the ages.
Fortune Teller		You are a Fortune Teller in your day job.
Frontline Diplomat		You are a veteran of the border wars, but you also serve in times when a truce must be struck.
Ghost Step		You might as well be incorporeal for all the noise you make.
Giant Dodger		You know how to use an enemy's size against them.
Good Listener		You are easy to talk to, and so can gather information quickly.
Great Alchemist		You have a knack for alchemy.
Greater Feint		Your can use a feint to get into a favorable attack position.
SRD:Group Inspiration
Guard Training		You've spent countless days and nights on guard duty and know how to notice when somebody is sneaking around.
Guide		You are a professional guide for your area.
Guitar Hero		You are good at the guitar.
Handy		You don’t depend on book-smarts when fixing things, making things, or dismantling things.
OGC:Hard to Fool		You are familiar with the tricks of con men and thieves; it’s hard to put anything past you.
Haunting Appearance		You have become something so different — impossibly beautiful, subtly terrifying, or flat-out alien — that the sight of your face leaves people stammering and unable to act like themselves. You might want to consider a mask.
Herbalist		You are a herbalist who gathers and sells herbs and plants.
Hexsinger		Your hexblade powers work well with your bard training.
SRD:Hindering Song
Iaijutsu Growth		Iaijutsu users have grown past their limits on power.
Iaijutsu Master		An Iaijutsu Master has learned to use their Iaijutsu Focus Skill without having to have their opponent Flat-Footed.
Iaijutsu Speed	3e Prerequisite Feat::Iaijutsu Growth (3.5e Feat)	You now add your Dex Mod as a competence bonus to your Iaijutsu Focus Skill.
Improved Demoralize		You know how to make your opponents freeze in fear.
Improved Disguise		You can create a disguise very quickly.
SRD:Improved Feint
Improved Lockpicking		You are capable of opening locks rather quickly.
Improved Mounted Combat		You may evade more than one attack to your mount in a round.
Improved Search		You are capable of searching an area quickly.
Improved Sleight Of Hand		You are capable of performing sleight of hand tricks more easily than most.
Improved Swift Craftsman		You can craft even faster but at the expense of xp
Improved Synergy		You're good at combining your skills for greater effect.
SRD:Inquisitor
Inspire Cooperation		Through music, song or poetry you are able to inspire cooperation in others.
SRD:Inspire Excellence
OGC:Inspired Past		You've learned to take inspiration from past life achievements.
Inspiring Leader, Variant		Bard and Marshal levels stack for the purpose of Bardic music, Major Aura, and Grant Move Action class features
Intellectual Skill		You are not constrained by limits to which others must abide.
Intuitive		You use intuition where others use logic.
SRD:Intuitive Trapfinding
SRD:Investigator
Investigator, Tome		You have an eye for detail and so much patience that going through a 100' by 100' room inch-by-inch doesn't even try it.
Item Master		You make magic items do things you want.
SRD:Jack of All Trades
Knowledge Focus		You just seem to remember a bit more small detail about a given topic than the next fellow.
SRD:Lasting Inspiration
Leadership, Tome		You convince people that obeying you is a good career move.
SRD:Legendary Climber
SRD:Legendary Leaper
SRD:Legendary Rider
SRD:Legendary Tracker
Legendary Wrangler		No one can tell where you end and your ropes begin.
Let Me Try		Gain a +3 circumstance bonus on a skill after someone fails.
Life-Learned		You draw your skills from your experiences.
Linguistic Savant		You are talented at learning languages.
Locksmith		You are adept at making and defeating locks.
Look Harmless		You have a knack for looking harmless, enabling you to avoid unwanted attention and potentially surprise your enemies.
Lord of the Dance		The urge to dance lingers on you.
Magic Dealer		For a wizard, you show an unusual talent for business.
Magic Device Training		You trigger magic devices with ease.
SRD:Magical Aptitude
Magical Aptitude, Tome		You're crazy good at manipulating magic.
Man Hunter
Manual Technique		You reason out locks, knots and slights of hand.
Many-Faced		You change identities so often even you don't remember what you look like anymore.
Martial Performer		This feat needs a summary
Master Alchemist		You have mastered your ability to craft alchemy items.
Master Artisan		You can make items faster using the Craft skill.
Master Battlecaster		You have mastered the ability to combine magic and war-skill on the battlefield.
Master Feint		Your are an expert at feinting your opponent.
Master of Terror		You scare people so bad they follow you around hoping you won't hurt them.
Mechanically Inclined		You can figure out how things work and how to fix them. If you don't have the correct item at hand to fix a machine or an item, you can use something similar to provide a temporary fix.
Medic		You are a medicine-man who heals those in need.
Medicinal Mastermind	3e Prerequisite Feat::Self Sufficient (3.5e Feat)	You are so practiced in the ways of medicine, you can offer immediate recovery to small injuries.
Medicine		You have been trained as a physician.
SRD:Mental Leap
Mental Savant		You can make one power harder to counter.
Merchant		You are a professional merchant or shopkeepr
OGC:Metaknowledge (5e Feat)
Mighty Hunter		You are particularly skilled at hunting.
Mimicry		You can replicate almost any natural sound you have ever heard
Mindless Effort		You can continue to maintain a concentration spell for a limited time without concentrating on it.
Minstrel		Your music never fails with the ladies.
Monster Ecologist		You are an expert on dangerous creatures, and you have a broad base of knowledge about them.
Mounted Combat		You are at your best when fighting with an ally that you are sitting on.
Mounted Dodge		You may avoid attacks to yourself or your mount.
Mug		You are able to preform a slight of hand action while attacking.
Multitasker		You are adept at using your skills for a myriad of tasks
SRD:Music of the Gods
SRD:Narrow Mind
Natural Climber		You have achieved a skill at mountaineering that you could challenge a chamois.
Natural Empath		You read people like books.
Natural Rider		You have a natural understanding of animals and can coax the best out of them.
Natural Skill		You have a natural knack for picking up new abilities. You gain 2 extra skill point per level. This ability stacks with a human's racial ability, giving them a total of three free skill points per level.
Natural Swimmer		You have achieved such skill at swimming that you could challenge a dolphin.
Naturally Skilled		When you're focused, you're able to set your mind to learning something, even though you aren't all that bright!
SRD:Negotiator
SRD:Nimble Fingers
OGC:Noble Past		In a past life, you consorted with important members of royalty and nobility with grace and class.
Notorious		You are well known as a dangerous cutthroat not to be trifled with.
OGC:Astrologer (5e Feat)
OGC:Avatar		You've tamed the flood of lost memories to unlock the potential of each past life.
OGC:Bloodkeeper Arts (5e Feat)
OGC:Bondsman		You are a master of ropes and manacles, which helps both when you’re trying to escape and when you’re binding an opponent.
OGC:Careful Listener		You have a talent for studying expressions and reading the true thoughts of a speaker.
OGC:Chosen of Fortune (5e Feat)
OGC:Destiny Denied		You've failed. Whatever destiny you had before you is forever doom, and you find yourself for once in charge of your own future.
OGC:Dwarf Line		You know not how long it's been since, but the memories of dwarven life are still fresh in your mind.
OGC:Forgotten Lore		Unhindered by normal constraints, you've mastered knowledge the likes of which has been lost to the ages.
OGC:Hard to Fool		You are familiar with the tricks of con men and thieves; it’s hard to put anything past you.
OGC:Inspired Past		You've learned to take inspiration from past life achievements.
OGC:Metaknowledge (5e Feat)
OGC:Noble Past		In a past life, you consorted with important members of royalty and nobility with grace and class.
OGC:Paragon of Beasts		You can trace your past lives back to before recorded history, when your primeval form was more beast than man.
OGC:Past Life		You've started to remember your previous reincarnations, beginning a journey of unlocking your lost past.
OGC:Perfect Mind		The knowledge and trades of your former selves are at your beck and call.
OGC:Perfect Soul		Past experience has left you with an innate knowledge on all manner of people and things.
OGC:Slippery Tongue		You have a knack for bending the truth. By convincing yourself that your words are true, you can even evade mystical means of divination.
OGC:Oath of Uwe		You have sworn to uphold the dignity of the kobold people.
Observant		You can rely on you native attention to detail.
SRD:Open Minded
OGC:Paragon of Beasts		You can trace your past lives back to before recorded history, when your primeval form was more beast than man.
Parcour I		Through little training, you have learned to make your way through urban areas more quickly.
Parcour II	3e Prerequisite Feat::Parcour I (3.5e Feat)	After some practice, you have learned to use your abilities to some advantage.
Parcour III		You are perfectly at home swinging from poles and branches, running across walls and hanging off of the edge of buildings.
Parental Guidance (Fallout Supplement)
OGC:Past Life		You've started to remember your previous reincarnations, beginning a journey of unlocking your lost past.
Perceptive Duelist		You are well-trained in the art of the Iaijutsu Duel.
OGC:Perfect Mind		The knowledge and trades of your former selves are at your beck and call.
OGC:Perfect Soul		Past experience has left you with an innate knowledge on all manner of people and things.
Performer		You are a performer, putting on a show for a living.
Personal Technique		Your ability to feint is hard to predict and more about mobility than personal.
SRD:Persuasive
Persuasive, Tome		When you tell you people something that contradicts the evidence of their own eyes, they believe you.
Physician		You have great skill at helping others recover from their wounds.
Pole Vaulting		You can use a pole or pole weapon to enhance your jumps.
Politicked		You are a member of the local bureaucracy, running the community with your words.
SRD:Polyglot
Port Savvy		You know all the ins and outs of life in the seedy ports of call that sailors use as stopover points in their journeys.
Practice Makes Perfect		You are better at skills when you take your time.
Practiced Feint		You can make and sense feints with increased skill.
Priest		You are a member of the local clergy.
Professional		You can earn a living performing services better than others.
Professional Criminal		You are a criminal who lives by unscrupulous means
Professional Luddite		You've learned to break machines because you're an antitechnology fanatic -- or maybe you just work for the local protection racket.
Professor		You are a professor, teaching all those who'll listen.
SRD:Psionic Affinity
Push Magic Device		You temporarily increase the effectiveness of the items that you use.
Quick Reconnoiter		You can learn a lot of information from just a quick scan of an area or object.
Quick Swap		You can confuse your opponent by swapping your weapon between hands.
Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Warriors with Style		You don't have to see to kill., You go all out and try to achieve goals in a proactive manner., You can put things into your pants in the middle of combat., You are a member of a completely arbitrary fighting school that has a number of recognizable signature fighting moves., You lead tiny men., You are very hard to hit when you want to be., You benefit your allies so good they remember you long time., You smack around those folks in the spirit world., Everyone has a specialty. Yours is miraculously finding ways to stab creatures in the face when it seems improbable that you would be able to reach that high., You kill really large numbers of people., You can move around and shoot things with surprising effectiveness., You hack people down with inherent awesomeness., You are an unstoppable Juggernaut., You have trained long and hard to kill magic users. Maybe you hate them, maybe you just noticed that most of the really dangerous creatures in the world use magic., You are at your best when fighting with an ally that you are sitting on., You stab people in the face., You fight well in a group., Your shooting is precise and dangerous., You cut people so bad they have to ask you about it later., When armed with two weapons, you fight with two weapons rather than picking and choosing and fighting with only one. Kind of obvious in retrospect., You are just as dangerous to everyone around you as to anyone around you., You are very calm about shooting people in the face. That's a good place to be., Maybe spiders tell you what's up. You certainly react to danger with uncanny effectiveness., You are so tough. Your belly is like a prism., You are able to grit your teeth and shake off mental influences., You are fasty McFastFast. It helps keep you alive., You are crazy good using a ranged weapon in close quarters., You are incredibly deft with a sword.
Raise Poisonous Creature		You know how to change a poisonous creature’s diet in order to make it deadlier.
SRD:Ranged Inspiration
SRD:Rapid Inspiration
SRD:Reactive Countersong
Rope Climber		You are as comfortable climbing ropes and rigging as you are walking on the ground.
Routine Combat Casting		You are able to maintain your concentration even when threatened in combat.
SRD:Run (Feat)
Sage		You have a better ability to remember information.
Sailor		You are a sailor, earning your pay on the high seas.
Scholar		You are a scholar, learning all there is to know.
Scribe		You are a professional Scribe.
Scrounging		You gain the skill of finding random objects that suit your purpose.
Sea Dog		You have a knack for endeavors relating to sea travel.
Seduction		You are good at using your sexual charms.
SRD:Self-Sufficient
Sense Magic		You have a highly developed sensitivity to magic
Sense of Maturity		You have learned as you matured.
Shared Enemy		Your animals are better against your enemies.
Sharp-Eyed		Nothing escapes you.
SRD:Skill Focus
Skill Master		You have trained to become a master of the skills you know, learning to excel in those areas.
Skill Mastery		You have mastered the basics of a skill, and can move on to the advanced parts.
Skilled Multiclass		You treat the class skills of all of your classes as class skills when you gain a new level.
Skipper		You have gained some experience on the planks of a ship.
Skyclad		A character with this feat gains certain advantages when in a state of ritual nudity or near-nudity.
Slippery Contortionist		Your childhood nickname was "Greasy the Pig," but now people call you "The Great Hamster."
OGC:Slippery Tongue		You have a knack for bending the truth. By convincing yourself that your words are true, you can even evade mystical means of divination.
Smooth Talker		You have a natural talent for the con, able to convince "marks" from all walks of life.
Song Magic		There is magic in your music, allowing you to cast your spells without need of further material components.
Song of Flurry		Your flurry is guided by your music.
Song of Overwhelming Valor		Even when all hope seems lost, facing overwhelming odds, your music can summon the deep wells of pride and valor in your allies, giving them the courage to fight on, and fight harder still.
Specialist		You are an expert in a limited field of skills.
Spellsong		Through your arcane knowledge you chant the weave into your song.
Spy		You gain information through stealth rather than talking.
Stable Spell		You need not concentrate to maintain spells.
Steady Stance		You can fight just about anywhere.
SRD:Stealthy
Stealthy, Tome		If someone sees you, you have to kill them.
Storyteller		You tell stories, and expect to get paid.
Superior Craftsman		Your life's dedication to crafting has reached its pinnacle.
Superior Feint		You can fake out your opponents with incredible speed.
Survival Instinct		Living in the wilderness has sharpened your will to survive.
Swift Craftsman		Your devotion to your craft has advanced your speed when crafting.
Swim Like a Fish		You're at least as home in the water as you are on land.
Tame Wild Animal		You can tame the wildest of beasts.
Thespian		You are a trained actor.
Third Eye		You have a psionic third eye that enables you to pierce illusions and identify psionic powers and effects.
SRD:Track
Track, Tome		You feel at home no matter where you are.
Trained Memory		You have the incredible memory of a preliterate scholar.
Trap Mastery		As a veteran of the dungeoneering trade you have a wealth of experience with traps.
Unbalancing Feint		Your feint can unbalance your opponent.
Urchin		You grew up with little money, making you learn quickly how to make do with what you could find.
Use Prejudice		You can use people’s prejudices against them.
Ventriloquism		You have learned to throw your voice, making it appear to come from someplace else.
Versatile Crafter		You have become skilled in seeing and using similarities among different Crafts.
Vexing Feint		Your feinting technique has a longer lasting effect.
Watchman		Through practice, training and experience, you are more alert and aware.
Way of the Hare		You have mastered the art of the leaping attack.
Whirling Feint		You can feint all opponents in your reach at once.
Wild Rider		You can ride anything, in any fashion
Wizard's Grace		The tricky hand gestures that are an integral part of your spellcasting have helped you to improve other skills.
Wondrous Pet		You gain an exceptional animal companion that is devoted to you.
Woodscraft		Your hunches and guesses tend to be more accurate about the world around you.
Woodsman		You are a professional hunter and all-around woodsman