Dilettante (3.5e Feat)
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Dilettante [General]
Life not always goes in a straight line. In your journeys you dabbled in some areas of expertise that are not your focus. But, as all knowledge, those things that you learned have proven to be very useful.
Prerequisite: Character level 5
Benefit: Choose a class other than any that you have levels. You can choose a class ability granted by that class that do not exceed your character level minus 4 or minus 10 in case of a prestige class. You gain its benefits as long as you meet the pre-requisites (as for rogue's Improved Evasion to have Evasion before for example). If tha class ability have a natural progression or level dependant characteristcs (ex rogue's Sneak Attack or mage's Summon Familiar) treat you level as half for those purposes (1/4th for prestige classes). This feat does not applies to spellcasting capabilities (and so, you cannot use it to gain the ability to cast spells nor progress in a spellcasting class).
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time you chose to learn a new ability from a previously chosen class apply a cumulative 4 level penality on your effective level (level -4,-8,-12 and so on), apply these penalties before halving (in case tha ability have a rogression). First abilites from new classes do not suffer this disvantage.
Example: Markus, a 5th level fighter, wants to have an Animal Companion. For the Druid class this is a 1st level ability. So, Markus can obtain an Animal Companion through this feat, and his effective level for all the calculations on his companion stats will be 2. If Markus wants to Wild Shape as a Druid he can chose this feat again at level 12 (His character level -8) and his efective level for this ability will be 2 (half of his level -4, and he will only gain another transformation per day only at 20th).
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