The Netbook of Feats Version 12.4 of the Netbook of Feats

Your unexpected attacks have great effect.

Prerequisite: Dodge, Mobility, Tumble 1 rank, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You may tumble a distance equal to your speed as part of a charge, avoiding attacks of opportunity as described in the Tumble skill. If you succeed at the Tumble check, and if you make a bull rush, trip, disarm or grapple attack as part of this charge, you gain an additional +2 circumstance bonus to your attack roll and to any other rolls necessary for the maneuver, such as the opposed ability check for a trip attack. You may not use Acrobatic Charge on consecutive rounds.

Normal: You may only Tumble as part of a normal move.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Acrobatic Defense[edit]

You are an expert at defending yourself from attacks.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Tumble 8 ranks

Benefit: When in light armor or no armor, you gain a +4 dodge bonus when fighting defensively (as per the combat action), and a +8 dodge bonus when using the total defense standard action. This benefit includes the synergy bonus you gain from having at least 5 ranks of Tumble

Normal: You normally have a +2 dodge bonus to AC when fighting defensively, and a +4 dodge bonus to AC when using the total defense standard action. If you have 5 or more ranks in Tumble, you gain a +3 dodge bonus to AC when fighting defensively, and a +6 dodge bonus to AC when using the total defense standard action.

Balance: 4.24 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.40, Port 4.20, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.20)

Acrobatic Strike[edit]

General

You may use your acrobatic skill to catch your enemy off guard.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Tumble 4 ranks

Benefit: As a standard action, you may make a Tumble check against a DC of 15 + your opponent’s Hit Dice. If you succeed, you then make a single melee attack against your opponent who is denied their Dexterity bonus to AC for this attack only (and hence subject to sneak attack damage). If you fail the Tumble check you fall prone and make no attack.

Special: You remain in the same spot when using this ability, whether you succeed or not.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.50)

Additional Magic Item Space[edit]

SRD:Additional Magic Item Space Epic

You can wear additional rings, necklaces and such.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team feels that this feat should be limited by common sense – obviously it is no problem to wear multiple rings, amulets and the like, but to wear two suits of armor or pairs of boots at a time is ridiculous.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.50, Port 3.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Advanced Firearms Proficiency[edit]

Modern

You are highly proficient with small automatic weapons.

Prerequisite: Personal Firearms Proficiency

Benefit: You can fire any personal firearm on autofire without penalty (provided, of course, that it has an auto¬fire setting).

Normal: You take a –4 penalty on attack rolls made with personal firearms set on auto¬fire.

Balance: 4.75 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Aerobatics[edit]

General

You are at home in the air. You understand the properties of wind resistance and aerodynamics and how to optimize your situation in the air.

Benefit: You improve your maneuverability class by one step when using any ability to fly. This includes flying mounts if you have the ability to guide them. You also increase your base flying speed by +5'.

Balance: 4.24 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.30, Port 4.00, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.30)

Aggressive Casting[edit]

Magical

Changes defensive casting to be more aggressive.

Prerequisite: Concentration 1 rank

Benefit: When you cast a spell using defensive casting and fail the concentration check, you may opt not to lose the spell but instead trigger an attack of opportunity just as if you had cast the spell in the ordinary fashion.

Notes: If you are hit by an attack of opportunity triggered because you failed the above concentration check, you must still make yet another concentration check or lose the spell because of the damage.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Aggressive Defense[edit]

You have mastered using your weapons defensively without sacrificing accuracy.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: At the start of your action, you can declare that you are using Aggressive Defense. Until the start of your next turn, you gain a +2 dodge bonus to Armor Class against all opponents you threaten. In exchange, however, you suffer a –2 penalty to damage you inflict with your attacks.

Special: You may not combine Aggressive Defense with other defensive combat actions (like fighting defensively or Total Defense).

Balance: 3.93 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.33, Port 4.00, Comp 3.00, Rule 4.33)

Agile[edit]

SRD:Agile General

You are especially agile.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Agile Climber[edit]

General

You are not as vulnerable to attack while climbing.

Prerequisite: Dex 13

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Climb checks. You do not lose your Dexterity bonus to AC when you are attacked while climbing.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.40, Port 4.20, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.80)

Agile Riposte[edit]

You can attack opponents who over extend themselves.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Dodge

Benefit: Once per round, if the opponent you have designated with the dodge feat makes a melee attack or melee touch attack against you and misses, you may make an attack of opportunity against that opponent. Resolve and apply the effects from both attacks simultaneously. Even a character with the Combat Reflexes feat can’t use the Agile Riposte feat more than once per round. This feat does not grant more attacks of opportunity than you are normally allowed in a round.

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 3.75, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.00)

Aircraft Operation[edit]

Modern

You are trained in the operation of a class of aircraft.

Prerequisite: Pilot 4 ranks

Benefit: Select a class of aircraft (heavy aircraft, helicopters, jet fighters, or spacecraft). You are proficient at operating that class of aircraft. The heavy aircraft class includes jumbo passenger airplanes, large cargo planes, heavy bombers, and any other aircraft with three or more engines. Helicopters include transport and combat helicopters of all types. Jet fighters include military fighter and ground attack jets. Spacecraft are vehicles such as the space shuttle and the lunar lander. You take no penalty on Pilot checks or attack rolls made when operating an aircraft of the selected class.

Normal: Without this feat you take a –4 penalty on Pilot checks made to operate an aircraft that falls in any of these classes, and on attacks made with aircraft weapons. There is no penalty when you operate a general-purpose aircraft.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time you take the feat, you select a different class of aircraft.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Alertness[edit]

SRD:Alertness General

You are very aware of your surroundings.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Aligned Attack[edit]

SRD:Aligned Attack Psionic

Your melee or ranged attack overcomes your opponent’s alignment-based damage reduction and deals additional damage.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Ambidexterity[edit]

Trait

You are more effective with your off hand.

Prerequisite: Dex 15

Benefit: When dual, double or multi-weapon fighting you may add your full strength bonus to all attacks.

Normal: Off-hand weapons only add half your strength bonus to damage.

Special: This feat can only be taken at character creation.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.31, Pow 3.81, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.13)

Ambitious Leader[edit]

General

You have focused on leading a small band or a large body of troops.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Leadership

Benefit: When you select this feat, you may have it effect followers or cohorts. Any followers or cohorts gained through this feat are cumulative with those gained for Leadership, this feat, or other feats that grant followers or cohorts. If the you select the cohort option, you gain two additional cohorts. One has a maximum level as determined by the your Leadership score. The second cohort has a maximum level two experience levels lower. If you select the follower option, you gain an additional 1.5 times the number of followers specified by your Leadership score.

Special: A character may gain this feat multiple times, and the effects are cumulative.

Balance: 3.62 (Purp 3.30, Pow 4.30, Port 3.60, Comp 3.30, Rule 3.60)

Animal Affinity[edit]

SRD:Animal Affinity General

You have a natural rapport with animals.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Animal Ken[edit]

General

You have an innate ability to handle animals.

Prerequisite: Handle Animal 4 ranks, Cha 13

Benefit: You can handle an animal as a free action or push it as a move action.

Normal: Handling an animal is a move action, while pushing an animal is a full-round action.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Animate Wall[edit]

Metamagic

You can make your wall spells move.

Benefit: You can animate your wall spell. The wall can move very slowly: 5 feet as a full round action; but must maintain its original shape and size. You direct the wall's movement as a free action on your turn. Walls must remain in contact with the ground if normally required to do so. This feat can only affect straight, vertical walls. If moving in a certain direction would force the wall to bend, break, or otherwise change its shape; it cannot move in that direction and you will know this. You can continue to direct the wall's movement for either the spell's normal duration or 1 minute/level (if the wall's duration is instantaneous or permanent). If the wall's normal duration is instantaneous, while under the effects of this feat it can be dispelled as if it had a duration other than instantaneous. Instantaneous Conjuration (Creation) school walls that are dispelled end the wall's ability to move but do not affect the wall otherwise. Solid walls (such as wall of stone, wall of iron, or wall of force) can automatically push Medium or smaller creatures out of their space. Such creatures caught between them and another solid structure, take damage equal to your caster level per round when the creature's actual space is squeezed against something solid. A successful Reflex save versus the wall's normal spell DC negates the damage for that round and allows the creature to move at half speed along the wall. Climbing over such a wall is a valid method of escape as is cutting through the wall with weapons (especially adamantine weapons). Animated Walls cannot push or crush creatures of larger than Medium size. Damaging walls (such as wall of thorns, blade barrier, or wall of fire) deal their normal damage per round when they push against a creature's square. Again, a Reflex save versus the wall's normal spell DC negates the damage for that round. These types of walls cannot push or crush creatures. Wall of ice deals the damage listed for solid walls unless the creature breaks through (Strength check DC 15 + wall's spell level); then it does the damage listed for the wall of ice spell. Wall of ice can push Medium or smaller creatures just as other solid walls can. Some walls can not deal damage in this way (such as wind wall and illusory wall) and either have their normal effects or are dissipated when pushed against the creature's square. An Animate Wall spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.

Normal: Your wall spells do not move.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.38, Port 4.25, Comp 3.63, Rule 4.00)

Antipsionic Magic[edit]

SRD:Antipsionic Magic General, Magical

Your spells are more potent when used against psionic characters and creatures.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is not generally in favor of feats such as these that break the magic-psionics transparency rule.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.75, Port 3.50, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.50)

Anything Goes Combat[edit]

In your hands almost anything is a dangerous weapon

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Int 13

Benefit: You are the master of the improvised weapon. You may treat any object, including weapons you are not proficient with, as simple melee weapons using the stats listed in this feat instead of the stats usually used for that object or weapon, although you may still use weapons you have proficiency with as per normal. Determine the size of the object or weapon and use the stats listed here. All weapons threaten a critical hit on a 20 and do double damage. No weapon gives you reach. As stated in the SRD, a light weapon is generally two size categories smaller than the wielder, a one-handed weapon one size smaller, and a two-handed weapon is an object of the same size category as the wielder.

Size	Damage
Tiny	1d2
Small	1d4
Medium	1d6
Large	1d8
Huge	1d10

If the DM determines that there is no way the object in question could do regular damage it instead deals nonlethal damage. Additionally any object used as a weapon via this feat can deal nonlethal damage at your discretion without penalty.

Normal: You suffer a -4 penalty on attack rolls with any weapon you are nonproficient with, and similarly with objects not designed to be used for combat.

Special: You may not take weapon feats with objects not designed to be weapons. For instance you cannot take Weapon Focus (Beer Mug).

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Anything Goes Long[edit]

You can throw nearly anything - ale tankards, rocks, bags of coins - and make it hurt.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: You are the master of the improvised missile. You may treat any object, including weapons you are not proficient with, as simple thrown weapons using the stats listed in this feat instead of the stats usually used for that object or weapon, although you may still use weapons you have proficiency with as per normal. Determine the size of the object or weapon and use the stats listed here. All weapons threaten a critical hit on a 20 and do double damage. No weapon gives you reach. As stated in the SRD, a light weapon is generally two size categories smaller than the wielder, a one-handed weapon one size smaller, and a two-handed weapon is an object of the same size category as the wielder.

Size	Damage
Tiny	1d2
Small	1d4
Medium	1d6
Large	1d8
Huge	1d10

If the DM determines that there is no way the object in question could do regular damage it instead deals nonlethal damage. Additionally any object used as a weapon via this feat can deal nonlethal damage at your discretion without penalty.

Normal: You suffer a -4 penalty on attack rolls with any weapon you are nonproficient with, and similarly with objects not designed to be used for combat.

Notes: This does not give you the ability to use any object in melee combat; for that, see the Anything Goes Combat feat.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 5.00)

Apothecary[edit]

General

You have extensive knowledge of poisons and how to distill and manufacture them.

Benefit: You can create any poison following the craft rules using your Craft (alchemy) or Profession (herbalist) skills, with a DC equal to the save DC of the poison, except that each skill check represents one day's (rather than one week's) work. Many poisons require more expensive or rare components, as decided by your DM.

Special: You must have an Alchemist's lab in order to create a poison.

Notes: Depending on your campaign, poison creation may be treated as a house rule based on your Craft (alchemy) or Profession (herbalist) skill, rather than a feat. Alternatively, enterprising DMs could create a Craft (poison) skill that accomplishes the same effect.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Applied Scholastics[edit]

Your scholarly knowledge is helpful in nearly every situation.

Prerequisite: A least 15 total ranks in 3 or more Knowledge skills

Benefit: You may use your Knowledge skills to take the Aid Another action in place of the actual skill being used. So long as you beat a DC 10 you add +2 to the roll of whomever you are aiding. You may also do this to aid your own actions by applying the aid bonus to a subsequent skill check you make. Using Aid Another remains a standard action.

Special: Because there is no hard and fast rule for which Knowledge skill can aid what actions, your DM should decide when it is appropriate although you can certainly present your case for how your smarts will make the task easier. You can never use a knowledge skill to aid your own knowledge skill checks.

Example: Janoc the scholar is about to climb a wall. His Climb skill is very poor, but he has a very good Knowledge (Architecture and Engineering) skill and wants to use this to find a good way to climb. The DM judges this a relevant field of knowledge. Taking a standard action to use Aid Other to help himself, he succeeds, granting +2 to his climb check on his next action.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 3.50, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.75)

Aquatic Leaping Attack[edit]

General

You can propel yourself from the water and strike your foes.

Prerequisite: Swim Speed 30’, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You can make a special leaping attack as a full attack action. First move at least 5’ at or to near the surface of the water, then you may leap from the water up to 10’ high and 20’ horizontally in an arc. You may make a single melee attack at your highest base attack bonus anywhere along your movement path. You do not provoke an attack of opportunity from your target and your target losses their Dexterity bonus to AC against this attack.

Balance: 3.83 (Purp 3.38, Pow 3.88, Port 3.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.13)

Arcane Admixture[edit]

Metamagic

You can modify a spell that inflicts energy damage to mix in an equal amount of arcane damage.

Prerequisite: Arcane Power, One other metamagic feat, Knowledge (arcana) 5 ranks

Benefit: You can modify an arcane spell with an energy designator to add an equal amount of raw magical energy. The altered spell works normally in all respects except that it deals an amount of arcane damage equal to the damage normally inflicted by the spell. An Arcane Admixture spell uses up a spell slot five levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

Example: Thieren (Sor 15), casts an arcane admixture lightning bolt by using up an 8th level spell slot, rolls 10d6 for damage and gets 35. He inflicts 35 points of electrical damage (subject to electricity resistance) and 35 points of arcane damage (not subject to protection from elements and similar spells).

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Arcane Power[edit]

Metamagic

You can infuse your damaging arcane spells with raw magical energy.

Benefit: Half of the damage inflicted by an arcane spell modified by this feat is treated as raw magical energy, making it resistant to protection from elements and similar magic. The other half of the damage is treated normally as per the spell. Infusing an arcane spell with raw magical energy uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell's actual level.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Comments: Formerly known as Arcane Spell, this feat was renamed in order to avoid confusion.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Arcane Understanding[edit]

You increase the number of spells learned automatically with each new level.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Wizard level 1st, Knowledge (Arcana) 5 ranks

Benefit: After gaining this feat, you gain an additional spell each time you advance in levels. Thus, you get three free spells with each level advance instead of the normal two.

Normal: At each level, the Wizard gains two spells of any level that can be added to their spellbook.

Special: This feat can be taken several times, and stacks with itself.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.62 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.70, Comp 4.70, Rule 4.70)

Archaic Weapons Proficiency[edit]

Modern

You are studied in the use or archaic weapons.

Benefit: You take no penalty on attack rolls when using any kind of archaic weapon.

Normal: A character without this feat takes the –4 non¬proficient penalty when making attacks with archaic weapons.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Area Control[edit]

Metamagic

You can exactly control the spread of an area spell.

Benefit: When you cast an area spell, you can select certain spaces under the area and declare that they are not to be affected. Creatures in this space avoid the spell's effect. An Area Control spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell's actual level.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.36 (Purp 4.30, Pow 4.30, Port 4.60, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.30)

Area Power Resistance[edit]

Monster, Psionic

The creature's Power Resistance (PR) can negate area-effect psionic powers.

Prerequisite: Innate Power Resistance 10

Benefit: Any psionic power that includes the creature within its area of effect must beat the creature's PR or be instantly negated.

Normal: PR normally applies only for the creature with PR against area-effect spells, protecting the individual creature but not negating the attacking psionic power.

Special: If using the default Psionics-Magic Transparency option, this feat applies against area-effect spells and spell-like abilities as well.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Area Spell Resistance[edit]

Monster

The creature's Spell Resistance (SR) can negate area-effect spells and spell-like abilities.

Prerequisite: Innate Spell Resistance 10

Benefit: Any spell or spell-like ability that includes the creature within its area of effect must beat the creature's SR or be instantly negated.

Normal: SR normally applies only for the creature with SR against area effect spells, protecting the individual creature but not negating the attacking spell or spell-like ability.

Special: If using the default Psionics-Magic Transparency option, this feat applies against area effect psionic powers as well.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Armed Deflect Arrows[edit]

You can deflect arrows, including crossbow bolts, spears and other shot or thrown weapons with your chosen weapon.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus, Dex 13

Benefit: You gain the use of the Deflect Arrows feat, but can only use this ability when wielding a melee weapon that you have Weapon Focus with.

Notes: You can learn later feats for which Deflect Arrows is a prerequisites based on the 'virtual' feat learned with Armed Deflect Arrows, but you can then only use those feats when armed with a melee weapon that you have Weapon Focus with.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Armed Flurry Of Blows[edit]

You can attack with a flurry of blows with any weapon that you are proficient in.

Prerequisite: Monk level 3rd

Benefit: This feat expands on your Flurry of Blows ability, allowing you to flurry with any weapon that you are proficient in.

Normal: Flurry of Blows can normally only be used in unarmed combat or when armed with a kama, nunchaku or siangham.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Armor Focus[edit]

You move around in a certain type of armor without effort.

Prerequisite: Armor Proficiency (heavy), Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: When wearing a specified type of armor it inflicts one less armor check penalty and the maximum Dex bonus is raised by one. This cannot reduce the penalties to sub-zero levels.

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

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Armor Penetration[edit]

You are skilled at seeking out weak points in your opponent’s armor.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: You add +1 to your attack roll in melee combat if your opponent is wearing light armor, +2 if your opponent is wearing medium armor, and +3 if your opponent is wearing heavy armor. Shields and natural armor are not considered armor for the purposes of this feat.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Armor Proficiency (heavy)[edit]

SRD:Armor Proficiency (Heavy) General, Fighter

You know how to move in heavy armor.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Armor Proficiency (light)[edit]

SRD:Armor Proficiency (Light) General, Fighter

You know how to move in light armor.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Armor Proficiency (medium)[edit]

SRD:Armor Proficiency (Medium) General, Fighter

You know how to move in medium armor.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Armor Skin[edit]

SRD:Armor Skin Epic, Fighter

Your skin is much tougher than normal for your race.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Armored Caster[edit]

Magical

You can reduce your chance of arcane spell failure when wearing armor.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Armor Proficiency (in Armor Worn)

Benefit: You can reduce your chance of arcane spell failure by 10%.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times, each time gaining an additional 10% reduction, to a minimum of 0%.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.58 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.20, Port 4.20, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Armored Vigilance[edit]

General

You can hastily don and remove armor.

Prerequisite: Armor Proficiency (heavy) Donned Or Removed

Benefit: You can don, don hastily and remove armor in half the standard time.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Astrologer[edit]

General

You can divine the future using elements of nature and the state of the heavens.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Knowledge (Planes) 4 ranks, Knowledge (Arcana) 4 ranks

Benefit: You may spend 5 minutes studying the heavens or some other chosen fortune telling focus in order to duplicate the effects of the Augury spell. Your caster level is always considered 0 and thus the success rate is a fixed 70%. You may use this feat a number of times per day equal to your Wisdom bonus.

Balance: 3.67 (Purp 3.67, Pow 3.33, Port 3.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 3.33)

Athletic[edit]

SRD:Athletic General

You are a natural athlete.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Attack Focus[edit]

You may sacrifice mobility and attacks to increase your ability to hit.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: With a full attack, give up all your attacks but one for the round. This single attack gets a +2 bonus, plus an additional +2 bonus for each attack you gave up.

Example: Alan, with a base attack bonus of +12, can normally make three attacks in a round, at +12, +7, and +2. With Attack Focus, he can make a single attack at +18, a +6 bonus (+2 for the feat, +2 for each of the two attacks he gave up).

Balance: 4.38 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.30, Port 4.60, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.00)

Attentive[edit]

Modern

You notice the smallest details in your surroundings.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Investigate and Sense Motive checks.

Special: Remember that the Investigate skill can’t be used untrained.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Augment Summoning[edit]

SRD:Augment Summoning Magical

You summon the biggest and strongest creatures available.

Balance: 4.85 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Augment Undead[edit]

Magical

The undead you animate are more powerful.

Prerequisite: Spell Focus (necromancy)

Benefit: Undead you animate have 4 additional Hit Points per Hit Dice.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.33, Port 4.33, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.33)

Augmented Alchemy[edit]

SRD:Augmented Alchemy Epic

Your alchemical creations are especially potent.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 3.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Aura Chameleon[edit]

General

You may fool divination spells, or powers, in the same way as you can decieve magic items.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Disguise 5 ranks, Bluff 5 ranks, Use Magic Device 5 ranks

Benefit: While in disguise and as part of a role, you may attempt to use your Use Magic Device skill to disguise your aura to emulate any, or all, of the following: Ability Score (DC 15+Score); Alignment (DC 30); Class Feature (DC 20); Race (DC 25); Spell Ability (DC 20). You have to make your Use Magic Item roll each time someone tests your disguise (by casting a detection spell), and you have to decide how you wish divination spells, or supernatural senses, to ‘read’ you beforehand. If not using the psionics/magic transparency rules, Use Magic Device cannot emulate psionics and Use Psionic Device cannot emulate magic.

Special: While in disguise and as part of a role, you may, and with DM permission, attempt to use your Use Psionic Device skill to disguise your aura to emulate any, or all, of the following: Ability Score (DC 15+Score); Alignment (DC 30); Psionic Class Feature (DC 25); Psionic Feat (DC 20); Psionic Power (DC 20).

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.60, Pow 3.80, Port 3.80, Comp 3.40, Rule 4.40)

Automatic Quicken Spell[edit]

SRD:Automatic Quicken Spell Epic, Metamagic

You can quicken simple spells without penalty.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Automatic Silent Spell[edit]

SRD:Automatic Silent Spell Epic, Metamagic

You can silence simple spells without penalty.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Automatic Still Spell[edit]

SRD:Automatic Still Spell Epic, Metamagic

You can still simple spells without penalty.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Autonomous[edit]

Autonomous General

You have a knack for psionic self-sufficiency.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Avoidance[edit]

You do not provoke attacks of opportunity moving past opponents.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Base attack bonus +6, Tumble 8 ranks, Dodge, Expertise, Mobility, Spring Attack

Benefit: You do not draw attacks of opportunity for moving through threatened squares.

Special: This feat can only be executed in light or no armor.

Notes: This is not considered tumbling. You move at your normal movement rate. This feat does not allow you to move through enemy occupied squares.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Awareness[edit]

General

By intuitively predicting your opponent’s next move, you can get the jump on them.

Prerequisite: Wis 13

Benefit: You may use your wisdom bonus instead of your dexterity bonus to determine your initiative bonus.

Balance: 4.31 (Purp 4.07, Pow 4.10, Port 4.40, Comp 4.77, Rule 4.23)

Awesome Blow[edit]

SRD:Awesome Blow Monster, Fighter

You knock your victims flying with a powerful attack.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.75)

Axe Frenzy[edit]

You can strike exceptionally fast with axes.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus (any One Axe Weapon)

Benefit: You can only get the benefit of this feat with an axe-type weapon you have Weapon Focus in and use in one hand. Make one extra attack with an axe per round at your highest base attack. You suffer a –4 dodge penalty to AC during this round. This requires the full attack action.

Special: This feat works with the dwarven waraxe, greataxe, handaxe, kukiri, and throwing axe.

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 3.50, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.75)

Axe Hurling[edit]

You can throw any axe.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus (any One Axe Weapon)

Benefit: You can throw any type of axe that you have Weapon Focus for as if it had a range increment of 20 ft.

Special: This feat works with the battleaxe, dwarven waraxe, greataxe, handaxe, kukiri, and throwing axe.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.25)

Back To Back[edit]

You shield your allies' vulnerabilities in combat.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: If you are adjacent to an ally, that ally cannot be flanked. If you are adjacent to more than one ally, you must choose one ally to protect in this manner.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Backstab[edit]

Stealth

You are adept at sneak attacks.

Prerequisite: Sneak Attack 1d6

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls when making a sneak attack.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 3.33, Pow 3.33, Port 4.67, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.67)

Bane Of Enemies[edit]

SRD:Bane of Enemies Epic, Special

Your favored enemies fear any weapon in your hands.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Barber-surgeon[edit]

General

Your training as a barber includes various medical techniques.

Prerequisite: 5 ranks Profession (barber)

Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus to your Heal skill, and that skill becomes a class skill for you. Also, you may use your Intelligence modifier in place of your Wisdom modifier on Heal checks.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.40, Port 3.60, Comp 4.40, Rule 4.40)

Battle Cry[edit]

Your voice inspires greatness in battle.

Prerequisite: Cha 15

Benefit: Whenever you use the charge special attack, you may let lose an inspiring battle-cry. If you hit your target, all your allies that can hear you within 60’ get a +1 morale bonus to hit until your next action.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.33, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.17)

Battle Leader[edit]

General

Your banner or standard inspires your followers and cohorts in battle

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Leadership

Benefit: For this feat to have an effect, you must have a banner or standard that is recognizable to your followers and cohorts, and you must use this standard to urge, inspire or rally your troops. All cohorts and followers that can directly see you or your banner gain a +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and on saving throws versus all fear effects. If either you or your banner falls, all followers and cohorts instead get a -2 penalty to attack and on saving throws versus all fear effects until you are restored, the standard is raised again or one minute elapses.

Balance: 4.32 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.30, Port 4.30, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Beast Tongues[edit]

General

You can speak despite your form.

Benefit: As long as you can produce sound, this feat allows you to speak, even if your form would not ordinarily allow it. This is applicable to monsters that normally lack speech or if you are polymorphed into such a shape. You can now speak any language you know and cast spells with verbal components in any form. You can even sing and use bardic music in any form.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.25)

Big Familiar[edit]

Magical

You can take a larger animal or vermin as a familiar.

Prerequisite: The ability to summon a familiar

Benefit: You can bind an animal or vermin of medium size or smaller to be your familiar. The familiar ceremony works just as described in the class description, except that the creature is not actually summoned, and must be present and in your power (charmed, tamed or captured) and of a challenge rating equal to or lower than half your character level. Once bound, the new familiar becomes loyal to you, and gains all the benefits of a normal familiar, except that it has no species-specific familiar ability; it does not grant you any bonuses beyond those common to all familiars.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times, and stacks with itself. For each additional time it is taken, the maximum size of your familiar is increased by one category, from medium to large, to huge, and so on.

Example: Bainard the 1st level gnome illusionist wishes to use this feat to bind a dire badger as his familiar, figuring he can ride it into battle. However, since dire badgers have a challenge rating of two, he can't do this until he attains the fourth level. He decided not to bind any familiar at first level, since that would force him to wait a year and a day for his badger, once he attained fourth level.

Notes: You must dismiss any familiar you currently have before binding a new one, and you cannot bind a new familiar until a year and a day has passed since your last familiar was killed or dismissed.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Blade Defense[edit]

You have mastered the art of defending yourself with a blade.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus (any One Blade Weapon)

Benefit: You can only get the benefit of this feat with a blade-type weapon you have Weapon Focus in. When fighting defensively you gain an additional +2 dodge bonus to Armor Class. When using the total defense action you get an additional +4 dodge bonus to Armor Class. These bonuses are in addition to the normal benefits of the chosen defensive tactic.

Special: Blades include the bastard sword, falchion, greatsword, longsword, rapier, scimitar, short sword, and two-bladed sword.

Balance: 3.65 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

Bleeding Critical[edit]

Your strikes can cause someone to bleed to death.

Prerequisite: Improved Critical, Base attack bonus +8

Benefit: When dealing a critical hit your target takes 1 point of Constitution damage from blood loss. The critical hit does not multiply the Constitution damage.

Special: Creatures immune to critical hits (such as plants and constructs) are immune to this Constitution damage. This applies even if you have some other ability (such as the Enable Criticals feat) that lets you score critical hits against them.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Blind[edit]

General

Being blind, you have developed other senses to compensate.

Prerequisite: Permanently blind for at least three months

Benefit: You gain +4 to all Listen checks, and the ability to take 10 on any Listen check, regardless of condition. Listen is considered a class skill for you. You also gain the feat Blind-Fight.

Special: If you ever recover your sight, you lose this feat but keep Blind-Fight.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.75)

Blind-fight[edit]

SRD:Blind-Fight General, Fighter

You can sense opponents that you cannot see.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 4.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.75)

Blind-shot[edit]

General

You can sense your targets using senses other than sight.

Prerequisite: Blind-fight

Benefit: When making a ranged attack against a target within 30’ you may re-roll your miss chance due to concealment if you fail the first time.

Balance: 2.95 (Purp 2.75, Pow 3.00, Port 2.75, Comp 3.25, Rule 3.00)

Blinding Speed[edit]

SRD:Blinding Speed Epic

You can act with near superhuman speed.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Blinding Strike[edit]

General

Your mastery of underhanded dishonorable tactics allows you to temporarily blind your foe.

Prerequisite: Brawl, Streetfighting, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: By taking a full attack action, you may make a single attack that blinds your foe. If you hit, your opponent must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + half your level) or be blinded for 1d4 rounds. Only creatures that use sensory organs to see are vulnerable to this attack.

Balance: 4.33 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.33, Port 4.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.33)

Blindsight, 5-ft. Radius[edit]

SRD:Blindsight, 5-ft. Radius General

You can sense everything close to you, visible or not.

Comments: Grammar error "though it you discern" corrected.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.75)

Bloodletting[edit]

Your strikes can cause someone to bleed to death.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus

Benefit: When dealing a critical hit with any weapon you have taken Weapon Focus for, your opponent begins bleeding, suffering 1 additional point of damage each round until the wound is treated. The wound can be closed with a successful Heal check (DC 15), or any magical healing. This effect is cumulative but a single Heal check or magical heal will stop all current effects from this feat on that target.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 3.75, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.00)

Body Fuel[edit]

SRD:Body Fuel Psionic

You can expand your power point total at the expense of your health.

Balance: 3.20 (Purp 3.50, Pow 2.25, Port 3.00, Comp 3.25, Rule 4.00)

Bonded Weapon[edit]

You have used a single weapon so much that you have formed an almost spiritual bond with that specific weapon.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +8, Improved Critical (with Weapon), Proficient With Weapon, Weapon Focus (with Weapon), Weapon Specialization (with Weapon)

Benefit: Choose a single unique weapon. For one month you train exclusively with that weapon, learning how to best wield that specific weapon most effectively. During the training period, you may use no other weapons or you must repeat the process. After the month of training, give the weapon a name to symbolize your intimate knowledge of the weapon. You gain an additional +2 to all attack rolls and +1 to damage with your named weapon (this stacks with the weapon focus and weapon specialization bonuses). You do not gain the bonuses or penalties of this feat when wielding a weapon of the same type, and suffer a -2 to all attack rolls with all other weapons.

Special: If ever your named weapon is destroyed or taken from your possession for more than a week, you must repeat the process of naming a weapon and continue to suffer the -2 to attack rolls with all weapons of a different type. You may never have more than one bonded weapon.

Balance: 4.08 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.20, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.00)

Bone Art[edit]

Metamagic

You can create weapons, armor and possibly siege equipment for your undead minions.

Prerequisite: Knowledge (Architecture and Engineering) 5 ranks, Ability to summon undead

Benefit: When you cast a Bone Art spell that summons or creates undead, you may give the created undead equipment. This equipment performs just like standard equipment of the appropriate type. The undead are proficient with whatever gear they are created with. The gear created this way is actually a part of the undead creature and has an obvious sheen of undeath; it will wither to dust in an hour if more than ten feet away from the creature it was created for. A Bone Art spell uses a spell slot of higher than normal level, depending on the equipment created for the undead; all modifiers are cumulative.

Item	Spell Slot Modifier
Peasant’s outfit, simple gear such as quivers and weapon belts	+0
Fancy or elaborate clothing or gear worth up to 100 gold	+1
Simple or martial melee weapons and shields	+1
Exotic weapons, ranged weapons	+2
Padded, leather, studded leather, hide or scale mail	+1
Chain shirt, chainmail, breastplate, splint mail, banded mail	+2

Special: DMs may allow the creation of siege equipment with this feat. To do so, you must create a full crew complement for the siege engine, all modified by this feat, and it is a +3 spell slot modifier beyond that of any other gear created for those undead.

Notes: Immaterial undead have very little use for equipment. There is nothing to stop you from equipping undead using gear at hand; this feat merely provides proficiency and gear.

Balance: 4.03 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.33, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.83)

Bonus Domain[edit]

SRD:Bonus Domain Epic, Magical

You have been granted new powers by your deity.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Bonus Spells Focus[edit]

Magical

Choose one spellcasting class. You receive more bonus spells per day for that class.

Prerequisite: Caster level 4th

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to the appropriate ability score for the purposes of determining how many bonus spells you have available to you in the chosen class.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times if you have multiple spellcasting classes. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a different class.

Balance: 3.76 (Purp 3.80, Pow 3.60, Port 3.60, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.80)

Bookworm[edit]

General

You seem to have a knack for locating information needed when performing research

Benefit: Gain a +3 modifier to any research based activities conducted in a library or laboratory.

Special: This feat stacks with all skill and research enhancements applicable

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.26 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.20, Port 4.20, Comp 4.70, Rule 4.70)

Boost Construct[edit]

SRD:Boost Construct Psionic

Your astral constructs have more abilities.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Bottoms Up[edit]

General

You can drink potion or apply an oil safely as a move equivalent action.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: You can drink a potion or apply an oil as a move equivalent action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 3.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 3.75)

Bow Mastery[edit]

You are adept with either bows or crossbows.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus (any Bow Or Crossbow), Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You can choose to apply this feat to either bows or crossbows, but not both (unless this feat is taken twice). If you have previously taken Weapon Focus (any bow), you can apply the +1 attack bonus gained from this feat when wielding any bow that you are proficient in. Similarly, if you have previously chosen Weapon Focus (any crossbow), you can apply the +1 attack bonus gained from this feat when wielding any crossbow that you are proficient in.

Special: This feat can be chosen twice but does not stack with itself. The second time it is chosen you must apply its effects to either bows or crossbows, whichever wasn't chosen the first time this feat was taken.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.25)

Bravery[edit]

General

You are especially resistant to fear effects.

Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus to all saves to resist and/or overcome fear effects.

Balance: 4.93 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.67, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Brawl[edit]

You have a talent for unarmed fighting.

Benefit: When making an unarmed attack, you receive a +1 competence bonus on attack rolls, and you deal nonlethal damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier.

Normal: Unarmed attacks normally deal nonlethal damage equal to 1d3 + Strength modifier.

Special: Even if you have the ability to treat unarmed damage as lethal damage, the damage when using Brawl is always nonlethal.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Brawn[edit]

You have improved your striking power.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Brute

Benefit: When calculating melee attack bonus, consider your Strength to be two points higher than it actually is.

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.60, Port 4.20, Comp 4.60, Rule 3.60)

Breaking Blow[edit]

You are capable of inflicting powerful attacks with your bare hands.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +5, Str 15, Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist, Fists Of Steel

Benefit: As a full round action you may make a single unarmed melee attack that if it hits, deals damage equal to 1d6 for each point of strength modifier you have. If applied to an inanimate object, the damage is doubled. This uses one of your Stunning Fist attempts.

Special: The damage from a Breaking Blow is not modified by any statistic, ability, or feat, is applied instead of normal damage, and is not doubled by a critical hit.

Balance: 3.40 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 3.25, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.25)

Brew Potion[edit]

SRD:Brew Potion Item Creation

You can create magic potions.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Brute[edit]

You have improved your striking strength.

Prerequisite: Str 13

Benefit: When calculating damage inflicted, consider your Strength to be two points higher than it actually is.

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.40, Port 4.20, Comp 4.60, Rule 3.80)

Bulwark Of Defense[edit]

SRD:Bulwark of Defense Epic, Special

You have improved your defensive stance.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Burrowing Power[edit]

SRD:Burrowing Power Metapsionic

Your powers sometimes bypass barriers.

Balance: 3.45 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.50, Port 3.50, Comp 3.25, Rule 3.25)

Burst Fire[edit]

Modern

You unload multiple rounds into a single target.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Personal Firearms Proficiency, Advanced Firearms Proficiency

Benefit: When using an automatic firearm with at least five bullets loaded, you may fire a short burst as a single attack against a single target. You receive a –4 penalty on the attack roll, but deal +2 dice of damage. Firing a burst expends five bullets and can only be done if the weapon has five bullets in it.

Normal: Autofire uses ten bullets, targets a 10-foot-by-10-foot area, and can’t be aimed at a specific target. Without this feat, if you attempt an autofire attack at a specific target, it simply counts as a normal attack and all the extra bullets are wasted.

Special: If the firearm has a three-round burst setting, firing a burst expends three bullets instead of five and can be used if the weapon has only three bullets in it.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.75)

Butterfly Flank[edit]

Your skill with a blade distracts and intimidates your opponent, catching them off balance and unaware.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Combat Reflexes, Lightning Reflexes, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: As long as you and an ally threaten the same opponent, but are not adjacent to one another, your opponent is considered flanked to you and all allies threatening them.

Normal: A character can only flank an opponent if he and an ally are directly opposite one another around the target.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Cadaverous Familiar[edit]

Magical

You can take an undead creature as a familiar.

Prerequisite: The ability to summon a familiar, Ability to cast the animate dead spell

Benefit: With this feat, the familiar ritual is performed on the animated skeleton or zombie of a type of animal that can normally become a familiar. The familiar ceremony works normally, except that the creature is not actually summoned, and must be present and under your control. A skeletal or zombie familiar is just as intelligent as any other familiar. You still get the bonuses associated with that type of (living) familiar. As an undead creature, the cadaverous familiar can be turned or rebuked, but remember that it's hit dice is equal to your level.

Special: If your regular familiar is slain, you can recover the lost experience points by reanimating it and using this feat. If a cadaverous familiar is destroyed, you can merely replace any damaged parts and reanimate the remains, without losing any experience points in the process. You must dismiss any familiar you currently have before binding a new one, but need not wait a year and a day to bind a cadaverous familiar.

Notes: If you have the Big Familiar feat as well, you can bind any type of skeleton or zombie of the appropriate size. Your DM may let you apply this feat to an infernal companion or similar pet.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.50, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.50)

Called Shot[edit]

You do more damage with pinpoint attacks.

Prerequisite: Dex 13

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

Special: Creatures lacking an anatomy and thus immune to critical hits, are immune to this extra damage. Called shot can be used with ranged weapons at ranges up to 30 feet.

Notes: Dexterity-based attacks are attacks that use the dexterity modifier rather than the strength modifier for attack rolls; missile weapons, thrown weapons and weapons used with the Weapon Finesse feat. Called shot cannot be used with ranged touch attacks.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.75)

Camouflage[edit]

General

You have mastered the art of concealing objects and other creatures.

Prerequisite: Hide 1 rank

Benefit: You can apply your Hide skill to objects or even other creatures as a standard action. Often this requires arranging scenery to provide superior concealment. All normal Hide modifiers, including size, apply. A creature hidden in this manner cannot move about without breaking concealment.

Notes: Your DM may allow anyone to use the Hide skill for this, without requiring a feat.

Balance: 4.52 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.20, Port 4.70, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.70)

Campaigner[edit]

General

You sleep well under any circumstances.

Prerequisite: Endurance

Benefit: You can sleep in any kind of armor for any amount of time without suffering fatigue penalties or discomfort. Other conditions that are uncomfortable but not dangerous, such as temperature, noise, sleeping on a hard surface, or with bed bugs, will likewise not prevent you from a good nights sleep. You get to make listen rolls normally while asleep. On any successful roll, you instantly wake up. You fall asleep easily, so you still get your rest even if you wake up several times.

Notes: This incorporates the Improved Rapid Metabolism, Improved Recovery and Light Sleeper feats from previous versions of the Netbook of Feats.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.25, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Cannibalistic Casting[edit]

Magical

You can use your body to fuel magic once your spells have run out.

Benefit: You can cast a spell by losing a number of Constitution points equal to the level of the spell rather than using a spell slot. These lost points of Constitution are considered temporary ability score damage for all purposes, except that they cannot be healed by magical means and must be regained by rest. If the ability damage is in some way prevented the spell will fail. 0-level spells count as one spell level for the purpose of this feat.

Special: Spellcasters that must prepare spells are limited to selecting spells previously prepared and cast that day.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.70, Pow 4.20, Port 4.20, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.40)

Cantrip[edit]

Magical

Allows you to use 0-level arcane spells.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Knowledge (Arcana) 1 rank

Benefit: This feat grants you the ability to understand up to your intelligence modifier's worth of cantrips, i.e. 0-level arcane spells. You still locate and be trained in these spells. Regardless of the number of cantrips learned only one may be cast per day, and you must rest and memorize their cantrip as a wizard normally does, and suffers all appropriate penalties (e.g. spell failure chance due to armor).

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times; however, no additional cantrips can ever be learned (past the individual's intelligence modifier). Each additional time this feat is taken, the caster may prepare one additional cantrip per day for casting. The total maximum number of cantrips that can be cast in a single day (regardless of the number of times this feat is taken), is also limited to the caster's intelligence modifier.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.80, Comp 3.80, Rule 2.60)

Cantrip Mastery[edit]

Magical

You have mastered cantrips in a way that allows you to use them more freely.

Prerequisite: Caster level 3rd, Memorizes spells as a Wizard, Knowledge (Arcana) 5 ranks

Benefit: Instead of memorising set cantrips (0-level spells) for the day, you can freely use any cantrip available to you (known or in your spellbooks) up to the total number of cantrips you can cast per day.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.60, Pow 4.70, Port 4.00, Comp 4.70, Rule 3.00)

Careful Planner[edit]

General

You always seem to have the right equipment on hand.

Prerequisite: Wis 13

Benefit: In any situation where a piece of mundane equipment is required and the item is unavailable, you can declare that you have the item on hand. You must immediately pay for the item, as if purchased from a shop. The item in question cannot be more than 25 gp in value. It is a fairly typical item of its sort you purchased last time you were in an appropriate market. The item found is not a specific item and could not for instance appear to be a counterfeit of another specific item. In the case of arrows, darts and the like, you may not ‘find’ more than 1d10 of these on you at any one time.

Special: You may use this feat a number of times per session equal to your Wisdom bonus. However, the DM may determine on extensive excursions that it can only be used a number of times equal to your Wisdom bonus per adventure. You can not find an item that you could not have conceivably been carrying with you because you lack sufficient storage space.

Notes: The idea of the feat is not that you magically create items, but that your character is a better shopper than their player and bought the item last time they re-supplied even the player had not thought to do so.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Cast On The Run[edit]

You can cast spells while moving.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Concentration 7 ranks, Dodge, Mobility

Benefit: When using a standard action to cast a spell or activate a magic item you can move both before and after your action provided the totally distance moved does not exceed your current speed.

Balance: 4.47 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.67, Port 4.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.67)

Cast-iron Stomach[edit]

General

You can consume the most unpleasant fare without so much as a second thought.

Prerequisite: Con 13

Benefit: You derive nourishment from spoiled food and can avoid dehydration by drinking seawater with few ill effects. By subsisting on these unusual provisions, you double the amount of time you can go without fresh food and water.

Normal: Without this feat you can go without food for three days, after which time you must make a Constitution check (DC 10, + 1 for each previous check) or take 1d6 points of nonlethal damage. Without this feat you can go without fresh water for one day plus a number of hours equal to your Constitution score, after which you must make Constitution checks as described above, with similar effects for failed checks.

Special: For this feat to take effect, you must have access to formerly edible foods and a supply of salt water. Otherwise, you are just as vulnerable to starvation and dehydration as any other character.

Balance: 3.45 (Purp 2.75, Pow 3.00, Port 3.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Cautious[edit]

Modern

You haven't lost any fingers yet.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Demolitions checks and Disable Device checks.

Special: Remember that the Demolitions skill and the Disable Device skill can’t be used untrained.

Balance: 4.24 (Purp 3.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.20, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.80)

Chain Power[edit]

SRD:Chain Power Metapsionic

You can manifest powers that arc to hit other targets in addition to the primary target.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Chain Ray[edit]

Metamagic

You can chain your ray spells.

Benefit: This feat allows a spell cast with Effect: Ray that successfully hits a single target to possibly strike other targets. When a Chain Ray spell successfully strikes a target it creates a number of secondary rays that strike opponents within 30’ of the initial target. You may strike a number of secondary targets up to your caster level. Each secondary target requires an additional ranged attack. Secondary targets are only affected by one ray (regardless of how many the spell originally produces) and the ray only does half its normal damage. Rays that do not do damage but allow saving throws have their DC reduced by 4. A Chain Ray spell uses up a slot two levels higher than the actual level.

Balance: 3.87 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.00, Port 3.67, Comp 3.33, Rule 4.00)

Channel Against Outsiders[edit]

Special

You can turn or rebuke one type of outsider.

Prerequisite: Turn or Rebuke Undead ability, Extra Turning

Benefit: Select one group of outsiders (such as fire elementals, demons or devils) that are either hostile to your faith/alignment (for turning) or associated with your faith/ alignment (for rebuking). You can channel divine energy against this type of outsider to turn or rebuke them as if they were undead of twice their Hit Dice. When turning outsiders, those whose modified Hit Dice are half your turning level or less are dismissed to their home plane rather than destroyed.

Special: On their home plane, you turn or rebuke these outsiders as undead of four times their Hit Dice, but there they really can be destroyed instead of merely dismissed. This feat can be taken several times. It does not stack. Each time, you may choose a new type of outsider to turn or rebuke.

Notes: A cleric that turns undead also turns outsiders, and a cleric that rebukes undead also rebukes outsiders. You must select appropriate groups of outsiders depending on whether you turn or rebuke. Your DM has the final say as to what constitutes a valid group of outsiders for this feat.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.38 (Purp 4.70, Pow 4.50, Port 3.70, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Channel Psionic Touch[edit]

Psionic

You can channel your psionic touch powers through a held melee weapon.

Prerequisite: Manifester level 1st

Benefit: You are able to manifest psionic touch powers through a held melee weapon, allowing you to make a standard armed attack and inflict normal weapon damage plus the effect of your psionic power on a successful strike. For a power with a manifestation time of 1 standard action, manifesting the power and making the attack require a full-round action (unless the power is manifested with Quicken Power, in which case it requires a standard action). When resolving your attack, compare your attack roll against your target’s normal AC and AC against touch attacks. If your attack roll fails to beat the target’s normal AC but beats his or her AC against touch attacks, the power is discharged normally but the weapon inflicts no additional damage. Once the power is manifest your melee weapon holds the charge of the power exactly as if the power had been manifest in the normal manner. You cannot pass a charged weapon to another character as doing so discharges your power. Likewise, the power dissipates (without discharging) if the weapon is ever thrown or leaves your hand.

Normal: You can manifest a psionic touch power as either a touch attack (no armor, shield or natural armor bonus to AC) or a normal unarmed strike.

Special: You cannot manifest personal psionic powers (like Claws of the Bear, Claws of the Vampire, etc.) with this feat. For purposes of this feat, the weapon used to manifest your psionic touch power is immune to the effects of your power while it holds the charge of the power.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 3.25, Rule 4.50)

Channel Touch Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast a touch spell through your melee weapon.

Benefit: You can cast any of your touch spells through a held melee weapon, allowing you to make a standard armed attack and inflict normal weapon damage plus the effect of your spell on a successful strike. Casting the spell is still a standard action (unless you have the Quicken Spell feat) and you must wait until your next attack action in order to make your armed attack. When resolving your attack, compare your attack roll against your target's normal AC and AC against touch attacks. If your attack roll fails to beat the target's normal AC but beats their AC against touch attacks, the spell is discharged normally but the weapon inflicts no additional damage. Once the spell is cast your melee weapon holds the charge of the spell exactly as if the spell had been cast in the normal manner. You cannot pass a charged weapon to another character, as doing so discharges your spell. Likewise, the spell dissipates (without discharging) if the weapon is ever thrown or leaves your hand. Casting a touch spell in this manner uses up a spell slot one level higher than the level of the spell cast.

Normal: You can discharge a touch spell as either a touch attack (no armor, shield or natural armor bonus to AC) or a normal unarmed strike.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.25)

Channeled Resistance[edit]

Monster, Psionic

The creature can protect other beings that it touches with its Spell Resistance (SR) or Power Resistance (PR).

Prerequisite: Innate Spell Resistance 10 or Innate Power Resistance 10

Benefit: As a standard action, the creature can share its SR or PR with any single creature touched. This protection lasts only so long as the creature with SR or PR concentrates on providing the protection and only as long as the beneficiary remains in contact with the creature with resistance. If the creature with resistance is distracted or suffers damage in any way while maintaining this shared protection it must make a Concentration check as if casting a 0-level spell. Failing this check instantly negates the shared SR or PR until the creature with resistance spends another action to share it again.

Normal: Creatures and magic items cannot bestow SR or PR on another.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Chaotic Mind[edit]

SRD:Chaotic Mind General

The turbulence of your thoughts prevents others from gaining insight into your actions.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is not generally in favor of feats such as these that break the magic-psionics transparency rule.

Balance: 3.50 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 3.25, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.25)

Chaotic Rage[edit]

SRD:Chaotic Rage Epic, Rage

Your rage channels the powers of raw chaos into your weapon.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Charmed[edit]

General

You lead a charmed existence.

Benefit: One time per day, you may add a +4 bonus to any single die roll. You must choose to do this before rolling.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 3.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Cheap Enhancing[edit]

You create magic items on the cheap, including non-masterwork for weapons/armor.

Prerequisite: Any one Item Creation feat

Benefit: You reduce the cost of creating magic items by 10%, though time and XP costs are based on the full normal price. When creating magic weapons, armor or shields, you can ignore the requirement that the item be masterwork.

Normal: Only masterwork items may be enhanced to become magic armor and weapons.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 4.17, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.17)

Child Of The Sea[edit]

General, Trait

You have inherited the affinity for the sea of an ancestor (perhaps an aquatic elf).

Benefit: You gain a Swim speed of 20 ft. You gain a +8 on all Swim checks. Swim is always a class skill for you. You can always Take 10 on your Swim check skills. You may use the run action when swimming, but only if you swim in a straight line.

Special: You may only take this feat at character creation.

Notes: You do not gain any ability to breathe underwater.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.67, Pow 4.33, Port 4.33, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.67)

Chill Of The Grave[edit]

Monster

Your undead presence horrifies the living.

Prerequisite: Undead creature type

Benefit: You have a supernatural aura that acts similarly to a continuous cause fear spell against all living creatures within 10’ of you. Creatures that make a Will save (DC of 13 + ½ HD of undead + Cha bonus) are immune to this effect for 24 hours, whereas those that fail are frightened for 1d4 rounds.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Cleave[edit]

SRD:Cleave General, Fighter

You can slice through multiple foes in one great swing.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Cleave Asunder[edit]

Your Sunder attacks are usually more effective. You are trained in following through when you break an opponent's weapon or shield

Prerequisite: Str 13, Cleave, Improved Sunder, Power Attack

Benefit: When attacking an opponent's weapon, shield or other held object, if the object is broken you can immediately make another attack against the same opponent or another object the opponent holds. You can use this ability only once per round.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.38 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.20, Port 4.50, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.50)

Cleaving Rampage[edit]

You charge forward cutting through all in your path.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Dex 13, Power Attack, Cleave, Dodge, Great Cleave, Mobility, Spring Attack, Base attack bonus +8

Benefit: As a full round action you may trace a path up to twice your speed in a straight line. This path must be generally clear; the only obstructions allowed are friendly or enemy combatants. You must attack the first opponent along your path, and must move at least 10 ft. before your first attack. If you drop an opponent you may can take a cleave attack on the next available target. If no targets are in reach you may continue moving along the path. You must stop moving when you make an attack but fail to drop the opponent. Any opponent dropped will not hinder your movement even if they originally blocked your path. You are considered to be charging and get the usual +2 bonus to hit on all attacks for the round, and -2 to your AC until your next action. You still provoke attacks of opportunity as usual.

Special: This feat does not allow this maneuver to be used while mounted.

Balance: 4.11 (Purp 4.31, Pow 4.31, Port 4.31, Comp 3.31, Rule 4.31)

Cleaving Shot[edit]

Your missile attacks can pierce through one target and into the next.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus, Point Blank Shot, Base attack bonus +8

Benefit: If you hit an opponent within 30’ with a ranged attack and deal enough damage to drop the target, you missile rips through your target and potentially strikes a second foe. You may immediately make another attack at the same base attack bonus against an enemy within 30’ of you and who is in a direct line with you and your original target.

Notes: As a DM you may want to restrict this feat to ranged weapons you feel could realistically “rip through” a target, however one could imagine that a thrown axe might whiz by cutting someone’s throat instead of blasting through their chest.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.13, Port 3.88, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Clinch[edit]

You have mastered the art of fighting at very close quarters.

Prerequisite: Dodge, Mobility, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: Go into "clinch" with an adjacent opponent as a move-equivalent action. After doing this, you get a +4 cover bonus to AC against all opponents, and a +4 circumstance bonus to attack rolls against that opponent. If you and your opponent move further than 5 feet apart, you lose this bonus. You also lose the bonus if you move into a clinch with or attack someone else. To use this feat your weapon must be of a size class two categories smaller than your opponent's. A natural weapon or unarmed attack has a size code two sizes smaller than the creature using it.

Example: A medium creature with a light weapon (e.g. a tiny object such as a dagger) can use this feat against another medium creature using a two-handed weapon (e.g. a medium object such as a greatsword), but not if they were using a one-handed weapon (e.g. a small object such as a longsword). Similarly a human with a dagger could use this feat against an ogre using an ogre-sized longsword.

Notes: Roman shortswordsmen used this against longspears under king Pyrrhus. It was just successful enough to coin the term 'pyrrhic victory'.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.40 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.75, Port 3.00, Comp 2.75, Rule 3.75)

Cloak Dance[edit]

SRD:Cloak Dance General

You are skilled at using optical tricks to make yourself seem to be where you are not.

Balance: 3.65 (Purp 4.25, Pow 2.50, Port 4.75, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.25)

Close Order Combat[edit]

You are trained to fight close-order.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: You may take a 5 ft. step into the space occupied by a willing ally, that ally can then step into your space immediately, so that you exchange spaces. You may not perform this action with an ally who is immobilized. Neither you nor your ally provokes an attack of opportunity.

Special: Both you and your ally must be small or medium sized.

Balance: 3.96 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.08, Port 3.83, Comp 3.83, Rule 3.83)

Closed Mind[edit]

SRD:Closed Mind General

Your mind is better able to resist psionics than normal.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is not generally in favor of feats such as these that break the magic-psionics transparency rule.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 3.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.25)

Cold Rage[edit]

Your rage does not prevent you from thinking clearly.

Prerequisite: Con 13, Wis 13, Rage ability

Benefit: While raging, you can use Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills, the Concentration Skill, abilities that require patience or concentration, and you can cast spells and activate magic items that require a command word, a spell trigger or spell completion to function. You can use Combat Expertise and metamagic feats.

Balance: 3.53 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.33, Port 3.00, Comp 4.33, Rule 3.00)

Cold-blooded Killer[edit]

Stealth

You are cold-blooded slayer, able to precisely kill others with devastating sneak attacks.

Prerequisite: Death Attack, Base attack bonus +7, Sneak Attack 1d6

Benefit: You add +2 to the DC of the Fortitude save made to resist your death attack. Even if your opponent succeeds on his saving throw, you inflict +1d6 points of damage on your sneak attack.

Normal: The standard DC for an Assassin's death attack is 10 + assassin class level + Int bonus.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 3.25, Pow 4.00, Port 3.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Colossal Wild Shape[edit]

SRD:Colossal Wild Shape Epic, Wild

You can assume the form of colossal animals.

Comments: Normal should be altered to: "Without this feat, a character cannot wild shape into an animal of greater than Gargantuan size, requiring Gargantuan Wild Shape".

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Combat Archery[edit]

SRD:Combat Archery Epic, Fighter

You can fire a bow without incurring attacks of opportunity.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team feels this would be suitable as a normal (non-epic) defensive feat.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Combat Casting[edit]

SRD:Combat Casting General, Magical

You can cast spells more reliably in combat.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Combat Expertise[edit]

You can sacrifice offense for defense when fighting.

Balance: 4.90 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Combat Focus[edit]

Paying little heed to distractions and other threats, you may focus your attacks on one opponent, leaving yourself open to others.

Prerequisite: Dodge, Improved Initiative, Base attack bonus +5

Benefit: On your action, before making attack rolls for a round, you may choose to focus your efforts against one opponent. Against this opponent, you get a +2 bonus to attack and a +1 dodge bonus to Armor Class. The +1 Armor Class bonus from Dodge must be applied to the same opponent for a total bonus of +2. You have a -2 penalty to Armor Class against all other opponents.

Balance: 3.44 (Purp 3.60, Pow 3.00, Port 3.30, Comp 3.30, Rule 4.00)

Combat Fury[edit]

Rage

You can attack with an incredible fury.

Prerequisite: Rage 2/day, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: By spending an additional Rage per day while you are already enraged, you can enter a combat frenzy that enables you to make one additional attack per round at your highest attack bonus for the duration of your rage. This bonus attack and all other attacks made until your next action suffer a -2 penalty to your attack roll, and you must take the full attack action in order to make this extra attack. In addition, when using this ability you increase your AC penalty to -4 during any round that you make this extra attack.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Combat Intimidation[edit]

General

You are capable of intimidating others more easily in combat.

Prerequisite: Intimidate 4 ranks, Cha 13

Benefit: You can make one Intimidate skill check each round as a free action, but only to demoralize an opponent in combat. As a move-equivalent action, you can try to demoralize all opponents you threaten in melee combat.

Normal: Intimidating others in combat is a standard action.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Combat Manifestation[edit]

SRD:Combat Manifestation Psionic

You are adept at manifesting powers in combat.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Combat Opportunist[edit]

Stealth

You have trained extensively in attacking openings in your opponent’s defenses with a particular weapon. Choose one weapon such as short sword. With that weapon, your attacks of opportunity can be devastating.

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes, Weapon Focus (with Weapon), Sneak Attack 1d6

Benefit: When you make an attack of opportunity, you may add sneak attack damage. This ability can only be used once per round, and following this attack, you may not make any further Attacks of Opportunity until after your next action. This may negate the benefits of Combat Reflexes for the current round.

Normal: Only the loss of Dex bonus to Armor Class or flanked status allow a character to add sneak attack damage.

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

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.30, Pow 4.30, Port 4.00, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.00)

Combat Precision[edit]

You can sacrifice power for accuracy.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: When taking an attack or full attack action you can choose to use Combat Precision. Until your next action you gain a +4 bonus on all to hit rolls, but all hit point damage dealt from your attack is halved. This can not be used with touch attacks.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 3.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Combat Reflexes[edit]

SRD:Combat Reflexes General, Fighter

You can make more attacks of opportunity than normal.

Balance: 4.85 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Combat Rotation[edit]

You know to relieve warriors from melee combat by taking their place in the ranks.

Prerequisite: Dodge, Mobility, Base attack bonus +3, Medium size or smaller

Benefit: As a move action you may trade places with any willing ally, medium sized or smaller, within 5 ft. of you. This action does not generate an attack of opportunity either on yourself or your ally. This does not affect your ally’s Initiative in any way.

Notes: You can not take this action if it would require you or your ally to move more than 5’.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Combat Spell Trigger[edit]

Magical

You can activate any spell trigger magic item while fighting defensively.

Prerequisite: Combat Casting

Benefit: You may choose to fight defensively when activating a spell trigger magic item. Activating the spell trigger magic item remains a standard action.

Normal: You can only fight defensively with an attack or full-attack action.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Combat Surge[edit]

You can rush an action in combat at the cost of presenting opportunities to your opponents

Prerequisite: Improved Initiative, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: On your action, before making attack rolls for a round, you may choose to take a -4 penalty to your armor class until your next action. If you do so, you will gain +2 to your initiative for the remainder of this combat. The bonus begins on the next round.

Balance: 3.38 (Purp 2.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.30, Rule 3.00)

Combat Throw[edit]

Modern

You get a bonus to trip and grapple attacks.

Prerequisite: Defensive Arts

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on opposed Strength and Dexterity checks any time you attempt a trip or grapple attack, or when you try to avoid a trip or grapple attack made against you.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Concentration Mastery[edit]

General

You can maintain your concentration even under stress or amidst distraction.

Prerequisite: Dodge, Concentration 8 ranks

Benefit: You have a strong ability to focus and concentrate, allowing you to take 10 on Concentration skill checks even if stress and distractions would normally prevent you from doing so.

Balance: 3.92 (Purp 4.40, Pow 3.20, Port 3.80, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.00)

Concentration Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can extend the duration of your spells through concentration.

Benefit: You can maintain a spell which has a duration longer than one round through concentration. You must start concentrating right after casting the spell, and, for as long as you keep it up, need not count time off the spell's duration. After you stop maintaining the spell, its normal duration resumes and then terminates as usual. You cannot use this feat to maintain a spell past ten times its normal duration nor can you resume concentration. A Concentration Spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's normal level.

Balance: 4.32 (Purp 4.70, Pow 4.20, Port 4.50, Comp 3.70, Rule 4.50)

Concerted Attack[edit]

You are well trained in directing the efforts of others during a coordinated attack

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You can direct the efforts of your allies to gain an additional bonus to flanking efforts. When you are leading a flanking effort against a single opponent, your allies involved in the melee gain a +4 flanking bonus on the attack roll.

Normal: Gain a +2 on your attack roll when flanking

Special: You must be able to effectively communicate with the other flanking members.

Notes: This feat is designed to let a leader coordinate a better attack front against an opponent. By confusing the opponent and having the group work together under the direction of the leader, the flanking bonus increases.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.80, Pow 4.20, Port 5.00, Comp 3.80, Rule 4.20)

Cone Control[edit]

Metamagic

Your cone spells hit only selected targets.

Prerequisite: Spellcraft 15 ranks

Benefit: Instead of affecting all targets within a cone shaped spell, you may select up to one target inside the cone for each 5’ in length of the cone which are affected. A Cone Control spell takes up a spell slot one level higher than the spell’s actual level.

Special: Cone Control only works on spells with a cone area of effect.

Balance: 3.67 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.33, Comp 3.33, Rule 3.67)

Controlled Burst[edit]

Metamagic

You have greater control over burst and spread spells.

Benefit: When casting burst- and spread-based area-of-effect spells, you can reduce the affected area in increments of 5 ft. You have total control over the radius, but not the direction. A controlled burst spell takes up a spell slot one level higher than normal.

Example: Using this feat, you can cast a small fireball into a square next to you without having it impact you or your comrades.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Controlled Charge[edit]

You can still remain defensive when charging.

Benefit: You are able to make a charge attack without suffering a -2 penalty to armor class.

Balance: 4.68 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.20, Port 4.60, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Conviction Of Faith[edit]

Special

Through extraordinary faith you can achieve near miraculous results.

Benefit: Increase your Charisma attribute by +2 for the purposes of determining class derived divine abilities only (such as divine grace, dark blessing, lay on hands, smite evil, turn or rebuke undead, etc).

Balance: 3.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 2.67, Port 3.17, Comp 3.67, Rule 3.00)

Counter Charge[edit]

You may step forward and meet a charging opponent, using his momentum to make your own attack more effective.

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes

Benefit: You may declare a Counter Charge as a readied action against any opponent who charges you. The action is triggered the moment your opponent comes within 5’ of your reach. You take a 5’ step forward and make a single attack at your full base attack bonus. Your opponent suffers the -2 AC penalty for charging. On a successful attack you deal double damage. Stack this bonus damage with the weapon’s critical multiplier on a critical hit. While this shortens the distance your opponent has to charge, it does not alter the bonuses and penalties of the charge if the opponent moves less than 10’ because of your action.

Normal: Normally, you may only deal double damage against a charging opponent with weapons that may be set against charging foes.

Special: If for any reason you may not take the 5-foot step, you may not use this feat.

Balance: 3.20 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.25, Port 3.00, Comp 2.75, Rule 4.00)

Counterspell Feedback[edit]

Your counterspells cause your victim to take arcane damage.

Prerequisite: Improved Counterspell

Benefit: When you successfully counterspell a spell, the caster of the spell takes force damage equal to 1d4 points per level of the spell countered.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 3.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Craft Anywhere[edit]

You can craft magic/psionic items in your spare time.

Prerequisite: Any Item Creation Feat

Benefit: You can craft magic/psionic items in your spare time, anywhere, even while adventuring or doing other activities during the day. The item creation process still takes the same amount of time, has the same costs, and requires the same equipment as normal, but the creation process is not disturbed if you do other strenuous activity (fighting, spellcasting, research, etc.). You must devote your full attention to the crafting process in order of it to count towards your total, and you suffer a -10 penalty to your spot and listen checks while doing it. Simply add up all the hours you spent crafting until you get the total working hours required to craft the item (Market Value / 1000gp * 8 Hours). You still may not work more than 8 hours in a given day.

Balance: 3.57 (Purp 3.83, Pow 3.17, Port 3.50, Comp 3.83, Rule 3.50)

Craft Cognizance Crystal[edit]

Craft Cognizance Crystal Item Creation, Psionic

You can create psionic cognizance crystals that store power points.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Craft Construct[edit]

SRD:Craft Construct Item Creation

You can create magical constructs.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Craft Dorje[edit]

SRD:Craft Dorje Item Creation, Psionic

You can create slender crystal wands called dorjes than manifest powers when charges are expended.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Craft Epic Magic Arms And Armor[edit]

SRD:Craft Epic Magic Arms and Armor Epic, Item Creation

You can create legendary weapons and armaments.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Craft Epic Rod[edit]

SRD:Craft Epic Rod Epic, Item Creation

You can create epic level rods.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Craft Epic Staff[edit]

SRD:Craft Epic Staff Epic, Item Creation

You can create epic level staves.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Craft Epic Wondrous Item[edit]

SRD:Craft Epic Wondrous Item Epic, Item Creation

You can create epic level wondrous items.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Craft Magic Arms And Armor[edit]

SRD:Craft Magic Arms and Armor Item Creation

You can magical weapons and armaments.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Craft Magic Tattoo[edit]

You can create magical tattoos that duplicate the effects of a single spell.

Prerequisite: Caster level 9th, Craft (Artist) 5 ranks

Benefit: You can apply your magic and artistry together to create a magic tattoo. The tattoo is created to emulate the effects of a single spell as if it were a spell-like ability. The base price for a tattoo of this nature is spell level * caster level * 400 gp. Crafting a magic tattoo takes one day for each 1,000gp of its base price. To craft a magic tattoo, you and the recipient must each spend 1/25th of its base price in XP. The creator must also use up raw materials costing half of the base price.

Special: The power of the tattoo can only be used once each day. The caster level is based on the lowest caster level needed to cast the spell. If two or more magic tattoos are attempted on the same body (regardless of size), the magics will disrupt each other (i.e. you may never have more than one magic tattoo). A magic tattoo can be removed using a remove curse cast at one level higher than the spell level of the spell effect granted by the tattoo (using heighten spell or a similar method). The act of casting remove curse only takes away the magic. The tattoo itself remains until removed through mundane methods. The tattoo is treated as a Miscellaneous Magic Item for all other intents and purposes.

Balance: 4.02 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.80, Port 4.60, Comp 4.20, Rule 3.50)

Craft Psicrown[edit]

SRD:Craft Psicrown Item Creation, Psionic

You can create psicrowns, which have multiple psionic effects.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Craft Psionic Arms And Armor[edit]

SRD:Craft Psionic Arms and Armor Item Creation, Psionic

You can create psionic weapons, armor, and shields.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Craft Psionic Construct[edit]

SRD:Craft Psionic Construct Item Creation, Psionic

You can create golems and other psionic automatons that obey your orders.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Craft Rod[edit]

SRD:Craft Rod Item Creation

You can create magical rods.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Craft Staff[edit]

SRD:Craft Staff Item Creation

You can create magical staves.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Craft Universal Item[edit]

SRD:Craft Universal Item Item Creation, Psionic

You can create universal psionic items.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Craft Wand[edit]

SRD:Craft Wand Item Creation

You can create magical wands.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Craft Wondrous Item[edit]

SRD:Craft Wondrous Item Item Creation

You can create wondrous magical items.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Craftsman[edit]

General

You have a greater understanding on how to create things

Prerequisite: 5 ranks in any two Craft skills

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to all Craft skills

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Create Opportunity[edit]

Just when you thought you were as slippery as slippery can be, here comes somebody just a little bit quicker.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Combat Reflexes, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: In lieu of ALL your attacks of opportunity for one round, you may make a single attack of opportunity against a target who moves more than 5' and moves through your threatened area in a manner that does not normally provoke an attack of opportunity.

Normal: Tumbling successfully does not provoke an attack of opportunity. Spring attack does not provoke an attack of opportunity from the attacker's target. You get no attacks of opportunity against a target with at least 50% cover.

Notes: If you have made even a single attack of opportunity since your last action, you may not use this feat, since you can no longer give up ALL attacks of opportunity. If the target has the feat Mobility, the mobility bonus to AC still applies.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Create Wondrous Creature[edit]

You know how to create Aberrations, Beasts, Magical Beasts, Monstrous Humanoids, and Plant creatures.

Prerequisite: Spellcaster or Manifester level 5th, Knowledge (Arcana or Psionics) 5 ranks, Knowledge (Nature) 5 ranks

Benefit: You can create any Aberration, Magical Beast, Monstrous Humanoid, or Plant creature whose prerequisites you meet. The creature created is not necessarily under your control. To create a creature you need access to a lab, similar to an alchemist's lab, of at least 500 gp value. The creation of a creature involves taking a similar creature or creature(s) and subjecting them to various spells and grafting techniques. There is a chance that the experiment will be a failure. To create a creature you must succeed both a Knowledge (Arcana or Psionics) and a Knowledge (Nature) check (DC 20 + CR of attempted creature). You may not 'take 10' or 'take 20' on these rolls. However, you get a +1 circumstance bonus for every attempt at a specific creature that you have previously made, whether successful or not. If both Knowledge skill checks are failed the creature dies a horrible death. If one Knowledge skill check fails and the other succeeds the resulting creation is horribly deformed in some way and is hostile towards you. The base price of a creature is the challenge rating squared times 1000gp (CR x CR x 1000gp). Creating a creature takes 1 day for every 1,000 gp in its base price. To create a creature, you must spend 1/25 of its base price in XP and use up raw materials costing half of its base price. The minimum caster level for creating a creature is 2 x CR of the intended creature. The appropriate spells must be used in order to add extraordinary (Ex), spell-like (Sp), and/or supernatural (Su) abilities.

Special: If a Charm Monster spell is cast every day of the creation process, a successfully created creature will be in permanent servitude to you. If a Limited Wish is used in the creation process a successfully created creature will be in permanent servitude to you and will even follow a life goal, determined by you, after you have died. If a Wish is used in the creation process a successfully created creature and its descendants will follow a life goal, determined by you, even after you have died.

Notes: Characters should be encouraged to create their own unique magical beasts and not just create another Owlbear, Tendriculos, Mimic, or Skum. If the creature is a new creature the DM should determine the CR. As failures in the use of the feat can result in tremendous amounts of pain and death for the creature created your DM may restrict the use of this feat to evil, or at least non-good, characters. In games that use the Epic rules this feat may not be available, as to a certain extent it duplicates the effects of Epic Spells based on the Life seed.

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(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.96 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.20, Port 4.00, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.60)

Criminal[edit]

General

You are practiced in the arts of petty crime.

Prerequisite: Any non-lawful alignment

Benefit: Forgery, Open Lock and Sleight of Hand are considered class skills, regardless of your class.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.50)

Crippler[edit]

You are adept at disabling the natural weapons of various creatures.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, Knowledge (nature) 4 ranks)

Benefit: If you score a critical hit or make a successful sneak attack against a creature that has a natural attack, instead of dealing extra damage from the critical or giving up 2d6 of Sneak Attack damage, you may elect to disable one of that creature’s natural attacks. If the creature uses this natural attack in a round, it takes a -5 penalty on all attack rolls for that round. If it avoids using that attack, any other attacks it makes are not penalized. This penalty lasts until the creature receives a DC 15 Heal check, receives magical healing, regeneration, or is healed by rest.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.13, Pow 4.25, Port 4.13, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Cross-class Learning[edit]

General

Pick two skills that become class skills for all your classes.

Benefit: Pick any two skills. The selected skills become class skills for all your classes from this point on.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times, but does not stack with itself. Choose two new skills to become class skills each time it is taken.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 3.75)

Crystal Psiweapon[edit]

Psionic

You can implant a personality fragment in a psionic weapon.

Prerequisite: Manifester level 1st

Benefit: You can seed a personality fragment in a masterwork weapon embedded with a crystal or imbued with permanent psionic power, granting the weapon sentience and linking it to your life-force. The seeded weapon becomes in all respects a psicrystal that improves with your level, gaining all special abilities accordingly. Apply the psicrystal’s natural armor bonus as a bonus to the weapon’s hardness. Because the weapon is linked to your life-force, you can telekinetically summon it to your hand at a range of 10 feet as a free action by expending your psionic focus.

Special: You can apply other feats that enhance psicrystals, such as the Improved Psicrystal and Power Psicrystal feats, to your crystal psiweapon.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.25)

Cutting Words[edit]

General

You are a master of put-downs and cutting remarks.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Intimidate 5 ranks

Benefit: You may use your Intimidate skill to Demoralize an Opponent at a range of up to 100’ and without needing to Threaten your opponent in melee combat. This remains a standard action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. You must be able to speak and your target must be able to hear and understand your words.

Normal: To Demoralize Opponent you must threaten them in melee combat.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.67, Pow 3.67, Port 4.00, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.33)

Damage Reduction[edit]

SRD:Damage Reduction (Feat) Epic, Fighter

You take less damage from all attacks.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Deadly Precision[edit]

SRD:Deadly Precision Stealth

You empty your mind of all distracting emotion, becoming an instrument of deadly precision.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team suggest re-rolling 1s and 2s would be more in keeping with the average power level of a feat.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Deafening Song[edit]

SRD:Deafening Song Epic, Song

Your songs can deafen your foes.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.50)

Deafening Spell[edit]

Metamagic

The sonic volume of your spells reaches deafening levels.

Benefit: Deafening Spell can be used with any spell that deals sonic damage or has the (Sonic) descriptor. In addition to the spell’s normal effect, those affected by the spell must make an additional Fortitude save at the DC of the spell or be deafened for a number of rounds equal to the spell’s level. If the spell already deafens the target, Deafening Spell increases the duration of the deafening effect by a number of rounds equal to the spell’s level. A deafening spell takes up a spell slot one level higher than normal.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.17, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.83, Rule 4.00)

Death From Afar[edit]

Special, Stealth

You have learned to use your Death Attack ability at range.

Prerequisite: Death Attack class ability, Sneak attack +6d6

Benefit: You can use your Death Attack ability with any proficient ranged weapon up to a range of 30 feet. All other Death Attack limitations, such as the need to study your opponent for 3 rounds, still apply.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.83, Port 4.17, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.83)

Death Of Enemies[edit]

SRD:Death of Enemies Epic, Special

Your critical hits can kill your chosen enemies.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.25)

Deceitful[edit]

SRD:Deceitful General

You really know how to lie.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Deceptive[edit]

General

You are good at fooling others.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Bluff and Disguise checks.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Deep Impact[edit]

SRD:Deep Impact Psionic, Fighter

You can strike your foe with a melee weapon as if making a touch attack.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Defense Specialization[edit]

You have mastered using your chosen weapon for defense.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus (with Melee Weapon), Weapon Specialization (with Melee Weapon), Fighter level 12th

Benefit: When wielding your chosen weapon you gain a +2 dodge bonus to your armor class.

Balance: 4.12 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.80, Port 4.00, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.00)

Defensive Arts[edit]

You are an expert in defending yourself

Benefit: You gain a +1 dodge bonus to Armor Class against melee attacks

Special: A condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class also makes you lose dodge bonuses. Also, dodge bonuses stack, unlike most other types of bonuses.

Balance: 3.35 (Purp 3.50, Pow 2.75, Port 3.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.50)

Defensive Disarm[edit]

When attacked with a weapon, you may attempt to disarm the foe attacking you.

Prerequisite: Combat Expertise, Int 13, Improved Disarm

Benefit: If you are attacked with a melee weapon and missed, you may make a Disarm attempt on the weapon as an Attack of Opportunity, subject to the standard restrictions on Attacks of Opportunity in a round.

Special: An opponent and their weapon count as the same target for determining eligibility to Attacks of Opportunity.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.17, Comp 3.67, Rule 3.67)

Defensive Study[edit]

Allows you to use your intelligence modifier instead of your dexterity modifier for armor class adjustments.

Prerequisite: 2 ranks of Sense Motive, Alertness

Benefit: Grants you the ability to substitute your intelligence modifier for your dexterity modifier when calculating armor class against a single opponent. To gain this benefit, you must be able to assess your opponent completely for at least three rounds of combat. During this period of study you are only able to take a partial action each round. Through the study of attack patterns you understand the best ways to avoid the attack methods used by your opponent.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.80, Port 4.80, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.40)

Defensive Sunder[edit]

When attacked with a weapon, you may attempt to break the weapon.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, Improved Sunder

Benefit: If you are attacked with a melee weapon and missed, you may make a Sunder attempt on the weapon as an Attack of Opportunity, subject to the standard restrictions on Attacks of Opportunity in a round.

Special: An opponent and their weapon count as the same target for determining eligibility to Attacks of Opportunity.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.17, Comp 3.67, Rule 3.67)

Defensive Trip[edit]

General

You can maintain your defense when making a trip attempt.

Prerequisite: Improved Trip, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: When you fail your Strength check when initiating a trip attempt, your opponent may not react and attempt to trip you in turn.

Balance: 4.44 (Purp 4.40, Pow 4.00, Port 4.40, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.40)

Deflect Arrows[edit]

SRD:Deflect Arrows General, Fighter

You can knock arrows out of the air with your bare hands.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.25)

Deflect Attack[edit]

You can be more aggressive when Fighting Defensively.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Str 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Sunder, Power Attack

Benefit: When you are Fighting Defensively, your opponent provokes an Attack of Opportunity just before attacking you. Since you are Fighting Defensively, your Attack of Opportunity has a -4 penalty to attack. If the opponent attacks you with a weapon, your Attack of Opportunity can only be used as a Sunder attack against the weapon that is used to attack you. If the opponent attacks you with an unarmed attack or a natural weapon, you attack the unarmed strike or natural weapon, effectively making an Attack of Opportunity against your opponent. If your attack actually damages the opponent's weapon (or the opponent, in the case of an unarmed strike or natural weapon), subtract the damage dealt to the weapon or opponent from the damage you would sustain from their attack. In this way, it is possible to negate the damage from an opponent's attack.

Special: You cannot use this feat if attacking with a piercing weapon or unarmed if your opponent is using a weapon to attack you, unless through an ability or feat you can make Sunder attacks with a piercing weapon or unarmed (as Sunder attacks generally require you to be using a slashing or bludgeoning weapon).

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(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 3.00, Rule 4.25)

Deft Hands[edit]

SRD:Deft Hands General

Your fingers are agile and strong.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Deft Lunge[edit]

You are trained to take advantage of openings in an opponent's defenses

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Combat Expertise

Benefit: When you use the attack action or full attack action in non-mounted melee combat, you may take as much as a -5 penalty to Armor Class to add the same number (up to +5) to a single attack roll in the same round. This number may not exceed your base attack bonus. Unless you also have the Mobility feat, this attack draws an Attack of Opportunity from the defender. The changes to Armor Class last until your next action.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.62 (Purp 3.30, Pow 3.60, Port 4.00, Comp 3.60, Rule 3.60)

Delay Power[edit]

SRD:Delay Power Metapsionic

You can manifest powers that go off up to 5 rounds later.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.25)

Delay Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You may delaty the effect of a spell you cast.

Benefit: A delayed spell doesn’t activate immediately when cast. Instead, when you cast the spell, you may specify a number of rounds between one and five to delay the effect of the spell. When that number of rounds has passed the spell takes effect. The caster may cause the spell to take effect earlier than they initially selected by taking a standard action that provokes an attack of opportunity. Only area, personal, and touch spells can be delayed. Any decisions you would make about the delayed spell, including attack rolls, designating targets, or determining or shaping an area, are decided when the spell is cast. Any effects resolved by those affected by the spell, including saving throws, are decided when the delay period ends. A delayed spell can be dispelled normally during the delay, and can be detected normally in the area or on the target by the use of spells that can detect spell effects. A delayed spell takes up a spell slot three levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

Notes: The spell is cast normally and a Spellcraft roll can determine what was cast, how and when it will go off. As noted the delayed spell can be detected and dispelled while it is waiting to take effect, however it is not readily visible or detectable by normal senses. It is not technically invisible; it simply exists as a magic aura of the same shape of the spell effect until it takes effect. The delayed spell can be noticed with a DC40 Spot check, although this will only give the spotter an awareness of where the magic effect will be, not what it will do or look like when it goes off. Detect Magic will show the user what they would normally discover when observing the spell in effect with Detect Magic.

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Balance: 3.77 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.67, Comp 3.00, Rule 4.17)

Destructive Force[edit]

Metamagic

You can increase the damage limitations of certain spells.

Benefit: You can raise the damage cap of capped spells by two dice for each increase in the spell's level by one.

Example: The fireball spell has a damage cap of 10d6 (at 10th level). Using this feat, a 15th level caster could instead do 12d6 points of damage using a fourth level spell slot, 14d6 damage using a fifth level spell slot, or 15d6 (with a damage cap of 16d6) using a sixth level spell slot.

Notes: This feat can be used with any spell having a damage cap expressed in the spell's description. A damage cap can be identified by a statement similar to deals #d# points of <energy type> damage per caster level (maximum #d#). It would have no effect on a spell like magic missile as in this case the cap is on the number of missiles produced, rather than the damage of each missile.

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(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.52 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.70, Port 4.50, Comp 4.70, Rule 4.20)

Detect Poison[edit]

General

You are a student of poisons and how they are used.

Benefit: You can use your Search skill to detect poison without casting the detect poison spell. This is an extraordinary ability that requires a full round action with a DC equal to the save DC of the poison and can only be done at a range of 5 feet.

Balance: 4.75 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.50)

Determined Soul[edit]

General

Through your will alone, you can increase your resilience

Prerequisite: Iron Will

Benefit: Add your Wisdom bonus to your hit points.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.45 (Purp 2.75, Pow 3.50, Port 3.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 3.00)

Devastating Critical[edit]

SRD:Devastating Critical Epic, Fighter

You can kill your foes with your critical hits.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Dexterous Dodge[edit]

You are skilled at dodging attacks.

Benefit: For the purpose of determining Armor Class, treat your Dexterity score as 2 points higher than its actual value. This feat can be taken several times, and stacks with itself.

Special: This feat grants virtual access to the Dodge feat, allowing you to take other feats for which Dodge is a prerequisite.

Comments: This feat was intended as a replacement for Dodge which some feel is to weak to be worth while. You generally wouldn't use both in the same game.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Dexterous Fortitude[edit]

SRD:Dexterous Fortitude Epic, Stealth

You can use reflex when fortitude would normally apply.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 3.75)

Dexterous Will[edit]

SRD:Dexterous Will Epic, Stealth

You can use reflex when will would normally apply.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Diehard[edit]

SRD:Diehard General

You can keep going until your final breath.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Diligent[edit]

SRD:Diligent General

You are good at studying things.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Diminutive Wild Shape[edit]

SRD:Diminutive Wild Shape Epic, Wild

You can change shape into diminutive animals.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Dire Charge[edit]

SRD:Dire Charge Epic, Fighter

You charge into combat with incredible ferocity.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Disarm And Deny[edit]

You can steal a weapon from your opponent.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Disarm

Benefit: When you succeed at an armed disarm attempt and have a free hand, you can catch your opponent’s weapon after they drop it as a free action. If you do not wish to catch the weapon, or if you do not have a free hand, you may knock the weapon up to 20’ instead of your opponent’s square. You may choose the square the weapon lands in, but there must be an unobstructed straight path to that square and the square must not be occupied.

Normal: You can snatch an opponent’s weapon using disarm but only if you performed the disarm attempt unarmed. A successful armed disarm drops the opponent’s weapon in their current space.

Balance: 3.20 (Purp 3.60, Pow 3.20, Port 3.00, Comp 3.20, Rule 3.00)

Discover Psionic Power[edit]

Psionic

Through introspection, meditation and training you are able to learn additional psionic powers.

Benefit: You discover one additional psionic power of any level that you can manifest.

Special: You can choose this feat multiple times but may only learn one additional psionic power per power level.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Disease Resistance[edit]

General

You are naturally resistant to disease.

Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus on all Fortitude saves against disease.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Disguise Spell[edit]

SRD:Disguise Spell Metamagic, Song

You can disguise your spells in a performance.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

Dispel Mastery[edit]

Magical

You are an expert at dispelling spells.

Benefit: You get a +3 bonus on dispel checks, and the maximum bonus for all your dispel checks is also increased by +3.

Notes: In addition to dispel magic and greater dispelling, this feat could also be of use when casting break enchantment or quench.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Disrupting Attack[edit]

General

You are exceptionally good at distracting creatures.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: Any creature that needs to make a Concentration check as a result of your action or attack does so with a -5 penalty.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 3.33, Pow 3.33, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.33)

Distance Ki Strike[edit]

You are able to focus your ki in order to strike an opponent at a distance.

Prerequisite: Ki Strike (lawful) class ability, Stunning Fist

Benefit: As a full round action that counts as one of your stunning fist uses per day, you can make a ranged touch attack at your highest unarmed attack bonus against any opponent within 30 ft. A successful attack roll inflicts force damage equal to your base unarmed strike damage, modified by your Wis bonus. Your strength bonus does not add to your attack or damage roll. This can be combined with all other special monk unarmed attacks normally except quivering palm. Distance Ki Strike is a supernatural ability and a failed ranged touch attack counts against the total number of times that you can use this ability per day.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.00, Port 3.50, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.50)

Distant Shot[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You can ignore range penalties.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Divine Armor[edit]

Divine

You can channel energy to enhance your body or armor.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Cha 13, Divine Might, Extra Turning

Benefit: By spending one of your turn or rebuke undead attempts, your armor or body gains a sacred (if you channel positive energy) or profane (if you channel negative energy) bonus to Armor Class equal to your charisma bonus for a number of rounds equal to your charisma bonus. When active, your armor or body glows with divine light (or a profane aura) in a radius of 5 feet. The bonus provided by Divine Armor is fully effective against incorporeal creatures.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Divine Armor Of The Soul[edit]

Divine

You can channel energy to defend yourself against life draining attacks.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Cha 13, Divine Ghost Armor, Extra Turning

Benefit: By spending one of your turn or rebuke undead attempts, you become immune to the ability draining and level draining attacks of the undead for a number of rounds equal to your charisma bonus.

Balance: 4.90 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Divine Awe[edit]

Divine

You can channel energy to shake the resolve of those attacking you.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Cha 13, Extra Turning

Benefit: By spending one of your turn or rebuke undead attempts and taking a standard action, you surround yourself with an aura of awe. This effect lasts for 1 round plus one round per charisma bonus. Anyone attacking you in melee combat must make a will save DC (10 + half your turning level) or be shaken for one round. This is considered a fear effect.

Example: Thomas the 6th level Cleric activates Divine Awe. His charisma is 16 so for the next 4 rounds he is cloaked in an aura of awe. Later that round he is attacked by a troll with a club. The troll must make a Will save DC 13. It fails and is shaken (-2 attack, saves, skills and ability checks) until its next action. The troll continues to make its attack but it suffers a -2 on its attack roll due to the shaken status effect.

Balance: 3.73 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.33, Port 3.33, Comp 3.33, Rule 3.67)

Divine Boon[edit]

Special

You can use one of your granted powers one more time than normal each day.

Prerequisite: A domain with a granted power that has a limited number of uses per day

Benefit: Choose one of your granted powers usable a limited number of times per day. You can now use that granted power once more each day.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times and the effects stack.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.33, Pow 3.67, Port 4.67, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.33)

Divine Burst[edit]

Divine

When you channel to cure or inflict wounds, it affects everyone in an area.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn/rebuke undead, Extra Turning, Divine Touch

Benefit: When using Divine Touch or Divine Ray, the target and every creature within 10’ of the chosen target is affected. This ability uses 3 of your daily turn/rebuke attempts but remains a standard action.

Balance: 3.60 (Purp 3.33, Pow 3.50, Port 3.67, Comp 3.67, Rule 3.83)

Divine Deathward[edit]

Divine

You may channel energy to protect yourself from ability or level draining attacks.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Cha 13, Extra Turning, Divine Might

Benefit: By spending one of your turn or rebuke undead attempts you can negate one negative-energy based ability or level draining attack. Unlike other Divine feats, you can use Divine Deathward like a reaction (similar to a saving throw) without spending an action to channel the energy for the feat.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.25)

Divine Dispel[edit]

Divine

You can negate magic through turning.

Prerequisite: Turn or Rebuke Undead ability, Extra Turning

Benefit: You can dispel or counter a magic spell by making a turning check as if turning an undead creature of the opposing spellcaster's level. You can only dispel spells with the 'evil' descriptor (if you turn undead) or the 'good' descriptor (if you rebuke undead). A spell that is dispelled as it is being cast has no effect whatsoever; otherwise, it ends as if its duration had run out. This power cannot affect spells immune to dispel magic. Each attempt to use Divine Dispel uses up one of your turn or rebuke attempts for the day, whether the attempt is successful or not.

Notes: If your religion is strongly opposed to law or chaos, your DM may allow you to channel energy against spells with the lawful or chaotic descriptor instead, and other types of Divine Dispel are certainly possible for certain religions.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.08 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.00, Port 4.20, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Divine Dominion[edit]

Add one additional domain to your divine casting repertoire

Prerequisite: Knowledge (Religion) 6 ranks, Any domain

Benefit: Select an additional domain from your deity's domain list. All spells within the new domain list are considered domain spells for you. You do not gain the domain powers granted; you only gain the ability to use the domain spells listed as domain spells for your character.

Special: This feat can be taken several times for different domains, although deities have a limited number of domains available to their worshippers.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.40 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.00, Port 3.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.00)

Divine Elemental Fury[edit]

Special

You can channel energy to deal additional damage against specific elemental creatures in melee combat.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or destroy elemental creature, One of the Air, Earth, Fire or Water domains

Benefit: Spend one of your turn/destroy elemental attempts to add 2d6 points of elemental damage to all of your successful melee attacks against one type of elemental creature until the end of your next action. The type of elemental creature affected depends on your domain (Air domain inflicts extra damage against earth creatures, Earth domain against air creatures, Fire domain against water creatures and Water domain against fire creatures).

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Balance: 4.20 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Divine Flame[edit]

Divine

You can channel energy to sheath your weapon with sacred or profane flame.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Ability to turn or rebuke undead

Benefit: By spending one of your turn or rebuke undead attempts, you can sheath your weapon with sacred or profane flame for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma bonus. If you channel positive energy, your weapon is sheathed in white flames that inflict +1d6 points of sacred damage against evil opponent. If you channel negative energy, you weapon is sheathed in black flames that inflict +1d6 points of profane damage against good opponents instead. These flames do not give off heat or ignite flammable objects, though sacred flames give off light equal to a torch. The sacred or profane damage inflicted by Divine Flame is unaffected by protection from elements and similar spells and abilities.

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Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Divine Force Of Personality[edit]

Divine

Your psyche and devotion is a shield against harm.

Prerequisite: Divine Grace or Dark Blessing class ability, Extra Turning

Benefit: Spend one of you turn or rebuke undead attempts to double your Charisma bonus, but only as applied to saving throws through the Divine Grace or Dark Blessing class abilities. This modifier lasts for a number of rounds equal to your normal Charisma modifier.

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Balance: 4.56 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.60, Port 4.60, Comp 4.60, Rule 5.00)

Divine Fury[edit]

Divine

You can channel positive energy to ignore the damage reduction of undead opponents.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn undead, Cha 13, Extra Turning, Divine Vengeance

Benefit: By spending one of your turn undead attempts, you can ignore the damage reduction of all undead opponents for a number of rounds equal to your charisma modifier.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.25)

Divine Ghost Armor[edit]

Divine

You can channel energy to enhance your armor against incorporeal attacks.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Cha 13, Extra Turning

Benefit: This feat can only be used when wearing armor. By spending one turn or rebuke undead attempt, your armor gains the ghost touch special ability. This allows you to apply your armor bonus against incorporeal attacks. The duration of the ghost touch protection is limited to a number of rounds equal to your charisma bonus.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 4.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Divine Ghost Weapon[edit]

Special, Divine

You can channel energy into your weapon, allowing it to effectively strike incorporeal creatures.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Cha 13, Divine Might

Benefit: By spending one of your turn or rebuke undead attempts, your weapon can be used to attack incorporeal opponents as if it had the ghost touch power, negating an incorporeal creatures ability to ignore 50% of successful attacks from a corporeal source. Though you do not gain a bonus on attack or damage rolls with this feat, you can also negate the damage reduction of incorporeal or undead opponents as if wielding a +1 magic weapon. The bonuses provided by this feat last for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma bonus.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Divine Gift[edit]

Magical

Allows you to use 0-level divine spells.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Knowledge (Religion) 1 rank

Benefit: Grants you the ability to understand up to your wisdom modifier's worth of clerical orisons (0-level divine cleric spells). Regardless of the number of orisons learned only one may be cast per day, and you must rest and memorise their cantrip as a cleric normally does. You must also choose a deity to worship, and if you act against the deity's wishes or philosophy you may have your request for orisons denied, just as a normal cleric.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times; however, no additional orisons can ever be learned (past the individual's wisdom modifier). Each additional time this feat is taken, the caster may prepare one additional orison per day. The total maximum number of orisons that can be cast in a single day (regardless of the number of times this feat is taken), is also limited to the caster’s wisdom modifier.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.80, Comp 3.80, Rule 2.60)

Divine Impact[edit]

Divine

You can channel energy to strike your foe with a melee weapon as if making a touch attack.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Str 13, Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Divine Might, Power Attack, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: As a free action expend one of your turning attempts. You can then resolve your attack with a melee weapon as a touch attack. You must decide whether or not to use this feat prior to making an attack. If your attack misses, you still expend one of your turning attempts.

Notes: This is a modification of the Deep Impact psionic feat for use as a divine feat.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 3.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.75)

Divine Might[edit]

SRD:Divine Might Divine

You channel your faith into extra damage.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Divine Ray[edit]

Divine

You can channel divine energy to cure or inflict wounds at range.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn/rebuke undead, Extra Turning, Divine Touch

Benefit: Your Divine Touch ability has a range of Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) and is delivered as a ranged touch attack.

Balance: 3.60 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 3.67, Comp 3.67, Rule 3.67)

Divine Sight[edit]

Divine

You can channel energy to increase your sight and pierce illusions.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Cha 13

Benefit: By spending one of your turn or rebuke undead attempts, you gain a +2 enhancement bonus on Spot and Search checks and a +2 sacred bonus on Will disbelief saves against illusion effects for a number of minutes equal to your charisma modifier.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Divine Strike[edit]

Divine

You channel divine energy to smite your deities’ foes.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Base attack bonus +8, Ability to cast 3rd level divine spells, Extra Turning

Benefit: You take a standard action and expending both a turning attempt and divine spell of at least first level. After doing so you get both a +1 bonus to hit and a +1d6 bonus to damage per level of the spell sacrificed to your next attack using your deitie’s favored weapon against a foe of an opposed faction (see special). This damage is not multiplied by critical hits and is of a type appropriate to your deity (see special). If you miss the attack on which you get the to hit bonus the entire effect is lost.

Special: Opposed factions are creatures whose alignment or type is considered to be in opposition to one your deity’s domains or alignments. When taking this feat, the player should choose one appropriate trait from among the following; good, evil, lawful, chaotic, elemental (any other than that of the deity). They may use this feat only against enemies of that type. Damage type would be whatever is opposite of the enemy type chosen; unholy, holy, chaos, law, elemental type of deity, respectively.

Example: Brother Landen, priest of law takes Divine Strike (against Chaos). In combat he takes a standard action to activate Divine Strike and chooses to expend a third level spell he had memorized along with his turning attempt. Next round he charges forward and attacks a chaotic demon using his Gavel of Justice. He gets +3 bonus to hit on the attack and does an additional +3d6 law damage if he hits.

Balance: 3.30 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.50, Port 3.50, Comp 2.75, Rule 3.00)

Divine Touch[edit]

Divine

You can channel divine energy to cure or inflict wounds.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn/rebuke undead, Extra Turning

Benefit: As one of your daily turn/rebuke attempts, you may take a standard action to channel energy into a living or undead creature as an armed touch attack. If you normally turn undead, you channel positive energy; healing living creatures and harming undead. If you normally rebuke undead, you channel negative energy; harming living creatures and healing undead. When using this feat you heal/harm for an amount equal to your Charisma bonus + one half your effective turning level. The target may make Will save (DC 10 + ½ your turning level + your Charisma bonus) to halve any damage inflicted.

Balance: 3.73 (Purp 3.67, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.00)

Divine Vengeance[edit]

SRD:Divine Vengeance Divine

You channel your faith into an aura that damages the undead.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Divine Weapon[edit]

Divine

You can channel energy to provide an enhancement bonus to your weapon.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Cha 13, Str 13, Power Attack, Divine Might, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: Spend two of your turn or rebuke undead attempts to channel energy into your weapon, granting it a bonus on attack and damage rolls equal to your charisma bonus for a number of rounds equal to your charisma bonus.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

Divine Wrath[edit]

Divine

You are able to infuse your turn/rebuke attempts with sacred or profane energy, enabling you to deal additional damage to evil or good outsiders.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead

Benefit: If you channel positive energy, you can spend one of your turn attempts to add 2d6 points of divine damage against evil outsiders on every successful melee attack until the end of your next action. If you channel negative energy, you inflict 2d6 points of profane damage against good outsiders instead.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Dodge[edit]

SRD:Dodge General, Fighter

You can better avoid a chosen opponent.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.25, Port 5.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 5.00)

Domain Adaptability[edit]

You can use your domain spell slots as regular clerical spell slots.

Prerequisite: Expanded Domains

Benefit: You can prepare general clerical spells in your domain spell slots. You can also spontaneously cast using spells in the domain slot.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.80, Port 4.40, Comp 4.40, Rule 4.40)

Domain Focus[edit]

Special

Your domain spells are especially potent.

Benefit: Add +2 to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws against spells that appear on your domain spell list.

Special: This feat is virtually equivalent to (and does not stack with) Spell Focus for determining other feat and prestige class prerequisites.

Balance: 4.58 (Purp 4.30, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.30)

Domain Mastery[edit]

You can spontaneously cast domain spells.

Prerequisite: Expanded Domains, Ability to substitute other spells for cure/inflict spells, Knowledge (religion) 12 ranks

Benefit: When you take this feat you must chose one of your domains. You can spontaneously substitute your prepared cleric spells for any spell from the chosen domain of a lower level. Any spell cast in this way has its casting time increased to a full round action.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Comments: This feat was weakened because of the inclusion of Spontaneous Domain Casting (an epic feat) in the SRD.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Double Step[edit]

General

You can safely step further in combat.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Dodge, Mobility, Tumble 6 ranks, Jump 12 ranks

Benefit: When in light or no armor and encumbrance, you can do a 10 ft. step instead of the usual 5 ft. step and still do a full action without provoking attacks of opportunity.

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.30, Port 3.60, Comp 4.60, Rule 3.00)

Double Tap[edit]

Modern

You fire two bullets as a single attack.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Point Blank Shot

Benefit: When using a semiautomatic firearm with at least two bullets loaded, you may fire two bullets as a single attack against a single target. You receive a –2 penalty on this attack, but deal +1 die of damage with a successful hit. Using this feat fires two bullets and can only be done if the weapon has at least two bullets in it.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Down And Dirty Style[edit]

You are the master of the cheap shot against fallen foes.

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: You may take an attack of opportunity against an opponent who falls or is dropped in your threatened area. This does not apply to opponents whom you have just tripped or knocked down.

Normal: Falling to prone or being dropped does not normally draw an attack of opportunity.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.00)

Draconic Bloodline[edit]

Magical, Trait

The blood of Dragons truly runs through your veins.

Benefit: You may treat the Sorcerer class as a favored class in addition to any other favored class that you gain by race.

Special: You can only take this feat at character creation.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 3.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Dragon Wild Shape[edit]

SRD:Dragon Wild Shape Epic, Wild

You can wild shape into the form of a true dragon.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Drive-by Attack[edit]

Modern

You are an expert at attacking from within a moving vehicle.

Benefit: You take no vehicle speed penalty when making an attack while in a moving vehicle. Also, if you are the driver, you can take your attack action to make an attack at any point along the vehicle’s movement.

Normal: When attacking from a moving vehicle, you take a penalty based on the vehicle’s speed. Passengers can ready an action to make an attack when their vehicle reaches a particular location, but the driver must make his or her attack action either before or after the vehicle’s movement.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Druidical Blessing[edit]

Magical

Allows anyone to use 0-level druidical spells.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Knowledge (Nature) 1 rank

Benefit: Grants you the ability to understand up to your wisdom modifier's worth of 0-level druidical spells. Regardless of the number of spells learned only one may be cast per day, and you must rest and memorise your spell as a druid normally does. You are bound by all the strictures a normal druid is for your actions, and can have your requests for spells denied, just like a normal druid.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times; however, no additional spells can ever be learned (past the individual's wisdom modifier). Each additional time this feat is taken, the caster may prepare one additional spell per day. The total maximum number of orisons that can be cast in a single day (regardless of the number of times this feat i! s taken), is also limited to the caster's wisdom modifier.

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.80, Comp 3.80, Rule 2.60)

Dual Energy Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can interchange two types of energy for one another.

Benefit: When you learn this feat, select two spell energy designators from the list Acid, Cold, Electricity, Fire, or Sonic. With this feat, a spell of one of the two types you selected can have its type changed from one to the other. Any damage the spell causes of its usual energy type is now changed into the new element type. Effects other than elemental damage will not change. A Dual Element Spell uses up a spell slot of its normal level.

Example: Davoud is a wizard who learns this feat for fire and acid. He can opt to prepare his melf's acid arrow spell normally, or he can apply this feat to it, and change the designator from Acid to Fire. The spell damage will now ignore acid resistance and be subject to fire resistance. It will still cause (fire) damage over three rounds. Likewise, he can prepare a fireball as either a fire or an acid spell.

Notes: This feat includes the benefit of the Fire to Ice feat from previous editions of the Netbook of Feats. Although in the SRD the Energy Substitution feat can be used with spells to cause Sonic damage, newer publications have updated this feat to no longer allow this, presumably as very few creatures have resistance to Sonic damage compared to the other energy types. As such the DM may similarly restrict this feat, or alternatively may allow spells to produce sonic damage but with the damage reduced by one die-size. For example, using this feat on Fireball would allow you to do 1d4 Sonic damage per level (maximum 10d4) rather than 1d6 Fire damage per level (maximum 10d6).

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.34 (Purp 4.30, Pow 4.60, Port 4.60, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.60)

Dual Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast two spells with one action.

Prerequisite: Any two metamagic feats

Benefit: You may cast two Dual Spells as a single action. Casting a dual spell takes as long as the longest casting time of the two spells (and at least a full round for a spontaneous caster). If either is dispelled or interrupted both spells are lost. Casters who memorize spells must designate the two spells to be cast together at the time they are memorized but each takes up a separate spell slot. Spontaneous casters may designate any two spells at the time of casting. Each spell in a Dual Spell takes up a slot two levels higher than it’s actual level.

Balance: 4.27 (Purp 4.67, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.33)

Ducking Shot[edit]

You are skilled at dodging while using your ranged weapon.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, Dodge, Dex 13

Benefit: You get a +4 dodge bonus to Armor Class against attacks of opportunities caused while making a ranged attack in an area threatened by your enemies.

Notes: A condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) also makes you lose dodge bonuses.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Efficient Item Creation[edit]

SRD:Efficient Item Creation Epic, Item Creation

You can create magic items quickly.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Efficient Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast a spell as a move action.

Benefit: Casting an efficient spell is a move action which provokes an attack of opportunity. A spell whose casting time is more than 1 full round action cannot be efficient. An efficient spell uses up a spell slot three levels higher than the spell’s actual level. You may cast only one quickened spell or efficient spell per round.

Special: This feat cannot be applied to any spell cast spontaneously (including sorcerer spells, bard spells, and cleric or druid spells cast spontaneously), since applying a metamagic feat to a spontaneously cast spell automatically increases the casting time to a full-round action.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.17, Pow 4.17, Port 4.17, Comp 4.17, Rule 4.33)

Elemental Boost[edit]

Magical

Spells of your chosen element are infused with extra power.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast 2nd level arcane spells

Benefit: Choose either force or one of the energy descriptors (acid, cold, electricity, fire or sonic). When casting spells with your chosen descriptor you inflict +1 point of damage per die of damage inflicted.

Balance: 3.72 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.40, Port 3.40, Comp 3.80, Rule 3.80)

Elite Training[edit]

General

You manage to achieve more than anyone thought possible.

Benefit: Chose an ability when you take this feat. For the purposes of meeting the prerequisites of other feats, that ability score is considered to be 4 points higher or 13, whichever value is larger.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Each time it applies to a different ability score.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Elusive Target[edit]

You use your opponents as a shield against snipers.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Defensive Arts

Benefit: When fighting an opponent or multiple opponents in melee, other opponents attempting to target you with ranged attacks take a –4 penalty. This penalty is in addition to the normal –4 penalty for firing into melee, making the penalty to target to character –8.

Special: An opponent with the Precise Shot feat has the penalty lessened to –4 when targeting you.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Elven Archery[edit]

General, Fighter, Racial

You are an expert in the art of elven archery.

Prerequisite: Elf or half-elf, Dex 13, Point Blank Shot, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: When using any type of bow that you are proficient in, you can use your Dex modifier as a bonus to damage rolls against all opponents within 30 feet. This bonus does not stack with the damage bonus provided by a mighty bow and cannot be applied against a target immune to critical hits.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Empower Power[edit]

SRD:Empower Power Metapsionic

You can manifest powers to greater effect.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Empower Psychic Strike[edit]

You can channel more power into your Psychic Strike attacks.

Prerequisite: Psychic Strike class ability

Benefit: When using the Psychic Strike ability, you may roll d10s instead of d8s for determining the damage from Psychic Strike.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 3.83)

Empower Spell[edit]

SRD:Empower Spell Metamagic

You can cast more powerful spells.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Empower Spell-like Ability[edit]

Monster, Special, Magical

Your powers are more powerful.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Enable Criticals[edit]

You have learned to score critical hits on unusual creature types.

Benefit: Choose one type of creature that is normally immune to critical hits (construct, elemental, ooze, plant, undead). You can score critical hits against that type of creature, despite that this is not generally allowed.

Special: If you choose constructs, you can also score critical hits against inanimate objects. If you choose undead and are using an attack that does not suffer a miss chance against incorporeal opponents (like a ghost touch weapon), you can score critical hits against incorporeal undead.

Notes: This also allows you to use abilities and actions that only work against creatures subject to critical hits, such as Coup de Grace, Sneak Attack and the ranger's Favored Enemy damage bonus. A construct, object, or undead need never make a Fortitude save to survive a coup-de-grace.

Balance: 4.28 (Purp 4.80, Pow 3.60, Port 4.40, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.00)

Enchanted Animal Companion[edit]

Special

You have shown yourself to be an ally of all nature's creatures; they, in turn, will respond to your call.

Prerequisite: Animal Companion ability

Benefit: You may select a magical beast or vermin as an animal companion. The level modifier depends on the creature's challenge rating. Creatures with a challenge rating of one or less have no modifier; other creatures use twice their challenge rating minus one, rounded to the closest multiple of three levels. So creatures with a Challenge Rating of 1 have no modifier, CR 2: level -3, CR 4: level -6, CR 5: level -9, CR 6-7: level -12, CR 8: level -15, etc.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Comments: This feat was originally known as Improved Animal Friendship. Due to changes between edition 3.0 and 3.5 the mechanics of this feat have been substantially altered, although the spirit of the feat remains the same.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Endurance[edit]

SRD:Endurance General

You have great endurance.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Energy Resistance[edit]

SRD:Energy Resistance (Feat) Epic

You can resist the effects of a chosen element.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Energy Substitution[edit]

SRD:Energy Substitution Metamagic

You can change the type of damage done by a spell.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 3.25, Rule 4.50)

Enhance Psicrystal[edit]

Psionic

You can improve your psicrystal.

Prerequisite: Psicrystal Affinity

Benefit: Your psicrystal gains one additional ability chosen from the Psicrystal Special Abilities table. Your choice of powers is not limited by your level.

Special: You can choose this feat multiple times, each time incorporating a new ability into your psicrystal.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 3.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Enhance Spell[edit]

SRD:Enhance Spell Epic, Metamagic

You can modify the upper limits of a spells damage.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team agree that the requirement for the spell to take up a slot four levels higher is ludicrous, and especially as this is an epic metamagic feat it should not alter the spell slot level at all. After all, this feat does not make a spell any more powerful; it just moves the (what some people may call artificial) damage cap a bit higher.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Enhanced Companions[edit]

General

Your animal companions are energized by your presence.

Prerequisite: Handle Animal 1 rank

Benefit: Because you form a special bond with your animal companions, they benefit from a +2 Dodge bonus to Armor Class when they are within 60 feet of you.

Special: The effects of this feat apply to mounts, familiars, pets, herd animals and the like.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Enhanced Draconic Bloodline[edit]

You have mastered your unique heritage, gaining an extraordinary affinity for arcane magic.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast arcane spells without preparation, Draconic Bloodline

Benefit: If you have class levels in Bard, Sorcerer or another class that can cast arcane spells without preparation, you are able to learn bonus spells based on your Charisma attribute, as per the Table: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Spells from the SRD. However, these spells are added to your number of spells known; this feat does not increase the number of spells that you can cast per day.

Normal: Bards and Sorcerers are normally fixed in their number of spells known per level.

Special: The bonus spells provided by this feat cannot be combined with the bonus spells provided by any other feat (based on ability score) other than Cantrip.

Balance: 3.65 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.50, Port 3.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.25)

Enhanced Psi-like Abilities[edit]

Psionic, Racial

Your racial psi-like abilities have more effect than normal for your race.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, racial psi-like abilities

Benefit: Your manifester level for your psi-like abilities increases by two, but no higher than your character level.

Balance: 3.88 (Purp 3.60, Pow 4.20, Port 3.40, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.00)

Enhanced Scent[edit]

Racial

Your racial scent abilities work more effectively than others of your race.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, racial scent ability

Benefit: The range of your scent ability is increased by 30 feet. This means upwind detection increases by 60 feet, and downwind detection increases by 15 feet.

Balance: 4.08 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.80, Port 4.00, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.20)

Enhanced Spell-like Abilities[edit]

Racial

Your racial spell-like abilities have more effect than normal for your race.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, racial spell-like abilities

Benefit: Your caster level for your spell-like abilities increases by two, but no higher than your character level.

Balance: 3.88 (Purp 3.60, Pow 4.20, Port 3.40, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.00)

Enhanced Turning[edit]

General

You are blessed by your god to destroy undead, wherever they lie.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Extra Turning

Benefit: You deal an additional 1d6 turning damage on a successful turn/rebuke attempt.

Normal: Without his feat, a cleric rolls 2d6 + cleric level + Charisma modifier when determining turning damage.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times.

Balance: 4.53 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.33, Port 4.67, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.67)

Enlarge Breath Weapon[edit]

Monster

The creature's breath weapon has a longer range than normal.

Prerequisite: Innate Breath Weapon

Benefit: Double the range of the creature's breath weapon, unless it is cone-shaped, in which case increase the range of its breath weapon by 50% instead.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Enlarge Power[edit]

SRD:Enlarge Power Metapsionic

You can manifest powers farther than normal.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team feels that a power cost increase of one point would be more in keeping with the power level of a feat.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Enlarge Spell[edit]

SRD:Enlarge Spell Metamagic

You can increase the area of a spell.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Enlarge Wall[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast larger wall spells.

Benefit: You can alter a wall spell to increase its area. Any and all numeric measurements of the spell's area increase by 100%. An Enlarge Wall spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell's actual level.

Balance: 4.53 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.33, Port 4.67, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.67)

Epic Dodge[edit]

SRD:Epic Dodge Epic, Stealth

You can avoid any one blow from an opponent.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

Epic Elite Training[edit]

Epic, General

You manage to achieve more than even the gods thought possible.

Benefit: Choose an ability when you take this feat. For the purposes of meeting the prerequisites of other feats, that ability score is considered to be 10 points higher or 21, whichever value is larger.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Each time it applies to a different ability score.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Epic Endurance[edit]

SRD:Epic Endurance Epic

Your endurance is legendary.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team agree that this is especially weak for an epic feat, although it would be suitable for a normal feat.

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 3.75, Pow 2.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Epic Expanded Knowledge[edit]

SRD:Epic Expanded Knowledge Epic, Psionic

You learn another power.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Epic Fortitude[edit]

SRD:Epic Fortitude Epic

You are amazingly tough and resilient.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Epic Inspiration[edit]

Epic, Song

Your music inspires people to great deeds.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Epic Leadership[edit]

SRD:Epic Leadership Epic

Great people flock to your banner.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.50)

Epic Prowess[edit]

SRD:Epic Prowess Epic

Your combat skill is legendary.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Epic Psionic Focus[edit]

SRD:Epic Psionic Focus Epic, Psionic

You can expend your psionic focus to greater effect.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Epic Reflexes[edit]

SRD:Epic Reflexes Epic

Your incredible reflexes are legendary.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Epic Reputation[edit]

SRD:Epic Reputation Epic

There are few who have not heard of your greatness.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Epic Skill Focus[edit]

SRD:Epic Skill Focus Epic

You have truly mastered a given skill.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Epic Speed[edit]

SRD:Epic Speed Epic

You can move like the wind.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Epic Spell Focus[edit]

SRD:Epic Spell Focus Epic, Magical

Your spells are very difficult to resist.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team feel that as an epic feat this is too weak, especially as saving throws continue to increase with epic levels. We feel that it should either give at least +2 to the DC of spells, or alternatively be stackable.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Epic Spell Penetration[edit]

SRD:Epic Spell Penetration Epic, Magical

Your spells can penetrate more powerful defenses.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.25)

Epic Spellcasting[edit]

SRD:Epic Spellcasting Epic, Magical

You can create and use spells of epic proportions.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 3.75, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.50)

Epic Toughness[edit]

SRD:Epic Toughness Epic

Your toughness is legendary.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Epic Weapon Focus[edit]

SRD:Epic Weapon Focus Epic, Fighter

You know a weapon like you know yourself.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Epic Weapon Specialization[edit]

SRD:Epic Weapon Specialization Epic, Special, Fighter

You have truly mastered a weapons use.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Epic Will[edit]

SRD:Epic Will Epic

Your strength of will is legendary.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Eschew Divine Focus[edit]

Your faith in your god allows you forgo the use of your holy symbol.

Prerequisite: Extra Turning

Benefit: You can cast any spell requiring a divine focus without a divine focus. In addition a divine focus is not necessary for any other power that would normally require a divine focus (e.g. Turn or Rebuke Undead).

Notes: This is particularly useful when a cleric is masquerading as a cleric of another deity.

Balance: 4.16 (Purp 3.80, Pow 4.00, Port 3.80, Comp 4.80, Rule 4.40)

Eschew Materials[edit]

SRD:Eschew Materials General, Magical

You do not need minor material components to cast spells.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Ever-ready Shield[edit]

You prepare a defense against the unknown.

Prerequisite: Extend Power

Benefit: You may manifest a psionic defense (limited to the powers empty mind, intellect fortress, mental barrier, thought shield or tower of iron will) that will remain active until you are attacked psionically or until one day passes. If you are caught flat-footed, stunned or otherwise unable to react against a psionic attack, the power prepared with Ever-Ready Shield will be used against that attack. If you are able to act, you may manifest any psionic power normally without losing the Ever-Ready Shield. Using this feat increases the power point cost of the power by 3. You must know the psionic power in question in order to manifest it.

Normal: Manifesting empty mind, intellect fortress, mental barrier, thought shield or tower of iron will requires an immediate action. Immediate actions cannot be taken when surprised or caught flat-footed.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.50, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.50)

Exceptional Deflection[edit]

SRD:Exceptional Deflection Epic, Fighter

You can deflect nearly any ranged attack.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Exotic Firearms Proficiency[edit]

Modern

You have experience with some very unusual weapons.

Prerequisite: Personal Firearms Proficiency, Advanced Firearms Proficiency

Benefit: Choose a weapon type from the following list: cannons, heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, and rocket launchers. You make attack rolls with the chosen weapon normally.

Normal: When you use a weapon without being proficient with it you take a –4 penalty on attack rolls.

Special: You can take this feat as many as four times. Each time you take the feat, you selects a different weapon group.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Exotic Weapon Proficiency[edit]

SRD:Exotic Weapon Proficiency General, Fighter

Choose a type of exotic weapon. You understand how to use that type of exotic weapon in combat.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.75, Port 4.50, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.75)

Expand Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast spells with a larger area of effect.

Benefit: An Expanded spell has its area increased by +5 ft in all dimensions. This feat does not affect spells without an area of effect stated in spatial terms. If the spell specifies a number of targets, that number is not affected. An Expanded spell takes up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.

Example: Burning Hands (1st level) affects anyone in a 15 ft long cone, starting at the caster, so an Expanded Burning Hands (2nd level) affects anyone in a 20 ft long cone. A normal Fireball has a 20-ft radius spread, and hence a 40-ft diameter, so an Expanded Fireball has a 45-ft diameter spread.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.42 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.60, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.60)

Expanded Domains[edit]

You can memorize domain-specific spells as if they were general cleric spells.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast clerical spells, Any domain

Benefit: You can prepare domain spells from all of your chosen domains in your clerical spell slots. You may still only prepare domain spells in your domain spell slots.

Notes: If you wish, you can still substitute domain spells memorized in regular spell slots for cure or inflict spells via spontaneous casting.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Expanded Knowledge[edit]

SRD:Expanded Knowledge Psionic

You learn another power.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Experienced Adventurer[edit]

General

Experience has taught you a few lessons about staying alive.

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus to your Fortitude, Reflex, and Willpower saves.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Expert Aim[edit]

You may attack with exacting precision, resulting in extra damage.

Prerequisite: [[#Precise Shot|Precise Shot, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: If you take the Full Attack action when using a device missile weapon (e.g. bow, crossbow), you may choose to make a single attack with a range of 30 ft. or less using your Expert Aim. While you normally apply your Dexterity bonus only to attack, in this case you also apply your Dexterity bonus to damage. This feat is ineffective against creatures that are not subject to critical hits (e.g. constructs, elementals, oozes, plants and undead).

Normal: Your dexterity bonus applies only to your attack roll.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Expert Healing[edit]

General

You can use a healing kit to heal damage.

Prerequisite: Heal 6 ranks

Benefit: You may treat recent injuries received by living, corporeal creatures, by expending one use of a Healer’s Kit and taking one minute (10 rounds) to treat the creature. The DC for this action is 20, and if successful heals 1d4 points of damage. You may heal an additional 1d4 for each 10 points by which you exceeded the target number on your skill check. You may not heal more damage than the target has taken in the last ten minutes. You may not attempt to use this action on a given target more than once in any ten-minute period.

Notes: A full Healer’s Kit contains 10 uses.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.60 (Purp 3.83, Pow 3.67, Port 3.67, Comp 3.33, Rule 3.50)

Extend Power[edit]

SRD:Extend Power Metapsionic

You can manifest powers that last longer than normal.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Extend Spell[edit]

SRD:Extend Spell Metamagic

You can extend the duration of your spells.

Balance: 4.85 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.50, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Extend Spell List[edit]

Magical

You gain the use of the spells of one domain.

Prerequisite: Spellcasting level 1st

Benefit: With this feat, you get to add the spells of one clerical domain to the spell list of one of your classes, regardless of your spellcasting class. You cast these spells as if they were normal spells of your spellcaster class. The new spells become arcane spells if you have an arcane spellcaster class but in this case you must still learn the spells in the normal manner; this feat only adds them to your spell list. If the domain power of the domain you picked is a spell-like ability, you get this spell added to your spell lists, as well. Examples include speak with animals of the animal domain and freedom of movement of the travel domain.

Special: A Wizard must always research these spells from scratch, using the standard game rules. As a divine spellcaster, you cannot learn domains inappropriate to the powers you serve. You can learn this feat multiple times. Each time you learn it you can choose to add the knowledge of the spells of one additional domain to one of your spellcasting classes. This can be a domain you already know if you are adding it to a different spellcasting class.

Notes: Use this feat with caution: it fits in open-ended campaigns, where characters are allowed to step outside the usual class limitations. It lets Sorcerers and Wizards learn healing spells.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.28 (Purp 3.60, Pow 3.00, Port 2.80, Comp 3.80, Rule 3.20)

Extended Burst[edit]

Racial

You are able to maintain your burst ability for longer than others of your race.

Prerequisite: Cha 15, burst racial ability

Benefit: The duration of your burst ability is extended by three more rounds.

Normal: Races such as the xeph receive the supernatural Burst ability, which grants the following: Three times per day, a xeph can put on a burst of speed to increase her speed by 10 feet, plus 10 feet per four character levels beyond 1st, to a maximum increase of 30 feet at 9th character level and higher. These bursts of speed are considered a competence bonus to the xeph’s base speed. A burst of speed lasts 3 rounds.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.25, Pow 4.25, Port 3.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.25)

Extended Life Span[edit]

SRD:Extended Life Span Epic

You have mastered the secrets of a long life.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.25)

Extended Outburst[edit]

Racial

You are able to maintain your outburst ability for longer than others of your race.

Prerequisite: Cha 15, Outburst racial ability

Benefit: The duration of your outburst ability is extended by four more rounds.

Normal: Races such as the maenad receive the extraordinary ability Outburst, which grants the following: Once per day, for up to 4 rounds, you can subjugate your mentality to gain a boost of raw physical power. When you do so, you take a -2 penalty to Intelligence and Wisdom but gain a +2 bonus to Strength.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.25, Pow 4.25, Port 3.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.25)

Extra Burst[edit]

Racial

You are able to perform your burst racial ability more than three times per day.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, burst racial ability

Benefit: You can use your burst ability two more times per day.

Normal: Races such as the xeph receive the supernatural Burst ability, which grants the following: Three times per day, a xeph can put on a burst of speed to increase her speed by 10 feet, plus 10 feet per four character levels beyond 1st, to a maximum increase of 30 feet at 9th character level and higher. These bursts of speed are considered a competence bonus to the xeph’s base speed. A burst of speed lasts 3 rounds.

Special: This feat can be taken more than once, each time allowing you to use your burst ability two more times per day.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.25, Pow 4.25, Port 3.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.25)

Extra Familiar[edit]

Special

You can acquire more than one familiar

Prerequisite: Already have a familiar

Benefit: Each time you take this feat, the number of familiars you are allowed increases by one.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time you take it, increase the number of familiars you are allowed by one. For every familiar lost, beyond the first, within the same year-and-a-day time frame, increase the Fort DC by 2 and double the XP loss.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Extra Music[edit]

SRD:Extra Music Special, Song

You can use your bardic music more often.

Comments: Interestingly this is an exact copy of William Setzer's Extra Bardic Music feat from previous editions of the Netbook of Feats.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Extra Outburst[edit]

Racial

You are able to perform your outburst racial ability more than once per day.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Outburst racial ability

Benefit: You can use your outburst ability two more times per day.

Normal: Races such as the maenad receive the extraordinary ability Outburst, which grants the following: Once per day, for up to 4 rounds, you can subjugate your mentality to gain a boost of raw physical power. When you do so, you take a -2 penalty to Intelligence and Wisdom but gain a +2 bonus to Strength.

Special: This feat can be taken more than once, each time allowing you to use your outburst ability two more times per day.

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 3.25, Pow 4.25, Port 3.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Extra Primeval Ability[edit]

Monster

The creature can use one of its supernatural or spell-like abilities more often.

Prerequisite: Innate supernatural or spell-like ability

Benefit: Choose one innate supernatural or spell-like ability that the creature can use one or more times per day. The creature can now use this ability one more time per day.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times and will stack with itself. Each additional time that this feat is taken you can apply it to the same innate supernatural or spell-like ability or to one of your other innate supernatural or spell-like abilities. This feat cannot be used with class-based spell-like abilities, like the druid's wild shape or paladin's ability to cure disease.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.75 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Extra Rage[edit]

Rage

Your rage is legendary and fearsome to behold.

Prerequisite: Rage, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: You can rage one more time per day.

Special: This feat can be taken more than once, each time allowing you to enter a fit of rage one more time per day.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Extra Turning[edit]

SRD:Extra Turning General

You can turn the undead more often.

Balance: 4.90 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Extra Wild Shape[edit]

Wild

You have a natural affinity for your wild shape class ability

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Wild shape class ability

Benefit: You can use your wild shape class ability one more time per day.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times, each time allowing you to wild shape once more per day.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Eyes In The Back Of Your Head[edit]

SRD:Eyes in the Back of Your Head General, Fighter

You are nearly impossible to flank.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Fake Spell[edit]

General

You can mimic the casting of spells

Prerequisite: Sleight of Hand 1 rank

Benefit: You say the words and make the gestures, but you don’t have the power needed to make the spell actually happen - it just looks like you do. You must have seen the spell you want to fake being cast several times in order to fake it. Make a Sleight of Hand check opposed to the observer's Spellcraft or Intelligence check.

Special: Somebody who has readied an action to counterspell and who fails to see through your trickery will think you are about to cast the spell being faked.

Notes: If the spell effect would have been unnoticeable (such as most divination spells) or you can fake the effects of the spell (perhaps through illusion, alchemical pyrotechnics or a willing accomplice), people watching you will generally believe the spell was real. Bluff, Perform, Craft (alchemy) and several other skills may be helpful in achieving this, but faking the spell effects themselves is outside the scope of this feat.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.80, Pow 4.10, Port 3.70, Comp 3.70, Rule 3.90)

Fall Guy[edit]

General

You know how to take a fall.

Benefit: If you fall or jump you can reduce the damage taken by treating the fall as if it were 10’ shorter. You also gain a +5 bonus to skill checks to reduce falling damage. This effect stacks with similar benefits from other feats and skills.

Normal: Falling damage is typically 1d6 per 10’ you fall.

Balance: 4.07 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.33, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Familiar Concentration[edit]

Special

Your familiar can concentrate on spells for you.

Prerequisite: A familiar

Benefit: When you cast a spell that normally requires your concentration, you can let your familiar do the concentrating for you if it is within 5 ft. of you at the time of casting. Your familiar must remain within 5 ft. of you while concentrating to maintain your spell; otherwise your familiar's concentration is automatically broken. To maintain a certain spell, the familiar must have an Intelligence score of 5 + the level of the spell or higher.

Notes: Your DM may let you apply this feat to a paladin's mount, special companion, infernal companion, psicrystal or similar pet.

Balance: 4.85 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.25, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Familiar Development[edit]

Special

You have put time and effort into developing your familiar.

Prerequisite: A familiar

Benefit: Your familiar's abilities are figured as if you were two levels higher.

Special: This feat can be learned more than once and stacks with itself, each time raising your level by +2 when determining your familiar's special abilities.

Notes: Your DM may let you apply this feat to a paladin's mount, special companion, infernal companion, psicrystal or similar pet. Penalties associated with losing your familiar are not altered by this feat.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.80, Pow 3.80, Port 4.00, Comp 4.65, Rule 5.00)

Familiar Feat[edit]

Special

Your familiar learns a new feat.

Prerequisite: A familiar

Benefit: Your familiar learns any one new feat it can use. This new feat is unavailable to you. In many cases, familiars can learn feats you could not, such as monster feats. If your familiar dies any replacement will also know this extra feat, or a similar feat if the one taken is not available to it (e.g. your former familiar had a feat which required a Fly speed and you choose an earthbound replacement familiar).

Special: Your DM may let you apply this feat to a special mount, special companion, infernal companion, or similar pet.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.56 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.60, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.60)

Familiar Feat Merge[edit]

Special

Your familiar learns all the feats you know.

Prerequisite: A familiar

Benefit: Your familiar can use all your feats, just as it can use your skills.

Notes: Many feats are quite useless to familiars.

Balance: 4.36 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.30, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.30)

Familiar Focus[edit]

Special

You compensate for any lack in focus when developing your familiar

Prerequisite: A familiar

Benefit: The abilities of your familiar are now based on your character level, not your class level.

Notes: Your DM may let you apply this feat to a paladin's mount, psicrystal or similar pet.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 5.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Familiar Fortitude[edit]

General

You do not physically suffer from the loss of a familiar.

Benefit: You suffer no ill effects if one of your familiars dies. In addition you are not subject to the normal time period required before summoning a new familiar.

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.75, Port 3.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Familiar Range Extension[edit]

Special

You can communicate with your familiar over long distances

Prerequisite: A familiar

Benefit: Your empathic communication with your familiar extends out to a range of ten miles.

Notes: Your DM may let you apply this feat to a paladin’s mount, special companion, infernal companion, psicrystal or similar pet.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.30, Port 4.60, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Familiar Spell[edit]

Epic, Special

Your familiar learns to cast one of your spells.

Prerequisite: Int 25 or Cha 25 (depending on which is your key ability score for manifesting)

Benefit: Choose one arcane spell you know of 8th level or lower. Your familiar can now use this spell once per day as a spell-like ability, at a caster level equal to your caster level. You cannot bestow a spell to your familiar if the spell normally has a material component cost of more than 1 gp or an XP cost.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Each time the character takes the feat, he or she can give his or her familiar a different spell-like ability or another daily use of the same spell-like ability.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Far Shot[edit]

You can hit targets at a greater range.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot

Benefit: When you use a projectile weapon, such as a bow, its range increment increases by one-half (multiply by 1-1/2). When you use a thrown weapon, its range increment is doubled.

Special: A fighter may select Far Shot as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Far Touch Spell[edit]

Metamagic

After set-up, you can cast a touch spell on a willing creature at long range.

Benefit: Casting a far touch spell is a two-step process that may only be used on a willing target and may only be used with touch spells. First you tag the spell's eventual target by touching them and naming the spell. The spell is not yet cast, but this is a standard action that provokes an attack of opportunity. Thereafter you may cast this spell upon the target so long as they are within long range (400 feet + 40 feet per level). You may only have one tag active at a given time, even if you have more that one spell prepared with this feat. The tag effect ends when you cast the spell, or make a different tag, or when you renew your spells for the day. A far touch spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.

Normal: You must touch the target to cast a spell whose range is touch.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time allows you to have an additional tag active simultaneously.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.67, Pow 4.00, Port 4.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.33)

Fast Healing[edit]

Epic

You heal faster than most people.

Prerequisite: Con 25

Benefit: You gain fast healing 3, or your existing fast healing increases by 3. This feat does not stack with fast healing granted by magic items or nonpermanent magical effects.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Fast Item Creation[edit]

Magical

Spellcasters can create items faster.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast 4th level spells

Benefit: You increase the daily rate at which you create magical items by 1000 gp.

Normal: All spellcasters normally create items at the rate of 1000 gp per day.

Special: This feat can be taken several times, and stacks with itself. Each time it is chosen, add 1000 gp to the value of a single magical item that the character can create per day. Thus, items take half the usual time to create with one feat's worth of Fast Item Creation, one-third the usual time with two, and so on. A minimum of one day is still required for the creation of any item, however. In campaigns using Psionics this feat can also be used to speed up the creation of psionic items, for those that meet an alternative (or additional) prerequisite of the ability to manifest 4th level powers.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.28 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.30, Port 4.60, Comp 4.30, Rule 3.60)

Fast Mover[edit]

General

You can move faster than normal

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Run

Benefit: Add +5' to your base movement rate when wearing light armor or less.

Special: This feat can stack with other movement bonuses (such as the barbarian and monks abilities). This feat can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.50, Port 5.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Fast Spell[edit]

Metamagic

Cuts the casting time of your spells.

Benefit: Fast Spell reduces the casting time of a spell which takes 1 full round to a standard action, and halves the casting time for spells that take longer than a full round to cast. Fast spell has no effect on spells with a casting time shorter than a full round. A Fast Spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.

Notes: As with Quicken Spell this feat has no effect on spells when used by spontaneous spellcasters such as Sorcerers or Bards.

Balance: 4.24 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.50, Port 4.20, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Favored Class[edit]

General

You can select one class not normally associated with your race and consider it a favored class

Prerequisite: Multiclass character

Benefit: When becoming a multi-class character you can select a class that is not normally favored by your race without suffering an experience reward penalty.

Normal: You suffer an experience reward penalty for multi-classing outside of your favored class list.

Special: This feat can only be taken one time. The choice of the non-racially favored class must be explained in the characters history or role-played within the group so that this feat makes sense for the character.

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.10, Pow 2.80, Port 4.20, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.10)

Favored Enemy Spell[edit]

Magical

You are adept at casting spells against your favored enemies.

Prerequisite: Favored Enemy, ability to cast 2nd level arcane or divine spells

Benefit: When casting a spell against your favored enemies, you can either add half your favored enemy bonus to the spell’s save DC or your full favored enemy bonus to the amount of damage inflicted by the spell.

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.40, Pow 3.80, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Fearsome Display[edit]

General

You can use an impressive display of weapon prowess to intimidate.

Prerequisite: Weapon Finesse

Benefit: By spending a full-round action doing an impressive display with a weapon for which you have Weapon Finesse, you can use your base attack bonus plus Charisma bonus in lieu of your Intimidation skill. This can only be used to impress, scare and face people down; you cannot use this to interrogate prisoners or with any subtlety.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.07 (Purp 4.67, Pow 4.33, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.67)

Fearsome Fortitude[edit]

General

You are exceedingly difficult to kill.

Prerequisite: Con 15, Toughness

Benefit: Whenever you are killed by loss of hit points or a spell effect that causes instant death you may make a special Fortitude save to stay alive. For death spells the DC is the same as standard for a spell of that level (10 + spell level + attribute modifier + special), for death by damage the DC is the number of hit points you are below 0. If successful you do not die, but are stabilized at -9 hit points. You remain unconscious and appear dead to casual observation for ten minutes even if healed during that time. You can not use this feat if you are not conscious at the time you are killed.

Special: You can not use this feat if you are killed by an effect that would leave your body incapable of life such as Disintegration or Decapitation.

Balance: 3.87 (Purp 4.67, Pow 3.67, Port 4.00, Comp 3.33, Rule 3.67)

Fell Shot[edit]

You can strike your foe with a ranged weapon as if making a touch attack.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, [[#Psionic Shot|Psionic Shot, Base attack bonus +5, Dex 13

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You can resolve your ranged attack as a ranged touch attack. You must decide whether or not to use this feat prior to making an attack. If your attack misses, you still expend your psionic focus.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Fencing Stance[edit]

You defend well with a single weapon light weapon.

Prerequisite: Weapon Finesse

Benefit: When employing a single weapon for which you have Weapon Finesse in one hand, and using the other hand for balance only, your defensive stance improves, granting you a +2 Dodge bonus to Armor Class.

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

Fiery Rage[edit]

Rage

Your Rage burns particularly hot and can be sustained longer than usual

Prerequisite: Rage 1/day

Benefit: You can rage for a number of rounds equal to 6 plus your rage-enhanced modified Constitution modifier.

Normal: A fit of rage normally lasts a number of rounds equal to 3 plus the raging character's newly modified Constitution modifier.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.60, Port 4.60, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.60)

Fine Wild Shape[edit]

Epic, Wild

You can wild shape into a fine sized animal.

Prerequisite: Ability to wild shape into a Diminutive creature

Benefit: You can use your wild shape to take the shape of a Fine animal.

Normal: Without this feat, a character cannot wild shape into an animal smaller than Tiny size.

Comments: Normal should be altered to: "Without this feat, a character cannot wild shape into an animal of smaller than Diminutive size, requiring Diminutive Wild Shape".

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Fists Of Adamantine[edit]

You can make devastating unarmed strikes.

Prerequisite: Improved Unarmed Strike, Fists Of Steel, Stunning Fist, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: You must declare use of this ability prior to your attack roll and it counts as two of your stunning fist uses per day. On a successful unarmed attack, your bonus damage from Fists of Steel is maximized, allowing you to inflict +6 points of damage.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Fists Of Steel[edit]

You can imbue your unarmed strikes with even more force.

Prerequisite: Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You must declare use of this ability prior to your attack roll and it counts as one of your stunning fist uses per day. On a successful unarmed attack, you inflict +1d6 points of damage.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.00)

Flashes Of Brilliance[edit]

General

You are brilliant but erratic with a specific skill.

Benefit: Chose one skill. When you roll a natural 20 (the d20 comes up 20) on a skill check with that skill, you gain a +20 insight bonus to the check. If you attempt the same action repeatedly in the same circumstances, such as when taking 20, this bonus only applies to the first attempt.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times. The effects do not stack. You must choose a different skill each time you take this feat.

Balance: 3.20 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.33, Port 3.33, Comp 3.33, Rule 3.00)

Flashy Attack[edit]

You are able to use an impressive display of prowess to catch your opponents off guard

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6, Weapon Finesse

Benefit: As a full round action, you can add your charisma modifier (in addition to all other modifiers) to your attack roll when wielding a weapon eligible for use with Weapon Finesse.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times, each time it applies to a new weapon. Fighters may take this as a bonus feat.

Balance: 4.64 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.80, Port 4.80, Comp 4.40, Rule 5.00)

Fleet Of Foot[edit]

General

You can turn while running or charging.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Run

Benefit: When running or charging, you can make a single direction change of 90 degrees or less. You can’t use this feat while wearing medium or heavy armor, or when carrying a medium or heavy load. If you are charging, you must move in a straight line for 10 feet after the turn to maintain the charge.

Normal: Without this feat, you can run or charge only in a straight line.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Flurry Of Blades[edit]

You can strike exceptionally fast with light weapons.

Prerequisite: Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus (with Weapon), Base attack bonus +3, Dex 13

Benefit: Choose one weapon that you have Weapon Focus and Weapon Finesse for. When unencumbered, in light armor or less, and wielding this type of weapon, you may make one extra attack per round. The attack is at your highest base attack bonus, but each attack (the extra one and all the normal ones) suffer a -2 penalty. You must use the full attack action. This feat does not stack with other feats/abilities that grant extra attacks, such as Flurry of Blows, two weapon use, double weapons, or creatures that make multiple attacks. It does stack with the iterative attacks of a character with high base attack bonus.

Notes: This is a fencing technique, and fits well in a renaissance-style game.

Balance: 4.02 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.70, Port 4.20, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.00)

Flyby Attack[edit]

Monster, Special

You can attack in the middle of a flying move.

Prerequisite: Fly speed

Benefit: When flying, the creature can take a move action (including a dive) and another standard action at any point during the move. The creature cannot take a second move action during a round when it makes a flyby attack.

Normal: Without this feat, the creature takes a standard action either before or after its move.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Focused Primeval Ability[edit]

Monster

One of the creature's supernatural or spell-like abilities is more potent than normal.

Prerequisite: Innate supernatural or spell-like ability

Benefit: Choose one of your innate supernatural or spell-like abilities. Add +1to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws made to resist this ability.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times but its benefits do not stack. Each time that it is taken the creature must apply it to another of its innate supernatural or spell-like abilities. This feat cannot be used with class based spell-like abilities, like the druid's wild shape or paladin's ability to cure disease.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Focused Psionic Power[edit]

Psionic

Choose one psionic discipline. Your powers from this discipline are more potent and capable of piercing spell resistance more easily than normal.

Benefit: You must expend your psionic focus to use this feat. Add +1 to the difficulty class for all saving throws and +1 to your manifester level checks to overcome power resistance for all powers manifested from your chosen discipline.

Special: This feat can be chosen multiple times and will stack with itself, though each time it is taken you have the option of applying its effects to a different psionic discipline.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Focused Sunder[edit]

[[#PSIONIC|Psionic, Fighter

You can sense the stress points on others’ weapons.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, Improved Sunder

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. When you strike at an opponent’s weapon, you ignore half of the weapon’s total hardness (round down). Total hardness includes any magical or psionic enhancements possessed by the weapon that increase its hardness.

Special: You can also sense the stress points in any hard construction, such as wooden doors or stone walls, and can ignore half of the object’s total hardness (round down) when attacking that object.

Balance: 3.65 (Purp 3.75, Pow 2.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Follow Up[edit]

You can push through enemy lines to create a breach.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When using the Full Attack action, if you deal a creature enough damage to make it drop (typically by dropping it to below 0 hit points or killing it), you may immediately move into the space they occupied if within 5’. This move does not provoke an attack of opportunity. There is no fixed limit to the number of times in a round this feat may be used, although you may not move further than your current movement rate in one round using this feat.

Special: You may not use this feat if you cannot fit into your opponent’s space because of other opponents or obstacles. When using this feat in conjunction with Cleave or a feat based on Cleave, you must take your bonus attacks from those feats before you move using Follow Up.

Balance: 3.96 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.20, Port 3.60, Comp 3.80, Rule 3.60)

Force Of Will[edit]

General

You are able to resist psionic attacks with extreme force of will.

Prerequisite: [[#Iron Will|Iron Will

Benefit: Once per round, when targeted by a psionic effect that allows a Reflex save or a Fortitude save, you can instead make a Will saving throw to avoid the effect. The benefit of this feat applies only to psionic powers and psi-like abilities. This is an exception to the psionics–magic transparency rule.

Special: You cannot take or use this feat if you have the ability to use powers (if you have a power point reserve or psi-like abilities).

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is not generally in favor of feats such as these that break the magic-psionics transparency rule.

Balance: 3.40 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.00, Port 3.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.00)

Force Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can infuse your damaging arcane spells with force.

Benefit: Half of the damage inflicted by an arcane spell modified by this feat has the force descriptor, enabling it to affect incorporeal creatures and making it resistant to protection from elements and similar magic. The other half of the damage is treated normally as per the spell. A force spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell's actual level.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.67, Port 4.33, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Force Stop[edit]

Modern

You can stop another vehicle during a sideswipe.

Prerequisite: Drive 4 ranks, [[#Vehicle Expert|Vehicle Expert

Benefit: When you attempt a sideswipe stunt with a surface vehicle, you can force the other vehicle to a stop by nudging it into a controlled side¬ways skid. In addition to the nor¬mal requirements for attempting a sideswipe stunt, you must have sufficient movement re¬maining to move a number of squares equal to your turn number. After succeeding on the check to attempt the sideswipe, you make a Drive check opposed by the other driver. If you succeeds, turn the other vehicle 90 degrees across the front of your, so that they form a tee. Move them forward a distance equal to your turn number. The vehicles end their movement at that location, at stationary speed, and take their normal sideswipe damage. If you fail the check, resolve the sideswipe normally.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.25)

Forge Epic Ring[edit]

Epic, Item Creation

You can create epic level rings.

Prerequisite: [[#Forge Ring|Forge Ring, Knowledge (arcana) 35 ranks, Spellcraft 35 ranks

Benefit: You can forge magic rings that exceed the normal limits for such items.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Forge Ring[edit]

You can create magical rings.

Prerequisite: Caster level 12th

Benefit: You can create any ring whose prerequisites you meet. Crafting a ring takes one day for each 1,000 gp in its base price. To craft a ring, you must spend 1/25 of its base price in XP and use up raw materials costing one-half of its base price. You can also mend a broken ring if it is one that you could make. Doing so costs half the XP, half the raw materials, and half the time it would take to forge that ring in the first place. Some magic rings incur extra costs in material components or XP, as noted in their descriptions. You must pay such a cost to forge such a ring or to mend a broken one.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Fortune[edit]

General

You have unusually good luck

Benefit: You gain the power of good fortune, which is usable once per day. This extraordinary ability allows you to reroll one roll that you have just made. You must take the result of the reroll, even if it’s worse than the original roll.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 3.75)

Foul Sneaking[edit]

Stealth

You can sneak attack stymied creatures.

Prerequisite: Sneak Attack 1d6

Benefit: In addition to normal sneak attack opportunities, you can sneak attack a target that is dazzled, entangled, or nauseated. See the condition summary in Core Rulebook II for a description on these conditions.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Fracture[edit]

You are skilled at exploiting weaknesses in objects.

Prerequisite: Improved Sunder, Power Attack, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: When attacking an object with hardness greater than or equal to that of your weapon, you gain +2 circumstance bonus to damage. When you are attacking an object with hardness less than that of your weapon, you gain a +5 circumstance bonus to damage.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.76 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.60, Port 4.30, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.30)

Frenzied Attack[edit]

You may attack your foe with wild abandon, allowing you to rain many inaccurate blows upon them.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When you make a full attack action with a melee weapon, you may take an additional attack at your highest base attack bonus. However, this additional attack and all others suffer a -4 penalty this round.

Special: When used with other feats or abilities allowing additional attacks, all penalties stack on all attacks made.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 3.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

From The Jaws Of Defeat[edit]

General

Your worst breaks often turn into lucky breaks.

Prerequisite: [[#Charmed|Charmed, [[#Fortune|Fortune

Benefit: Once per day when you roll a natural 1 (the d20 comes up 1) on a skill check, saving throw, or characteristic check, you may change it into a natural 20.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times. Each extra time provides an additional use per day.

Notes: Both of the listed prerequisites are elsewhere in the Netbook of Feats.

Balance: 3.40 (Purp 3.40, Pow 3.20, Port 3.60, Comp 3.80, Rule 3.00)

Fury Of The Mountain[edit]

General

You can strain yourself to the breaking point for extra power in your attacks.

Prerequisite: Str 15, Con 15, [[#Great Fortitude|Great Fortitude, [[#Iron Will|Iron Will, [[#Toughness|Toughness, [[#Improved Toughness|Improved Toughness, Base attack bonus +11

Benefit: Before making an attack roll, you may sacrifice a number of hit points up to your Constitution bonus. For every full two hit points you sacrifice, you deal an additional 1d6 points weapon damage to your opponent if you hit with the attack. If for any reason you don’t lose the hit points you do not gain the benefits of this feat.

Balance: 3.65 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.00, Port 3.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Gargantuan Wild Shape[edit]

Epic, Wild

You can wild shape into a gargantuan animal.

Prerequisite: Ability to wild shape into a Huge animal

Benefit: You can use your wild shape to take the shape of a Gargantuan animal.

Normal: Without this feat, a character cannot wild shape into an animal greater than Huge size.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Gearhead[edit]

Modern

You know how things work.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Computer Use and Repair checks.

Special: Remember that the Computer Use skill and the Repair skill can only be used untrained in certain situations.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Geometric Wall[edit]

Metamagic

You can shape your wall spells making rings, hemispheres, or spheres.

Benefit: You can choose to alter the wall shape differently as shown below. A spell without "Effect: Wall" in its description or "wall" in its name is not affected by this feat. A wall that can already be adjusted into a particular shape uses this feat's dimensions or the spell description's dimensions, whichever you desire. Creatures must stand on one inner edge of a sphere-shaped wall and thus suffer the effects (if any) of the wall each round they are encapsulated. A Geometric Wall spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell's actual level.

Normal: You can only shape a wall spell if it has the Shapeable designation at the end of its Area or Effect entry. In addition, a wall's spell description must specifically mention allowable shapes (ring, hemisphere, or sphere).

Balance: 3.60 (Purp 3.67, Pow 3.67, Port 3.67, Comp 3.33, Rule 3.67)

Ghost Attack[edit]

[[#PSIONIC|Psionic, Fighter

Your deadly strikes against incorporeal foes always find their mark.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You must be psionically focused to use this feat. When you make a melee attack or a ranged attack against an incorporeal creature, you can make two rolls to check for the miss chance. If either is successful, the attack is treated as if it were made with a ghost touch weapon for the purpose of affecting the creature. Your weapon or natural weapon actually appears to become briefly incorporeal as the attack is made.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Ghost Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast spells that are especially effective against incorporeal opponents.

Benefit: Any spell with a damage descriptor prepared as a ghost spell is fully effective against corporeal and incorporeal opponents. An incorporeal creature struck by a ghost spell suffers the normal damage inflicted by the spell and does not have a 50% change to ignore this damage. A ghost spell uses up a spell slot one level higher that the spell’s normal level.

Normal: Incorporeal creatures have a 50% chance to ignore spells cast from a corporeal source unless the spell has a force effect.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Ghost Touch[edit]

Special

By channeling your ki you can effectively strike incorporeal opponents.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Ki Strike class ability

Benefit: You can make unarmed attacks against incorporeal opponents as if you had the ghost touch power, negating an incorporeal creature's ability to ignore 50% of successful attacks from a corporeal source. Like Ki Strike, Ghost Touch is a supernatural ability.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.25)

Giant Step[edit]

Monster

Your long legs allow you to take longer steps.

Prerequisite: Natural reach of 10 ft or longer

Benefit: What is normally a 5 ft. step is longer for you. Whenever you could normally take a 5 ft. step, you may instead move a distance equal to your natural reach, without provoking attacks of opportunity. You still cannot move through the squares of other creatures, unless the size difference is great enough to allow you to occupy the same space. Nor can you move farther than your speed in this way.

Balance: 4.73 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.67, Port 4.33, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.67)

Giveaway Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You give away control over a spell.

Benefit: You transfer the control of a spell to another willing creature that you touch at the time of casting, such as levitate or flaming sphere. This does not work on spells with a personal range, or an emanation area, or an instantaneous duration. It also does not alter spells whose initial effects are fixed, but whose durations last some time - for example, when you cast charm person it may last days, but when you cast the spell the victim will always view the caster as their friend (if they fail the saving throw). In all other ways the spell functions as normal; the save DC and level-dependent functions are based upon your the caster's abilities. You still make all the decisions inherent in casting the spell, such as what the initial target is, but if the effect can be moved (for example flaming sphere), the creature in control decides how. If the spell requires concentration to maintain, the creature you transfer it to must maintain this concentration, and they can opt to end a dismissable spell at their whim. A Giveaway Spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.

Special: A creature must have an Intelligence score of at least 1 to receive control of a Giveaway Spell; if you try to transfer control to a non-intelligent creature then the spell will instantly dissipate and be wasted.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.24 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.20, Port 4.60, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.20)

Go Hungry[edit]

General

You are able to go without food and water for six days before suffering any ill effects.

Benefit: You are able to ignore the effects of hunger and thirst for up to six days without suffering any ill effects. After six days you must eat and drink normally for at least three days before fasting again.

Balance: 3.50 (Purp 2.50, Pow 3.00, Port 3.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 3.75)

Godsbane[edit]

General

You are better able to resist divine magics than normal.

Prerequisite: Must not have a level in any class that offers divine spellcasting

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all saving throws to resist divine spells and spell-like abilities of creatures with divine caster levels.

Balance: 4.08 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.20, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.20)

Good Listener[edit]

General

You are easy to talk to, and so can gather information quickly.

Prerequisite: Gather Information 4 ranks, Cha 13

Benefit: You can gather information with only (1d4+1)x10 minutes of work.

Normal: A typical Gather Information check takes 1d4+1 hours.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Grasping Strike[edit]

You can start a grapple after a successful unarmed strike

Prerequisite: Improved Unarmed Strike, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: After any successful standard unarmed attack you may immediately attempt to grapple your opponent without provoking an attack of opportunity or making a touch attack.

Balance: 4.13 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.67)

Great Blow[edit]

You can strike mighty blows with mighty weapons.

Prerequisite: Power Attack, Str 15, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: As a full-round action, you can make a single melee attack with a one-handed or two-handed weapon that does double damage (using the same mechanic as critical hits). You may not make any other attacks in the round for any reason, including attacks of opportunity and extra attacks granted by Cleave.

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.25, Comp 3.25, Rule 3.50)

Great Charisma[edit]

Epic

You have learned a secret of great charisma.

Benefit: Your Charisma increases by 1 point.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Great Cleave[edit]

You can kill multiple opponents in a single blow.

Prerequisite: Power Attack, Cleave, Str 13, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: This feat works like Cleave, except that there is no limit to the number of times you can use it per round.

Special: A fighter may select Great Cleave as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Great Constitution[edit]

Epic

You have learned a secret of great constitution.

Benefit: Your Constitution increases by 1 point.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Great Dexterity[edit]

Epic

You have learned a secret of great dexterity.

Benefit: Your Dexterity increases by 1 point.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Great Fortitude[edit]

General

Your fortitude is exceptional.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Fortitude saving throws.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Great Intelligence[edit]

Epic

You have learned a secret of great intelligence.

Benefit: Your Intelligence increases by 1 point.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Great Leader[edit]

General

You are a particularly inspiring leader of men.

Prerequisite: [[#Leadership|Leadership

Benefit: You receive a +3 bonus to your Leadership score. Despite this increase, your cohort may still not be of a level higher than two levels lower than your level.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Great Smiting[edit]

Epic, Special

Your smite attacks are twice as effective.

Prerequisite: Cha 25, Smite ability (from class feature or domain granted power)

Benefit: Whenever your make a successful smite attack, add twice the appropriate level to damage (rather than just your level).

Special: A character may select this feat multiple times. Its effects stack. Remember that two doublings equals a tripling, and so forth.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Great Strength[edit]

Epic

You have discovered a secret of great strength.

Benefit: Your Strength increases by 1 point.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Great Wisdom[edit]

Epic

You have discovered a secret of great wisdom.

Benefit: Your Wisdom increases by 1 point.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Greater Crippling Strike[edit]

Stealth

Your crippling strikes achieve their maximum potential.

Prerequisite: Crippling Strike, [[#Improved Crippling Strike|Improved Crippling Strike, Sneak Attack 8d6

Benefit: An opponent damaged by one of her sneak attacks also takes 2 points of Constitution damage. This stacks with the benefit from Crippling Strike and Improved Crippling Strike.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.50)

Greater Disease Resistance[edit]

General

You are even more resistant to disease.

Prerequisite: [[#Disease Resistance|Disease Resistance

Benefit: You reduce the initial and repeated ability damage inflicted by any disease by one.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Greater Divine Dominion[edit]

Gain the domain powers from a divine dominion

Prerequisite: [[#Divine Dominion|Divine Dominion, Knowledge (religion) 9 ranks, Any domain

Benefit: You gain the domain powers from a domain selected using the Divine Dominion feat.

Special: This feat can be taken several times for different domains that you have chosen with Divine Dominion.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.00)

Greater Focused Primeval Ability[edit]

Monster

One of creature's supernatural or spell-like abilities is especially potent.

Prerequisite: Innate supernatural or spell-like ability, [[#Focused Primeval Ability|Focused Primeval Ability

Benefit: Choose one innate supernatural or spell-like ability that you have augmented with the Focused Primeval Ability feat. Add +2to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws made to resist this ability. This bonus supercedes (i.e. does not stack with) the bonus provided by the Focused Spell-Like Ability feat.

Special: The creature can take this feat multiple times but its benefits do not stack. Each time that it is taken the creature must apply it to another of its innate supernatural or spell-like abilities that has been augmented with the Focused Primeval Ability feat. This feat cannot be used with class based spell-like abilities, like the druid's wild shape or paladin's ability to cure disease.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Greater Heart Of The Dragon[edit]

Rage

The blinding intensity of your rage may completely protect you from harm.

Prerequisite: [[#Heart Of The Dragon|Heart Of The Dragon, Rage 2/day, Base attack bonus +9

Benefit: When raging, you may substitute a Fortitude save for a Reflex save for any damage from a spell-like ability or supernatural ability that normally allows a Reflex save for half damage. If you succeed in the save, you take no damage.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.73 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.33, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.33)

Greater Held Charge[edit]

Metamagic

You have mastered your body’s ability to hold a magical charge.

Prerequisite: Con 13

Benefit: You can hold a charged touch spell and still cast another spell, although the charge may not be released in the same round as the new spell has been cast. The number of times this feat can be used while a specific touch spell is charged is equal to the caster’s Constitution modifier. Once you have cast that many additional spells, if you cast another, the charged touch spell dissipates as normal. Spells cast using this feat take up a spell slot one level higher.

Normal: If you are holding a spell charge for a touch attack and cast another spell, the spell charge for the touch spell dissipates.

Notes: Casting another touch spell will override this feat. You are only considered “armed” when you attempt to use the touch attack itself, otherwise, you will draw an attack of opportunity as per normal when casting another spell. If you fail a concentration check while using this feat, the charged touch spell will also dissipate.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.18 (Purp 4.40, Pow 4.50, Port 4.20, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.20)

Greater Knowledge[edit]

You absorb knowledge well and know how to find obscure information.

Prerequisite: Int 15

Benefit: When making a trained knowledge skill check any roll less than 10 is treated as if it were 10. In addition you are aware of where you can find out any fact which you could know if you failed a trained knowledge check by 10 or less. The actual source is at the discretion of the DM and may well be quite inaccessible or unwilling to divulge the information.

Normal: You may not take a 10 or 20 on knowledge checks.

Balance: 3.67 (Purp 3.33, Pow 3.67, Port 4.00, Comp 3.67, Rule 3.67)

Greater Manyshot[edit]

You are skilled at firing many arrows at once, even at different opponents.

Prerequisite: Dex 17, [[#Manyshot|Manyshot, Point Blank Shot, [[#Rapid Shot|Rapid Shot, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When you use the Manyshot feat, you can fire each arrow at a different target instead of firing all of them at the same target. You make a separate attack roll for each arrow, regardless of whether you fire them at separate targets or the same target. Your precision-based damage applies to each arrow fired, and, if you score a critical hit with more than one of the arrows, each critical hit deals critical damage.

Special: A fighter may select this feat as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Greater Multiweapon Fighting[edit]

You can get an additional attack with an offhand weapon.

Prerequisite: Dex 19, Three arms, [[#Improved Multiweapon Fighting|Improved Multiweapon Fighting, [[#Multiweapon Fighting|Multiweapon Fighting, Base attack bonus +15

Benefit: The creature may make up to three extra attacks with each extra offhand weapon it wields, albeit at a –10 penalty on the third attack with each weapon.

Special: This feat replaces the Greater Two-Weapon Fighting feat for creatures with more than two arms.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Greater Overrun[edit]

You can overrun multiple targets.

Benefit: When using the Overrun combat maneuver, you may overrun any number of opponents in your movement path so long as you move in a straight path. In addition you may move twice your current movement rate while Overrunning by making the Overrun combat maneuver a full round action instead of a standard action. If you fail a strength check at any point, the maneuver ends as normal.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.18 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.30)

Greater Poison Resistance[edit]

General

You are even more resistant to poison.

Prerequisite: [[#Poison Resistance|Poison Resistance

Benefit: You reduce the initial and secondary hit point and ability damage inflicted by poison by one.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Greater Power Penetration[edit]

Psionic

Your powers are especially potent at breaking through power resistance.

Prerequisite: [[#Power Penetration|Power Penetration

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You get a +4 bonus on manifester level checks to overcome a creature’s power resistance. This bonus stacks with the bonus from Power Penetration.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is not generally in favor of feats such as these that break the magic-psionics transparency rule.

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.25)

Greater Power Specialization[edit]

[[#PSIONIC|Psionic, Fighter

You deal more damage with your powers.

Prerequisite: [[#Power Specialization|Power Specialization, Weapon Focus (ray), Manifester level 12th

Benefit: Your powers that deal damage deal an extra 2 points of damage. This damage stacks with other bonuses on damage rolls to powers, including the one from Power Specialization. The damage bonus applies only if the target or targets are within 30 feet.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.25, Rule 3.50)

Greater Primeval Rage[edit]

Rage

You are incredibly vicious, ferocious and dangerous.

Prerequisite: Primeval Rage or Rage ability, Base attack bonus +12

Benefit: When enraged, you gain a temporary +6 bonus to Str, +6 bonus to Con and +3 morale bonus to Will saves, while still suffering the standard -2 AC penalty. You cannot end your rage voluntarily.

Special: This feat does not stack with the Greater Rage class ability (it is superceded by it).

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.87 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.33, Port 3.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 3.33)

Greater Psionic Endowment[edit]

You can use meditation to focus your powers.

Prerequisite: [[#Psionic Endowment|Psionic Endowment

Benefit: When you use the Psionic Endowment feat, you add +2 to the save DC of a power you manifest instead of +1.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Greater Psionic Fist[edit]

[[#PSIONIC|Psionic, Fighter

You can charge your unarmed strike or natural weapon with additional damage potential.

Prerequisite: Str 13, [[#Psionic Fist|Psionic Fist, Base attack bonus +5

Benefit: When you use the Psionic Fist feat, your unarmed attack or attack with a natural weapon deals an extra 4d6 points of damage instead of an extra 2d6 points.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Greater Psionic Shot[edit]

[[#PSIONIC|Psionic, Fighter

You can charge your ranged attacks with additional damage potential.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, [[#Psionic Shot|Psionic Shot, Base attack bonus +5

Benefit: When you use the Psionic Shot feat, your ranged attack deals an extra 4d6 points of damage instead of an extra 2d6 points.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Greater Psionic Weapon[edit]

[[#PSIONIC|Psionic, Fighter

You can charge your melee weapon with additional damage potential.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Psionic Weapon, Base attack bonus +5

Benefit: When you use the Psionic Weapon feat, your attack with a melee weapon deals an extra 4d6 points of damage instead of an extra 2d6 points.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Greater Spell Focus[edit]

Choose a school of magic to which you already have applied the Spell Focus feat.

Benefit: Add +1 to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws against spells from the school of magic you select. This bonus stacks with the bonus from Spell Focus.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new school of magic to which you already have applied the Spell Focus feat.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Greater Spell Mastery[edit]

Special

You can cast some of the spells previously mastered with Spell Mastery without preparation.

Prerequisite: [[#Spell Mastery|Spell Mastery

Benefit: Choose a number of spells equal to your charisma modifier that you have previously mastered with Spell Mastery. You can now cast these spells at their normal level without preparation, exactly like a sorcerer. This allows you to prepare a full set of spells, yet still cast any spell selected by this feat by exchanging the spell energy of one of your prepared spells of equal or higher level.

Normal: Wizards must normally prepare spells in order to cast them.

Example: Hhune is a 10th level wizard with Int 16 (+3) and Cha 13 (+1). He has previously selected the Spell Mastery feat, selecting three spells based on his Int modifier (dimension door, magic missile and lightning bolt). He next selects the Greater Spell Mastery feat, choosing one spell based on his Cha modifier that he has previously learned with Spell Mastery (magic missile). He no longer needs to prepare magic missile and can now prepare his normal allotment of first level spells per day (5 total, 4 plus 1 for Int 16). Whenever he decides to cast magic missile, he can cast this spell in place of one of his prepared 1st-level spells, casting up to a maximum of 5 magic missile or first level spells per day in any combination. He could also choose to cast magic missile by trading in one of his higher level prepared spells in a similar manner.

Balance: 3.07 (Purp 2.67, Pow 3.00, Port 3.33, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.33)

Greater Spell Penetration[edit]

Your spells are very good at overcoming an enemies defenses.

Prerequisite: Spell Penetration

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on caster level checks (1d20 + caster level) made to overcome a creature’s spell resistance. This bonus stacks with the one from Spell Penetration.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Greater Spell Toughness[edit]

General

You are incredibly resistant to spells cast from a chosen school.

Prerequisite: Base save bonus (any) +6, [[#Spell Toughness|Spell Toughness

Benefit: Add +4 to your saving throws against spells and spell-like effects from a chosen school of magic that you have previously chosen Spell Toughness for. This bonus supersedes (does not stack with) the bonus provided by Spell Toughness.

Special: You can choose this feat multiple times but its effects do not stack. Each time it is chosen, it must be applied to a different school of magic that meets the above prerequisites.

Balance: 4.34 (Purp 3.60, Pow 4.60, Port 4.30, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.60)

Greater Two-weapon Fighting[edit]

You get a third attack with an off-hand weapon.

Prerequisite: Dex 19, [[#Improved Two-weapon Fighting|Improved Two-weapon Fighting, [[#Two-weapon Fighting|Two-weapon Fighting, Base attack bonus +11

Benefit: You get a third attack with your off-hand weapon, albeit at a –10 penalty.

Special: A fighter may select Greater Two-Weapon Fighting as one of his fighter bonus feats. An 11th-level ranger who has chosen the two-weapon combat style is treated as having Greater Two-Weapon Fighting, even if he does not have the prerequisites for it, but only when he is wearing light or no armor.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Greater Weapon Focus[edit]

Choose one type of weapon for which you have already selected Weapon Focus. You can also choose unarmed strike or grapple as your weapon for purposes of this feat.

Prerequisite: [[#Martial Weapon Proficiency|Proficiency With Selected Weapon, Weapon Focus With Selected Weapon, Fighter level 8th

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on all attack rolls you make using the selected weapon. This bonus stacks with other bonuses on attack rolls, including the one from Weapon Focus (see below).

Special: You can gain Greater Weapon Focus multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new type of weapon. A fighter must have Greater Weapon Focus with a given weapon to gain the Greater Weapon Specialization feat for that weapon. A fighter may select Greater Weapon Focus as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Greater Weapon Specialization[edit]

Choose one type of weapon for which you have already selected Weapon Specialization. You can also choose unarmed strike or grapple as your weapon for purposes of this feat.

Prerequisite: [[#Martial Weapon Proficiency|Proficiency With Selected Weapon, [[#Greater Weapon Focus|Greater Weapon Focus With Selected Weapon, Weapon Focus With Selected Weapon, Weapon Specialization With Selected Weapon, Fighter level 12th

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on all damage rolls you make using the selected weapon. This bonus stacks with other bonuses on damage rolls, including the one from Weapon Specialization (see below).

Special: You can gain Greater Weapon Specialization multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new type of weapon. A fighter may select Greater Weapon Specialization as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Greatweapon Quickness[edit]

Your mastery of this style reflects strengthened wrist muscles and honed reflexes, allowing blindingly fast strikes with the largest of weapons.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: When you wield a weapon that requires two hands to be used with proficiency (e.g. a greatsword), you receive a +4 circumstance bonus to your initiative. This bonus only applies whilst you wield a two-handed weapon; if you perform some other action (switching to a non-two-handed weapon, drinking a potion, etc.), use your unmodified initiative.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.35 (Purp 3.25, Pow 3.50, Port 3.50, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.50)

Grim Determination[edit]

General

Adversity only increases your determination.

Prerequisite: [[#Toughness|Toughness, [[#Iron Will|Iron Will

Benefit: When you are reduced to ½ your full hit points or less you gain a +1 morale bonus to attack rolls, a +1 morale bonus to skill checks, and a +2 morale bonus to damage rolls.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 3.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Group Inspiration[edit]

Epic, Song

Your songs can inspire more people.

Prerequisite: Perform 30 ranks, Bardic music class feature

Benefit: The number of allies you can affect with your inspire competence or inspire greatness bardic music ability doubles. When inspiring competence in multiple allies, you can choose different skills to inspire for different allies.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack. Remember that two doublings equals a tripling, and so forth.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Grudge[edit]

You have a grudge against a group or organization and won’t rest until they are all dead.

Benefit: Choose a social group or organization, with the DM’s permission. You gain a +2 bonus on Bluff, Listen, Sense Motive, Spot, and Survival checks when using these skills against members of the group. Likewise, you get a +2 bonus on weapon damage rolls against members of the chosen group.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times. Each time, it applies to a different group.

Example: Boris Badaxe’s sister was killed by the crimson guard and he has sworn bloody vengeance. Whenever facing the crimson guard in battle he gains the benefits of Grudge.

Notes: This is not meant as a way for other characters to get the Ranger Favored enemy ability, although the mechanic is nearly identical. It can not be used as a prerequisite to any feat or class requiring Favored Enemy. The intent was more of a passionate vendetta against people that have done you wrong, as opposed to a ranger’s deep knowledge of their prey.

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 3.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.75)

Guide[edit]

Modern

You rarely ever get lost.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Navigate checks Survival checks.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Handy[edit]

General

You don’t depend on book-smarts when fixing things, making things, or dismantling things.

Benefit: You may use your Dexterity modifier in place of your Intelligence modifier on Craft, Disable Device and Forgery checks.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Hardened Spell[edit]

Magical

Your spells become highly resistant to disruption.

Prerequisite: Spell Focus

Benefit: Spells that you cast from the school of magic you have Spell Focus in become very hard to counterspell and disrupt. If the same spell or an opposed-effect spell is used as a counterspell to your Hardened Spell, the counterspell is ineffective (including spells used with the Improved Counterspell feat). If Dispel Magic or a similar spell or effect is used as a counterspell, the DC for the dispel check required is increased by +4. You also gain a +2 bonus to any Concentration checks you make in order to cast or maintain the Hardened Spell.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times. Each time that you take this feat it applies to a different school of magic that you have Spell Focus in.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.08 (Purp 3.60, Pow 4.30, Port 4.60, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.30)

Hardy Brawler[edit]

General

You really know how to take a punch

Prerequisite: [[#Toughness|Toughness

Benefit: You gain a nonlethal-based damage reduction equal to your constitution modifier. This only applies to nonlethal damage.

Special: This feat cannot be used against magical weapons or attacks.

Example: If you have a constitution modifier of +3, you can subtract the first three points of nonlethal damage from each nonlethal attack. If a punch only did 2 points of nonlethal damage, you would take no damage from the strike. If a punch did 5 points of nonlethal damage, you would only suffer 2 of those 5 points.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.46 (Purp 3.60, Pow 4.20, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.50)

Healing Ki Touch[edit]

Special

You can heal others just like you can heal yourself.

Prerequisite: Monk level 9

Benefit: You can use your Wholeness of Body class ability to heal others by touch, in a manner exactly like you can heal yourself.

Balance: 4.47 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.00, Port 4.33, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.67)

Heart Of Defiance[edit]

Rage

When in a blood frenzy you are impossible to control.

Prerequisite: Rage 1/day, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: When enraged you are immune to all forms of fear and all mind-affecting spells and spell-like abilities.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.50)

Heart Of Fury[edit]

Rage

Your all-consuming fury enables you to continue to fight even when near death.

Prerequisite: Rage 2/day, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: When enraged, you can continue to act fully when disabled (at 0 hit points) or dying (at -1 to -9 hit points). You do not fall unconscious when reduced to negative hit points and you can take a full action even when at zero or fewer hit points. Taking a full action when at zero or fewer hit points automatically inflicts 1 hit point of damage per round with no chance of stabilization unless healed or treated. You still die when reduced to -10 hit points or less or when the automatic damage is applied and your Constitution is lowered after your Rage ends.

Normal: You can only take a single move or standard action when disabled and are unconscious when dying.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.13 (Purp 5.00, Pow 3.67, Port 4.00, Comp 3.67, Rule 4.33)

Heart Of Invulnerability[edit]

Rage

Your raging heart protects you from harm.

Prerequisite: Rage 2/day, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When enraged, you gain damage reduction (DR) 1/- that stacks with all other forms of damage reduction.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 4.67, Pow 4.67, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.67)

Heart Of The Dragon[edit]

Rage

The blinding intensity of your rage protects you from harm.

Prerequisite: Rage 2/day, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When raging, you may substitute a Fortitude save for a Reflex save for any damage from a spell-like ability or supernatural ability that normally allows a Reflex save for half damage.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.73 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.33, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.33)

Heighten Primeval Ability[edit]

Monster

The creature has achieved mastery of its innate supernatural or spell-like powers.

Prerequisite: Innate supernatural or spell-like ability

Benefit: Choose one of your supernatural abilities or all of your spell-like abilities. You can use this chosen ability or abilities at +1 level of experience.

Special: This feat cannot be used with class based spell-like abilities, like the druid's wild shape or paladin's ability to cure disease. This feat can be chosen more than once and will stack with itself.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Heighten Spell[edit]

Metamagic

Your spells act as though they were a higher level.

Benefit: A heightened spell has a higher spell level than normal (up to a maximum of 9th level). Unlike other metamagic feats, Heighten Spell actually increases the effective level of the spell that it modifies. All effects dependent on spell level (such as saving throw DCs and ability to penetrate a lesser globe of invulnerability) are calculated according to the heightened level. The heightened spell is as difficult to prepare and cast as a spell of its effective level.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Heightened Bodily Constitution[edit]

General

Your training has made you extra resilient.

Prerequisite: Con 13

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus to all Constitution based skill checks.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 3.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.50)

Heightened Cognitive Intelligence[edit]

General

You have a talent for problem solving tasks.

Prerequisite: Int 13

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus to all Intelligence based skill checks.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 3.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.50)

Heightened Manual Dexterity[edit]

General

You have nimble, dexterous fingers.

Prerequisite: Dex 13

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus to all Dexterity based skill checks.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 3.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.50)

Heightened Personal Charisma[edit]

General

You have a knack for turning on the charm.

Prerequisite: Cha 13

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus to all Charisma based skill checks.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 3.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.50)

Heightened Physical Strength[edit]

General

You are good at applying your might to manual tasks.

Prerequisite: Str 13

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus to all Strength based skill checks.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 3.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.50)

Heightened Worldly Wisdom[edit]

General

You have especially good common sense.

Prerequisite: Wis 13

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus to all Wisdom based skill checks.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 3.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.50)

Heirloom[edit]

General

You have inherited a family heirloom of great value with which to begin your career. Your family expects you to guard this heirloom above all other things, of course, and eventually hand it down to your own child...

Benefit: You begin the game with a single magic or exotic item worth roughly 2000gp. It is up to the GM to assign this item.

Special: You can only take this feat at character creation.

Notes: If a magical item is chosen it should probably be a permanent item instead of a one use or limited charge item.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.30 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.25, Port 3.25, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.00)

Herculean Effort[edit]

General

You can temporarily perform great acts of strength.

Benefit: You can add +4 to your Strength attribute for purposes of lifting and carrying weight and for figuring your Strength bonus on ability checks for a number of rounds equal to 3 plus your Constitution modifier. After this time you are fatigued (-2 to Strength, -2 to Dexterity, can’t run or charge). Your increased strength does not affect attack or damage rolls, combat maneuvers like Grapple, Bull Rush and Trip, and does not increase your strength bonus on skill checks.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.75, Port 4.50, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.50)

Heroic Evasion[edit]

General

When you focus on an effort you may get flashes of insight about the immediate future allowing you to avoid disastrous mistakes.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, [[#Great Fortitude|Great Fortitude, [[#Iron Will|Iron Will, [[#Lightning Reflexes|Lightning Reflexes

Benefit: You may reroll a check or save you just made and apply a insight bonus equal to your charisma modifier. You may do this once per day. You must take the result of the reroll, even if it is worse than the original roll.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Hide Tracks[edit]

General

You can conceal signs of passage.

Prerequisite: [[#Track|Track

Benefit: You can conceal the tracks you and your companions make while moving. Add your ranks in Survival to the DC of following your tracks. You can move at full speed while hiding tracks; if you move at half speed, you impose the additional +5 DC modifier on tracking rolls noted in the Track feat.

Normal: Anyone can use the survival skill to remove the traces at a campsite or the search skill to hide clues at a location.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.75)

Hindering Song[edit]

Epic, Song

Your music can disrupt spell casting.

Prerequisite: [[#Deafening Song|Deafening Song, Perform 27 ranks, Bardic music class feature

Benefit: You can use song or poetics to hinder enemy spellcasters within a 30-foot spread from you. To successfully cast a spell within this area, a spellcaster must make a Concentration check as if he or she were casting defensively, and all such checks have a penalty equal to half your level. You can choose to exclude any characters from this effect. You may sing, play, or recite a hindering song while taking other mundane actions, but not magical ones (see the bard’s inspire courage ability for more details). You may keep up the hindering song for a maximum of 10 rounds. Using the hindering song counts as one of your uses of song or poetics for the day.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 3.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.25)

Hobbling Attack[edit]

Your attacks can slow down an opponent.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: Once per round you may declare a standard attack to be a hobbling attack. You suffer a -4 to hit penalty on your attack roll but if you deal any damage the target must make a Fortitude Save (DC 10 + ½ damage dealt) or their speed is reduced by one-half. This movement penalty lasts for 24 hours, or until the creature is successfully treated with a DC 15 Heal check, or until it receives at least 1 point of magical curing. Multiple Hobbling Attacks are not cumulative in effect.

Special: This feat is ineffective against creatures that are not subject to critical hits (e.g. constructs, elementals, oozes, plants, undead, and characters whose armor fortification successfully activated). It also does not affect creatures with a supernatural means of locomotion (levitation or the like). If a creature has multiple modes of movement you must select which type of movement you are reducing.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.17, Comp 3.33, Rule 4.00)

Hold The Line[edit]

You can attack charging opponents.

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: You may make an attack of opportunity against a charging opponent who enters an area you threaten. Your attack of opportunity happens immediately before the charge attack is resolved.

Normal: You only get an attack of opportunity against a character that exits a square you threaten.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Hole In The Middle[edit]

Metamagic

You can create a hole in an area spell to avoid being affected

Benefit: When you cast an area spell in such a way that you are in the area affected, you can create a hole in the area around yourself to avoid being affected by your own spell. Any creatures occupying your square(s) (for example grappling you or being small enough to fit between your feet or on your shoulder) are also unaffected. A Hole in the Middle Spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.

Balance: 4.36 (Purp 4.30, Pow 3.60, Port 5.00, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.30)

Holy Strike[edit]

Epic, Special

Any weapon in your hands is a holy weapon.

Prerequisite: Smite evil class feature, Any good alignment

Benefit: Any weapon you wields is treated as a holy weapon (is good-aligned and deals an extra 2d6 points of damage against creatures of evil alignment).If the weapon already has an alignment, this feat has no effect on the weapon.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Hostile Mind[edit]

General

Your mind recoils violently against those who use psionics against you.

Prerequisite: Cha 15

Benefit: Whenever you are subject to a power from the telepathy discipline (regardless of whether the power is harmful or beneficial to you), the manifester must make a Will saving throw against a DC of 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Charisma bonus or take 2d6 points of damage. The benefit of this feat applies only to psionic powers and psi-like abilities. This is an exception to the psionics–magic transparency rule.

Special: You cannot take or use this feat if you have the ability to use powers (if you have a power point reserve or psi-like abilities).

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is not generally in favor of feats such as these that break the magic-psionics transparency rule.

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 4.25, Pow 2.75, Port 4.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.50)

Hover[edit]

Monster, Special

You can hover in place while flying.

Prerequisite: Fly speed

Benefit: When flying, the creature can halt its forward motion and hover in place as a move action. It can then fly in any direction, including straight down or straight up, at half speed, regardless of its maneuverability. If a creature begins its turn hovering, it can hover in place for the turn and take a full-round action. A hovering creature cannot make wing attacks, but it can attack with all other limbs and appendages it could use in a full attack. The creature can instead use a breath weapon or cast a spell instead of making physical attacks, if it could normally do so. If a creature of Large size or larger hovers within 20 feet of the ground in an area with lots of loose debris, the draft from its wings creates a hemispherical cloud with a radius of 60 feet. The winds so generated can snuff torches, small campfires, exposed lanterns, and other small, open flames of non-magical origin. Clear vision within the cloud is limited to 10 feet. Creatures have concealment at 15 to 20 feet (20% miss chance). At 25 feet or more, creatures have total concealment (50% miss chance, and opponents cannot use sight to locate the creature). Those caught in the cloud must succeed on a Concentration check (DC 10 + 1/2 creature’s HD) to cast a spell.

Normal: Without this feat, a creature must keep moving while flying unless it has perfect maneuverability.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team feel that this feat is overpowered, and would be more in keeping with the power level of an average feat, as well as being substantially less complex, without the inclusion of the debris field creation.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Identify Item[edit]

General

You can identify magic items without the use of magic.

Prerequisite: Appraise 8 ranks, Spellcraft 8 ranks, Use Magic Device 8 ranks, [[#Learn Command|Learn Command

Benefit: By making a detailed study of a magic item for 6 hours and a successful Use Magic Device check (DC25) you can duplicate the effects of the identify spell.

Balance: 3.73 (Purp 4.67, Pow 3.67, Port 3.00, Comp 4.33, Rule 3.00)

Ignore Material Components[edit]

Epic, Magical

You never need material components for your spells.

Prerequisite: [[#Eschew Materials|Eschew Materials, Spellcraft 25 ranks, Ability to cast 9th-level arcane or divine spells

Benefit: You may cast spells without any material components. This feat does not affect the need for a focus or divine focus.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Immediate Dodge[edit]

You may spontaneously elect to dodge incoming attacks that you are aware of.

Prerequisite: Dodge, Dex 13+

Benefit: As an immediate action, you can elect to give up your next turn to perform the total defense combat action, thus gaining the appropriate dodge bonus to your armor class against incoming attacks (+4 dodge bonus, or +6 dodge bonus if you have five ranks or more of Tumble). You must be able to apply your Dexterity bonus to AC against the attack, and you must declare this immediate action before the attacker makes their attack roll. Your initiative does not change; you simply do not take an action on your next turn. You gain this dodge bonus until the next time your initiative comes up after your "skipped" turn.

Special: You may apply any benefits of feats or special abilities that improve your dodge bonus to your AC when you activate this ability that you could normally apply to a total defense combat action made on your turn.

Notes: You can’t make attacks of opportunity while using the total defense combat action. An immediate action can be taken at any point, even when it's not your turn.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Impact Spell[edit]

Magical

You can increase the maximum damage of heightened spells.

Prerequisite: Arcane spellcaster, Heighten Spell

Benefit: If you prepare a damage causing arcane spell with a higher than normal level using the Heighten Spell metamagic feat, the maximum number of damage dice may be increased. If the spell causes damage to one creature, or must be split amongst multiple creatures (e.g. Shocking Grasp), the revised maximum dice allowed is given in the second column (Single). If the spell causes damage to any creatures that fall within its area of effect (e.g. Fireball), refer to the third column (Multiple) for the revised maximum dice allowed. This feat does not affect spells similar to Magic Missile, as in this case it is the number of missiles that has a level-based maximum, rather than the damage per missile.

New Level	Max # of Damage Dice for
	a Single Creature Affected	Multiple Creatures Affected
1st	5	5
2nd	10	5
3rd	10	10
4th	15	10
5th	15	15
6th	20	15
7th	20	20
8th	25	20
9th	25	25

Notes: Looking at the spell lists, few divine spells are flashy, damage causing spells. In addition, these spells are generally alignment related. For this reason, this feat did not seem appropriate or have the right flavor for divine spellcasters. If deities could grant more damage against infidels with a particular spell, they already would. This is the reason for their omission. GMs may, of course, opt to allow this feat for clerics or all divine spellcasters.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is split as to whether this feat should also be available to divine spellcasters and spells.

Balance: 3.67 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.83, Port 3.83, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.67)

Imprint Stone[edit]

Item Creation, Psionic

You can create power stones to store psionic powers.

Prerequisite: Manifester level 1st

Benefit: You can create a power stone of any power that you know. Encoding a power stone takes one day for each 1,000 gp in its base price. The base price of a power stone is the level of the stored power x its manifester level x 25 gp. To imprint a power stone, you must spend 1/25 of this base price in XP and use up raw materials costing one-half of this base price. Any power stone that stores a power with an XP cost also carries a commensurate cost. In addition to the costs derived from the base price, you must pay the XP when encoding the stone.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Improved Aid Another[edit]

General

You are especially adept at helping others.

Benefit: When using the Aid Another action you grant whomever you are aiding a +4 bonus instead of a +2 bonus.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Improved Alignment-based Casting[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can cast stronger spells of a given alignment.

Prerequisite: Access to domain of Chaos, Evil, Good, Or Law, Alignment must match domain chosen, Ability to cast 9th-level divine spells

Benefit: Select an alignment-based domain (Chaos, Evil, Good, or Law) to which you have access. You cast spells with that alignment descriptor at +3 caster level.

Special: This benefit overrides (does not stack with) the granted powers of the Chaos, Evil, Good, and Law domains. A character may select this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time a character takes the feat, it applies to a different alignment-based domain to which the character has access.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Improved Animal Companion[edit]

Special

Your animal companion is more powerful than normal.

Prerequisite: Animal Companion ability

Benefit: Your effective level for the Animal Companion ability is three levels higher than normal. As noted in the SRD this improves the abilities of your existing animal companion, or alternatively allows you to attract a more powerful one.

Special: You may select this feat multiple times. It stacks with itself.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Comments: This feat was originally known as Extra Animal Companions. Due to changes between edition 3.0 and 3.5 the mechanics of this feat have been substantially altered, although the spirit of the feat remains the same.

Balance: 4.78 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.60, Port 4.30, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Improved Arrow Of Death[edit]

Epic, Special

Your arrows of death are just that much more deadly.

Prerequisite: Dex 19, Wis 19, Point Blank Shot, [[#Precise Shot|Precise Shot, Arrow of death class feature

Benefit: Add +2 to the DC of your arrows of death. This feat may be taken multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Improved Aura Of Courage[edit]

Epic, Special

You inspire great confidence in those around you.

Prerequisite: Cha 25, Aura of courage class ability

Benefit: Your aura of courage grants a +8 morale bonus on saving throws against fear effects.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Improved Aura Of Despair[edit]

Epic, Special

You inspire deep despair in your foes.

Prerequisite: Cha 25, Aura of despair class ability

Benefit: Your aura of despair causes a –4 morale penalty on all saving throws.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Improved Blind-fight[edit]

General

You have an uncanny knack for fighting what you can not see.

Prerequisite: [[#Blind-fight|Blind-fight, Alertness, Base attack bonus +9

Benefit: You may ignore the chance to miss a target because of concealment. Invisible ranged attackers do not get a bonus to hit you and you may apply your dexterity to your armor class against them. You suffer no movement penalties for not being able to see.

Balance: 3.93 (Purp 4.33, Pow 3.33, Port 3.33, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.33)

Improved Brawl[edit]

Modern

You really know how to mix it up on the street.

Prerequisite: [[#Brawl|Brawl, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: When making an unarmed attack, you receive a +2 competence bonus on your attack roll, and you deal nonlethal damage equal to 1d8 + your Strength modifier.

Normal: Unarmed attacks normally deal nonlethal damage equal to 1d3 + Strength modifier.

Special: This supersedes and does not stack with the benefit of Brawl.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Improved Brawn[edit]

You have greatly improved your striking power.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6, Str 15, Brute, Brawn, Improved Brute

Benefit: When calculating melee attack bonus, consider your Strength to be four points higher than it actually is. The benefit supersedes (does not stack with) that of Brawn.

Balance: 3.96 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.60, Port 4.00, Comp 4.40, Rule 3.80)

Improved Brute[edit]

You have greatly improved your striking strength.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6, Str 15, Brute, Brawn

Benefit: When calculating damage inflicted, consider your Strength to be four points higher than it actually is. The benefit supersedes (does not stack with) that of Brute.

Balance: 3.92 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.40, Port 4.00, Comp 4.40, Rule 3.80)

Improved Bull Rush[edit]

You are skilled in the bull rush.

Prerequisite: Power Attack, Str 13

Benefit: When you perform a bull rush you do not provoke an attack of opportunity from the defender. You also gain a +4 bonus on the opposed Strength check you make to push back the defender.

Special: A fighter may select Improved Bull Rush as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.85 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Improved Caster Level[edit]

Magical

You raise your caster level for multiple classes.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells

Benefit: Your caster level in all spellcasting classes is increased by four, but no higher than your total Character Level.

Special: You can take this feat multiple times – its effects stack.

Example: Yushu is a fifth level sorcerer. She advances in character level to six, and decides to advance as a rogue. She also acquires a new feat, and picks this one. Her caster level as a sorcerer is now sixth, so her fireball has range of 640' and does six dice of damage, but the number of spells she can cast and learn are still those of a fifth level sorcerer. As she advances as a rogue, she will continue to gain caster levels until the full +4 level bonus is achieved.

Notes: This feat does not allow you to learn, prepare, or cast more spells. It is useful for multiclassed characters or characters with classes whose spellcaster level is less than their full character level.

Balance: 4.01 (Purp 4.51, Pow 3.47, Port 4.13, Comp 4.04, Rule 3.87)

Improved Charge[edit]

When you charge into combat, your momentum carries a great deal of force and power.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack

Benefit: When you perform a charge action, you receive a +2 bonus to damage in addition to the +2 to hit.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Improved Combat Casting[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can cast spells without opening yourself to attack.

Prerequisite: Combat Casting, Concentration 25 ranks

Benefit: You doesn’t incur attacks of opportunity for casting spells when threatened.

Comments: To cast a 9th level spell on the defensive requires a Concentration roll of 24. If you have a Concentration skill of 25 then you will never fail to cast spells on the defensive, making this feat useless unless the user is unaware of a foe who threatens them.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Improved Combat Focus[edit]

You have practiced the art of two-on-one combat, enhancing your Combat Focus.

Prerequisite: [[#Combat Focus|Combat Focus

Benefit: When using the Combat Focus feat, you may specify two opponents to focus against. Against the second, you have neither bonuses nor penalties.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.22 (Purp 2.60, Pow 2.60, Port 3.00, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.30)

Improved Combat Reflexes[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You can make an unlimited number of attacks of opportunity.

Prerequisite: Dex 21, Combat Reflexes

Benefit: There is no limit to the number of attacks of opportunity you can make in one round. (you still can’t make more than one attack of opportunity for a given opportunity.)

Comments: Spelling/grammar errors corrected.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Improved Combat Rotation[edit]

You know how to relieve warriors from melee combat by taking their place in the ranks.

Prerequisite: Dodge, Mobility, Base attack bonus +3, Medium size or smaller, [[#Combat Rotation|Combat Rotation

Benefit: In lieu of taking a 5-foot step, you may trade places with any willing ally, Medium sized or smaller, that is adjacent to you. This action does not provoke an attack of opportunity on you or your ally. This does not affect initiative.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Improved Combat Throw[edit]

You can trip opponents who over extend themselves in combat.

Prerequisite: Defensive Arts, [[#Combat Throw|Combat Throw, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: In melee combat, if an opponent attacks and misses you, you may immediately make a trip attack against the opponent. This counts as an attack of opportunity, which you can make even if you are unarmed. Attacking unarmed in this way does not provoke an attack of opportunity.

Special: This feat doesn’t grant you more attacks of opportunity than you are normally allowed in a round.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Improved Counterspell[edit]

You can use other spells of the same school to counterspell with.

Benefit: When counterspelling, you may use a spell of the same school that is one or more spell levels higher than the target spell.

Normal: Without this feat, you may counter a spell only with the same spell or with a spell specifically designated as countering the target spell.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Improved Crippling Strike[edit]

Stealth

Your crippling strikes are especially devastating.

Prerequisite: Crippling Strike, Sneak Attack 6d6

Benefit: An opponent damaged by one of her sneak attacks also takes 2 points of Dexterity damage. This stacks with the benefit from Crippling Strike.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Improved Critical[edit]

Choose one type of weapon.

Prerequisite: [[#Martial Weapon Proficiency|Proficient With Weapon, Base attack bonus +8

Benefit: When using the weapon you selected, your threat range is doubled.

Special: You can gain Improved Critical multiple times. The effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new type of weapon. This effect doesn’t stack with any other effect that expands the threat range of a weapon. A fighter may select Improved Critical as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team agree that the edition 3.0 version of this feat which allows stacking of improved threat ranges makes more sense than the edition 3.5 version, and suggest using the original version as a house rule. The original version gains an overall balance score of 4.95.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Improved Crystal Psiweapon[edit]

Psionic

You can improve your crystal psiweapon.

Prerequisite: [[#Crystal Psiweapon|Crystal Psiweapon

Benefit: Your crystal psiweapon gains one additional power chosen from the Psicrystal Special Abilities table on page 11 of the Psionics Handbook. Your choose of powers is limited by your manifester level per the table.

Normal: A crystal psiweapon does not normally gain additional powers unless you have the psicrystal class ability.

Special: You can choose this feat multiple times, each time incorporating a new psicrystal ability into your crystal psiweapon.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 3.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Improved Damage Threshold[edit]

Modern

You can survive normally fatal wounds.

Benefit: You increase your massive damage threshold by 3 points.

Normal: Without this feat your massive damage threshold is equal to your current Constitution score. With this feat, your massive damage threshold is current Con +3.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Improved Darkvision[edit]

Epic, Special

Your darkvision is especially acute.

Prerequisite: Darkvision

Benefit: The range of your darkvision doubles. This feat does not stack with darkvision granted by magic items or nonpermanent magical effects.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Its effects stack. Remember that two doublings equals a tripling, and so on.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 3.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Improved Death Attack[edit]

Epic, Stealth

Your death attack is especially deadly.

Prerequisite: Death attack class feature, Sneak attack 5d6

Benefit: Add +2 to the DC of your death attack.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Improved Deflect Arrows[edit]

You can deflect arrows several times in a round.

Prerequisite: [[#Deflect Arrows|Deflect Arrows, Dex 13

Benefit: You may Deflect Arrows more than once each round. Each attempt at deflection beyond the first counts as one of your attacks of opportunity for the round.

Balance: 4.82 (Purp 4.70, Pow 4.70, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.70)

Improved Deflect Attack[edit]

You expertly block many incoming attacks.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Int 13, Combat Expertise, Combat Reflexes, [[#Deflect Attack|Deflect Attack

Benefit: When using Deflect Attack, you ignore the -4 penalty to attack normally associated with Fighting Defensively. This does not affect any other attacks you make while Fighting Defensively.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.75)

Improved Disarm[edit]

You are an expert at disarming opponents.

Prerequisite: Combat Expertise, Int 13

Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when you attempt to disarm an opponent, nor does the opponent have a chance to disarm you. You also gain a +4 bonus on the opposed attack roll you make to disarm your opponent.

Normal: See the normal disarm rules.

Special: A fighter may select Improved Disarm as one of his fighter bonus feats. A monk may select Improved Disarm as a bonus feat at 6th level, even if she does not meet the prerequisites.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Improved Disguise[edit]

General

You can create a disguise very quickly.

Prerequisite: Disguise 4 ranks, Cha 13

Benefit: You can create a disguise with only 1d3 minutes of work. You need to use a disguise kit to gain this benefit.

Normal: Creating a disguise requires 1d3×10 minutes of work.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Improved Divine Connection[edit]

Special

Your broad knowledge of divine lore has given you greater access to applying this knowledge.

Prerequisite: Knowledge (Religion) 13 ranks, Access to any four domains, Ability to turn or rebuke undead

Benefit: You gain one extra slot for each level that must be filled with a Domain Spell. You may not prepare the same domain spell more than once, unless it appears on more than one of your domain lists.

Normal: Clerics can prepare one domain spell per level, regardless of how many domains the cleric has access to.

Special: You may take this feat more than once. Each time you do, you must have access to an additional two domains.

Balance: 3.00 (Purp 2.83, Pow 2.50, Port 3.17, Comp 3.17, Rule 3.33)

Improved Dodge[edit]

Your Dodge feat bonus applies against all attackers.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Dodge

Benefit: The dodge bonus to Armor Class that you receive from the Dodge feat now applies against all attacks, not only those of one specific opponent.

Notes: The author created this to replace the Dodge because its use often slows down play.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.75)

Improved Elemental Wild Shape[edit]

Epic, Wild

You can wild shape into the form of an elemental.

Prerequisite: Wis 25, Ability to wild shape into an elemental

Benefit: Your ability to wild shape into an elemental is expanded to include all elemental creatures (not just air, earth, fire, and water elementals) of any size that you can take when using wild shape to become an animal. You gains all extraordinary and supernatural abilities of the elemental whose form your take.

Normal: Without this feat, a character may only wild shape into a Small, Medium-size, or Large air, earth, fire, or water elemental.

Comments: The Normal section of this feat is incorrect; in edition 3.5 a 20th level Druid can wild shape into Huge Elementals, which covers all of the larger (Huge, Greater and Elder) elementals in the SRD; the only restriction being the Druid's hit dice (21st level for Greater, 24th for Elder). As such this feat is only useful for turning into unusual elementals, such as Invisible Stalkers, which an Epic Druid could do by casting Shapechange anyway.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Improved Eschew Materials[edit]

Magical

You can cast any spell without need for material components or foci.

Prerequisite: [[#Eschew Materials|Eschew Materials

Benefit: You can cast any spell without need for material components, even spells with material components that cost more than 1 gp. For spells with material components that cost greater than 1 gp, you must pay XP equal to 1/5th (rounding up) the gp price of the material component in order to cast the spell. You may also choose to cast without using a foci by paying XP equal to 1/50th (rounding up) the gp cost of the foci. You must still pay any XP required to normally cast the spell.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.17, Pow 4.17, Port 4.17, Comp 3.67, Rule 4.33)

Improved Extend Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can greatly increase the duration of your spells.

Prerequisite: [[#Extend Spell|Extend Spell

Benefit: A spell with a duration of one minute or more can have its duration increased to 1 minute/level. A spell with a duration of ten minutes or more can have its duration increased to 10 minutes/level. A spell with a duration of one hour or more can have its duration increased to 1 hour/level. Either way, it now uses a spell slot three levels higher than normal.

Notes: Many variable-duration spells will not qualify for use with this feat until the caster reaches level 6 or 10, because that’s when they get sufficient duration (1 minute, 10 minutes or 1 hour).

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.12 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.30, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.30)

Improved Familiar[edit]

Special

This feat allows spellcasters to acquire a new familiar from a nonstandard list, but only when they could normally acquire a new familiar.

Prerequisite: Ability to acquire a new familiar, Compatible alignment, Sufficiently high level (see below)

Benefit: When choosing a familiar, the creatures listed below are also available to the spellcaster. The spellcaster may choose a familiar with an alignment up to one step away on each of the alignment axes (lawful through chaotic, good through evil).

Familiar	Alignment	Arcane Caster Level
Shocker lizard	Neutral	5th
Stirge	Neutral	5th
Formian worker	Lawful neutral	7th
Imp	Lawful evil	7th
Pseudodragon	Neutral good	7th
Quasit	Chaotic evil	7th

Improved familiars otherwise use the rules for regular familiars, with two exceptions: If the creature's type is something other than animal, its type does not change; and improved familiars do not gain the ability to speak with other creatures of their kind (although many of them already have the ability to communicate).

The list in the table above presents only a few possible improved familiars. Almost any creature of the same general size and power as those on the list makes a suitable familiar. Nor is the master's alignment the only possible categorization. For instance, improved familiars could be assigned by the master's creature type or subtype, as shown below.

Familiar	Type/Subtype	Arcane Caster Level
Celestial hawk¹	Good	3rd
Fiendish Tiny viper snake²	Evil	3rd
Air elemental, Small	Air	5th
Earth elemental, Small	Earth	5th
Fire elemental, Small	Fire	5th
Shocker lizard	Electricity	5th
Water elemental, Small	Water	5th
Homunculus³	Undead	7th
Ice Mephit	Cold	7th

Or other celestial animal from the standard familiar list.
Or other fiendish animal from the standard familiar list.
The master must first create the homunculus, substituting ichor or another part of the master's body for blood if necessary.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.75)

Improved Far Shot[edit]

You can attack with ranged weapons more accurately at long range.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, [[#Far Shot|Far Shot, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus that only works to negate range-based penalties.

Notes: This feat is not very useful for player characters but would be very useful for NPCs in mass combat situations.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Improved Favored Enemy[edit]

Epic, Special

You have redoubled your dedication to defeating your enemies.

Prerequisite: Five favored enemies

Benefit: Add +1 to the bonus on Bluff, Listen, Sense Motive, Spot, and Survival checks and damage rolls against all of your favored enemies.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Its effects stack.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team believes that the +1 bonus is a hold-over from edition 3.0 and that in keeping with similar changes in edition 3.5 the bonus should be +2.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Improved Feint[edit]

General

You can quickly fake out your opponents.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise

Benefit: You can make a Bluff check to feint in combat as a move action.

Normal: Feinting in combat is a standard action. A fighter may select Improved Feint as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Improved Fire Acclimation[edit]

Racial

You are more resistant to fire spells and effects than other members of your race.

Prerequisite: Con 13, Racial bonus to saving throws against all fire spells and effects

Benefit: You gain an additional +2 bonus on saving throws against all fire spells and effects. This stacks with your normal racial bonus against all fire spells and effects.

Normal: Races such as the half-giant receive a +2 bonus on saving throws against all fire spells and effects.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 3.33, Pow 3.67, Port 3.33, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.33)

Improved Flyby Attack[edit]

You can do a flyby attack without provoking attacks of opportunity.

Prerequisite: Fly speed, Dodge, [[#Flyby Attack|Flyby Attack, Mobility

Benefit: If the standard action taken by a creature during a round in which it uses Flyby Attack is a melee attack, the creature provokes no attacks of opportunity from moving out of squares threatened by its target.

Normal: Without this feat, a creature making an attack as part of a Flyby Attack maneuver provokes attacks of opportunity as normal from moving out of squares threatened by its target.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Improved Grapple[edit]

You are especially adept at grappling.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Improved Unarmed Strike

Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when you make a touch attack to start a grapple. You also gain a +4 bonus on all grapple checks, regardless of whether you started the grapple.

Normal: Without this feat, you provoke an attack of opportunity when you make a touch attack to start a grapple.

Special: A fighter may select Improved Grapple as one of his fighter bonus feats. A monk may select Improved Grapple as a bonus feat at 1st level, even if she does not meet the prerequisites.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.50, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Improved Heighten Spell[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can heighten spells to any level.

Prerequisite: [[#Heighten Spell|Heighten Spell, Spellcraft 20 ranks

Benefit: As Heighten Spell, but there is no limit to the level to which you can heighten the spell.

Normal: Without this feat, a spell can only be heightened to a maximum of 9th level.

Comments: Improved Spell Capacity should be a prerequisite for this feat, as obviously without the ability to obtain 10th and higher level spell slots this feat is useless.

Balance: 3.20 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.00, Port 3.25, Comp 3.25, Rule 3.50)

Improved Initiative[edit]

You are often the fist to act.

Benefit: You get a +4 bonus on initiative checks.

Special: A fighter may select Improved Initiative as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Improved Ki Strike[edit]

Epic, Special

Your fists are as powerful as an epic level weapon.

Prerequisite: Wis 21, Ki strike (adamantine)

Benefit: Your unarmed strikes are treated as epic magic weapons for the purposes of damage reduction.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Improved Knockout Punch[edit]

You are a master of the sucker punch.

Prerequisite: Brawl, Knockout Punch, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When making your first unarmed attack against a flat-footed opponent, treat a successful attack as a critical hit. This critical hit deals triple damage instead of double. The damage is nonlethal damage.

Special: Even if you have the ability to treat unarmed damage as lethal damage, the damage from am Improved Knockout Punch is always nonlethal.

Balance: 3.40 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 3.75, Comp 2.75, Rule 3.50)

Improved Lighten Weapon[edit]

You can wield a chosen weapon with less effort and without penalty.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Lighten Weapon, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: Chose a weapon when taking this feat. When using the lighten weapon feat you do not suffer the associated -2 to hit penalties for using that feat with your chosen weapon.

Balance: 4.13 (Purp 4.67, Pow 3.33, Port 3.67, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.33)

Improved Lockpicking[edit]

General

You are capable of opening locks rather quickly.

Prerequisite: Open Lock 4 ranks, Dex 13

Benefit: You can make an Open Lock skill check as a move action.

Normal: Opening locks requires a full-round action.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Improved Low-light Vision[edit]

Epic, Special

You can see even further in dim light.

Prerequisite: Low-light vision

Benefit: The range of your low-light vision doubles. This feat does not stack with low-light vision granted by magic items or nonpermanent magical effects.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Its effects stack. Remember that two doublings equals a tripling, and so on.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.25, Port 3.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Improved Manifestation[edit]

Epic, Psionic

You increase your power point reserve.

Prerequisite: Character level 21st, Ability to manifest powers of the normal maximum power level in at least one psionic class

Benefit: When you select this feat, you gain 19 power points.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time you do so, you gain an additional number of power points equal to your previous benefit +2.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Improved Manyshot[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You can fire many arrows at once.

Prerequisite: Dex 19, Base attack bonus +21, [[#Manyshot|Manyshot, Point Blank Shot, [[#Rapid Shot|Rapid Shot

Benefit: As Manyshot, but the number of arrows your can fire is limited only by your base attack bonus (two arrows, plus one arrow for every 5 points of base attack bonus above +6).

Normal: With the Manyshot feat, the character is limited to a maximum of four arrows fired (when the character’s base attack bonus is +16 or higher).

Special: Regardless of the number of arrows the character fires, he or she only applies precision-based damage (such as sneak attack damage or the ranger’s favored enemy bonus) once. If the character scores a critical hit, only one of the arrows deals critical damage (character’s choice); all others deal normal damage.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.75)

Improved Metamagic[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can use metamagic at a reduced cost.

Prerequisite: Four metamagic feats, Spellcraft 30 ranks

Benefit: The spell slot modifier of all your metamagic feats is reduced by one level, to a minimum of +1. This feat has no effect on metamagic feats whose spell slot modifier is +1 or less.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. The effects stack, though a character can’t reduce any metamagic feat’s spell slot modifier to less than +1.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Improved Metapsionics[edit]

Epic, Psionic

You can manifest powers using metapsionic feats more easily than normal.

Prerequisite: Character level 21st, Four metapsionic feats, Psicraft 30 ranks

Benefit: Metapsionic powers you manifest cost 2 power points less than normal (to a minimum of 1 power point). This feat has no effect on metapsionic powers that inflate the cost by only 2 power points.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. The effects stack, though you can’t lower the cost of any metapsionic power to less than 1 power point.

Comments: The 21st level prerequisite is useless as all epic feats have this prerequisite. The wording of this feat is incorrect if the spirit of the feat should be the same as Improved Metamagic; theoretically if you used a 2nd level power (3 pp) with a metapsionic feat that did not increase the power cost (eg something that changed an energy type from fire to cold) this feat would allow you to manifest that power for only 1 pp. The benefit should be altered to “Metapsionic powers you manifest cost 2 power points less than normal (to a minimum of +2 power points). This feat has no effect on metapsionic powers that inflate the cost by under 2 power points.”, and similarly change “1 power point” to “2 power points” in Special. This would make the feat functionally identical to Improved Metamagic.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.75)

Improved Monk Ac Bonus[edit]

Special

Your sixth sense is more developed than normal, allowing you a better chance to dodge blows in combat.

Prerequisite: Monk level 1

Benefit: Add +1 to your monk AC bonus.

Special: You can take this feat multiple times, each time increasing your monk AC bonus by 1.

Balance: 4.33 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.33, Port 4.33, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.33)

Improved Mounted Combat[edit]

You may evade more than one attack to your mount in a round.

Prerequisite: [[#Mounted Combat|Mounted Combat, Ride 1 rank

Benefit: You may use your Ride skill and Mounted Combat feat to evade one additional attack each round.

Special: This feat can be taken several times, and stacks with itself.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Improved Multiattack[edit]

Your secondary attacks are more accurate.

Prerequisite: Three natural weapons, [[#Multiattack|Multiattack

Benefit: The creature’s secondary attacks with natural weapons have no penalty. They still add only one-half the creature’s Strength bonus, if any, to damage dealt.

Normal: Without this feat, the creature’s secondary natural attacks have a –5 penalty (or a –2 penalty if it has the Multiattack feat).

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Improved Multiweapon Fighting[edit]

You get extra attacks with all your weapons.

Prerequisite: [[#Multiweapon Fighting|Multiweapon Fighting, Three arms, Base attack bonus +9, Dex 15

Benefit: In addition to the single extra attack a creature gets with each extra weapon from Multiweapon Fighting, it gets a second attack with each extra weapon, albeit at a –5 penalty.

Normal: With only Multiweapon Fighting, a creature can only get a single attack with each extra weapon.

Special: This feat replaces the Improved Two-Weapon Fighting feat for creatures with more than two arms.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Improved Natural Armor[edit]

Your skin is tougher then that typical for your species.

Prerequisite: Natural armor, Con 13

Benefit: The creature’s natural armor bonus increases by 1.

Special: A creature can gain this feat multiple times. Each time the creature takes the feat its natural armor bonus increases by another point.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Improved Natural Attack[edit]

You natural weapon is more powerful than most.

Prerequisite: Natural weapon, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: Choose one of the creature’s natural attack forms. The damage for this natural weapon increases by one step, as if the creature’s size had increased by one category: 1d2, 1d3, 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 2d6, 3d6, 4d6, 6d6, 8d6, 12d6. A weapon or attack that deals 1d10 points of damage increases as follows: 1d10, 2d8, 3d8, 4d8, 6d8, 8d8, 12d8.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team believes the prerequisite should state ‘Natural attack’ instead of ‘Natural weapon’, and in this case any character could take this feat as everyone has a natural attack (e.g. fists, kicks).

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Improved Outburst[edit]

Racial

You gain more from your outburst racial ability than other members of your race.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, outburst racial ability

Benefit: You gain an additional +2 bonus to Strength when you use your outburst racial ability, for a total of a +4 bonus to Strength.

Normal: Races such as the maenad receive the extraordinary ability Outburst, which grants the following: Once per day, for up to 4 rounds, a maenad can subjugate her mentality to gain a boost of raw physical power. When she does so, she takes a -2 penalty to Intelligence and Wisdom but gains a +2 bonus to Strength.

Balance: 3.87 (Purp 3.33, Pow 4.33, Port 2.67, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.33)

Improved Overrun[edit]

Your victims can not escape your overrun maneuver.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack

Benefit: When you attempt to overrun an opponent, the target may not choose to avoid you. You also gain a +4 bonus on your Strength check to knock down your opponent.

Normal: Without this feat, the target of an overrun can choose to avoid you or to block you.

Special: A fighter may select Improved Overrun as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Improved Point Blank Shot[edit]

Your ranged attack abilities are extended to 60’.

Prerequisite: [[#Far Shot|Far Shot, Point Blank Shot

Benefit: The range limitation for point blank shot is extended to 60’. Additionally any ranged attack ability or bonus that normally only applies within 30’ is extended to a range of 60’. Sneak attack damage is a prime example.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.67, Pow 4.33, Port 4.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.00)

Improved Power Attack[edit]

You can control the amount of power you put behind each of your strikes.

Prerequisite: Str 15, Power Attack, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You can select how much of your base attack bonus to use with Power Attack for each attack separately, instead of using a fixed amount for the whole round.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 5.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Improved Power Double Weapon[edit]

You can inflict terrible blows with a double weapon.

Prerequisite: [[#Two-weapon Fighting|Two-weapon Fighting, Power Attack, [[#Power Double Weapon|Power Double Weapon, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When wielding a double weapon, you add one and one-half your Strength bonus to damage rolls with both your primary and secondary attacks.

Normal: Without this feat and Power Double Weapon you add your full Strength bonus to damage rolls with your primary attacks and half your Strength bonus to damage rolls with your secondary attacks. With Power Double Weapon you add your full strength bonus to damage rolls with your primary and secondary attacks.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Improved Precise Shot[edit]

You can shoot targets behind cover without penalty.

Prerequisite: Dex 19, Point Blank Shot, [[#Precise Shot|Precise Shot, Base attack bonus +11

Benefit: Your ranged attacks ignore the AC bonus granted to targets by anything less than total cover, and the miss chance granted to targets by anything less than total concealment. Total cover and total concealment provide their normal benefits against your ranged attacks. In addition, when you shoot or throw ranged weapons at a grappling opponent, you automatically strike at the opponent you have chosen.

Normal: See the normal rules on the effects of cover and concealment. Without this feat, a character who shoots or throws a ranged weapon at a target involved in a grapple must roll randomly to see which grappling combatant the attack strikes.

Special: A fighter may select Improved Precise Shot as one of his fighter bonus feats. An 11th-level ranger who has chosen the archery combat style is treated as having Improved Precise Shot, even if he does not have the prerequisites for it, but only when he is wearing light or no armor.

Balance: 4.67 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.33, Rule 5.00)

Improved Psicrystal[edit]

You can upgrade your psicrystal.

Prerequisite: Psicrystal Affinity

Benefit: You can implant another personality fragment in your psicrystal. You gain the benefits of both psicrystal personalities. Your psicrystal’s personality adjusts and becomes a blend between all implanted personality fragments. From now on, when determining the abilities of your psicrystal, treat your manifester level as one higher than your normal manifester level.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time, you implant a new personality fragment in your psicrystal, from which you derive the noted benefits, and you treat your level as one higher for the purpose of determining your psicrystal’s abilities.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Improved Quick Study[edit]

Stealth

You have mastered the art of analyzing an opponent’s weakness.

Prerequisite: Death Attack class ability, Sneak attack +8d6, [[#Quick Study|Quick Study

Benefit: You may perform a death attack after studying a potential victim for one round.

Normal: You need to study an opponent three rounds before a death attack.

Balance: 4.28 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.80, Port 4.00, Comp 4.80, Rule 4.60)

Improved Resistance[edit]

Monster

The creature is innately more resistant to spells or psionics.

Prerequisite: Innate Spell Resistance (SR) or Power Resistance (PR)

Benefit: Increase the creature's SR or PR by +2.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.75 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Improved Search[edit]

General

You are capable of searching an area quickly.

Prerequisite: Search 4 ranks, Int 13

Benefit: You can make a Search skill check to search one 5-foot-by-5-foot area or a volume of goods 5 feet on a side as a move action.

Normal: It takes a full-round action to search a 5-foot-by-5-foot area or a volume of goods 5 feet on a side.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Improved Shield Bash[edit]

You can use your shield to attack and defend simultaneously.

Prerequisite: [[#Shield Proficiency|Shield Proficiency

Benefit: When you perform a shield bash, you may still apply the shield’s shield bonus to your AC.

Normal: Without this feat, a character who performs a shield bash loses the shield’s shield bonus to AC until his or her next turn.

Special: A fighter may select Improved Shield Bash as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.90 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.50, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Improved Sleight Of Hand[edit]

General

You are capable of performing sleight of hand tricks more easily than most.

Prerequisite: Sleight Of Hand 4 ranks, Dex 13

Benefit: You can make a Sleight Of Hand skill check as a move action.

Normal: A Sleight Of Hand skill check is a standard action.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Improved Sneak Attack[edit]

Epic, Stealth

Your sneak attack is stronger than before.

Prerequisite: Sneak attack 8d6

Benefit: Add +1d6 to your sneak attack damage.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Improved Spell Capacity[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can cast even more powerful spells.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells of the normal maximum spell level in at least one spellcasting class

Benefit: When your select this feat, your gains one spell slot per day of any level up to one level higher than the highest-level spell you can already cast in a particular class. You must still have the requisite ability score (10 + spell level) in order to cast any spell stored in this slot. If you have a high enough ability modifier to gain one or more bonus spells for this spell level, you also gains the bonus spells for this spell level. You must use the spell slot as a member of the class in which you can already cast spells of the normal maximum spell level.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times.

Spell Slots Above 9th Level

The Improved Spell Capacity feat allows characters to gain spell slots above 9th level (which can be used to hold lower-level spells or spells whose level has been increased beyond 9th by the use of metamagic feats).

A character with a very high score in the ability associated with his or her spellcasting (Intelligence for wizards; Wisdom for clerics, druids, paladins, and rangers; or Charisma for bards and sorcerers) may receive bonus spells of those levels, as shown on Table - Expanded Ability Modifiers and Bonus Spells, but only if they already have at least one spell slot of that level (such as from the Improved Spell Capacity feat). A character without any spell slots of a level can’t receive any bonus spells of that level, even if the appropriate ability score is high enough to award them.

Even though the table only includes ability scores up to 61 and spell slots up to 25th level, the progression continues infinitely in both directions. For ability scores beyond 61, or for spell slots above 25th level, expand the table to follow the same patterns as shown.

Expanded Ability Modifiers and Bonus Spells
Ability Score	Modifier	Spells Per Day
Ability Score	Modifier	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th
10–11	+0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
12–13	+1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
14–15	+2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
16–17	+3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
18–19	+4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
20-21	+5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
22-23	+6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
24–25	+7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
26–27	+8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
28–29	+9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
30-31	+10	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
31-32	+11	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
34-35	+12	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
36-37	+13	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
38-39	+14	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
40-41	+15	2	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
42-43	+16	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
44-45	+17	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
46-47	+18	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
48-49	+19	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
50-51	+20	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
52-53	+21	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-
54–55	+22	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-
56–57	+23	4	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	-	-
58–59	+24	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	-
60-61	+25	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.50)

Improved Spell Resistance[edit]

Epic, Special

You are more resistant to spells and magic effects.

Prerequisite: Must have spell resistance from a feat, Class feature, Or other permanent effect

Benefit: Your spell resistance increases by +2.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 3.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Improved Stability[edit]

Racial

You are more stable than normal for your race.

Prerequisite: Str 13, stability as a racial ability

Benefit: You gain an additional +4 bonus on ability checks and saving throws made to resist being overrun, bull rushed or tripped when standing on the ground. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted for your stability racial ability.

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 3.40, Pow 4.20, Port 3.80, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.60)

Improved Stealth[edit]

General

You are a fleeting shadow, nearly invisible even as you rush past opponents.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Hide 8 ranks, Move Silently 8 ranks, [[#Stealthy|Stealthy

Benefit: You may move up to your normal speed with no penalty to your Hide or Move Silently checks. The penalty for hiding or moving silently while attacking, running or charging is reduced to -15.

Balance: 4.13 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.00)

Improved Stonecunning[edit]

Racial

Your stonecunning ability is more acute than normal for your race.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Stonecunning as a racial ability

Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus to all stonecunning checks. This stacks with your racial bonus for stonecunning.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Improved Stunning Fist[edit]

Epic, Special

Your stunning attacks are harder to resist.

Prerequisite: Dex 19, Wis 19, Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist

Benefit: Add +2 to the DC of your stunning attack.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Improved Subdual[edit]

You are skilled in making nonlethal attacks

Benefit: When using a weapon that does normal damage for a nonlethal attack, you are not subject to the normal -4 penalty to hit.

Normal: Characters striking to subdue with normal weapons do so at -4 to hit.

Notes: This feat combines the Improved Subdual and Improved Subdue feats from previous versions of the Netbook.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Improved Sunder[edit]

You can sunder without provoking attacks of opportunity.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack

Benefit: When you strike at an object held or carried by an opponent (such as a weapon or shield), you do not provoke an attack of opportunity. You also gain a +4 bonus on any attack roll made to attack an object held or carried by another character.

Normal: Without this feat, you provoke an attack of opportunity when you strike at an object held or carried by another character.

Special: A fighter may select Improved Sunder as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.85 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Improved Toughness[edit]

General

You are tougher than normal.

Prerequisite: Toughness, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You gain +4 hit points, for a total feat bonus of +7 hit points. Improved Toughness can be taken any number of times and stacks with itself and the hit point bonus provided by the Toughness feat. Each time that it is taken after the first, increase the prerequisite base attack bonus for selecting the feat by +3 and increase the hit points provided by the feat by +1. The following table sums up the requirements and bonuses of various levels of Toughness and Improved Toughness you can take up to level 20.

Feat	BAB	Bonus	Total
Toughness	-	+3	+3
Improved Toughness	+3	+4	+7
Improved Toughness x2	+6	+5	+12
Improved Toughness x3	+9	+6	+18
Improved Toughness x4	+12	+7	+25
Improved Toughness x5	+15	+8	+33
Improved Toughness x6	+18	+9	+42

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.40, Port 4.80, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.60)

Improved Trip[edit]

You are adept at tripping your opponents.

Prerequisite: Combat Expertise, Int 13

Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when you attempt to trip an opponent while you are unarmed. You also gain a +4 bonus on your Strength check to trip your opponent. 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 attempt.

Normal: Without this feat, you provoke an attack of opportunity when you attempt to trip an opponent while you are unarmed.

Special: At 6th level, a monk may select Improved Trip as a bonus feat, even if she does not have the prerequisites. A fighter may select Improved Trip as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Improved Turning[edit]

Special

You can turn as if you were a higher level.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke creatures

Benefit: You turn or rebuke creatures as if you were one level higher than you are in the class that grants you the ability.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.50, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Improved Two-weapon Fighting[edit]

You get an extra attack with your off hand weapon.

Prerequisite: [[#Two-weapon Fighting|Two-weapon Fighting, Dex 17, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: In addition to the standard single extra attack you get with an off-hand weapon, you get a second attack with it, albeit at a –5 penalty.

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

Special: A fighter may select Improved Two-Weapon Fighting as one of his fighter bonus feats. A 6th-level ranger who has chosen the two-weapon combat style is treated as having Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, even if he does not have the prerequisites for it, but only when he is wearing light or no armor.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Improved Unarmed Strike[edit]

You hands are considered deadly weapons.

Benefit: You are considered to be armed even when unarmed —that is, you do not provoke attacks or opportunity from armed opponents when you attack them while unarmed. However, you still get an attack of opportunity against any opponent who makes an unarmed attack on you. In addition, your unarmed strikes can deal lethal or nonlethal damage, at your option.

Normal: Without this feat, you are considered unarmed when attacking with an unarmed strike, and you can deal only nonlethal damage with such an attack.

Special: A monk automatically gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat at 1st level. She need not select it. A fighter may select Improved Unarmed Strike as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.75)

Improved Undead Control[edit]

Special

You can control more undead than normal.

Prerequisite: Rebuke undead ability

Benefit: You can command a number of undead with total Hit Dice equal to 2 per level. This also increases the number of undead that you can animate and control with the animate dead spell to 6 Hit Dice per caster level, although you can't create more Hit Dice of undead with a single casting of animate dead greater than triple your caster level.

Normal: You can normally command a total number of undead with Hit Dice equal to your level (or control a total number of undead animated through use of the animate dead spell equal to 4 Hit Dice per caster level, with a single casting producing up to double your caster level in Hit Dice of undead).

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times, and stacks with itself. Each time it is taken, you add +1 Hit Dice/level to your limit when controlling undead through your rebuke undead ability and +2 Hit Dice/level to the limit of the animate dead spell and +1 Hit Dice/level to the limit of a single casting of the animate dead spell.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Comments: This feat was previously known as Undead Mastery. The name change was made because of a conflict with the recently introduced epic feat of the same name from the System Reference Document.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Improved Whirlwind Attack[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You strike multiple times at everyone around you.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Dex 23, Combat Expertise, Dodge, Mobility, [[#Spring Attack|Spring Attack, [[#Whirlwind Attack|Whirlwind Attack

Benefit: As a standard action, you can make one melee attack for every five points of your base attack bonus (including epic attack bonus, round fractions down). You cannot attack any one opponent more than once as part of this action. These attacks (as well as all other attacks made until the start of your next turn) suffer a –4 penalty. When using the Improved Whirlwind feat, your also forfeit any bonus or extra attacks granted by other spells or abilities (such as Cleave or the haste spell). Since these attacks are made as part of a standard action your can’t make a 5-foot step between any two of the attacks.

Normal: Without this feat, using the Whirlwind Attack feat requires a full attack action, and the character can take a 5-foot step between any two of the attacks.

Balance: 3.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.25, Port 3.50, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.25)

Improved Wild Talent[edit]

Psionic

Allows you to use a single Psionic power.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, [[#Wild Talent|Wild Talent

Benefit: Grants you access to a single 1st level Psionic power chosen from the Psion or Psychic warrior lists. Where manifester level is a factor (such as for determining range), use the character's manifester level or one, whichever is higher.

Normal: Characters with the Wild talent feat received a power reserve of 2 points and are able to take psionic feats, but not able to manifest powers.

Special: This feat can not be used to qualify for prestige classes or feats requiring a manifester level.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.33, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Improvised Weapons[edit]

Lower the non-proficiency penalty of weapons.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: When you use a weapon that you are not proficient with, or an improvised weapon for which no proficiency is possible, you suffer only a -2 penalty to hit.

Normal: The normal penalty in this situation is -4.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Incite Rage[edit]

Epic, Rage

You can send allies into a rage.

Prerequisite: Cha 25, Greater rage class feature

Benefit: When you enters a rage, your can incite a barbarian rage in any or all allies within 60 feet. (Any ally who doesn’t wish to become enraged is unaffected.) The ally gains +4 to Strength, +4 to Constitution, and a +2 morale bonus on Will saves, but takes a –2 penalty to AC, for as long as you remain raging. The rage of affected allies lasts a number of rounds equal to 3 + their Constitution modifier, regardless of whether they remain within 60 feet of you. This is otherwise identical with normal barbarian rage (including the fatigue at its end).

Special: This is a mind-affecting effect.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Infer Spell[edit]

You can learn spells from magic items.

Prerequisite: Spellbook

Benefit: You can learn spells from magic items. You must study the item for one day per level of the spell you are attempting to learn. The item must be able to produce an effect identical to the spell you are learning. After the period of study you must make a spellcraft check identical to copying a spell from another spell book (DC 15+ the level of the spell). If you fail you are subject to the same limitations as when failing to copy a spell from a spellbook. The spell must be one you are normally permitted to learn.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Infinite Deflection[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You can deflect an unlimited number of arrows.

Prerequisite: Dex 25, Combat Reflexes, [[#Deflect Arrows|Deflect Arrows, Improved Unarmed Strike

Benefit: You may perform any number of deflections each round, as the Deflect Arrows feat.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Innate Metamagic[edit]

Monster

The creature can use its spellcasting knowledge to modify its innate spell-like abilities with learned metamagic feats.

Prerequisite: Int 11, Innate spell-like ability, Ability to cast spells, One or more metamagic feats

Benefit: The creature can modify any of its innate spell-like abilities with any spell altering metamagic feat that it knows. In order to alter a spell-like ability in this manner, the creature must prepare (Wizards or Divine spellcasters) or spend (Sorcerer or Bard) a spell slot equal in level to the bonus level required for the metamagic feat in question (see examples below). Casting a metamagically enhanced spell-like ability also counts as one or its uses of that spell-like ability per day. Spontaneously casting a metamagically enhanced spell-like ability, like a Sorcerer or Bard, requires a full-round action (rather than a standard action).

Normal: Creatures cannot normally modify spell-like abilities with spell altering metamagic feats.

Special: This feat does not provide knowledge of any other metamagic feat and it cannot be used with class based spell-like abilities, like the druid's wild shape or paladin's ability to cure disease. Because spell-like abilities are cast without need of verbal, somatic or material components, modifying a spell-like ability with Silent Spell or Still Spell provides no additional game related benefit.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.00, Rule 4.00)

Innate Specialist[edit]

Special

You have a remarkable affinity for a school of magic, similar to a specialist wizard.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast arcane spells without preparation (like a bard or sorcerer)

Benefit: Choose one school of magic (and its associated prohibited schools), per the wizard's school specialization rules. You can learn one additional spell per spell level that you can cast as long as this additional spell is from your specialty school. You do not gain the ability to cast more spells per day nor do you gain a bonus on Spellcraft checks when dealing with your specialty school. Spells from your chosen prohibited school(s) cannot be cast and are removed from your spell list. If you cast spells from a limited spell list (like a bard), you cannot choose Evocation or Necromancy as prohibited schools.

Normal: Bards and Sorcerers cannot normally choose to specialize in a school of magic.

Special: This feat can be taken more than once, but each time it must apply to a different spontaneous spellcaster class.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.00)

Inner Depths Of The Soul[edit]

Magical

You have tapped an inner reserve of power that allows you to reduce magic-related XP costs.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Wis 13, Cha 13

Benefit: Any time you cast a spell with an XP cost, manifest a power with an XP cost or create a magic item, the XP cost is reduced by 10%. Fractional XP costs are rounded up to the nearest whole number.

Special: A character may gain this feat multiple times. Each time you take this feat beyond the first, the ability score requirements each increase by 2 and the XP cost discount is increased by 5%, to a maximum of a 95% reduction.

Example: At 6th level Garmand took Inner Depths Of The Soul as his feat. He met the prerequisites of 13 or higher in Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma. The XP cost discount is 10%. At 9th level, he took this feat again as he was able to meet the increased prerequisites of 15 or higher in Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma, giving him a total discount of 15% to XP costs.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 3.50, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.75)

Inquisitor[edit]

Psionic

You know when others lie.

Prerequisite: Wis 13

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You gain a +10 bonus on a Sense Motive check to oppose a Bluff check. You must decide whether or not to use this feat prior to making a Sense Motive check. If your check fails, or if the opponent isn’t lying, you still expend your psionic focus.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Inspire Cooperation[edit]

Song

Through music, song or poetry you are able to inspire cooperation in others.

Prerequisite: Bardic music class feature, Perform 3 ranks

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to all Charisma based attribute and skill checks made against anyone that has heard you sing or perform for a full round, except for people that begin the encounter hostile towards you. This bonus lasts for a full day after you stop performing and uses up one of your bardic music attempts per day.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Inspire Devotion[edit]

General

Your followers always keep you in their hearts.

Prerequisite: Cha 17, [[#Leadership|Leadership, [[#Inspire Loyalty|Inspire Loyalty, [[#Inspire Greatness|Inspire Greatness

Benefit: Your followers and cohorts gain the benefits from Inspire Loyalty and Inspire Greatness at all times while you are alive and need not be within 60’ of you.

Balance: 3.53 (Purp 4.33, Pow 2.33, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.33)

Inspire Excellence[edit]

Epic, Song

Your music can increase allies ability scroes.

Prerequisite: Perform 30 ranks, Bardic music class feature

Benefit: You can use song or poetics to grant a bonus to one ability score to your allies. To be affected, an ally must hear the bard sing for 1 full round. The effect lasts as long as you sing and for 5 rounds after you stop singing (or 5 rounds after the ally can no longer hear you). While singing, the bard can fight but cannot cast spells, activate magic items by spell completion (such as scrolls), or activate magic items by command word (such as wands). Each ally to be inspired gains a +4 competence bonus to the same ability score, which you must choose before you begins inspiring. Inspire excellence is a supernatural, mind-affecting ability. Use of this feat counts as one of your bardic music uses for the day.

Special: This feat is treated as a bardic music inspiration ability for purposes of feats that affect such abilities.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Inspire Greatness[edit]

General

Your followers fight harder when you are near.

Prerequisite: Cha 15, Leadership, Inspire Loyalty

Benefit: All your followers within 60’ gain a +1 moral bonus to their attack and damage rolls.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.67, Port 4.00, Comp 3.67, Rule 4.00)

Inspire Loyalty[edit]

General

Your followers are inspired by your greatness.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Leadership

Benefit: All your followers and cohorts within 60’ gain a +2 morale bonus on all saving throws.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Inspiring Leader[edit]

General

You work to inspire your followers and cohorts and raise their morale.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Leadership

Benefit: Your cohorts and followers gain a +1 morale bonus to attack and damage and a +2 morale bonus to saving throws versus all fear effects and mind-affecting spells and abilities while you are personally directing their efforts, and/or are within 30' . This bonus will last for up to one minute without additional orders being given if you move further than 30' away from your allies. These bonuses remain in effect for up to one minute if you are dropped in combat.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.58 (Purp 4.30, Pow 3.00, Port 3.30, Comp 3.30, Rule 4.00)

Inspiring Love[edit]

Your love bolsters your efficacy when doing something for your beloved.

Benefit: You must select another person to be your beloved when you take this feat. This is usually a lover, but can be a child or even just a very close friend. Every time you do something specifically for your beloved's benefit, like going on a quest or fighting a duel for your love, you gain a +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and skill checks. This does not include things you merely do together – you have to be doing this for the sake of your love. Loving an adventuring companion will not give you a bonus on all your adventures however. If your beloved has acknowledged your love, and given you an appropriate token (handkerchief, lock of hair, etc.), this bonus increases to +2, as long as you wear this token over your heart.

Special: You must be true to your love for this feat being effective; meaning you must think about your love every day, risk your safety for love, etc. Should the object of your love die, you might still gain these benefits when exacting revenge or building a monument to them or the like.

Comments: This is typically a paladin feat, and would fit very well with a bard. It is inspired by the medieval knights' tradition of courtly love. Lancelot for instance, could be seen as having this feat with regard to Queen Guinevere, while King Arthur (Guinevere's husband) doesn't have it.

Balance: 3.16 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.00, Port 2.80, Comp 2.80, Rule 3.00)

Instant Awakening[edit]

General

You can instantly awaken from sleep at the slightest sign of danger.

Benefit: When subject to an attack while asleep, you may make an immediate Reflex save (DC 15) to awaken and defend yourself normally. On a successful save you are not considered helpless or surprised, so you are not vulnerable to a coup de grace, and you may take a standard action in the surprise round (if one occurs); roll for initiative and resolve attacks normally. You may still be considered flat-footed if your initiative is worse than your attacker's.

Normal: A sleeping opponent is flat-footed, helpless (+4 circumstance bonus to strike, treat Dexterity as 0 and apply the -5 modifier to Armor Class) and vulnerable to coup de grace attacks.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Instant Reload[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You can load your crossbow with amazing speed.

Prerequisite: [[#Quick Draw|Quick Draw, [[#Rapid Reload|Rapid Reload, Weapon Focus (crossbow Type To Be Selected)

Benefit: You may fire the selected type of crossbow at your full normal attack rate. Reloading the crossbow does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time a character takes the feat, it applies to a different type of crossbow.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team feels that this should be a normal, not Epic, feat.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Intensify Poison[edit]

Stealth

You know how to intensify the effect of a poison.

Prerequisite: Poison Use ability

Benefit: You can distill two doses of an identical poison into a single dose. This increases the DC to resist the effects of the poison by 2 and takes one hour to complete.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Intensify Spell[edit]

Epic, Metamagic

You can imbue your spells with legendary power.

Prerequisite: [[#Empower Spell|Empower Spell, Maximize Spell, Spellcraft 30 ranks, Ability to cast 9th-level arcane or divine spells

Benefit: All variable, numeric effects of an intensified spell are maximized, then doubled. An intensified spell deals twice maximum damage, cures twice the maximum number of hit points, affects twice the maximum number of targets, and so forth, as appropriate. Saving throws and opposed rolls are not affected. An intensified spell uses up a spell slot seven levels higher than the spell’s actual level. You can’t combine the effects of this feat with any other feat that affects the variable, numeric effects of a spell.

Comments: With a level increase of +7 this feat is virtually useless without Improved Spell Capacity as well. Consider that for +5 levels you can combine Empower Spell and Maximize spell to do 150% of maximum damage; this does 200%, so only one third more. Bearing in mind you have to spend an additional epic feat to get this ability it is suggested to have only a +5 level increase for this feat, or no more than +6.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Intimate Knowledge[edit]

You have thorough knowledge of a specific individual.

Prerequisite: Sense Motive 4 ranks, Knows individual well

Benefit: Chose one specific individual with whom you meet the prerequisites. You gain a +10 to Sense Motivation checks directed at that individual, and a +5 to all Charisma based skill checks directed at that individual. If you have gone over a year without using this feat, you may replace the specified individual with another with whom you meet the prerequisites.

Special: ‘Knows person well’ equates to spending approximately 500 hours observing &/or interacting with specific individual. This works out to around two months of extensive daily interaction or 1 year of more limited but still substantial contact.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.00, Port 3.67, Comp 3.67, Rule 4.00)

Intimate Spell[edit]

Metamagic, Role Play

You can use your knowledge of an individual to enhance your magic.

Prerequisite: Sense Motive 4 ranks, Knows individual well, Intimate Knowledge, Able to cast spells

Benefit: A spell modified by this feat ignores the saving throw, spell resistance, and Abjuration magic of the character with whom you have the Intimate Knowledge feat. An Intimate Spell spell uses a spell slot four levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

Balance: 3.45 (Purp 3.25, Pow 3.25, Port 3.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.25)

Intuitive[edit]

General

You use intuition where others use logic.

Benefit: You may use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Intelligence modifier on Search and Spellcraft checks.

Balance: 3.56 (Purp 3.20, Pow 4.00, Port 3.60, Comp 3.60, Rule 3.40)

Intuitive Spell Preparation[edit]

Magical

You can recover spell slots without rest or need for meditation.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast 1st level Arcane spells without preparation (like a Bard or Sorcerer)

Benefit: Choose one spellcasting class that meets the above prerequisites plus a particular time of day (dawn, noon, dusk or midnight is recommended). Rather than regaining spell slots after resting, every day at this time your spell slots in this class automatically refresh, allowing you to cast your daily allotment of spells without need for rest or meditation. All spell slots used within 8 hours prior to your chosen time of day do not refresh and count against your daily spell limit for the following day.

Normal: Bards and sorcerers must rest for 8 hours and spend 15 minutes playing music or concentrating in order to recover their spell slots.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 3.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Investigator[edit]

General

You are a talented sleuth.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Gather Information checks and Search checks.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Invisible Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You may make your spells invisible.

Benefit: A hidden spell incorporates an illusion that renders it and its effects invisible. Invisible Spell does not conceal the casting of the spell, only the spell effects. An invisible spell uses up a spell slot three levels higher than the spell's actual level.

Special: This feat does not work with Illusion Magic, or spells that depend on light or visibility for their effects. Casters who are prohibited from casting illusion spells can not use this feat. Non-permanent magical effects including invisible ones can be spotted as per invisible creatures with a DC20 Spot check for mobile effects, and DC 40 for non-mobile effects.

Notes: If the spell reasonably makes noise, has odor, or a tactile effect of some kind these effects are not hidden, it operates like any other invisibility effect. The “spell effects” refer to any magical manifestation of the spell, not indirect results of the spell. For instance, a ball of fire would be invisible but anything it ignites would be visibly burning.

Balance: 3.48 (Purp 3.60, Pow 3.60, Port 3.40, Comp 3.40, Rule 3.40)

Iron Will[edit]

General

You posses a strong will.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Will saving throws.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Jack Of All Trades[edit]

General

You can use any skill without training.

Prerequisite: You must be at least 6th level

Benefit: You can use any skill untrained, even those that normally require training.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Keen Strike[edit]

Epic, Special

Your unarmed strikes cut like a blade.

Prerequisite: Str 23, Wis 23, [[#Improved Critical|Improved Critical (unarmed Strike), Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist, Ki strike (adamantine)

Benefit: Your unarmed strike has a critical threat range of 18-20 and deals slashing damage (at your option any attack can deal bludgeoning damage, but cannot then take advantage of the enhanced threat range). This ability doesn’t stack with other abilities that expand your unarmed strike’s threat range.

Comments: Interestingly this feat effectively breaks the 'no doubling of critical threat ranges' rule that was introduced in edition 3.5. However, seeing as the Netbook of Feats team disagrees with that rule anyway, we have no problem with this feat - although we do believe that there should be similar feats for non-monk characters with weapons.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Ki Of The Masters[edit]

Special

You have learned to channel your Ki into devastating unarmed attacks.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Str 11, Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: On a successful unarmed strike you can add your Wisdom modifier instead of your Strength modifier to the damage roll. This feat is an extraordinary ability.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Ki Sense[edit]

Special, Martial Style

Your self-awareness and mastery of ki allow you to intuitively sense the presence of danger.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Monk base AC bonus 1

Benefit: You can make a Will save (DC 20) to avoid being caught surprised or flat-footed. On a successful save, you can act during the surprise round even if you would otherwise be surprised and you can retain your Dex bonus to armor class even if you would otherwise be caught flat-footed.

Balance: 4.33 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.33, Port 4.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.33)

Kick 'em While They're Down[edit]

Stealth

You can take advantage of a prone opponent's weakness.

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes, Sneak attack 1d6

Benefit: You may add your Sneak Attack damage when attacking a prone target.

Normal: Being prone does not normally make you vulnerable to sneak attacks.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.67 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.67, Comp 4.67, Rule 5.00)

Kick-up[edit]

General

You have learned how to get up from being prone very quickly.

Prerequisite: Dex 13

Benefit: Standing up from a prone position is a free action. You also gain a +4 bonus on any Dexterity or Strength check made to resist a Trip attempt..

Normal: Standing is normally a move-equivalent action.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.48 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.60, Port 4.20, Comp 4.40, Rule 4.60)

Knock-down[edit]

You can knock down foes with mighty blows.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +2, Improved Trip, Str 15

Benefit: Whenever you deal 10 or more points of damage to your opponent in melee, you make a trip attack as a free action against the same target.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Knockout Punch[edit]

You know how to deliver a good sucker punch.

Prerequisite: [[#Brawl|Brawl, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: When making your first unarmed attack against a flat-footed opponent, treat a successful attack as a critical hit. This damage is nonlethal damage.

Special: Even if you have the ability to treat unarmed damage as lethal damage, the damage from a Knockout Punch is always nonlethal.

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.50)

Know Terrain[edit]

General

Your knowledge of the land gives you a number of advantages.

Prerequisite: Survival 4 ranks

Benefit: Choose a terrain type. You gain a +2 bonus to Balance, Climb, Hide, Knowledge (nature), Listen, Search, Spot, Survival, and Swim skill checks while in that terrain. You also gain a +2 bonus to Animal handling checks with animals native to that terrain. Terrain types include - Aquatic, Cold Desert (tundra), Temperate or warm desert (badlands, sandy desert), Cold or temperate forest (forests), Warm forest (jungles), Hills, Marsh, Mountain, Plains, Underground, and Urban.

Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new terrain type.

Balance: 4.03 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.13, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Knowledge Focus[edit]

General

You just seem to remember a bit more small detail about a given topic than the next fellow.

Prerequisite: Int 13

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus to any 3 Knowledge skills of your choice, and those Knowledge skills become Class Skills for all your classes.

Balance: 4.16 (Purp 3.80, Pow 4.00, Port 4.40, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.40)

Knowledgeable[edit]

General

You are widely read on nearly every subject.

Prerequisite: Int 13

Benefit: You may use any knowledge skill untrained.

Balance: 4.13 (Purp 3.67, Pow 3.67, Port 4.33, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.33)

Last Ditch[edit]

General

The heart of a hero beats in your chest, allowing you one last attack.

Benefit: Whenever you are dropped in combat you may take a single attack at whatever dropped you (typically by dropping you to below 0 hit points or killing you), as long as the target is within your attack range. This attack is made at your base attack bonus and you get a special +2 morale bonus to hit and damage.

Balance: 4.07 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.33, Port 4.33, Comp 4.17, Rule 4.00)

Lasting Inspiration[edit]

Epic, Song

The effects of your music last much longer.

Prerequisite: Perform 25 ranks, Bardic music class feature

Benefit: The effects of your bardic music inspiration abilities last for ten times as long as normal after you stops singing. This feat has no effect on inspiration abilities that have no duration after you stop singing.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Layered Psionic Defense[edit]

Psionic

You are able to mount a potent psychic defense.

Prerequisite: Manifester level 3rd

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You are able to manifest two psionic defense powers as an immediate action (limited to the powers empty mind, intellect fortress, mental barrier, thought shield or tower of iron will). Manifesting two defense powers simultaneously costs a number of power points equal to the standard cost to activate both psionic powers +1, and you must know the powers in question in order to manifest them.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.50)

Lead Fissile Fire[edit]

General

You can trick opponents into shooting their allies by stepping aside at the last moment.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Dodge, Bluff 4 ranks, Combat Reflexes

Benefit: If someone makes a ranged weapon against you while you are fighting in melee combat, you may make a Bluff check opposed by the attacker’s Sense Motive check + their Base Attack Bonus. If you succeed, the attacker instead attacks a target you designate who is adjacent to you or occupies the same space. Each time you use this ability it counts as one of your attacks of opportunity for the round and it can not be used if you have no attacks of opportunity of the round remaining.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.13, Port 4.13, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Leadership[edit]

General

Allies flock to your banner.

Prerequisite: Character level 6th

Benefit: Having this feat enables you to attract loyal companions and devoted followers, subordinates who assist you. See the tables below for what sort of cohort and how many followers you can recruit.

Leadership Modifiers: Several factors can affect your Leadership score, causing it to vary from the base score (character level + Cha modifier). Your reputation (from the point of view of the cohort or follower he is trying to attract) raises or lowers your Leadership score:

Leader's Reputation	Modifier
Great renown	+2
Fairness and generosity	+1
Special power	+1
Failure	-1
Aloofness	-1
Cruelty	-2

Other modifiers may apply when you try to attract a cohort:

The Leader...	Modifier
Has a familiar, special mount or animal companion	-2
Recruits a cohort of a different alignment	-1
Caused the death of a cohort	-2 *

Cumulative per cohort killed.

Followers have different priorities from cohorts. When you try to attract a new follower, use any of the following modifiers that apply.

The Leader...	Modifier
Has a stronghold, base of operations, guildhouse or the like	+2
Moves around a lot	-1
Caused the death of other followers	-1

Leadership Score	Cohort Level	Number of Followers by Level
Leadership Score	Cohort Level	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
1 or less	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	1st	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	2nd	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	3rd	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	3rd	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	5th	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	5th	-	-	-	-	-	-
9	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-
10	7th	5	-	-	-	-	-
11	7th	6	-	-	-	-	-
12	8th	8	-	-	-	-	-
13	9th	10	1	-	-	-	-
14	10th	15	1	-	-	-	-
15	10th	20	2	1	-	-	-
16	11th	25	2	1	-	-	-
17	12th	30	3	1	1	-	-
18	12th	35	3	1	1	-	-
19	13th	40	4	2	1	1	-
20	14th	50	5	3	2	1	-
21	15th	60	6	3	2	1	1
22	15th	75	7	4	2	2	1
23	16th	90	9	5	3	2	1
24	17th	110	11	6	3	2	1
25 or higher	17th	135	13	7	4	2	2

Leadership Score: Your base Leadership score equals your level plus any Charisma modifier. In order to take into account negative Charisma modifiers, this table allows for very low Leadership scores, but you must still be 6th level or higher in order to gain the Leadership feat. Outside factors can affect your Leadership score, as detailed above

Cohort Level: You can attract a cohort of up to this level. Regardless of your Leadership score, you can only recruit a cohort who is two or more levels lower than yourself. The cohort should be equipped with gear appropriate for its level. You can try to attract a cohort of a particular race, class, and alignment. The cohort's alignment may not be opposed to your alignment on either the law-vs-chaos or good-vs-evil axis, and you take a Leadership penalty if your recruit a cohort of an alignment different from your own.

Cohorts earn XP as follows:

The cohort does not count as a party member when determining the party's XP.

Divide the cohort's level by the level of the PC with whom he or she is associated (the character with the Leadership feat who attracted the cohort).

Multiply this result by the total XP awarded to the PC and add that number of experience points to the cohort's total.

If a cohort gains enough XP to bring it to a level one lower than the associated PC's character level, the cohort does not gain the new level-its new XP total is 1 less than the amount needed attain the next level.

Number of Followers by Level: You can lead up to the indicated number of characters of each level. Followers are similar to cohorts, except they're generally low-level NPCs. Because they're generally five or more levels behind the character they follow, they're rarely effective in combat.

Followers don't earn experience and thus don't gain levels. However, when a character with Leadership attains a new level, the player consults the table above to determine if she has acquired more followers, some of which may be higher level than the existing followers. (You don't consult the table to see if your cohort gains levels, however, because cohorts earn experience on their own.)

Comments: Although admittedly not listed in the SRD (still), it has been acknowledged by Skip Williams that the Leadership feat can be taken multiple times, and that it gives you both followers and a cohort, not one or the other.

A modification has also been suggested by Skip and others; the follower (not cohort) levels above should apply only to those with basic NPC Classes, i.e. Commoners, Experts and Warriors. Those with more advanced NPC Classes (Adepts and Aristocrats) and all PC Classes should be treated as if they are a level higher, and those with a prestige class as if they are two levels higher. So, for example, the most powerful follower of someone with a leadership score of 21 could be a 6th level Expert, but only a 5th level Wizard, or a 4th level character with a prestige class (which rules out all prestige classes in the SRD).

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.75)

Learn Command[edit]

General

You are good at figuring out how to activate magic items.

Prerequisite: Use Magic Device 5 ranks

Benefit: If you are successful when activating an item blindly (use magic device check DC25) you actually learn the true command word or activation mechanism for the item you are using and thus no longer need to activate it blindly henceforth.

Notes: You still may need to make a use magic device check to use the item if you don’t meet the normal requirements for it, you only get to skip the activate blindly check.

Balance: 3.93 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Learned Metamagic[edit]

Metamagic

Through hard work, study and dedication, you have learned to combine your arcane knowledge with your innate spellcasting ability, enabling you to prepare certain metamagic spells.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Ability to cast Arcane spells without preparation (like a Bard or Sorcerer), Any Metamagic feat, Spellcraft 8 ranks, Knowledge (Arcana) 8 ranks

Benefit: You can prepare metamagically-enhanced versions of spells that you know exactly like a Wizard. Prepared metamagic spells take up a spellcasting slot of the appropriate level (against a Bard or Sorcerer’s spells per day) until cast, per the base spell and metamagic feat used to augment it. This spell slot cannot be used to cast another spell. Only spells known by the Bard or Sorcerer can be prepared in this fashion, and preparing a metamagic spell takes 15 minutes. A prepared metamagic spell is cast exactly as if the spell were cast by a Wizard, per the normal casting time of the base spell, and once cast the metamagic spell cannot be recast without being prepared again.

Normal: Bards and Sorcerers do not normally prepare spells.

Special: This allows a Bard or Sorcerer to make full use of Quicken Spell and similar feats. It does not provide knowledge of any other metamagic feat.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.10 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.50, Port 3.25, Comp 2.75, Rule 3.00)

Legendary Climber[edit]

Epic

You can climb quickly without penalty.

Prerequisite: Dex 21, Balance 12 ranks, Climb 24 ranks

Benefit: You can ignore any check penalties applied for accelerated climbing or rapid climbing.

Normal: Without this feat, a character takes a –5 penalty on Climb checks when attempting to cover his or her full speed in climbing distance in a round, or a –20 penalty when attempting to cover twice his or her speed in climbing distance in a round.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Legendary Commander[edit]

Epic, Special

You can command many more followers.

Prerequisite: Cha 25, Epic Leadership, Leadership, Diplomacy 30 ranks, Must rule own kingdom and have a stronghold

Benefit: Multiply the number of followers of each level that your can lead by 10. This has no effect on cohorts.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.25)

Legendary Leaper[edit]

Epic

You can jump without much of a running start.

Prerequisite: Jump 24 ranks

Benefit: You need only move 5 feet in a straight line to make a running jump.

Normal: Without this feat, a character must move at least 20 feet in a straight line before attempting a running jump.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team believes that as an epic feat this is quite weak. We would prefer to see it as a normal feat with a lesser prerequisite; say Jump 10 ranks.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 3.25, Pow 2.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.50)

Legendary Rider[edit]

Epic

You can control a mount with hardly any effort.

Prerequisite: Ride 24 ranks

Benefit: You doesn’t take a penalty on Ride checks when riding a mount without a saddle (bareback). You never needs to make a Ride check to control a mount in combat (and even controlling a mount not trained for combat doesn’t require an action).

Normal: Without this feat, a character takes a –5 penalty on Ride checks without a saddle, and must make a Ride check to control a mount in combat (and controlling a mount not trained for combat requires a move action).

Comments: Another feat the Netbook of Feats team believes should be a normal feat with a lesser prerequisite, say Ride 10-15 ranks.

Balance: 3.60 (Purp 3.25, Pow 2.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

Legendary Tracker[edit]

Epic, Special

You can track in almost any environment.

Prerequisite: Wis 25, Track, Knowledge (nature) 30 ranks, Survival 30 ranks

Benefit: You can track creatures across water, under-water, or through the air. This adds the surfaces of water, underwater, and air to the list of surfaces found under the Track feat - Surface DC Water 60 Underwater 80 Air 120

Comments: In the Epic Skills section of the SRD several skills are given additional uses with high DCs. As such some members of the Netbook of Feats team believe that the Survival skill should be similarly expanded for free, rather than requiring this epic feat.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

Legendary Wrestler[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You are a true master of grappling.

Prerequisite: Str 21, Dex 21, Improved Unarmed Strike, Escape Artist 15 ranks

Benefit: You gain a +10 bonus on all grapple checks.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team believes that in comparison with the measly +2 from Epic Weapon Focus that this feat is overpowered - consider what a large monster with a good grapple check could do with this feat, especially if it had Snatch or a similar ability that allowed it to do automatic damage.

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 3.75, Pow 2.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

Light As A Feather[edit]

Special

Your ability to levitate makes you all but immune to falling damage.

Prerequisite: Ability to levitate as a spell-like ability

Benefit: Instead of using your spell-like ability to levitate, you may feather fall per the spell, cast at your normal levitate caster level. Each use of feather fall counts as one of your levitate uses per day.

Balance: 4.08 (Purp 3.80, Pow 4.20, Port 3.40, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.40)

Lighten Weapon[edit]

You can wield a chosen weapon with less effort.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: Chose one type of weapon. When using a weapon of that type you may reduce the effort required to wield it by one step but suffer a -2 penalty to hit with that weapon. This allows you to wield a weapon one size larger as if it were your own size, use a two handed weapon in one hand, or a one handed weapon in your off hand as a light weapon.

Normal: Weapons of a size category one step larger increase the effort required to wield them by one step, light becoming one handed, one handed becoming two handed, and two handed becoming un-wieldable. Two handed weapons may not be used one handed. Using a one handed weapon in your off hand results in suffering a -2 attack penalty to all of your attacks (in addition to other off hand penalties that may apply).

Special: The effect of this feat does not stack with other feats that alter wielding effort or weapon size. You may take this feat multiple times each time choosing a different type of weapon.

Example: Rogar the Human Fighter takes Lighten Weapon and chooses Greatsword. He can now use a Medium sized Greatsword in one hand with a -2 to hit and adding 1 x Strength bonus to damage. He can also wield a Large sized Greatsword in two hands with a -2 to hit and adding 1.5 x Strength bonus to damage.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.67, Pow 4.67, Port 4.33, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.33)

Lightning Parry[edit]

You use your lightning-quick strikes for defense instead of attack.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: For each attack that you give up, you get a +2 dodge bonus to Armor Class. You choose which attacks to use this way. The Dodge bonus applies until the beginning of your next round. The maximum dodge bonus you can get this way is +4.

Special: Abilities that lets you attack several opponents as one attack (such as Whirlwind Attack) only count as one attack for the purpose of this feat. You cannot use the extra attacks granted by Cleave or attacks of opportunity to improve your armor class.

Notes: If you have extra attacks for any reason, such as due to haste, a weapon of speed, or various other magics, feats or tactics, those can now be used for defense. You must be able to make those attacks as a part of whatever type of action you are performing for the round, and incur all penalties associated with the multiple attacks you are using, such as those outlined under Two-Weapon Fighting or Flurry of Blows.

Balance: 3.76 (Purp 4.30, Pow 3.60, Port 4.30, Comp 3.30, Rule 3.30)

Lightning Reflexes[edit]

General

You have excellent reflexes.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Reflex saving throws.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Lingering Damage[edit]

Epic, Stealth

Wounds from your sneak attacks continue to bleed.

Prerequisite: Sneak attack 8d6, Crippling strike class feature

Benefit: Any time you deal damage with a sneak attack, that target takes damage equal to your sneak attack bonus damage on your next turn as well.

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 3.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Linguistic Savant[edit]

General

You are talented at learning languages.

Benefit: You may speak two new languages that are available for you to learn. If you are not illiterate, you can also read and write in these languages. In addition, Speak Language is always considered a class skill for you.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.60, Pow 3.80, Port 4.80, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.20)

Linked Resistance[edit]

Special

When touching your familiar you can benefit from its Spell Resistance (SR).

Prerequisite: Familiar with SR.

Benefit: As a standard action when touching your familiar you can share in your familiar's SR until your next action.

Normal: SR cannot normally be shared between creatures.

Notes: At the sole discretion of your DM, this feat may be extended for use with a special mount, special companion, fiendish servant or even to a psicrystal that grants Power Resistance.

Balance: 4.26 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.33, Port 4.33, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.00)

Local Enemy Offensive Training[edit]

Regional

You have been trained to fight aggressively against the tactics of a regional enemy.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1, Region has local enemy

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls versus your local enemy. This stacks with any racial bonuses you may have against similar creatures.

Notes: This is a regional ability comparable to a dwarf's or gnome's specialized racial training. Consult with your DM to see if this feat is available for your character's region.

Balance: 3.32 (Purp 2.60, Pow 3.60, Port 3.60, Comp 3.20, Rule 3.60)

Look Harmless[edit]

You have a knack for looking harmless, enabling you to avoid unwanted attention and potentially surprise your enemies.

Prerequisite: Bluff 4 ranks

Benefit: To use this feat you must have no visible weapons or threatening magic items. As long as you are acting in a non-threatening manner, you can make a Bluff check opposed by a Sense Motive by anyone you wish to fool. Anyone failing to beat your roll will direct their attention and attacks to someone else (at the DM’s discretion). If you initiate combat against someone who has been fooled in this way you automatically catch your opponent flat-footed for 1 round.

Special: This feat will not work against creatures with Intelligence under 3 or a creature that would consider anyone, or anyone of your race to automatically be dangerous or untrustworthy.

Balance: 3.73 (Purp 4.33, Pow 3.50, Port 3.83, Comp 3.33, Rule 3.67)

Low Profile[edit]

Modern

You keep it on the down low.

Benefit: Reduce your Reputation bonus by 3 points.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Lungs Of Steel[edit]

General, Trait

Through arduous training or birth, you have maximized your ability to hold your breath and thus resist poisonous gas.

Benefit: You are able to hold your breath as if your Constitution score was 4 points higher (see Drowning in the SRD under Water Dangers in The Environment). Furthermore, you get a +2 circumstance bonus to all saving throws versus gas attacks (such as Cloudkill and Ungol Dust).

Special: You may only take this feat at character creation.

Balance: 3.93 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.00, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.33)

Magebane[edit]

General

You are better able to resist arcane magics than normal.

Prerequisite: Must not have a level in any class that offers arcane spellcasting

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all saving throws to resist arcane spells and spell-like abilities of creatures with arcane caster levels.

Balance: 4.08 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.20, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.20)

Magic Secret[edit]

Magical

Your magic is tied to a secret, making your spells harder to dispel.

Benefit: Because all of your magic is tied to a secret, those not knowing this secret find it harder to unravel your spells. The difficulty of any dispel check against your spells is 15 + your caster level instead of the normal 10 + caster level. However, anyone who knows your magical secret will automatically succeed in any dispel check against your magic.

Special: The effects of your spells are not changed in any way. The feat affects all of your spells from the moment you learn it; you cannot avoid using it.

Notes: A magical secret can be most anything, but it must be something that is possible to figure out. A secret name, your birthday, the name of your mentor or patron, the fact that you are of a strange race or parentage, your gender (or lack thereof), the true color of your hair; all are possible spell secrets. A creature can find out that you have this feat with a Spellcraft roll of DC 20 against one of your spells, or by researching your background and making a Knowledge (Local) skill roll against a DC of 20, or with a Bardic Knowledge roll against a DC of 20. This will not tell them what your exact secret is, however (although an additional Bardic Knowledge roll against a DC of 30 will). If a creature thinks that they know your secret they can concentrate upon it whilst attempting to dispel one of your spells; if they guess correctly they will automatically succeed and know this to be the case.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.62 (Purp 4.60, Pow 3.60, Port 3.30, Comp 3.60, Rule 3.00)

Magic Sense[edit]

You identify any magical effect you make a Will save against.

Prerequisite: Spellcraft 4 ranks

Benefit: When you make a successful Will save against any magical (or psionic) effect, you learn what the effect would have done to you if you had failed the saving throw.

Normal: A creature that successfully saves against a spell that has no obvious physical effects feels a hostile force or tingle, but cannot deduce the exact nature of the attack.

Balance: 3.73 (Purp 3.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.33, Rule 3.33)

Magical Aptitude[edit]

General

You are talented in the ways of magic.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Spellcraft checks and Use Magic Device checks.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Magical Beast Companion[edit]

Epic, Wild

You can have magical beasts as animal companions.

Prerequisite: Knowledge (nature) 24 ranks, Wild shape 6/day

Benefit: The following magical beasts are added to the lists of animal companions from which you can select. 1st Level (no adjustment) Stirge Darkmantle 4th Level (-3) Hippogriff Shocker lizard 7th Level (-6) Cockatrice Ankheg Griffon Owlbear Sea cat* 10th Level (-9) Basilisk Digerster Girallon Spider eater 13th Level (-12) Bulette Chimera Remorhaz 16th Level (-15) Gorgon Gray render

Special: Creatures marked with an asterisk are available only in an aquatic environment.

Comments: There seems to be no reason why this feat should require wild shape as a prerequisite apart from to restrict it to Druids; as such it should be removed and the ability to obtain animal companions made the prerequisite as well, which would also remove Wild as a type. The Netbook of Feats team would also prefer some guidelines on how to work out what other monsters could be added to this table at what level, eg HD or CR restrictions. There is also a feeling that this should be a normal, not Epic, feat.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Magical Beast Wild Shape[edit]

Epic, Wild

You can wild shape into magical beasts.

Prerequisite: Wis 25, Knowledge (nature) 27 ranks, Wild shape 6/day

Benefit: You can use your normal wild shape ability to take the form of a magical beast. The size limitation is the same as your limitation on animal size. You gains all supernatural abilities of the magical beast whose form you take.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Main Gauche[edit]

Defend with an off-hand weapon

Prerequisite: Two-weapon Fighting

Benefit: If you are using a light off-hand weapon, or even holding a buckler, hat or rolled up cloak in your off hand, you can use your off-hand weapon to defend. It also works with a double weapon. You must make a full-round attack, and you are giving up all off-hand attacks for the round. This gives you a +4 bonus to Armor Class and a -2 penalty to attack.

Special: If you use a buckler this way, you do not get its normal armor bonus.

Notes: Main Gauche means simply 'left hand', but it is often applied to a left-hand parrying dagger and the fighting style that goes with it. The forerunner of modern fencing, it uses an off hand weapon to deflect attacks, but not to attack with. This feat represent the very earliest fencing styles, and is appropriate for an early renaissance campaign.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Manual Technique[edit]

General

You reason out locks, knots and slights of hand.

Benefit: You may use your Intelligence modifier in place of your Dexterity modifier on Open Lock, Use Rope and Sleight of Hand checks.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Manyshot[edit]

You can fire two or more arrows in one attack.

Prerequisite: Dex 17, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: As a standard action, you may fire two arrows at a single opponent within 30 feet. Both arrows use the same attack roll (with a –4 penalty) to determine success and deal damage normally (but see Special). For every five points of base attack bonus you have above +6, you may add one additional arrow to this attack, to a maximum of four arrows at a base attack bonus of +16. However, each arrow after the second adds a cumulative –2 penalty on the attack roll (for a total penalty of –6 for three arrows and –8 for four). Damage reduction and other resistances apply separately against each arrow fired.

Special: Regardless of the number of arrows you fire, you apply precision-based damage only once. If you score a critical hit, only the first arrow fired deals critical damage; all others deal regular damage. A fighter may select Manyshot as one of his fighter bonus feats. A 6th-level ranger who has chosen the archery combat style is treated as having Manyshot even if he does not have the prerequisites for it, but only when he is wearing light or no armor.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.75)

Martial Weapon Proficiency[edit]

Choose a type of martial weapon. You understand how to use that type of martial weapon in combat.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the selected weapon normally.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a –4 penalty on attack rolls.

Special: Barbarians, fighters, paladins, and rangers are proficient with all martial weapons. They need not select this feat. You can gain Martial Weapon Proficiency multiple times. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new type of weapon. A cleric who chooses the War domain automatically gains the Martial Weapon Proficiency feat related to his deity’s favored weapon as a bonus feat, if the weapon is a martial one. He need not select it.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Mass Effect Spell[edit]

Metamagic

Your spells can affect more targets.

Benefit: A spell that normally affects a single target now affects one target per level, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart. A mass effect spell uses up a spell slot four levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

Special: Range is not changed in any way, except that touch spells can be cast on a chain of creatures all touching one another (and hence is unlikely to be useful for combat spells). This feat does not work on spells with a “personal” range.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.30, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.30)

Master Artisan[edit]

General

You can make items faster using the Craft skill.

Prerequisite: Craft (of the specific type chosen with the feat) 8 ranks or higher

Benefit: Select a craft skill when you learn this feat. When working in a well-equipped workshop (5,000gp value or better), with at least two assistants (who need not be skilled), you can produce craft goods of this type at an increased rate. Calculate production in gold pieces per week, instead of the usual silver pieces per week resulting in a crafting rate ten times faster than normal.

Special: This feat can be taken several times, but does not stack. Each time, it applies to a different variant of the Craft skill.

Balance: 4.12 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.40, Port 4.00, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.00)

Master Battlecaster[edit]

General

You have mastered the ability to combine magic and war-skill on the battlefield.

Prerequisite: Combat Casting, Base attack bonus +6, Concentration 8 ranks, Ability to cast second level spells

Benefit: During a full attack action, you may sacrifice a single attack of your highest attack bonus in order to cast a spell with a casting time of one standard action or less. Casting a spell in combat in this manner is difficult and requires a Concentration check (DC 20 + spell level) to do successfully. Casting a spell while threatened by an opponent still triggers an Attack of Opportunity, which may be avoided by casting defensively.

Example: You have two attacks, one at +10 and a second at +5, you may sacrifice the +10 attack to cast a spell in combat, and still make an attack at +5.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.40, Port 3.80, Comp 3.20, Rule 3.40)

Master Staff[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can channel your own magic to power a staff.

Prerequisite: Craft Staff, Spellcraft 15 ranks

Benefit: When you activate a staff, you can substitute a spell slot instead of using a charge. The spell slot must be one you have not used for the day, though you may lose a prepared spell to emulate a staff charge (you may not lose prepared spells from your school of specialty, if any). The spell slot lost must be equal to or higher in level than the specific spell stored in the staff, including any level-increasing metamagic enhancements. You cannot emulate a charge for a staff function that does not match a specific spell.

Comments: Spelling/grammar errors corrected ('ahs' to 'has' and 'wand charge' to 'staff charge').

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Master Wand[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can channel your own magic to power a wand.

Prerequisite: Craft Wand, Spellcraft 15 ranks

Benefit: When you activate a wand, you can substitute a spell slot instead of using a charge. The spell slot must be one you have not used for the day, though you may lose a prepared spell to emulate a wand charge (you may not lose prepared spells from yourschool of specialty, if any). The spell slot lost must be equal to or higher in level than the spell stored in the wand, including any level-increasing metamagic enhancements.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Masterful Scroll Casting[edit]

Epic

You can cast a spell from a scroll without causing the writing of the activated spell to disappear.

Prerequisite: [[#Scribe Scroll|Scribe Scroll, Spellcraft 15 ranks

Benefit: By spending a spell slot equal or higher in level to the spell activated from a scroll, you can cast the spell from the scroll without causing the writing of the spell to disappear. A prepared spell or any unused spell slot can be used to power the scroll, but the prepared spell or spell slot cannot be from your chosen domain or specialty school. Casting a spell from a scroll in this manner requires a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. Otherwise, all standard rules for scroll casting apply (the scroll must first be deciphered, it must be the correct type and appear or your class list, and you must have the prerequisite ability score to cast spells of that level).

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Maximize Power[edit]

You can manifest powers to maximum effect.

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You can maximize a power. All variable, numeric effects of a power modified by this feat are maximized. A maximized power deals maximum damage, cures the maximum number of hit points, affects the maximum number of targets, and so on, as appropriate. Saving throws and opposed checks are not affected, nor are powers without random variables. Augmented powers can be maximized; a maximized augmented power deals the maximum damage (or cures the maximum hit points, and so on) of the augmented power. An empowered and maximized power gains the separate benefits of each feat: the maximum result plus one-half the normally rolled result. Using this feat increases the power point cost of the power by 4. The power’s total cost cannot exceed your manifester level.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Maximize Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can maximize the potential of your spells.

Benefit: All variable, numeric effects of a spell modified by this feat are maximized. Saving throws and opposed rolls are not affected, nor are spells without random variables. A maximized spell uses up a spell slot three levels higher than the spell’s actual level. An empowered, maximized spell gains the separate benefits of each feat: the maximum result plus one-half the normally rolled result.

Balance: 4.90 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Meddlesome[edit]

General

You are well trained in the art of disrupting spell casting.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: Anyone you threaten suffers a -5 penalty on any attempt to cast defensively.

Balance: 4.24 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.40, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.20)

Medical Expert[edit]

Modern

You have a knack for medicine.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Craft (pharmaceutical) and Treat Injury checks.

Special: Remember that the Craft (pharmaceutical) skill can’t be used untrained.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Menagerie[edit]

Magical

You have an impressive affinity for summoning spells.

Prerequisite: Spell Focus (conjuration)

Benefit: When casting any Conjuration (summoning) spell with a limited duration, you can summon twice the normal number of items or creatures. In return, the duration of your spell is reduced to one-fourth, with a minimum of 1 round.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Mental Leap[edit]

Psionic

You can make amazing jumps.

Prerequisite: Jump 5 ranks, Str 13

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You gain a +10 bonus on a Jump check.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Mental Resistance[edit]

General

Your mind is armored against mental intrusion.

Prerequisite: Base Will save bonus +2

Benefit: Against psionic attacks that do not employ an energy type to deal damage you gain damage reduction 3/–. In addition, when you are hit with ability damage (but not ability drain or ability burn damage) from a psionic attack, you take 3 points less than you would normally take. The benefit of this feat applies only to psionic powers and psi-like abilities. This is an exception to the psionics–magic transparency rule.

Special: You cannot take or use this feat if you have the ability to use powers (if you have a power point reserve or psi-like abilities).

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is not generally in favor of feats such as these that break the magic-psionics transparency rule.

Balance: 3.60 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 3.75, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.50)

Metaffinity[edit]

Metamagic

You are adept at casting metamagic Arcane spells without prior preparation.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane spells without preparation (like a Bard or Sorcerer), Any metamagic feat

Benefit: Despite the fact that you do not prepare spells, you are able to cast any spell augmented by any other metamagic feat that you know without increasing the spell’s casting time. Spells cast through the use of this feat use up a spell slot one level higher than the spell’s metamagically enhanced level.

Normal: Sorcerers, Bards and other Arcane spellcasters that do not prepare spells normally take more time to cast a metamagic spell than a normal one; if a spell’s normal casting time is 1 standard action, a Sorcerer or Bard can cast a metamagically-enhanced version of the spell as a full-round action, and spells with longer casting times take an additional full-round action to cast.

Special: This feat can be combined with the Quicken Spell feat, a feat not normally useful to Sorcerers and Bards.

Example: Aerryk, a 17th level Sorcerer, has the Metaffinity, Quicken Spell and Maximize Spell feats. He can cast a maximized Lightning Bolt spell as a full-round action by using up a 6th level spell slot or use his Metaffinity feat to cast a maximized Lightning Bolt in 1 standard action by using up a 7th level spell slot. He could also use his Metaffinity feat to cast a quickened Lightning Bolt as a free action by using up an 8th level spell slot, but would not be able to maximize the spell.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 3.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Metalinguist[edit]

General

You have an intuitive understanding of the basics of communication.

Benefit: If you do not share a language with another person/creature, you may, over the course of a minute, convey an abstract thought, idea or question that you could otherwise express with a full round of speech. If the other party also takes the time to communicate at the same pace, you can understand in return. Of course, there is always some risk of mistranslation.

Special: You can only communicate with creatures that speak some language. A purely telepathic creature, or one communicating through scents but not words, is unintelligible to you.

Notes: This feat incorporates the Pidgin feat from earlier versions of the Netbook of Feats.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Metamorphic Transfer[edit]

Psionic

You can gain a supernatural ability of a metamorphed form.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Manifester level 5th

Benefit: Each time you change your form, such as through the metamorphosis power, you gain one of the new form’s supernatural abilities, if it has any. You gain only three uses of the metamorphic ability per day, even if the creature into which you metamorph has a higher limit on uses (You are still subject to other restrictions on the use of the ability.) The save DC to resist a supernatural ability gained through Metamorphic Transfer (if it is an attack) is 10 + your Cha modifier + 1/2 your Hit Dice.

Normal: You cannot use the supernatural abilities of creatures whose form you assume.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time, you can gain one additional supernatural ability.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team believes that this feat should also be available to those who can assume different forms through Wildshaping, Polymorphing and the like.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 3.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Metaspell[edit]

Magical

You can learn metamagically-enhanced spells instead of standard spells.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane spells without preparation (like a Bard or Sorcerer)

Benefit: When you gain new spells, you have the option of learning a metamagically-enhanced spell in place of another spell of the appropriate level. This spell takes up a spell-slot appropriate for the normal level of the spell, modified by the metamagic feat used to augment the spell. You do not need to know the base spell nor the metamagic feat used to modify the spell in order to use this feat. Once a metamagically-enhanced spell is learned in this manner, you cannot cast the spell without its metamagic enhancement, though you can augment the spell in standard fashion with additional metamagic feats. A metamagic spell learned in this fashion is treated as a normal spell, and as such does not increase the time needed to cast the spell.

Example: A Sorcerer normally gains a 5th level spell upon attaining 10th level. Instead of learning a standard 5th level spell, a Sorcerer with the Metaspell feat could learn an Empowered Fireball spell (3rd level spell +2 spell levels for the Empower feat).

Notes: This may be appropriate as a house rule for many campaigns without requiring purchase as a feat.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Meticulous[edit]

General

You are talented at forgery and looting.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Forgery and Search checks.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Mighty Charge[edit]

You charge with single minded purpose and determination.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Improved Charge, Power Attack, Run, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When taking the charge action, you gain an additional +2 to your attack roll and damage roll, but suffer an additional -2 penalty to your AC.

Balance: 4.07 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.00, Port 4.33, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.00)

Mighty Hunter[edit]

General

You are particularly skilled at hunting.

Prerequisite: Survival 4 ranks

Benefit: You select a specific terrain type. When in that terrain, you gain a +4 competence bonus when using the Survival skill to hunt and forage and while tracking (using the Track feat).

Special: This feat may be selected multiple times. Each time, it applies to a different terrain type.

Notes: This feat allows you to provide food and water for two more people when you make a Survival roll for this purpose, since every two points that the Survival roll exceeds ten provides food for another person. Assuming just the minimum skill ranks and a family size of five members or less, this feat is enough to allow a single hunter to take care of the entire family on an average roll.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Mighty Rage[edit]

Epic, Rage

Your rages are especially powerful.

Prerequisite: Str 21, Con 21, Greater rage class feature, Rage 5/day

Benefit: When yourages, you gain a +8 bonus to Strength and Constitution and a +4 morale bonus on Will saves. (These bonuses replace the normal rage bonuses.)

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Mimicry[edit]

General

You can replicate almost any natural sound you have ever heard

Prerequisite: Perform (Comedy) 1 rank

Benefit: As a standard action, you can imitate almost any sound (footsteps, a door opening or closing, or two people fighting). You cannot simulate anything louder than a shout or duplicate the sound of any magical effect like a banshee's wail. Use the Perform (comedy) skill opposed by the audience's listen skill to be convincing.

Special: You cannot make the sounds appear to come from somewhere else without additional abilities beside this feat.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.22 (Purp 3.80, Pow 4.60, Port 4.30, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.10)

Mind Leach[edit]

Psionic

You can drain power points from psionic intruders.

Prerequisite: Ability to manifest mind trap and power leach

Benefit: When manifesting mind trap, you gain any power points lost by an attacker through this power as temporary power points, up to your normal power point maximum. These temporary power points last 10 minutes.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 3.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Mind Over Body[edit]

General

Your ability damage heals more rapidly.

Prerequisite: Con 13

Benefit: You heal ability damage and ability burn damage more quickly than normal. You heal a number of ability points per day equal to 1 + your Constitution bonus.

Normal: You heal ability damage and ability burn damage at a rate of 1 point per day.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Mind's Eye[edit]

General

Gain an additional resistance to illusions and enchantments

Prerequisite: Iron Will

Benefit: Gain an additional +2 to Will saves against the effects of illusions and enchantments.

Special: This additional modifier stacks with Iron Will.

Balance: 4.28 (Purp 3.20, Pow 4.50, Port 4.70, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Mindless Effort[edit]

Metamagic

You can continue to maintain a concentration spell for a limited time without concentrating on it.

Prerequisite: Spellcasting-related ability score of 13, Concentration 10 ranks

Benefit: A concentration based spell cast using this feat can continue to function without concentration for a period of rounds equal to your primary ability modifier. If there is already a modifier to the duration of the spell once concentration has ceased, you may add your modifier to that duration. This spell takes up a spell slot one level higher.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.64 (Purp 4.80, Pow 4.60, Port 4.80, Comp 4.40, Rule 4.60)

Mindspeak[edit]

Psionic, Racial, Trait

Your racial psionic aptitude allows you to communicate through mental contact.

Prerequisite: Naturally Psionic racial ability

Benefit: You possess the limited ability to communicate telepathically with any willing creature within 30 feet that shares at least one language in common with you. It is possible to address multiple creatures at once telepathically, although maintaining a telepathic conversation with more than one creature at a time is just as difficult as simultaneously speaking and listening to multiple people at the same time. Spells, psionic powers and other special abilities that block telepathy or divination also block this form of communication.

Special: You may only select this feat as a first level character.

Comments: This is a very limited form of the Telepathy special ability possessed by numerous monsters in the SRD. Your DM may wish limit this feat to specific races, so be sure to check with your DM to make sure you meet the prerequisites for their campaign.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Minor Damage Reduction[edit]

General

You can shrug off minor injuries.

Prerequisite: Con 15

Benefit: You gain DR 1/- or increase your damage reduction from another feat or class ability by one point.

Special: You can take this feat multiple times.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.33, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.00)

Minor Spell Mastery[edit]

Magical

You have become so familiar with a 0-level spell that it becomes second nature to you.

Prerequisite: Spellcasting level 3rd

Benefit: You must permanently sacrifice one 0-level spell slot. In exchange, you can cast one 0-level spell of your choice as a spell-like ability a number of times per day equal to your governing ability modifier.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times, each time with a different 0-level spell.

Example: A 9th level Bard with a 19 Charisma decides to take this feat. He picks detect magic spell to master. Normally, he can cast three 0-level spells per day. Now, he can only prepare and cast two 0-level spells. However, he can cast detect magic 4 times per day as a spell-like ability.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Mirror Mind[edit]

Psionic

Also known as psionic reflection, this feat allows you to reflect psionic attacks directed against you.

Prerequisite: Manifester level 5th

Benefit: To use this feat you must expend your psionic focus. As an immediate action after successfully defending against a psionic power that does not employ an energy type to inflict damage, you can reflect this attack back towards your attacker. The reflected attack is treated as if the attacker had manifested the power against him or herself, using the power’s normal save DC and damage. The attacker can defend against this attack normally.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Missile Proof[edit]

You may block projectiles easily with your shield.

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes, Shield Proficiency

Benefit: You must be using a Buckler, Small Shield or Large Shield when using this feat. Once per round when you or someone immediately behind you would normally be hit with a ranged weapon, you may make a Reflex saving throw against a DC of 20 (if the ranged weapon has a magical bonus to attack, the DC increases by that amount). You add a Small or Large Shield's armor bonus, and enhancement bonus if applicable, to your Reflex check for purposes of this feat. If you succeed, you deflect the weapon. You must be aware of the attack and not flat-footed. You may block an incoming missile attack with your shield only once per round. This feat also allows you to block magical projectile attacks (e.g. acid arrow, fire arrow), but the shield will sustain any damage from the spell that exceeds its hardness. Against special attacks with splash damage (e.g. acid, alchemist's fire, etc.), if the Reflex saving throw is successful, the shield takes the primary damage and you take only the splash damage.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take this feat, you may block an additional missile attack with your shield. You may not block more attacks in a round than 1 + your Dexterity bonus (minimum of one attack).

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.75, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.25)

Mixed Channeling[edit]

Special

You can channel positive or negative energy.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Must worship a god with a neutral alignment, Must have a neutral alignment

Benefit: When you pray for spells you must choose whether you wish to channel positive or negative energy for the remainder of the day. You may choose again each time you pray for spells. When channeling positive energy you can turn undead and spontaneously cast cure spells. When channeling negative energy you can command undead and spontaneously cast inflict spells.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 3.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Mobile Defense[edit]

Epic, Special

You may move slightly while in a defensive stance.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack, Defensive stance 3/day

Benefit: While in a defensive stance, you may take one 5-foot adjustment each round without losing the benefits of the stance.

Normal: Without this feat, a character can’t move while in a defensive stance.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Mobility[edit]

You are harder to hit when moving around.

Prerequisite: Dodge, Dex 13

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

Special: A fighter may select Mobility as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Monk Weapon Mastery[edit]

Special

Through dedication, training and hard work, a monk can master any weapon

Prerequisite: Proficient With Chosen Weapon, Weapon Focus (with Weapon), Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: Choose any single weapon that meets the above requirements. The monk can now use that weapon with their flurry of blows ability.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.60, Port 4.30, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Mounted Archery[edit]

You are skilled at using a ranged weapon from a mount.

Prerequisite: Mounted Combat, Ride 1 rank

Benefit: The penalty you take when using a ranged weapon while mounted is halved: –2 instead of –4 if your mount is taking a double move, and –4 instead of –8 if your mount is running.

Special: A fighter may select Mounted Archery as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.90 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Mounted Combat[edit]

You can steer your mount out of harms way.

Prerequisite: Ride 1 rank

Benefit: Once per round when your mount is hit in combat, you may attempt a Ride check (as a reaction) to negate the hit. The hit is negated if your Ride check result is greater than the opponent’s attack roll. (Essentially, the Ride check result becomes the mount’s Armor Class if it’s higher than the mount’s regular AC.)

Special: A fighter may select Mounted Combat as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Mounted Dodge[edit]

You may avoid attacks to yourself or your mount.

Prerequisite: Wild Rider, Mounted Combat, Ride skill

Benefit: When mounted, you may use your Ride skill and Mounted Combat feat to evade attacks against yourself or against your mount. Either use counts against the limitation on how often Mounted Combat can be used.

Balance: 4.36 (Purp 5.00, Pow 3.60, Port 4.60, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.30)

Mounted Overrun[edit]

It becomes easier to make mounted overruns.

Prerequisite: Mounted Combat, Ride

Benefit: When using the Overrun combat maneuver while mounted, your mount can overrun any number of opponents in your movement path so long as it moves in a straight path. In addition the mount move twice its current movement rate while Overrunning by making the Overrun combat maneuver a full round action instead of a standard action. If the mount fails a strength check at any point, the maneuver ends as normal.

Notes: This works very nicely with the Trample feat, making it possible to trample a series of opponents each round.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.30, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.60)

Multiattack[edit]

You can use secondary attacks at a reduced penalty.

Prerequisite: Three natural attacks

Benefit: The creature’s secondary attacks with natural weapons take only a –2 penalty.

Normal: Without this feat, the creature’s secondary attacks with natural weapons take a –5 penalty.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.80, Pow 4.20, Port 3.80, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.20)

Multihanded Weapon[edit]

Monster, Fighter

The creature can wield a weapon with three or more hands at once, like a human or dwarf can wield a weapon with two hands.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, [[#Multiweapon Fighting|Multiweapon Fighting, Three or more arms, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: The creature can wield a single one-handed or two-handed weapon with three or more hands. This allows the creature to multiply its strength bonus by a factor that increase with the number of hands used to wield the weapon. The creature gains 1.0 times its Strength bonus on damage rolls for wielding a weapon with its primary hand, plus .5 times its strength bonus for each additional off-hand used to wield the weapon. If the primary hand isn't used to wield the weapon, the creature adds .5 times its Strength bonus on damage rolls for each off-hand used to wield the weapon. Benefits are doubled when used in conjunction with the Power Attack feat.

Normal: The creature gains no benefit for wielding a weapon with more than two hands.

Special: In conjunction with the Multiweapon Fighting feat the creature can combine use of a weapon with two or more hands and still gain extra attacks for wielding additional weapons in combat. When determining the penalty for wielding a weapon with two or more hands in a multiattack sequence, treat all multihanded weapons as one-handed weapons.

Example: A typical Marilith with Strength 21, Multihanded Weapon and Multiweapon Fighting could wield two greatswords, each with three hands. She would inflict double her Strength bonus on damage inflicted by her primary greatsword (1 for her primary hand plus 2 off-hands * .5 = 2), and 1.5 times her Strength bonus with her off-hand greatsword (3 * .5 = 1.5). She could also drop one of the greatswords to wield the other with all six hands, gaining 3.5 times her Strength bonus on damage rolls (1 for using her primary hand plus 5 * .5 = 2.5 for her 5 off-hands).

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.67, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.67)

Multispell[edit]

Epic, Magical

You may cast an additional quickened spell.

Prerequisite: Quicken Spell, Ability to cast 9th-level arcane or divine spells

Benefit: You may cast one additional quickened spell in a round.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.50)

Multiweapon Fighting[edit]

You are more skilled at fighting with multiple weapons.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Three hands

Benefit: Penalties for fighting with multiple weapons are reduced by 2 with the primary hand and reduced by 6 with off hands.

Normal: A creature without this feat takes a –6 penalty on attacks made with its primary hand and a –10 penalty on attacks made with its off hands. (It has one primary hand, and all the others are off hands.) See Two-Weapon Fighting.

Special: This feat replaces the Two-Weapon Fighting feat for creatures with more than two arms.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Multiweapon Rend[edit]

Epic, Monster, Special, Fighter

You can perform rending attacks with your weapons.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Base attack bonus +9, Three hands, Multiweapon Fighting

Benefit: If you hit an opponent with two or more weapons (wielded in different hands) in the same round, you may automatically rend the opponent. This rending deals additional damage equal to the base damage of the smallest weapon that hit plus 1 1/2 times your Strength modifier. You can only rend once per round, regardless of how many successful attacks you make.

Special: This feat replaces the Two-Weapon Rend feat for creatures with more than two arms.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Music Of The Gods[edit]

Epic, Song

Your music can affect even those normally immune.

Prerequisite: Cha 25, Perform 30 ranks, Bardic music class feature

Benefit: Your bardic music can affect even those normally immune to mind-affecting effects. However, such creatures gain a +10 bonus on their Will saves to resist such effects.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Mystic Rage[edit]

You can extend your rage with the power of your magic.

Prerequisite: Con 13, Rage ability, Spellcaster 3rd level

Benefit: When raging you can take a free action to extend the duration of your rage by expending a spell slot or prepared spell. Your rage is extended a number or rounds equal to the level of the spell/slot. When the rage ends the penalties for fatigue are doubled.

Balance: 3.60 (Purp 3.25, Pow 3.63, Port 3.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.88)

Narrow Mind[edit]

Psionic

Your ability to concentrate is as keen as an arrowhead, allowing you to gain your psionic focus even in the most turbulent situations.

Prerequisite: Wis 13

Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus on Concentration checks you make to become psionically focused.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Natural Harmony[edit]

Special

You have spent significant time making friends with both the fauna and the flora of your domain.

Prerequisite: Wild Empathy and Animal Companion abilities, [[#Enchanted Animal Companion|Enchanted Animal Companion, Knowledge (Nature) 5 ranks

Benefit: Your Animal Companion class ability now also affects plant creatures (normally immune to mind-influencing effects). You may also use your Wild Empathy class ability against vermin and plants, but the check suffers a -6 penalty.

Normal: Animal Companion only affects animals. Wild Empathy works on animals at normal effect; against magical beasts it suffers a -4 penalty.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Comments: Due to changes between edition 3.0 and 3.5 the mechanics of this feat have been substantially altered, although the spirit of the feat remains the same.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Natural Leader[edit]

General

You are adept at leading organized efforts

Prerequisite: Cha 13

Benefit: When organizing a cooperative effort, each helper can add the leader’s Charisma bonus to their individual check rolls.

Example: A group of 3 heroes is attempting to move a heavy boulder. This requires a strength check against DC 10 for the two helpers. If they make it, the leader gains a +2 circumstance bonus. The leader must then make their strength check. Using this feat, the leader can generate a morale based check bonus for the helpers and add his charisma modifier to their check rolls.

Balance: 4.48 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.40)

Natural Rider[edit]

General

You have a natural understanding of animals and can coax the best out of them.

Prerequisite: Animal Handling 4 ranks, Ride 4 Ranks

Benefit: Any lightly loaded (non-magical) mount you ride receives a 10 foot bonus to its speed (all types – land, fly, swim, etc). This bonus decreases to 5 foot if the mount is carrying a moderate load, and disappears altogether with a heavy load.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Natural Spell[edit]

Wild

You can cast verbal and somatic spells in wild shape.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Wild shape ability

Benefit: You can complete the verbal and somatic components of spells while in a wild shape. You substitute various noises and gestures for the normal verbal and somatic components of a spell. You can also use any material components or focuses you possess, even if such items are melded within your current form. This feat does not permit the use of magic items while you are in a form that could not ordinarily use them, and you do not gain the ability to speak while in a wild shape.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Near And Far[edit]

Your skill with long weapons is extraordinary.

Benefit: When using a weapon with reach, you may attack adjacent foes as well as those within the reach of your weapon.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.00)

Negative Energy Burst[edit]

Epic, Divine

You can channel negative energy into a wave of suffering.

Prerequisite: Cha 25, Ability to rebuke or command undead, Ability to cast inflict critical wounds, Any evil alignment

Benefit: You can use one rebuke or command undead attempt to unleash a wave of negative energy in a 60-foot-burst. Roll a normal rebuke (or command) check, except that the negative energy burst affects living creatures rather than undead. Any creature that would be rebuked by this result gains one negative level. Any creature that would be commanded by this check gains two negative levels. The Fortitude save DC to remove these levels one day later is equal to 10 + 1/2 your effective turning level + your Charisma modifier.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Negotiator[edit]

General

You are good at dealing with others.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Diplomacy checks and Sense Motive checks.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Nimble[edit]

General

Your agility helps you move around.

Benefit: If you have no armor check penalty, you may use your Dexterity modifier in place of your Strength modifier for Climb, Jump, and Swim checks.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.38, Port 4.25, Comp 4.63, Rule 4.25)

Nimble Fingers[edit]

General

You have a knack for mechanical things.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Disable Device checks and Open Lock checks.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

No Escape[edit]

General

You viciously strike down those who dare run from you in combat.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Combat Reflexes, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: An opponent leaving your threatened area provokes an attack of opportunity even if they are using the Withdraw action (that is taking only move actions in order to get away from you).

Normal: A withdrawing character does not provoke attacks of opportunity when leaving a threatened square they started the turn in.

Notes: This feat does not allow Attacks of Opportunity against opponents who are tumbling or taking a 5’ step, only those using the Withdraw action.

Balance: 4.18 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.38, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Non-lethal Substitution[edit]

Metamagic

Your spells can deal nonlethal damage.

Prerequisite: Any other metamagic feat, Knowledge (arcana) 5 ranks

Benefit: When employing a spell with the acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic designator, you can modify the spell to deal non-lethal damage instead of the indicated type of energy damage. The altered spell uses a spell slot of the spell’s normal level. The altered spell works normally in all respects except the type of damage dealt.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Notorious[edit]

General

You are well known as a dangerous cutthroat not to be trifled with.

Benefit: You get a +5 circumstance bonus on all Intimidate checks when dealing with someone who has heard of your infamous deeds and unpleasant demeanor.

Notes: The DM should determine when this bonus applies, and the player should specify exactly what rumors or deeds have made them notorious when taking the feat.

Balance: 4.03 (Purp 4.14, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.14, Rule 3.86)

Oaths Of Iron[edit]

Special

You may use metal shields and armor without breaking your druidic oath.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast 3rd level druid spells

Benefit: You may use metal shields and armor as a druid and are still able to cast druidic spells and use your supernatural and spell-like abilities; however you suffer the same arcane spell failure rate on your druid spells as an arcane spell caster would when casting spells while using such equipment.

Balance: 3.72 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.60, Port 3.20, Comp 4.20, Rule 3.60)

Observant[edit]

General

You can rely on you native attention to detail.

Benefit: You get a +1 bonus to Search and Spot checks. In addition, Search and Spot are always considered class skills for you.

Comments: The author originally titled this feat "Investigator" but the name was recently used in the 3.5 SRD feat set, so the NBOF staff has renamed it.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

One Handed Crossbow Shot[edit]

You ignore penalties for firing a crossbow with one hand.

Prerequisite: Dex 13

Benefit: You suffer no penalty for firing a crossbow with one hand.

Normal: You suffer a -2 on attack rolls when firing a light crossbow in one hand, or -4 with a heavy crossbow (normal or repeating). If firing a hand crossbow one handed you suffer no penalties, hence this feat will be of no benefit

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

One Spirit[edit]

You are skilled at quickly compensating for errors in your fighting style.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: Once per round, when performing a full attack action, you gain an additional attack against an enemy if you attempt to attack them and miss. This attack and all subsequent attacks in this round suffer a -5 penalty to hit.

Balance: 3.25 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.00, Port 3.50, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.75)

Open Hand, Focused Mind[edit]

Fighter, Psionic

With your psionic ability you are a deadly opponent in unarmed combat.

Prerequisite: Str 13

Benefit: While you are psionically focused your unarmed strikes are charged with psionic power. Your unarmed strikes do not provoke attacks of opportunity from armed opponents and inflict 1d6 points of lethal damage in unarmed combat if Medium-sized and 1d4 points of real damage if Small-sized.

Normal: Unarmed attacks normally provoke attacks of opportunity against armed attackers and inflict 1d4 points of non-lethal damage if Medium-sized and 1d3 points of non-lethal damage if small size.

Special: Larger and smaller creatures have their base non-lethal damage increased by one die size (d2 to d3, d6 to d8, etc) and altered to lethal damage.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Open Minded[edit]

General

You are naturally able to reroute your memory, mind, and skill expertise.

Benefit: You immediately gain an extra 5 skill points. You spend these skill points as normal. If you spend them on a cross-class skills they count as 1/2 ranks. You cannot exceed the normal maximum ranks for your level in any skill.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time, you immediately gain another 5 skill points.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

Opportunity Counterspell[edit]

Magical

You can cast counterspells in lieu of making an opportunity attack.

Prerequisite: Quicken Spell, Spellcraft 9 ranks

Benefit: You get one free ready action each round that you can only use for counterspelling. If you use this ready action, you do not get any attacks of opportunity for the round, but your initiative does not change as it does from a normal ready action. Similarly you cannot use this feat if you have already had an attack of opportunity that round.

Special: You cannot use this feat to cast extra spells for effect; it only allows counterspelling of an opponent's spells.

Notes: Your casting of the counterspell may trigger an opportunity attack in the normal fashion.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Opportunity Power[edit]

You can make power-enhanced attacks of opportunity.

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. When you make an attack of opportunity, you can use any power you know with a range of touch, if you have at least one hand free. Manifesting this power is an immediate action. You cannot use this feat with a touch power whose manifesting time is longer than 1 full-round action. Using this feat increases the power point cost of the power by 6. The power’s total cost cannot exceed your manifester level.

Normal: Attacks of opportunity can be made only with melee weapons.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Opportunity Shot[edit]

You shoot so fast that you can make ranged attacks of opportunity at point-blank range.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +8, Dex 13, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot

Benefit: When armed with a ranged weapon that is ready for use, you have an effective reach of 30 ft. (up to the range of your weapon) and can make ranged attacks of opportunity in any area out to this range. You may not make ranged attacks of opportunity if you are standing in an area threatened by an opponent.

Normal: Ranged weapons normally can't make attacks of opportunity, and you have no threatened area when using them.

Special: If you use Rapid Shot in the same round as you use Opportunity Shot, the -2 attack penalty applies to Opportunity Shot as well.

Notes: You can't make an attack of opportunity against an opponent with 1/2 or more cover, such as behind another character.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.50)

Organized[edit]

General

You can quickly pull items from your pack.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Int 13

Benefit: You may pull any item from your pack or other accessible container as a swift action.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.88, Port 4.38, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Overchannel[edit]

You burn your life force to strengthen your powers.

Benefit: While manifesting a power, you can increase your effective manifester level by one, but in so doing you take 1d8 points of damage. At 8th level, you can choose to increase your effective manifester level by two, but you take 3d8 points of damage. At 15th level, you can increase your effective manifester level by three, but you take 5d8 points of damage. The effective increase in manifester level increases the number of power points you can expend on a single power manifestation, as well as increasing all manifester level-dependent effects, such as range, duration, and overcoming power resistance.

Normal: Your manifester level is equal to your total levels in classes that manifest powers.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Overpowering Attack[edit]

You use brute force to overcome an opponent’s defenses.

Prerequisite: Str 15, Power Attack

Benefit: You gain a +2 to hit against any opponent Fighting Defensively, using Total Defense, or using Combat Expertise.

Balance: 3.88 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.13, Port 3.63, Comp 4.13, Rule 4.00)

Overwhelming Critical[edit]

Epic, Fighter

Your critical hits are especially brutal.

Prerequisite: Str 23, Cleave, Great Cleave, Improved Critical (chosen Weapon), Power Attack, Weapon Focus (chosen Weapon)

Benefit: When using the weapon you have selected, you deal an extra 1d6 points of bonus damage on a successful critical hit. If the weapon’s critical multiplier is x3, add +2d6 points of bonus damage instead, and if the multiplier is x4, add +3d6 points of bonus damage instead. Creatures immune to critical hits can’t be affected by this feat.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time a character takes the feat, it applies to a different type of weapon.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is confused as to why Cleave and Great Cleave are prerequisites, and why d6s of damage are used rather than the weapon base damage. There is a suggestion to just increase the weapon's critical multiplier by one instead.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.50)

Pack Attack[edit]

You are trained to coordinate with others to bring down powerful enemies

Benefit: If an ally (with or without this feat) is flanking your opponent, you are considered to be flanking that opponent also, and get all the normal benefits of flanking.

Normal: You must be one of the attackers that cause the target to become flanked to receive a flanking bonus.

Balance: 4.56 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.30, Port 4.60, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.60)

Pack Initiative[edit]

You can coordinate your initiative with pack mates.

Prerequisite: Pack Attack

Benefit: If you and an ally both have this feat, you may change your initiative order to act on the same initiative count as your ally. This free action must be taken after initiative checks are rolled, but before regular rounds begin. It lasts for the entire combat, or until you ready or delay your action, just as if you had initially rolled this initiative roll.

Special: You still cannot act on an initiative count higher than your normal maximum initiative count (20 + initiative bonus).

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.25, Port 3.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Pack Mule[edit]

General

Folks can now carry just a wee bit more by knowing how to balance a pack.

Benefit: You can carry weight (encumbrance) as if your Strength were two points higher.

Balance: 4.92 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.60, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Pain Is My Friend[edit]

General

Self-inflicted pain fuels your ability to hurt others

Benefit: As a full round action you deal 4 points of damage to yourself, then for a number of rounds equal to 3 plus your Constitution modifier you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to both your Strength and to Intimidation checks.

Notes: This is similar to a barbarian's rage, although it could represent an inner focus and determination as apposed to an uncontrolled frenzy, or even a sick dementia.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 3.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Palm Strike[edit]

You can push your opponents with unarmed stikes.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Improved Unarmed Strike, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: Declare that you are using Palm Strike before you make your attack roll. If you successfully strike your opponent with an unarmed strike, they must make a Reflex save (DC 10 + ½ your level + Wis modifier). In addition to suffering normal damage, if the defender fails his saving throw, they are pushed back 5’ . You may attempt a Palm Strike once per day for every four levels you have attained and no more than once per round.

Special: A monk selecting this feat may use this ability a number of times per day equal to their monk level, plus one more time per day for every four levels they have in classes other than monk

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 3.88, Pow 3.88, Port 4.00, Comp 3.63, Rule 3.88)

Penetrate Damage Reduction[edit]

Epic, Fighter

Select a special material, such as adamantine.

Benefit: You melee weapons (including natural weapons) are treated as being crafted from the chosen special material for the purposes of bypassing the damage reduction of any creature you strike. None of the other special properties of special materials are gained by your melee weapons.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Each time the feat is selected the character selects a different special material. The character’s melee attacks are treated as being crafted of all chosen materials for the purposes of bypassing damage reduction.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Penetrating Ki Strike[edit]

Special

You can use your mastery of ki to make an unarmed strike as if delivering a touch attack.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist, Ki Strike class ability, Base attack bonus +9

Benefit: You can resolve your next unarmed melee attack as a touch attack, ignoring any benefit to your opponent's Armor Class provided by armor, shield or natural armor. Each use of Penetrating Ki Strike counts as three of your stunning attacks per day and you must declare use of this feat prior to your attack roll. A failed attack roll ruins your attempt and wastes three stunning attacks. Penetrating Ki Strike is a supernatural ability.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Perceptive Duelist[edit]

General

You are well-trained in the art of the Iaijutsu Duel.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Iaijutsu and Sense Motive checks.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 3.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.25)

Perfect Health[edit]

Epic

You are almost totally immune to disease and poison.

Prerequisite: Con 25, Great Fortitude

Benefit: You are immune to all nonmagical diseases, as well as to all poisons whose Fortitude save DC is 25 or less.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team believes that this feat would make more sense with a +8 or so save bonus, rather than have the weird cutoff point for poisons.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Perfect Materials[edit]

By using superior ingredients you can refine alchemical concoctions.

Prerequisite: Craft (alchemy) 12 ranks

Benefit: When creating alchemical substance, all variable, numeric effects are maximized. The gold cost of making the item is doubled.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 3.88, Pow 4.38, Port 4.00, Comp 4.38, Rule 4.13)

Perfect Multiweapon Fighting[edit]

Epic, Monster, Special, Fighter

All your weapons get a full compliment of attacks.

Prerequisite: Dex 25, Three hands, Greater Multiweapon Fighting, Improved Multiweapon Fighting, Multiweapon Fighting

Benefit: You can make as many attacks with each extra weapon as with your primary weapon, using the same base attack bonus. You still take the normal penalties for fighting with two weapons.

Normal: A creature without this feat can make only one attack per round with each extra weapon (or two attacks per round with each weapon if it has Multiweapon Fighting, or three attacks per round with each extra weapon if it has Greater Multiweapon Fighting). Each attack after the first extra attack has a cumulative –5 penalty.

Special: This feat replaces the Perfect Two-Weapon Fighting feat for creatures with more than two arms.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Perfect Two-weapon Fighting[edit]

Epic, Fighter

Your offhand weapon get a full compliment of attacks.

Prerequisite: Dex 25, Greater Two-weapon Fighting, Improved Two-weapon Fighting, Two-weapon Fighting

Benefit: You can make as many attacks with your off-hand weapon as with your primary weapon, using the same base attack bonus. You still takes the normal penalties for fighting with two weapons.

Normal: Without this feat, a character can only get a single attack with an off-hand weapon (or two attacks with an off-hand weapon if he or she has Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, or three attacks with an off-hand weapon if he or she has Greater Two-Weapon Fighting).

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Periodic Re-awakening[edit]

You can alter the spells you know.

Prerequisite: Ability to learn a new spell in place of one you already know

Benefit: Whenever you are able to learn a new spell in place of one you already know you may change one spell of each level that is one or more levels lower than the highest level spell you can cast. You may use this ability when you first acquire this feat.

Normal: Most classes may only change one spell, and must choose a spell two levels lower than the highest level they can cast.

Balance: 3.16 (Purp 3.20, Pow 3.00, Port 3.00, Comp 3.20, Rule 3.40)

Permanent Emanation[edit]

Epic, Magical

You make one of your emanation spells permanent.

Prerequisite: Spellcraft 25 ranks, Ability to cast the spell to be made permanent

Benefit: Designate any one of your spells whose area is an emanation from your self. This spell’s effect is permanent (though you can dismiss or restart it as a free action). Effects that would normally dispel this spell instead suppress it for 2d4 rounds.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Each time, select a different spell to become permanent.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team believes that this feat could be open to serious abuse (e.g. with a permanent Repulsion, Invisibility Sphere, Globe of Invulnerability, Antilife Shell, Null Psionics Field, Affinity Field, etc) and as such should have a level restriction - e.g. only 3rd or lower level spells can be made permanent.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Persistent Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can extend a spells duration to a full day.

Prerequisite: Extend Spell

Benefit: A persistent spell has a duration of 24 hours. The persistent spell must have a personal range or a fixed range. Spells of instantaneous duration cannot be affected by this feat, nor can spells whose effects are discharged. You need not concentrate on spells such as detect magic or detect thoughts to be aware of the mere presence of absence of the things detected, but you must still concentrate to gain additional information as normal. Concentration on such a spell is a standard action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. A persistent spell uses up a spell slot six levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team feels that a six level increase is too high for this feat; five levels would be more in keeping with the average power level of a feat.

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 4.00, Pow 2.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.75)

Personal Firearms Proficiency[edit]

Modern

You are skilled with small arms.

Benefit: You can fire any personal firearm without penalty.

Normal: Without this feat you take a –4 penalty on attack rolls made with personal firearms.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Persuasive[edit]

General

When you speak, people listen.

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

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Pierce Armor[edit]

You have mastered armor-piercing weapons.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: You must be using either a heavy crossbow or a weapon with a x4 critical damage modifier to use this feat. You add +1 to your attack roll if your opponent is wearing light armor, +2 if your opponent is wearing medium armor, and +3 if your opponent is wearing heavy armor. Shields and natural armor are not considered armor for the purposes of this feat.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Pin Weapon[edit]

This feat allows you to 'lock blades' with an opponent, reducing their ability to react

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: As a full-attack action, you can strike an opponent's weapon in order to pin it. This works like a disarm but does not trigger an attack of opportunity. A successful pin causes both of you to be flat-footed as long as it is maintained.

Special: You can only use Pin Weapon unarmed if you have the Improved Unarmed Strike feat.

Example: Friar Tuck is rescuing some children from a castle dungeon when a guard blocks the way. Tuck pins his weapon, shouting for the children to run past. The guard cannot make any attacks of opportunity, being flat-footed.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 5.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.00)

Pinpoint Shot[edit]

You take aim with ranged weapons more accurately when staying still.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot

Benefit: When using the full attack action you may choose gain +2 to all ranged attacks until your next turn but lose your Dexterity bonus to AC during that time.

Special: When using this feat you lose the benefits of Uncanny Dodge.

Balance: 4.44 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.60, Comp 4.40, Rule 4.60)

Planar Turning[edit]

Epic, Special

You can turn or rebuke outsiders.

Prerequisite: Wis 25, Cha 25, Ability to turn or rebuke undead

Benefit: You can turn or rebuke outsiders as if they were undead. An outsider has effective turn resistance equal to half its spell resistance (round down). If you can turn undead, you turns (or destroys) all evil outsiders and rebukes (or commands) all nonevil outsiders. If you can rebuke undead, you rebukes (or commands) all evil outsiders and turns (or destroys) all nonevil outsiders.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Plant Control[edit]

Special

You can turn or rebuke plants.

Prerequisite: Plant Defiance, Ability to cast speak with plants

Benefit: You can rebuke or command plant creatures as an evil cleric rebukes undead. To command a plant, you must be able to speak with it via a speak with plants effect, though you may do so mentally if desired. This ability is usable a total number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. You use your highest caster level to determine the level at which you rebuke plants.

Comments: Another grammar correction of "it may do so" to "though you may do so".

Balance: 3.65 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.00, Port 3.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.75)

Plant Defiance[edit]

Special

You can turn plants.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast detect animals or plants

Benefit: You can turn (but not destroy) plant creatures as a good cleric turns undead. When determining the result of a turning attempt, treat all destruction results as normal turning. Treat immobile plant creatures as creatures unable to flee. This ability is usable a total number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. You use your highest caster level to determine the level at which you turns plants.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Plant Wild Shape[edit]

Epic, Wild

You can wild shape into a plant.

Prerequisite: Knowledge (nature) 24 ranks, Wild shape 4/day

Benefit: You can use you normal wild shape ability to take the form of a plant. The size limitation is the same as your limitation on animal size.

Comments: The Benefit should be altered to 'a plant creature', rather than 'a plant'.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Point Blank Shot[edit]

You are more accurate at close range.

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

Special: A fighter may select Point Blank Shot as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.90 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Poison Resistance[edit]

General

You have a broad-band resistance to poison.

Benefit: You receive a +4 bonus to all Fortitude saves against poison.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Poison Tolerance[edit]

General

You have worked up a tolerance to certain poisons

Prerequisite: Con 13, Poison Use, Craft (alchemy) 1 rank

Benefit: You are able to train your body to ignore the effects of certain (specific) poisons. You must have access to the poison so you can gradually work up an immunity by subjecting yourself to increasingly larger doses. It takes at least a full dose of the poison and one month’s time (during which you can still do other things) to work up the immunity. The immunity will fade in a month if you do not use another dose to keep it up.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.70, Pow 4.40, Port 3.80, Comp 3.80, Rule 3.80)

Poison Use[edit]

General

You have learned how to use poisons effectively

Prerequisite: Craft (alchemy) 1 rank

Benefit: You can use poisons with no danger to yourself.

Notes: This feat only applies to the percentage chance that you may poison yourself while using poisons. It does not provide immunity (see the Poison Tolerance feat for that added ability).

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.96 (Purp 3.40, Pow 4.40, Port 4.10, Comp 4.80, Rule 3.10)

Polar Bear Skin[edit]

General

Your skin is better able to withstand the effects of extremely cold weather.

Benefit: You suffer no nonlethal cold damage from environmental conditions. In extreme cold (below -20° F) you take 1d6 points of lethal damage per 10 minutes of exposure instead of every minute.

Special: This feat offers no protection against lethal cold damage from spells or spell like effects.

Balance: 3.89 (Purp 3.86, Pow 3.86, Port 3.71, Comp 4.14, Rule 3.86)

Pole Fighting[edit]

When fighting with a pole arm you can use the butt to strike opponents

Prerequisite: Str 13, Weapon Proficiency With A Pole Arm

Benefit: When using a pole arm in two hands, you can use the butt end to make an additional attack. The butt end counts as a normal quarter staff. For pole-arms without reach, this allows you to use them as double weapons. That is, you can fight as if using two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal penalties associated with fighting with two weapons, as if you were using a one-handed weapon and a light weapon. For pole arms with reach, it means you can use the butt, without reach, and thus strike adjacent opponents. You are effectively using your butt end in two hands and get the improved damage bonus from strength that this allows.

Special: Pole arms include the halfspear, shortspear, trident, glaive, guisarme, halberd, longspear, ranseur and quarterstaff. The merits of this feat are intrinsic to the quarterstaff.

Balance: 4.44 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.60, Port 4.70, Comp 4.10, Rule 4.20)

Pole Vaulting[edit]

General

You can use a pole or pole weapon to enhance your jumps.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Dex 13

Benefit: When you jump while holding a pole or pole weapon you can add a +10 bonus to your jump check. A flexible pole can be used to enhance height, and a stiff pole can enhance horizontal distance. The pole must be approximately as long as you are tall but could be longer.

Notes: Modern vaulting poles are quite different from a simple bamboo pole or oak quarterstaff. They bend converting forward motion into upward motion. The approximate maximum height a human pole-vaulter can achieve is about 20’ (this would translate into a huge jump skill bonus). A stiff pole is only useful for getting your feet higher off the ground or extending a horizontal jump.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Polyglot[edit]

Epic

You can speak, read, and write any language under the sun.

Prerequisite: Int 25, Speak Language (five languages)

Benefit: You can speak all languages. If you are literate, you can also read and write all languages (not including magical script).

Comments: The five languages prerequisite is meaningless as with an Int of 25 you have 7 free languages.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Port Savvy[edit]

General

You know all the ins and outs of life in the seedy ports of call that sailors use as stopover points in their journeys.

Benefit: You get a +4 bonus on all Gather Information checks when used in a seaside port city.

Balance: 3.44 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.20, Port 3.20, Comp 4.40, Rule 3.40)

Positive Energy Aura[edit]

Epic, Special

You turn the undead without effort.

Prerequisite: Cha 25, Ability to turn undead, Ability to cast dispel evil

Benefit: Every undead creature that comes within 15 feet of you is automatically affected as if you had turned it. This doesn’t cost a turning attempt, and you don’t have to roll turning damage (it automatically affects all undead in a 15-foot burst), but it only turns undead with Hit Dice equal to or less than your effective cleric level minus 10 (and automatically destroys undead with Hit Dice equal to or less than your effective cleric level minus 20). Just as with normal turning, you can’t affect undead that have total cover relative to you.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Potent Divination[edit]

Magical

Your detection spells are stronger than normal.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast detection spell

Benefit: When you cast a detection spell (any spell beginning with the word “detect”) you can either choose to increase the amount of information you receive or scan a greater area. If you increase the amount information, you learn in 1 round what you would normally learn in 3 rounds. If you scan a greater area, the area of effect of the spell is doubled to become a half circle emanating from you to the extreme of the range. You can choose which modification will apply at the moment you cast the spell.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Power Attack[edit]

You sacrifice accuracy for power.

Prerequisite: Str 13

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 turn.

Special: If you attack with a two-handed weapon, or with a one-handed weapon wielded in two hands, instead add twice the number subtracted from your attack rolls. You can’t add the bonus from Power Attack to the damage dealt with a light weapon (except with unarmed strikes or natural weapon attacks), even though the penalty on attack rolls still applies. (Normally, you treat a double weapon as a one-handed weapon and a light weapon. If you choose to use a double weapon like a two-handed weapon, attacking with only one end of it in a round, you treat it as a two-handed weapon.) A fighter may select Power Attack as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Power Climber[edit]

General

You can climb using only one hand.

Prerequisite: Str 15, Dex 13, Climb 8 ranks

Benefit: You can climb using one less limb than you would normally use without additional penalty. Thus a typical humanoid could climb using two feet and one hand for instance. This generally allows you to use a shield or wield a weapon while climbing. Should you choose to use all your available limbs you gain a +2 bonus to your climb checks.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 3.25, Pow 2.88, Port 3.50, Comp 4.13, Rule 4.00)

Power Critical[edit]

You are more likely to confirm a critical hit.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus (chosen Weapon), Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: When using the weapon you selected, you gain a +4 bonus on the roll to confirm a threat.

Special: A fighter may select Power Critical as one of his fighter bonus feats. You can gain Power Critical multiple times. Each time you take the feat, it may be with a different weapon or the same weapon. If you take it with the same weapon, the effects of the feats stack.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Power Double Weapon[edit]

You have learned to maximize the strength of your blows when wielding a double weapon.

Prerequisite: Two-weapon Fighting, Power Attack, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: When wielding a double weapon, you add your full Strength bonus to damage rolls with all of your primary and secondary attacks.

Normal: Without this feat you add your full Strength bonus to damage rolls with your primary attack(s) and half your Strength bonus to damage rolls with your secondary attack(s).

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Power Knowledge[edit]

Epic, Psionic

You add two additional powers to your list of powers known.

Prerequisite: Character level 21st, Ability to manifest powers of the normal maximum power level in at least one psionic class

Benefit: You learn two new powers of any level up to the highest level of power you can manifest. The powers you select must be on your class list or the list for your discipline.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time, you learn two new powers at any level up to the highest level of power you can manifest.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Power Penetration[edit]

Psionic

Your powers are especially potent, breaking through power resistance more readily than normal.

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You get a +4 bonus on manifester level checks made to overcome a creature’s power resistance.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is not generally in favor of feats such as these that break the magic-psionics transparency rule, and thus feal there is no use for this feat with the existence of Spell Pentration and Greater Spell Penetration.

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.25)

Power Psicrystal[edit]

Psionic

You can charge your psicrystal with power points and use it as a cognizance crystal.

Prerequisite: Psicrystal Affinity, Ability to manifest 3rd level psionic powers

Benefit: You can store extra power points in your psicrystal. In effect, the psicrystal becomes a cognizance crystal capable of storing 5 power points in addition to its other abilities

Normal: Psicrystals cannot normally store power points.

Special: This feat can be combined with Crystal Psiweapon.

Balance: 3.65 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 3.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.75)

Power Resistance: Clairsentience And Telepathy[edit]

Monster

The creature can apply its Power Resistance (PR) against psionic powers from the clairsentience and telepathy disciplines.

Benefit: All psionic powers from the clairsentience and telepathy disciplines must beat the creature's PR in order to discover anything about it.

Normal: PR does not normally apply against most powers from the clairsentience discipline or against powers from the telepathy discipline that do not directly influence, control or effect the target creature.

Special: Characters that gain PR by race (like githyanki or githzerai) can choose this feat as a Special feat. If using the default Psionics-Magic Transparency option, this feat also extends your PR to resist all spells and spell-like abilities from the divination school of magic.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Power Resting[edit]

General

You need a smaller amount of rest than usual to stay active and alert

Benefit: You only need half the usual amount of sleep to awaken fully refreshed and recovered from fatigue penalties, healed and ready to relearn arcane spells and/or regain power points. This feat does not allow you to gain any more spells or power points per day than normal.

Normal: Without this feat you require 8 hours of sleep to awaken refreshed.

Special: An elf with this feat needs four hours of trance to prepare spells, but needs no rest besides that in order to recover from fatigue.

Notes: This incorporates the Night Owl and Power Resting feats from previous versions of the netbook.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.67, Pow 4.33, Port 4.67, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.67)

Power Specialization[edit]

You deal more damage with your powers.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus (ray), Manifester level 4th

Benefit: With rays and ranged touch attack powers that deal damage, you deal an extra 2 points of damage. If you expend your psionic focus when you manifest a ray or a ranged touch attack power that deals damage, you add your key ability bonus to the damage (instead of adding 2).

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.75)

Powerful Voice[edit]

General

You can project your voice so that you may be heard at great distances.

Benefit: When projecting your voice, all opposed Listen rolls are made with a +10 circumstance bonus.

Notes: This duplicates the effect of being heard as well from 100' as a normal person is from 0', and is intended to be applicable in any situation where a Listen roll is appropriate, such as yelling to others in battle, a bardic effect upon those that can hear it, etc.

Balance: 4.12 (Purp 3.80, Pow 3.80, Port 4.40, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.40)

Powerless Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can prepare or cast a spell for use as a counterspell.

Benefit: You can cast a spell in such a way that it has no effect beyond a simple light show, an obviously powerless version of the real thing with an instantaneous duration and no lasting effect. A Fireball would only be a billowing cloud of hot air, a lightning bolt would become an obviously powerless, but still impressive, display of static. This allows you to show people that you have a powerful spell without expending a high-level spell slot, but the main use is in counterspelling. As it is the spell itself and not the effect that causes counterspelling, such a spell would have very little effect on the real world, but could still be used to counterspell. By giving up the entire spell effect, you make the spell easier to prepare and cast, so that a spell takes up a spell slot two levels lower, but never lower than level zero.

Special: Spells whose effects are to negate or counterspell magic still lose their effect. So a powerless dispel magic can only be used to counterspell another dispel magic spell; it cannot be used as an attempt to counterspell any other spell (as that is the effect of a dispel magic spell, lost through the Powerless Spell feat). Nor can a powerless darkness spell be used to counter a light spell, for the same reason.

Balance: 4.18 (Purp 5.00, Pow 3.30, Port 4.30, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.30)

Practice Makes Perfect[edit]

General

You are better at skills when you take your time.

Benefit: When taking a 10 or 20 on a skill check, you get a +3 competence bonus to your skill check.

Balance: 4.03 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.17, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.17)

Practiced Feint[edit]

You can make and sense feints with increased skill.

Prerequisite: Bluff 4 ranks, Sense Motive 4 ranks

Benefit: You gain a +3 competence bonus when using the Bluff skill to feint and the Sense Motive skill to oppose a feint.

Balance: 4.32 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.20, Port 4.40, Comp 4.40, Rule 4.40)

Practiced Turning[edit]

Special

You can use your turn/rebuke ability as if you were up to 4 levels higher.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Cha 13, Ability to turn or rebuke

Benefit: You can use your turn or rebuke ability as though you were 4 levels higher in whichever class grants you the ability, not exceeding your hit dice or character level.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Precise Shot[edit]

You can shoot at opponents in melee without penalty.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot

Benefit: You can shoot or throw ranged weapons at an opponent engaged in melee without taking the standard –4 penalty on your attack roll.

Special: A fighter may select Precise Shot as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Primeval Alchemy[edit]

Monster

You can blend an additional type of energy into one of your energy dependent supernatural abilities.

Prerequisite: Innate supernatural ability with an energy descriptor, Primeval Conversion

Benefit: Choose one supernatural ability. When using Primeval Conversion on this ability, the converted ability inflicts double normal damage. Half the damage inflicted is based on the supernatural ability's standard energy type, and half is based on the energy type chosen with Primeval Conversion. You can use this ability three times per day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or twice per day).

Special: This feat can be selected more than once. Each time selected, it must be applied to a new supernatural ability not previously chosen with Primeval Conversion.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.10 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.00, Port 3.00, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.00)

Primeval Conversion[edit]

Monster

You can convert a supernatural ability that utilizes one type of energy into using another type of energy.

Prerequisite: Innate supernatural ability with an energy descriptor

Benefit: Choose one of your supernatural abilities and one type of energy (acid, cold, electricity, fire or sonic) that is not incompatible with any creature subtype (e.g. cold vs. fire) that you have. When employing your supernatural ability you can modify it to use your chosen type of energy instead. You can use this ability three times per day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or twice per day).

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time the feat applies to a different type of energy that is compatible with your subtype and/or a different supernatural ability.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.20 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 3.00, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.00)

Primeval Power[edit]

Monster

Once per day the creature can augment a supernatural or spell-like ability with arcane, divine or profane power.

Prerequisite: Innate supernatural or spell-like ability

Benefit: Once per day, half of the damage inflicted by one of the creature's supernatural or spell-like abilities is derived from arcane, divine or profane power and is resistant to protection from elements and similar magic. The other half of the damage is inflicted normally. Celestial creatures infuse their chosen ability with divine power, fiendish creatures with profane power and other creatures with arcane power. The ability this feat is used on can change from use to use.

Special: This feat can be taken more than once and stacks with itself; each time increasing the number of times it can be used by once per day.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Primeval Rage[edit]

You are vicious, bad tempered, ferocious and dangerous.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You can enter a fit of rage like a barbarian once per day, gaining a temporary +4 bonus to Str, +4 bonus to Con and a +2 morale bonus on Will saves. Your rage lasts for a number of rounds equal to 3 plus the your newly modified Con bonus and you suffer a -2 AC penalty while enraged. You cannot end your rage voluntarily.

Special: This feat does not stack with the Rage class ability (it is superseded by it).

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.67, Port 4.00, Comp 4.33, Rule 3.33)

Prismatic Energy Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can change spells of one element type into any other element type.

Prerequisite: Any other metamagic feat, Knowledge (Arcana) 8 ranks

Benefit: When you learn this feat, select one energy type (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic). Any spell causing damage of this type can be changed into doing damage of any of the other types instead. Spell effects other than elemental damage will not change. A prismatic energy spell uses a spell slot of the spell’s normal level, modified by any other metamagic feats.

Example: Atzlaca is a 6th level wizard who knows learns this feat with a focus in acid. She can opt to prepare her melf's acid arrow spell normally, or she can apply this feat as she prepares her spell, and change the damage type from acid to any of the other types of energy. The spell will now ignore acid resistance, but be subject to resistance against its new energy type instead. It will still cause damage over two rounds.

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Comments: Although in the SRD the Energy Substitution feat can be used with spells to cause Sonic damage, newer publications have updated this feat to no longer allow this, presumably as very few creatures have resistance to Sonic damage compared to the other energy types. As such the DM may similarly restrict this feat, or alternatively may allow spells to produce sonic damage but with the damage reduced by one die-size. For example, using this feat on Fireball would allow you to do 1d4 Sonic damage per level (maximum 10d4) rather than 1d6 Fire damage per level (maximum 10d6).

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.60, Pow 5.00, Port 4.60, Comp 3.30, Rule 5.00)

Profane Death Blow[edit]

Divine

You are an unholy slayer, an assassin able to channel negative energy to slay the unrighteous.

Prerequisite: Ability to rebuke undead, Sneak Attack 1d6

Benefit: Spend one of your rebuke undead attempts to add your Charisma modifier as a profane bonus to the attack and damage roll of your next sneak attack. After channeling the negative energy to power this feat, you must make this attack within a number of rounds equal to your Charisma bonus.

Special: If you have the Death Attack assassin class ability, you may similarly spend one of your rebuke undead attempts to add your Charisma modifier as a profane bonus to the DC of the Fortitude save made to resist your next Death Attack.

Balance: 3.87 (Purp 3.33, Pow 4.33, Port 4.00, Comp 3.67, Rule 4.00)

Profane Ghoul Strike[edit]

Divine

You can use negative energy to imitate the paralyzing attack of a ghoul.

Prerequisite: Rebuke Undead ability, Knowledge (Religion) 6 ranks, Extra Turning

Benefit: By spending one of your rebuke undead attempts, you force all opponents struck by you in melee combat until the end of your next action to succeed at a Fortitude save or be paralyzed for 1d4+2 rounds as if struck by a ghoul. The save DC is equal to 10 + your Charisma bonus + half your levels in classes that give you the rebuke undead ability (round down). Elves are immune to this paralysis. The use of this feat is considered a supernatural ability and a negative energy effect.

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Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Profane Shadow Strike[edit]

Divine

You can use negative energy to duplicate the Strength draining attack of a shadow.

Prerequisite: Rebuke Undead ability, Knowledge (Religion) 8 ranks, Extra Turning, Profane Ghoul Strike

Benefit: By spending one of your rebuke undead attempts, you drain 1d4 points of temporary Strength damage from all living opponents struck by you in melee combat until the end of your next action. Characters reduced to Strength 0 by this feat are slain but do not normally rise again as shadows unless you have the Profane Shadowspawn feat. The use of this feat is considered a supernatural ability and a negative energy effect.

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Balance: 3.85 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 3.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.75)

Profane Shadowspawn[edit]

Special

Beings drained of strength by your Profane Shadow Strike feat become shadows under your control.

Prerequisite: Rebuke Undead ability, Knowledge (Religion) 10 ranks, Extra Turning, Profane Ghoul Strike, Profane Shadow Strike

Benefit: Any humanoid drained to Strength 0 by use of your Profane Shadow Strike feat becomes a shadow under your control within 1d4 rounds. Created shadows are automatically under your control but count against the maximum number of hit dice that you can normally command through use of your rebuke undead power (equal to 1 HD/level). Shadows created in excess of this number are not in your control, are immune to further use of your rebuke undead ability and will immediately attack you, although you may voluntarily relinquish command of any commanded undead creature or creatures in order to command new ones.

Normal: Humanoids slain by Profane Shadow Strike do not rise again as shadows under your control.

Special: Shadows created through this feat cannot spawn other shadows while they remain in your control.

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Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.50)

Profane Wight Strike[edit]

Divine

You can use negative energy to drain energy levels like a wight.

Prerequisite: Rebuke Undead ability, Knowledge (Religion) 10 ranks, Extra Turning, Profane Ghoul Strike

Benefit: By spending one of your rebuke undead attempts, you inflict one negative level on all living opponents struck by you in melee combat until the end of your next action. For each negative level inflicted you heal 5 points of damage. Any points of damage healed in excess of your hit points are gained as temporary hit points. 24 hours after being struck, your opponents can make the normal Fortitude save to remove the negative levels inflicted by this feat. The save DC is equal to 10 + your Charisma bonus + half your levels in classes that give you the rebuke undead ability (round down). Humanoids drained of life through this ability do not normally rise again as wights unless you have the Profane Wightspawn feat.

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Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 3.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Profane Wightspawn[edit]

Special

Beings drained of life energy by your Profane Wight Strike feat become wights under your control.

Prerequisite: Rebuke Undead ability, Knowledge (Religion) 12 ranks, Extra Turning, Profane Ghoul Strike, [[#Profane Wight Strike|Profane Wight Strike

Benefit: Any humanoid slain by use of your Profane Wight Strike feat becomes a wight under your control within 1d4 rounds. Created wights are automatically under your control but count against the maximum number of hit dice that you can normally command through use of your rebuke undead power (equal to 1 HD/level). Wights created in excess of this number are not in your control, are immune to further use of your rebuke undead ability and will immediately attack you, although you may voluntarily relinquish command of any commanded undead creature or creatures in order to command new ones.

Normal: Humanoids slain by Profane Wight Strike do not rise again as wights under your control.

Special: Wights created through use of this feat are incapable of spawning other wights while they remain in your control.

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Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.50)

Profane Wraith Strike[edit]

Divine

You can use negative energy to drain Constitution, similar to a wraith's attack.

Prerequisite: Rebuke Undead ability, Knowledge (Religion) 12 ranks, Extra Turning, Profane Ghoul Strike, Profane Wight Strike

Benefit: By spending one of your rebuke undead attempts, all living opponents struck by you in melee combat until the end of your next action suffer 1d4 points of temporary Constitution drain. Characters reduced to Constitution 0 by this feat are slain but do not normally rise again as wraiths unless you have the Profane Wraithspawn feat. Note that although a Wraith is normally an incorporeal opponent, your attacks are still bound by the corporeal world.

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Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 3.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Profane Wraithspawn[edit]

Special

Beings drained of Constitution by your Profane Wraith Strike feat become wraiths under your control.

Prerequisite: Rebuke Undead ability, Knowledge (Religion) 14 ranks, Extra Turning, Profane Ghoul Strike, Profane Wight Strike, Profane Wraith Strike

Benefit: Any humanoid slain by use of your Profane Wraith Strike feat becomes a wraith under your control within 1d4 rounds. Created wraiths are automatically under your control but count against the maximum number of hit dice that you can normally command through use of your rebuke undead power (equal to 1 HD/level). Wraiths created in excess of this number are not in your control, are immune to further use of your rebuke undead ability and will immediately attack you, although you may voluntarily relinquish command of any commanded undead creature or creatures in order to command new ones.

Normal: Humanoids slain by Profane Wraith Strike do not rise again as wights under your control.

Special: Wraiths created through use of this feat cannot spawn other wraiths while they remain in your control.

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Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.50)

Professional[edit]

General

You can earn a living performing services better than others.

Prerequisite: 5 ranks in any 2 Profession skills

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to all Profession skills

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Prone Combat[edit]

General

You are able to fight from a prone position without penalty.

Benefit: You suffer no attack or AC penalties for being prone.

Normal: When prone you suffer a -4 to attack and AC against melee opponents.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Prophetic Dreamer[edit]

Your dreams sometimes echo the future

Prerequisite: DM’s permission

Benefit: Once per session, your GM should inform you of a dream you have had that portents an event that may be in your future. Ideally this dream could warn you of a possible danger, or guide you to a good decision. The dream need not come true, but should be a possible or likely scenario in your future. Sometimes the dreams are literal and sometimes symbolic, (at the DM’s discretion).

Notes: This feat isn’t for everyone. It should benefit the character but only as much as the DM wants it to. This could be a trait or the GM could decide some mystical event allows the character to start having these dreams.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.00)

Psicrystal Affinity[edit]

You have created a psicrystal.

Prerequisite: Manifester level 1st

Benefit: This feat allows you to gain a psicrystal.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.75)

Psicrystal Containment[edit]

Your psicrystal has advanced enough that it can hold a psionic focus that you store within it.

Prerequisite: Psicrystal Affinity, Manifester level 3rd

Benefit: You can spend a full-round action attempting to psionically focus your psicrystal. At any time when you need to expend your psionic focus, you can expend your psicrystal’s psionic focus instead, as long as the crystal is within 5 feet of you. Psionically focusing your psicrystal works just like focusing yourself. The psicrystal cannot focus itself—only the owner can spend the time to focus the crystal.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.50)

Psicrystal Power[edit]

Epic, Special, Psionic

Your psicrystal can manifest a power.

Prerequisite: Character level 21st, Int 25 or Cha 25 (depending on which is your key ability score for manifesting)

Benefit: Choose one power you know of 8th level or lower. Your psicrystal can now manifest this power once per day at your manifester level (the psicrystal gains sufficient power points to manifest the power once). You cannot bestow a power upon your psicrystal if the power normally has any experience point cost.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time you take the feat, you can give your psicrystal knowledge of a new power (and it gains sufficient power points to manifest that power once). All power points gained by a psicrystal from multiple applications of this feat go into its reserve and can be used to manifest the powers it knows as you desire.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Psionic Affinity[edit]

General

You have a knack for psionic endeavors.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Psicraft checks and Use Psionic Device checks.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is not generally in favor of feats such as these that break the magic-psionics transparency rule.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.50, Port 3.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.00)

Psionic Body[edit]

Psionic

Your mind reinforces your body.

Benefit: When you take this feat, you gain 2 hit points for each psionic feat you have (including this one). Whenever you take a new psionic feat, you gain 2 more hit points.

Balance: 3.35 (Purp 4.00, Pow 2.75, Port 3.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.25)

Psionic Charge[edit]

Psionic

You can charge in a crooked line.

Prerequisite: Speed Of Thought, Dex 13

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. When you charge, you can make one turn of up to 90 degrees during your movement. All other restrictions on charges still apply; for instance, you cannot pass through a square that blocks or slows movement, or that contains a creature. You must have line of sight to the opponent at the start of your turn.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Psionic Deflection[edit]

Psionic

Your precognition allows you to deflect magical rays and certain special projectiles in addition to ordinary ranged attacks.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Weapon Focus, Armed Deflect Arrows

Benefit: You must be armed with a melee weapon you have Weapon Focus in to use this feat. By expending your psionic focus you can deflect a ray or magical projectile requiring a to-hit roll as you would a normal missile.

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Balance: 3.36 (Purp 3.60, Pow 3.20, Port 3.00, Comp 3.40, Rule 3.60)

Psionic Dodge[edit]

Psionic

You are proficient at dodging blows.

Prerequisite: Dodge, Dex 13

Benefit: You must be psionically focused to use this feat. You receive a +1 dodge bonus to your Armor Class. This bonus stacks with the bonus from the Dodge feat (but only applies on attacks made by the opponent you have designated).

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.50)

Psionic Endowment[edit]

Psionic

You can endow your manifestations with more concentrated focus.

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You add 1 to the save DC of a power you manifest.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Psionic Fist[edit]

You can charge your unarmed strike or natural weapon with additional damage potential.

Prerequisite: Str 13

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. Your unarmed strike or attack with a natural weapon deals an extra 2d6 points of damage. You must decide whether or not to use this feat prior to making an attack. If your attack misses, you still expend your psionic focus.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Psionic Hole[edit]

General

You are anathema to psionic creatures and characters.

Prerequisite: Con 15

Benefit: When a foe strikes you in melee combat, the foe immediately loses its psionic focus, if any. Also, if you are the target of a power, the manifester of the power must spend an additional number of power points equal to your Wisdom bonus, or the power fails (all the power points spent on the power are still lost). This extra cost does not count toward the maximum power points a manifester can spend on a single power.

Special: You cannot take or use this feat if you have the ability to use powers (if you have a power point reserve or psi-like abilities).

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.25)

Psionic Initiative[edit]

Psionic

You receive flashes of insight that enable you to react instantly.

Prerequisite: Improved Initiative, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: So long as you are psionically focused, you gain a +2 bonus to initiative checks.

Special: This feat stacks with the Improved Initiative feat or any other skill, feat or ability that provides a bonus on Initiative checks unless otherwise specified.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Psionic Meditation[edit]

Psionic

You can focus your mind faster than normal, even under duress.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Concentration 7 ranks

Benefit: You can take a move action to become psionically focused.

Normal: A character without this feat must take a full-round action to become psionically focused.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Psionic Multifist[edit]

Psionic

You can charge multiple unarmed strikes with psionic power

Prerequisite: Str 13, Psionic Fist, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: At the cost of 2 power points, your hands and feet can be charged as a free action to inflict +1 point of damage for a number of rounds equal to your Strength modifier +1. While your unarmed strikes are charged with psionic power you are considered armed and do not provoke attacks of opportunity.

Special: This feat does not stack with Psionic Fist or Improved Psionic Fist; only one of the feats can be used at any one time.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Psionic Multishot[edit]

Psionic

You can charge multiple ranged attacks with psionic power

Prerequisite: Str 13, Point Blank Shot, Psionic Shot, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: At the cost of 2 power points, all of your ranged attacks can be charged as a free action to inflict +1 point of piercing damage for a number of rounds equal to your Str modifier +1.

Special: This feat does not stack with Psionic Shot or Improved Psionic Shot; only one of the feats can be used at any one time.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Psionic Multiweapon[edit]

Psionic

You can your weapon with psionic power usable on multiple attacks.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, Psionic Weapon, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: At the cost of 2 power points, your melee weapon can be charged as a free action to inflict +1 point of damage for a number of rounds equal to your Strength modifier +1.

Special: This feat does not stack with Psionic Weapon or Improved Psionic Weapon; only one of the feats can be used at any one time.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Psionic Rejuvenation[edit]

Psionic

You can rapidly heal wounds that strike at the core of your being.

Prerequisite: Con 13

Benefit: You naturally heal a number of ability damage and ability burn points per day equal to 1 + your base, undamaged ability bonus in the attribute damaged (with a minimum of 1 point per ability damaged per day).

Balance: 4.38 (Purp 4.00, Pow 5.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.60)

Psionic Shot[edit]

You can charge your ranged attacks with additional damage potential.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. Your ranged attack deals +2d6 points of damage. You must decide whether or not to use this feat prior to making an attack. If your attack misses, you still expend your psionic focus.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Psionic Strike[edit]

Psionic

With your psionic ability you are a deadly opponent in unarmed combat.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Psionic Fist, Reserve power points 1

Benefit: As long as you have 1 or more power points, your unarmed strikes are charged with psionic power. Your unarmed strikes do not provoke attacks of opportunity from armed opponents and inflict 1d6 points of lethal damage in unarmed combat if Medium-sized and 1d4 points of real damage if Small-sized.

Normal: Unarmed attacks normally provoke attacks of opportunity against armed attackers and inflict 1d4 points of non-lethal damage in Medium-sized and 1d3 points of non-lethal damage if small sized.

Special: This feat can be combined with the Psionic Fist feat, allowing you to inflict 1d10 points of damage if Medium-sized at the cost of 1 power point per strike (1d6 points if Small-sized).

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Psionic Talent[edit]

Psionic

You gain additional power points to supplement those you already had.

Prerequisite: Having a power point reserve

Benefit: When you take this feat for the first time, you gain 2 power points.

Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time you take the feat after the first time, the number of power points you gain increases by 1.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Psionic Weapon[edit]

You can charge your melee weapon with additional damage potential.

Prerequisite: Str 13

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. Your attack with a melee weapon deals an extra 2d6 points of damage. You must decide whether or not to use this feat prior to making an attack. If your attack misses, you still expend your psionic focus.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Psychic Sense[edit]

Psionic

Your psychic senses allow you to intuitively sense the presence of danger.

Prerequisite: Wis 13

Benefit: As long as you are psionically focused, you can make a Will save (DC 20) to avoid being caught surprised or flat-footed. On a successful save, you can act during the surprise round even if you would otherwise be surprised and you can retain your Dex bonus to armor class even if you would otherwise be caught flat-footed.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Pull Blow[edit]

You can choose to leave your victims alive when they might otherwise die

Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Weapon Focus, Heal 1 rank, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: When attacking with a weapon for which you have weapon focus, if you injure an opponent enough to take them below zero hit points you may pull your blow, dealing exactly enough damage to take them to -1 hit point. Furthermore, although unconscious their condition automatically becomes stable (not taking bleeding damage), rather than dying.

Special: You cannot use this feat on a critical hit. This feat has no effect on creatures such as undead and constructs that are destroyed upon reaching 0 hit points.

Notes: Imagine a master swordsman that cuts with such precision that they can wound exactly the amount they wish to by cutting "just so". The benefit of this feat over doing nonlethal damage is that you can make your decision after the fact and that creatures immune to nonlethal damage can effectively be subdued.

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Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Quick Cut[edit]

General

You dispatch the helpless with ruthless efficiency.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: You can perform a coup de grace attack against a helpless defender as a standard action.

Special: Performing a coup de grace still provokes an attack of opportunity as normal.

Balance: 4.44 (Purp 3.80, Pow 4.20, Port 4.60, Comp 4.80, Rule 4.80)

Quick Draw[edit]

You can draw a weapon as a free action.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: You can draw a weapon as a free action instead of as a move action. You can draw a hidden weapon (see the Sleight of Hand skill) as a move action. A character who has selected this feat may throw weapons at his full normal rate of attacks (much like a character with a bow).

Normal: Without this feat, you may draw a weapon as a move action, or (if your base attack bonus is +1 or higher) as a free action as part of movement. Without this feat, you can draw a hidden weapon as a standard action.

Special: A fighter may select Quick Draw as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 5.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Quick Grab[edit]

General

You can pick things up with minimal movement and effort.

Prerequisite: Dex 13

Benefit: As a swift action you may pick up any weapon (of a size you could wield) or similar sized unsecured item on the ground or within 5’ without provoking an attack of opportunity. You must have a free hand to hold the item in.

Balance: 4.33 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.67, Port 4.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.33)

Quick Reload[edit]

Modern

You are good at reloading firearms quickly.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: Reloading a firearm with an already filled box magazine or speed loader is a free action. Reloading a revolver without a speed loader, or reloading any firearm with an internal magazine, is a move action.

Normal: Reloading a firearm with an already filled box magazine or speed loader is a move action. Reloading a revolver without a speed loader, or reloading any firearm with an internal magazine, is a full-round action.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Quick Scent[edit]

Racial

Your racial scent abilities work more quickly than others of your race.

Prerequisite: Wis 15, Racial scent ability

Benefit: You may take a swift action to note the direction of a scent.

Normal: Creatures with the scent ability must take a move action to note the direction of a scent.

Notes: You may only take one swift action a round.

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.80, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.20)

Quick Strike[edit]

General

You draw and strike with such speed it can surprise defenders.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +3, Quick Draw

Benefit: When using the Quick Draw feat immediately prior to making an attack, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to the attack roll.

Balance: 4.23 (Purp 4.17, Pow 4.17, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.33)

Quick Study[edit]

Stealth

You can quickly sense your opponent’s weakness.

Prerequisite: Death Attack class ability, Sneak attack +6d6

Benefit: You may perform a death attack after studying a potential victim for two rounds.

Normal: You need to study an opponent three rounds before a death attack.

Balance: 4.17 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.83, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Quick Swap[edit]

You can confuse your opponent by swapping your weapon between hands.

Prerequisite: Improved Feint, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: In melee while using a light or 1-handed weapon in one hand with nothing in your other, you may switch your weapon to your other hand as a free action. As part of this free action, you may make a feint (see Bluff Skill description). You may only make this feint once per round.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.33, Port 4.00, Comp 3.67, Rule 4.00)

Quicken Divine Channeling[edit]

Special

You can channel energy into a Divine feat with a moment's thought.

Prerequisite: Ability to turn or rebuke undead, Cha 13, Extra Turning, Quicken Turning

Benefit: You can channel energy to activate another divine feat as a free action a number of times per day equal to your charisma bonus. This counts against your ability to use one quickened ability per round. You can still only channel energy to power one divine feat or turning attempt per round.

Normal: Divine feats normal require a standard action to channel the requisite energy to power the feat.

Special: You can take this feat more than once, each time gaining the ability to use quicken a divine feat one more time per day.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 3.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Quicken Power[edit]

You can manifest a power with a moment’s thought.

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You can quicken a power. You can perform another action, even manifest another power, in the same round that you manifest a quickened power. You can manifest only one quickened power per round. A power whose manifesting time is longer than 1 round cannot be quickened. Using this feat increases the power point cost of the power by 6. The power’s total cost cannot exceed your manifester level. Manifesting a quickened power does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Quicken Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast spells as a free action.

Benefit: Casting a quickened spell is a free action. You can perform another action, even casting another spell, in the same round as you cast a quickened spell. You may cast only one quickened spell per round. A spell whose casting time is more than 1 full round action cannot be quickened. A quickened spell uses up a spell slot four levels higher than the spell’s actual level. Casting a quickened spell doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity.

Special: This feat can’t be applied to any spell cast spontaneously (including sorcerer spells, bard spells, and cleric or druid spells cast spontaneously), since applying a metamagic feat to a spontaneously cast spell automatically increases the casting time to a full-round action.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 3.00)

Quicken Spell-like Ability[edit]

Monster, Special, Magical

You can use spell-like abilities as a free action.

Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 10th

Benefit: Choose one of the creature’s spell-like abilities, subject to the restrictions described below. The creature can use that ability as a quickened spell-like ability three times per day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or twice per day). Using a quickened spell-like ability is a free action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. The creature can perform another action—including the use of another spell-like ability—in the same round that it uses a quickened spell-like ability. The creature may use only one quickened spell-like ability per round. The creature can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a spell with a level less than or equal to half its caster level (round down) –4. For a summary, see the table below. In addition, a spell-like ability that duplicates a spell with a casting time greater than 1 full round cannot be quickened.

Normal: Normally the use of a spell-like ability requires a standard action and provokes an attack of opportunity unless noted otherwise.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it is taken, the creature can apply it to a different one of its spell-like abilities.

Quicken Spell-Like Ability
Spell Level	Caster Level to Quicken
0	8th
1st	10th
2nd	12th
3rd	14th
4th	16th
5th	18th
6th	20th
7th	—
8th	—
9th	—

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Quicken Staff[edit]

Epic

You can cast spells from a staff with a moment’s thought.

Prerequisite: Craft Staff, Master Staff, Quicken Spell, Spellcraft 15 ranks

Benefit: You can cast any spell from a staff as a swift action by burning up twice the normal number of charges to activate the spell. A spell stored in a staff with a casting time longer than 1-action cannot be quickened with this feat.

Normal: Staves require a standard action to activate

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Quicken Wand[edit]

Epic

You can cast spells from a wand with a moment’s thought.

Prerequisite: Craft Wand, Master Wand, Quicken Spell, Spellcraft 15 ranks

Benefit: You can cast any spell from a wand as a swift action by burning up twice the normal number of charges to activate the spell. A spell stored in a wand with a casting time longer than 1-action cannot be quickened with this feat.

Normal: Wands require a standard action to activate.

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.00, Port 3.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Quicksilver[edit]

You are truly adept at dodging blows and avoiding damage in combat.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Dodge, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: Increase the dodge bonus provided to your Armor Class by your Dodge feat to +2. This supercedes (does not stack with) the Dodge feat. You can also apply this +2 bonus as a dodge bonus to Reflex saves against your chosen opponent. Any condition that makes you lose your dexterity bonus to Armor Class also makes you lose any dodge bonuses to your Armor Class or Reflex saves.

Special: This feat stacks with the Improved Dodge feat (also in this netbook), allowing you to apply the +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves granted by the Quicksilver feat against all opponents.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Quiet Whisper Of The Mind[edit]

Psionic

You can telepathically communicate with other intelligent beings.

Prerequisite: Cha 13

Benefit: As long as you are psionically focused, you can communicate telepathically with any creature that uses language at a range of 100 feet. This feat allows communication only; it does not allow you to read other creatures minds, determine the truth or intent of the communicator or otherwise influence or command the communicator. The level and depth of your telepathic communication is limited by the creature’s intelligence.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 3.50)

Racial Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can protect or target one race or creature type from the effects of your spells.

Prerequisite: Knowledge (arcana) 5 ranks

Benefit: You can select one race or creature type, chosen at the time of casting, to be completely immune to the effects of your spell. Alternatively, you can elect to target your spell against a chosen race or creature type, causing only that specific race or creature type to be affected by your spell (with all other races/creatures within the area of effect being immune to the spell). A Racial Spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

Special: You can not name specific individuals, only game or DM recognized races or creature types. For instance you can not name Zandor the dragon over there by the hill, but you could name dragons, or white dragons. You must also use names or types commonly used in the rules or approved by your DM. So you could not name mammals with more than 4 legs, but you could name aberration. You can not name something if you don’t know what to call it, although you can take a guess as to what type it might be.

Balance: 3.63 (Purp 4.33, Pow 3.33, Port 3.67, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.33)

Raise Poisonous Creature[edit]

General

You know how to change a poisonous creature’s diet in order to make it deadlier.

Prerequisite: Handle Animal 5 ranks

Benefit: You can increase the toxicity of an animal, vermin or magical beast that has a poison special attack. This is done in the same way as using Handle Animal to train the creature for a purpose (although such a creature can be trained for a specific purpose thereafter without losing the benefits of this training). You must spend 4 weeks of intensive feeding and care for a single creature. You must spend half this time (at the rate of 3 hours per day per animal being handled) working toward completion of the task before you attempt a DC 20 Handle Animal check. If the check fails, your attempt fails and you need not complete the training. If the check succeeds, you must invest the remainder of the time to complete the training. If the time is interrupted or the task is not followed through to completion, the attempt automatically fails. If successful, the DC of any poison produced by the creature is increased by 2 thereafter.

Special: The creature’s poison will continue to remain deadlier than normal without further care after successful training, as it thereafter naturally seeks out food that ensures this.

Balance: 3.40 (Purp 3.60, Pow 3.20, Port 3.40, Comp 3.20, Rule 3.60)

Ranged Combat Expertise[edit]

You can use Combat Expertise with a ranged weapon.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise

Benefit: You may gain the benefits of the Combat Expertise feat while using a ranged weapon.

Normal: Combat Expertise can only be used with melee weapons.

Balance: 4.48 (Purp 4.13, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Ranged Inspiration[edit]

Epic, Song

Your music has a greater range of effect.

Prerequisite: Bardic music class feature, Perform 25 ranks

Benefit: Double the range of any bardic music ability that has a range. (If the creature must hear the bard to be affected by the ability, that requirement doesn’t change regardless of any extended range the bard’s ability may have.)

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack. Remember that two doublings equals a tripling, and so forth.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Ranged Resistance[edit]

Monster

The creature can bestow its Spell Resistance (SR) or Power Resistance (PR) on others nearby.

Prerequisite: Innate Spell Resistance 10 or Innate Power Resistance 10, Channeled Resistance

Benefit: As a standard action, the creature can extend its SR or PR to protect one creature within 30 feet. This protection lasts only as long as both creatures remain within 30 feet of each other and only as long as the creature with SR or PR concentrates on maintaining the link. If the creature with resistance is distracted or suffers damage in any way while maintaining this link it must make a Concentration check as if casting a 0-level spell. Failing this check instantly negates the shared SR or PR until the creature with resistance spends another action to restart the link.

Special: This feat can be taken more than once and stacks with itself; each time allowing the creature to extend its SR or PR to one additional ally within range.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Ranged Shield Pin[edit]

You have mastered the art of striking an opponent's shield to knock it out of line, rendering it useless for defense.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: When using a proficient ranged weapon to attack an opponent within 30 feet, you may choose to deal no damage with a successful hit. Instead, you negate any benefits your target gains from their shield until their next action. You can attempt this once per round against any shield-wielding opponent who is within one size category of you. You must announce before you attack that you are making a Ranged Shield Pin.

Notes: This feat is only useful if you have multiple attacks and your opponent's shield gives them at least a +6 armor bonus, or alternatively if you have allies that can attack the same opponent before they can re-adjust their shield.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Rank Fighting[edit]

You are trained to strike past friends using reach weapons

Prerequisite: Weapon Proficiency With A Reach Weapon

Benefit: You can ignore the cover provided by a friend in-between you and your opponent when striking with a reach weapon. You make such attacks with no penalty.

Normal: A friend in the way of a reach weapon attack provides cover, giving a +4 bonus to the target's AC.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Rapid Inspiration[edit]

Epic, Song

You can inspire allies more quickly.

Prerequisite: Perform 25 ranks, Bardic music class feature

Benefit: You can use any of your bardic music inspiration abilities as a standard action. The inspiration takes effect immediately after you conclude the action.

Comments: In edition 3.5 starting a bardic music ability is a standard action, and maintaining is a standard action each round (so you can move whilst doing so, but not generally fight). So this feat is useless in edition 3.5 and should be deleted.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Rapid Metabolism[edit]

General

Your wounds heal rapidly.

Prerequisite: Con 13

Benefit: You naturally heal a number of hit points per day equal to the standard healing rate + double your Constitution bonus. You heal even if you do not rest. This healing replaces your normal natural healing. If you are tended successfully by someone with the Heal skill, you instead regain double the normal amount of hit points + double your Constitution bonus.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 4.50, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.25)

Rapid Reload[edit]

Choose a type of crossbow (hand, light, or heavy).

Prerequisite: Weapon Proficiency (crossbow Type Chosen)

Benefit: The time required for you to reload your chosen type of crossbow is reduced to a free action (for a hand or light crossbow) or a move action (for a heavy crossbow). Reloading a crossbow still provokes an attack of opportunity. If you have selected this feat for hand crossbow or light crossbow, you may fire that weapon as many times in a full attack action as you could attack if you were using a bow.

Normal: A character without this feat needs a move action to reload a hand or light crossbow, or a full-round action to reload a heavy crossbow.

Special: You can gain Rapid Reload multiple times. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new type of crossbow. A fighter may select Rapid Reload as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Rapid Shot[edit]

You can make an additional ranged attack.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, Dex 13

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 you make in that round (the extra one and the normal ones) takes a –2 penalty. You must use the full attack action to use this feat.

Special: A fighter may select Rapid Shot as one of his fighter bonus feats. A 2nd-level ranger who has chosen the archery combat style is treated as having Rapid Shot, even if he does not have the prerequisites for it, but only when he is wearing light or no armor.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Rapid Thrust[edit]

When wielding a light weapon you can make a series of rapid thrusts.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Weapon Finesse, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: When making a full attack with a weapon that you can apply Weapon Finesse to, you may make a single additional attack each round at your highest base attack bonus. However, you suffer a -2 penalty to all your attacks until your next action and lose any Strength bonus to damage you might normally have gained.

Example: Myllard the 6th level ranger (Str 12, Dex 17) jumps inside the ogre's greatsword swing, dagger in hand. Instead of two attacks with his dagger (base attack bonus +6/+1), he opts to make a series of rapid thrusts. He attacks three times with a base attack bonuses of +4/+4/-1. He still receives his +3 bonus to hit from his Weapon Finesse feat, but loses his +1 Strength damage bonus.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.75)

Rat Hacker[edit]

You are skilled at fighting creatures smaller than yourself.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus to Attack and AC against creatures smaller than yourself.

Balance: 3.50 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.63, Port 3.63, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.50)

Reach Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast a touch spell as a ray.

Benefit: You may cast a spell that normally has a range of touch at any distance up to 30 feet. The spell effectively becomes a ray, so you must succeed at a ranged touch attack to bestow the spell upon the recipient. A reach spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

Comments: The netbook staff feels the range of the ray would be better as; range of close (25 ft. + 5 ft. for every 2 caster levels) as it is more consistent with other ray spells. The spell Touch to Ray, by Eric D Harry used this range but was otherwise identical to this feat.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Reactive Countersong[edit]

Epic, Song

You can begin a countersong at any time.

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes, Perform 30 ranks, Bardic music class feature

Benefit: You can begin a countersong at any time, even when it isn’t your turn (much like a wizard who has readied a counterspell action), though you don’t have to ready an action to do so. You can’t use Reactive Countersong at the same time your are using another bardic music ability (though you could stop the other bardic music ability to begin Reactive Countersong if so desired).

Normal: Without this feat, a character can only use countersong on his or her turn.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Reactive Stance[edit]

You may choose to ignore defensive action in combat in order to attack your foes.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1, Int 13, Combat Expertise

Benefit: You may take a move equivalent action to adopt a reactive stance. You remain in this state until you move (including 5’ steps), are moved involuntarily, or choose to end the effect. You suffer a -4 penalty to your AC, but any time an adjacent opponent makes a melee attack against you they provoke an attack of opportunity from you before their attack resolves. You are still limited by all the usual limits on attacks of opportunity.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.33, Pow 3.83, Port 3.83, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.83)

Recharge[edit]

Magical

You can recharge your magical items rather than create new ones, and create partially charged items.

Prerequisite: Item creation feat for the item in question

Benefit: You may fully recharge a magic (or psionic) item, even on a charge-by-charge basis. You may also create items without their full number of charges. The cost and time to create is a proportional amount of the full cost of the item (rounded up when necessary). An item cannot be given more charges than it had at the time of its creation.

Normal: Charged magic items cannot be recharged, and magic items must be created fully charged.

Example: A fully charged Wand of Charm Monster is normally worth 21000 gp, costs 10500 gp and 840 XP to create, and takes 21 days to craft. If you want to create a Wand of Charm Monster with 25 charges using this feat it would cost 5250 gp and 420 XP and take 11 days; similarly if you had a normal existing Wand of Charm Monster with 10 charges and you wanted to boost it to 35 charges. However, the wand created in the first example can never be given more than 25 charges thereafter.

Notes: Your DM may still forbid the creation of items with less than their full number of charges, even with this feat.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.50 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 3.80, Comp 3.40, Rule 2.80)

Reckless Offense[edit]

General

You can shift your focus from defense to offense.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: When you use the attack action or full attack action in melee, you can take a penalty of –4 to your Armor Class and add a +2 bonus on your melee attack roll. The bonus on attack rolls and penalty to Armor Class last until the beginning of your next turn.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Rededication[edit]

Special

You’ve wandered away from your true vocation long enough, now its time to return.

Benefit: Pick one class that has a multiclassing restriction (paladin or monk). You may now multiclass freely with this class.

Notes: All other requirements, such as alignment, ability, skills, feats etc must still be met.

Balance: 4.12 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.80, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.20)

Reflect Arrows[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You can deflect arrows back at whomever shot them.

Prerequisite: Dex 25, Deflect Arrows, Improved Unarmed Strike

Benefit: When you deflect an arrow or other ranged attack, the attack is reflected back upon the attacker at your base ranged attack bonus.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Reflex Set[edit]

You have honed your reflexes to the point where it is second nature for you to set your weapon against a charging enemy

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes

Benefit: When you are charged while holding a weapon that can be set against a charge, you get to make an attack of opportunity before the charge attack is made, and you get the double damage normally associated with setting such a weapon against a charge on this attack of opportunity. Weapons capable of being set against a charge are noted in their individual descriptions in the SRD, and include the dwarven urgrosh, halberd, longspear, spear and trident.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.84 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.50, Port 5.00, Comp 4.70, Rule 5.00)

Rememorize[edit]

You can change a prepared spell in one hour.

Benefit: By spending an hour mediating and studying you can change one prepared spell for another you know of the same or lower level.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Renown[edit]

Modern

You are well known.

Benefit: Your Reputation bonus increases by +3.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Repeat Spell[edit]

Metamagic

Your spell is repeated on a subsequent round.

Prerequisite: Any other metamagic feat

Benefit: A repeated spell is automatically cast again at the beginning of your next round of actions. No matter where you are, the secondary spell originates from the same location and affects the same area as the primary spell. If the repeated spell designates a target, the secondary spell retargets the same target if the target is within 30 feet of its original position; otherwise the secondary spell fails to go off. A repeated spell uses up a spell slot three levels higher than the spell’s actual level. Repeat Spell cannot be used on spells with a range of touch.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.25)

Repeating Crossbow Mastery[edit]

You are an expert at handling a Repeating Crossbow.

Prerequisite: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (repeating Crossbow)

Benefit: You can reload a repeating crossbow magazine as a move equivalent action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. You can cock a repeating crossbow without needing free hand to do so.

Normal: Reloading a Repeating Crossbow is a full round action that provokes an attack of opportunity and you must have a free hand to cock the crossbow between shots.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Research Genius[edit]

Magical

You can create new spells quickly.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Caster level 5

Benefit: You may reduce the time required for spell research by 25%. This does not affect the cost of research or the amount of materials required, however.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.12 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.00, Port 3.80, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.00)

Research Trinity[edit]

Magical

You can greatly reduce one element required for creating new spells by increasing the others.

Benefit: When creating a new spell you may greatly reduce one of the requirements (Cost, Library size or Time), but must increase the others. The time required can be reduced to one day/spell level by doubling the cost of the research (2000gp/spell level) and requiring a huge library for research (generally found only in a metropolis). Alternatively you can reduce the cost to 1,000gp/level of the spell by doubling the time required (2 weeks/spell level) and requiring a huge library. You may also conduct research using only your innate talent and spellbooks by doubling both the time (2 weeks/level of the spell) and the cost (2,000gp/level of the spell). In all cases the DC for determining success (a Spellcraft check) increases to 15 + the spell's level.

Normal: Spell research requires a large library generally found in a large city or metropolis and costs 1000gp per week and one week per spell level, and requires a Spellcraft check of 10 + the spell's level for success.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.74 (Purp 4.10, Pow 3.50, Port 3.50, Comp 3.30, Rule 4.30)

Resist Restraint[edit]

General

You are difficult to restrain by any means.

Benefit: You receive a +4 bonus to all saves against any effect that would render you paralyzed, entangled, or stunned. You also get a +4 bonus when making a defensive Grapple check (that is a grapple check in which you are trying to escape or avoid being grappled).

Balance: 4.32 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.20, Port 4.00, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.60)

Resistance Counterspell[edit]

Monster

The creature can use its Spell Resistance (SR) to counterspell.

Prerequisite: Innate Spell Resistance 10, Channeled Resistance, Ranged Resistance

Benefit: As a readied action, the creature can use its SR to counterspell one spell at a range of up to 100 ft. This requires the caster beat the creature's SR in order to cast the spell. The creature does not need to make a Spellcraft check to identify the spell being cast in order to use this ability.

Normal: SR cannot be used to counterspell.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Resistance Power Turning[edit]

Monster

The creature can reflect a psionic power that fails to beat its Power Resistance (PR).

Prerequisite: Innate Power Resistance 10

Benefit: Once per round as a readied action, the creature can reflect any psionic power that fails to beat its PR back towards its original manifester. If the psionic power cannot normally be reflected by power turning, the creature's PR has its standard affect against the power instead. The creature's readied action is wasted if no power beats its PR prior to its next action, although the feat can be readied again.

Special: If using the default Psionics-Magic Transparency option, this feat is interchangeable with the resistance spell turning feat.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.50)

Resistance Spell Turning[edit]

Monster

The creature can reflect a spell or spell-like ability that fails to beat its Spell Resistance (SR).

Prerequisite: Innate Spell Resistance 10

Benefit: Once per round as a readied action, the creature can reflect any spell or spell-like ability that fails to beat its SR back towards its original caster. If the spell or spell-like ability cannot normally be reflected by spell turning, the creature's SR has its standard affect against the spell or spell-like ability instead. The creature's readied action is wasted if no spell beats its SR prior to its next action, although the feat can be readied again.

Special: If using the default Psionics-Magic Transparency option, this feat is interchangeable with the resistance power turning feat.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.50)

Resistance: Divination[edit]

Monster

The creature can apply its Spell Resistance (SR) or Power Resistance (PR) against divinations.

Prerequisite: Innate Spell Resistance 10 or Innate Power Resistance 10

Benefit: All spells and spell-like abilities from the divination school of magic must beat the creature's SR or PR in order to discover anything about it.

Normal: SR and PR does not normally apply to spells and spell-like abilities from the divination school.

Special: Characters that gain SR by race (like drow) can choose this feat as a Special feat. Creatures with PR can only use this feat if the default Psionics-Magic Transparency option is used, in which case this feat also extends your SR to resist all psionic powers from the telepathy and clairsentience disciplines.

Notes: This feat was formerly known as Spell Resistance: Divination.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Resistance: Illusion[edit]

Monster

The creature can apply its Spell Resistance (SR) or Power Resistance (PR) against illusions.

Prerequisite: Innate Spell Resistance 10 or Innate Power Resistance 10

Benefit: All spells and spell-like abilities from the illusion school of magic must beat the creature's SR or PR in order to deceive the creature. This is checked whenever the creature would have the opportunity to interact with the illusion - e.g. if an invisible object is within the field of view of the creature.

Normal: SR and PR does not normally apply against spells and spell-like abilities from the illusion school that deceive the senses.

Special: Creatures with PR can only use this feat if the default Psionics-Magic Transparency option is used.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Restore Effort[edit]

Magical

You can resume concentration on a spell you have ceased concentrating on.

Prerequisite: Mindless Effort

Benefit: You may resume concentration on a spell that has been cast using the Mindless Effort feat, regardless of whether you chose to stop concentrating or you lost it through taking damage or some other effect. You must resume the spell before it expires or the duration ends, and the normal duration of the spell is unaltered.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.36 (Purp 4.40, Pow 4.40, Port 4.80, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.20)

Resuscitation[edit]

General

Your understanding of medicine is so great that you can resuscitate fallen comrades.

Prerequisite: Skill Focus (heal), Heal 12 ranks

Benefit: You can restore a target creature to life that has fallen to -10 hp or below. This requires a full round action which provokes an attack of opportunity. The attempt must be made within 10 rounds of the victim falling below -10 hit points. You must make a Heal check and the target must make a Fortitude saving throw; both with a DC equal to the number of hp the target has fallen below 0 (so a character at -16 hp has a DC 16). If you are both successful, the target is revived and stabilized at -9 hp but permanently loses one level (or 1 Hit Dice), or if the target is level 1 it loses 2 Constitution. This loss can not be restored or repaired by any means. If either roll fails, you cannot try resuscitating this target until they are brought back to life by some other means.

Special: This can only be used on a victim that has died from loss of hit points and only if the body could conceivable sustain life.

Notes: Unlike Raise Dead this spell does not cure disease, poison, stat damage or any effect other than hit point loss.

Balance: 3.53 (Purp 3.67, Pow 3.33, Port 3.33, Comp 3.33, Rule 4.00)

Return Shot[edit]

You can return incoming arrows, as well as crossbow bolts, spears, and other projectile or thrown weapons.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, Psionic Shot, Fell Shot, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus and have at least one hand free. Once per round when you would normally be hit by a projectile or a thrown weapon no more than one size category larger than your size, you can deflect the attack so that you take no damage from it. The attack is deflected back at your attacker, using the attack bonus of the original attack on you. You must be aware of the attack and not flat-footed. Attempting to return a shot is a free action.

Special: If you also have the Deflect Arrows feat, the deflected attack is made with the original attack bonus plus your Dexterity bonus.

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.25)

Reverse Strike[edit]

Your mastery of the double-weapon allows you to strike out at opponents just when they thought they had you at a disadvantage.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6, Two-weapon Fighting, Dex 15

Benefit: When wielding a double weapon you can make an Attack of Opportunity with the off-hand part of the double weapon against any foe who strikes at you from a “flanking” position.

Special: You get no attack of opportunity against opponents who receive flanking bonuses without being in the regular flanking position because they have some special ability.

Notes: This feat works even if the foe would not receive any flanking bonuses for some reason - such as if you have uncanny dodge.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.50, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.75)

Ride-by Attack[edit]

You can ride past a target you are charging.

Prerequisite: Mounted Combat, Ride 1 rank

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

Special: A fighter may select Ride-By Attack as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Notes: When using ride by attack, your movement path for the charge should be such that you pass within striking range of your target, not such that you are charging directly at your target (as with a normal charge). This is because you can not move through a space occupied by an enemy and thus if you were to charge them in the normal manner you would not be able to continue your movement as the feat indicates is possible.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Righteous Strike[edit]

Epic, Special

Your fists are charged with the power of law.

Prerequisite: Wis 19, Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist, Any lawful alignment

Benefit: Your unarmed strike is treated as an axiomatic weapon (it is lawfully aligned and deals an extra 2d6 points of damage against creatures of chaotic alignment). This ability doesn’t stack with similar abilities.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Riposte[edit]

After deflecting your opponent's blow, you quickly attack while they are over extended.

Prerequisite: Combat Expertise, Weapon Finesse, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When unencumbered, in light armor or less, and using a weapon with Weapon Finesse, you may make an attack of opportunity against an opponent who tries to attack you in melee and misses.

Special: This feat cannot be used if you are denied your Dexterity bonus to AC. You cannot use other feats that allow extra attacks (such as Cleave) with a riposte.

Notes: This is a fencing technique, and fits well in a renaissance-style game.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Ritual Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You may reduce the power required for a spell by casting it as a six-hour ritual.

Benefit: A spell with a normal casting time of ten minutes or less can be cast as a ritual with a casting time of six hours. The ritual also requires a number of (unskilled) helpers equal to the spell level and must be conducted in a suitable place appropriate to the spell, such as a temple or wizard's sanctum. The benefit is that the spell takes up a spell slot one level lower than normal.

Special: If you have an appropriate sacrifice, perform the ritual at the right time in the right place, or have an artifact or item of power or the ritual fits in the story, the DM may reduce the required spell slot even further. This feat is recommended for evil NPCs, whose terrible rituals the PCs must stop.

Notes: This is particularly useful to divine spellcasters, who know high-level spells but normally just can't cast them. Many cleric spells do very well as rituals. Wizards can learn spells of a level they cannot normally cast, but must scribe it using the standard rules, not take it for free when they go up in level. Sorcerers and Bards can never learn spells that they cannot normally cast, and thus find this feat almost useless.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Robust Health[edit]

Your robust health makes you tougher than normal.

Prerequisite: Endurance

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to your Constitution for the purposes of determining hit points only.

Special: Any creature that does not have a Constitution score, such as undead, may not take this feat. This feat grants virtual access to the Toughness feat, allowing you to take other feats for which Toughness is a prerequisite.

Comments: This feat was intended as a replacement for Toughness which some feel is too weak to be worthwhile. You generally wouldn't use both in the same game.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.50)

Rope Climber[edit]

General

You are as comfortable climbing ropes and rigging as you are walking on the ground.

Prerequisite: Dex 13

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on all Balance and Climb skill checks so long as ropes and rigging are involved. Thus, making your way up to a crow's nest would qualify for the bonus, but climbing a sheer rock cliff would not. In addition, if you are attacked while climbing a rope or rigging, you may choose to negate either the attacker's +2 bonus or the loss of your Dexterity bonus to AC, but not both).

Balance: 3.36 (Purp 3.20, Pow 3.00, Port 3.00, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.00)

Routine Combat Casting[edit]

Magical

You are able to maintain your concentration even when threatened in combat.

Prerequisite: Combat Casting, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: You automatically succeed at any Concentration checks made to cast a spell defensively.

Comments: The author originally titled this feat "Improved Combat Casting" but the name was recently used in the 3.5 SRD feat set, so the NBOF staff renamed it.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.50, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.00)

Ruinous Rage[edit]

Epic, Rage

You are good a breaking things when in a rage.

Prerequisite: Str 25, Improved Sunder, Power Attack, Rage 5/day

Benefit: While in a rage, you ignore the hardness of any object you strike. Also, double your Strength bonus for the purposes of any Strength check made to break an object with sudden force rather than by dealing normal damage (including bursting bindings, such as ropes or manacles).

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Run[edit]

General

You can run very quickly.

Benefit: When running, you move five times your normal speed (if wearing medium, light, or no armor and carrying no more than a medium load) or four times your speed (if wearing heavy armor or carrying a heavy load). If you make a jump after a running start (see the Jump skill description), you gain a +4 bonus on your Jump check. While running, you retain your Dexterity bonus to AC.

Normal: You move four times your speed while running (if wearing medium, light, or no armor and carrying no more than a medium load) or three times your speed (if wearing heavy armor or carrying a heavy load), and you lose your Dexterity bonus to AC.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Running Attack[edit]

You are especially fast and maneuverable on the battlefield.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Run, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: As a full round action you may move twice your current speed and then make a single melee attack with a -2 penalty to hit.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Sacred Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can suffuse your spell with divine power.

Benefit: Half of the damage dealt by a sacred spell results directly from divine power and is therefore not subject to being reduced by protection from elements or similar magic. The other half of the damage dealt by the spell is as normal. A sacred spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell’s actual level. Only divine spells can be cast as sacred spells.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Sage[edit]

General

You have a better ability to remember information.

Prerequisite: 5 ranks in any 2 Knowledge skills

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to all Knowledge skills

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Savage Critical[edit]

Your critical hits are more powerful.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, Base attack bonus +5, Weapon Focus

Benefit: The critical damage multiplier for the selected weapon is increased by one.

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

Notes: This feat is more powerful for low multiplier, large crit range weapons.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.60, Port 4.20, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.20)

Scribe Epic Scroll[edit]

Epic, Item Creation

You can scribe scrolls of epic level.

Prerequisite: Scribe Scroll, Knowledge (arcana) 24 ranks, Spellcraft 24 ranks

Benefit: You can scribe scrolls that exceed the normal limits for such items. Even this feat does not allow you to scribe a scroll with an epic spell.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.75)

Scribe Scroll[edit]

You can create magic scrolls.

Prerequisite: Caster level 1st

Benefit: You can create a scroll of any spell that you know. Scribing a scroll takes one day for each 1,000 gp in its base price. The base price of a scroll is its spell level x its caster level x 25 gp. To scribe a scroll, you must spend 1/25 of this base price in XP and use up raw materials costing one-half of this base price. Any scroll that stores a spell with a costly material component or an XP cost also carries a commensurate cost. In addition to the costs derived from the base price, you must expend the material component or pay the XP when scribing the scroll.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 5.00)

Scribe Tattoo[edit]

Item Creation, Psionic

You can create psionic tattoos, which store powers within their designs.

Prerequisite: Manifester level 3rd

Benefit: You can create a psionic tattoo of any power of 3rd level or lower that you know and that targets one or more creatures. Scribing a psionic tattoo takes one day. When you create a psionic tattoo, you set the manifester level. The manifester level must be sufficient to manifest the power in question and no higher than your own level. The base price of a psionic tattoo is its power level x its manifester level x 50 gp. To scribe a tattoo, you must spend 1/25 of this base price in XP and use up raw materials (special inks, masterwork needles, and so on) costing one-half of this base price. When you create a psionic tattoo, you make any choices that you would normally make when manifesting the power. When its wearer physically activates the tattoo, the wearer is the target of the power. Any psionic tattoo that stores a power with an XP cost also carries a commensurate cost. In addition to the costs derived from the base price, you must pay the XP when creating the tattoo.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Scroll Mastery[edit]

You have mastered the art of casting powerful spells from scrolls.

Prerequisite: Spellcasting ability

Benefit: You get a +4 bonus on caster level checks to activate scrolls of a caster level higher than your own, but you still fail on a natural roll of 1.

Balance: 4.53 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.00, Port 4.67, Comp 4.67, Rule 5.00)

Sea Dog[edit]

General

You have a knack for endeavors relating to sea travel.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Profession (sailor) and Use Rope skill checks.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.25, Pow 4.00, Port 3.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Seduction[edit]

General

You are good at using your sexual charms.

Benefit: Sex sells, and friends can be won by seduction. You get a +4 bonus to Bluff and Diplomacy attempts against people who find your race and gender sexually attractive. After you use this feat, some people might seek to be intimate with you. They will resent a blunt rejection, worsening their attitude by one step.

Notes: Using this feat a lot might gain you some notoriety. This feat is probably not appropriate in a campaign involving children as players.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Self Item[edit]

Magical

You may create items with powers linked to you.

Prerequisite: Any craft permanent item feat such as Craft Rod, Craft Wondrous Item or Forge Ring

Benefit: A magic item created with one of the prerequisite feats can be made as a Self Item. In this case, the XP cost for the item is reduced to 75% of normal (rounded up to the nearest whole number), but the item will work only for its creator. If somebody other than the item’s creator attempts to use it, the item is completely inert. If the item is ever destroyed, the creator will lose XP equal to full, normal XP cost to make the item; this can cause the creator to lose a level of experience. Charged items cannot be made using this feat.

Special: In campaigns using Psionics this feat can also be used in the creation of non-charged psionic items.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.56 (Purp 3.30, Pow 3.60, Port 4.00, Comp 3.60, Rule 3.30)

Self-concealment[edit]

Epic, Stealth

You can partly conceal your location at all times.

Prerequisite: Dex 30, Hide 30 ranks, Tumble 30 ranks, Improved evasion

Benefit: Attacks against you have a 10% miss chance, similar to the effect of concealment. You loses this benefit whenever you would lose your Dexterity bonus to AC.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Each time it is taken, the miss chance increases by 10% to a maximum of 50% after it has been taken five times.

Comments: Note that the sneak attack description specifically mentions it does not work against creatures with concealment, whereas this feat is only ‘similar to the effect of concealment’. Therefore the Netbook of Feats team believes that this feat is not effective in stopping sneak attacks.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.25)

Self-sufficient[edit]

General

You know how to take care of yourself.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Heal checks and Survival checks.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Sense Magic[edit]

General

You have a highly developed sensitivity to magic

Prerequisite: Spellcraft 1 rank

Benefit: You can sense whether an object you are handling or a creature you are touching is magical or under the effects of a spell - the very air might be magical in some places. As a full-round action, you can tell whether an item is magical with a Spellcraft check (DC 20). A success informs you if there is magic present; a failure indicates that it is not.

Special: You cannot retry, take 10, or take 20 when using this feat.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.06 (Purp 3.80, Pow 4.00, Port 4.10, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.10)

Sense Of Maturity[edit]

General, Trait

You have learned as you matured.

Prerequisite: Middle Age

Benefit: You start with 6 extra skill points.

Special: This feat may only be taken at first level.

Notes: The SRD age rules allow starting at Middle Age.

Balance: 3.60 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.25, Port 3.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Shadowleap[edit]

Special

You are adept at jumping between shadows.

Prerequisite: Shadow Jump

Benefit: Add an extra 20 feet to the distance that you can shadow jump per day.

Normal: Shadow jump is a class ability of the Shadowdancer prestige class, first gained at 4th level.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times. Each additional Shadowleap feat adds an extra 20 feet to the distance that you can shadow jump per day.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.20, Port 4.00, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.20)

Shape Wall[edit]

Metamagic

You can shape your wall spells to turn corners, climb hills, or descend into valleys.

Benefit: You can shape a wall spell. This gives the wall spell description the Shapeable ability. Thus, your walls can turn corners, climb hills, or descend into valleys (though the wall still cannot move). You can create a wall with any or all of the modifications listed below. The wall created need not be vertical, nor rest upon any firm foundation; however, it must merge with and be solidly supported by existing structures. A wall that already has the Shapeable ability can now have no dimension smaller than 5 feet. You cannot create fine detail with this feat (such as arrow slits) nor can you create a wall that encloses an area on more than two sides A Shape Wall spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.

Normal: You can only shape a wall spell if it has the Shapeable designation at the end of its Area or Effect entry.

Balance: 4.13 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.33, Port 4.33, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Sharp-shooting[edit]

You can minimize the effects of an opponents cover.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: Your targets only receive a +2 bonus to Armor class due to cover. This feat has no effect against foes with no cover or total cover.

Normal: Cover normally gives a +4 bonus to AC.

Special: A fighter may select Sharp-Shooting as one of his bonus feats.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Shatter The Glass Ceiling[edit]

Magical

Though taxing, you can amaze your tutors and cast spells beyond your normal ability to do so.

Benefit: Choose one spellcasting class. For the purposes of determining the maximum spell level that you can cast in your chosen class only, treat your spellcasting attribute as two points higher than its actual value.

Special: This feat can be taken more than once and stacks with itself. When selected, you can apply it to a different spellcasting class or increase your existing benefit by an additional +2 in a class previously selected with this feat.

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 3.25, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Shattering Strike[edit]

Epic, Special

You can break things using sudden force.

Prerequisite: Epic Weapon Focus (unarmed Strike), Weapon Focus (unarmed Strike), Concentration 25 ranks, Ki strike (adamantine)

Benefit: When using an unarmed strike to attempt to break an object with sudden force (rather than by dealing normal damage), make a Concentration check rather than a Strength check. The break DC remains the same. Using Shattering Strike is a full-round action that incurs attacks of opportunity. You can’t use Shattering Strike to escape bonds (unless you are so bound as to allow you to make an unarmed strike against your bindings).

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Shield Agility[edit]

You suffer fewer penalties when using a shield.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: You may ignore certain penalties when wielding shields depending on their type. With a buckler you do not suffer the -1 to hit when wielding a weapon in that hand. With a light shield you may use your shield hand for somatic gestures or activating magic items (although any arcane spell failure values still apply). With a heavy shield you may hold items in your shield hand as you would with a light shield. With a tower shield you do not suffer the -2 penalty to your to hit rolls when wearing it.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.50, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.25)

Shield Cover[edit]

You can use your shield to prevent an opponent from making attacks of opportunity against you.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility, Shield Proficiency

Benefit: When using a heavy shield (or tower shield if you have Tower Shield Proficiency) you can select one opponent as a free action once per round. Your movement in this round will not trigger any attacks of opportunity from that opponent.

Special: You can only use this ability against opponents against which you get to apply your Dexterity bonus to armor class.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.28 (Purp 4.60, Pow 3.60, Port 4.30, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.60)

Shield Defender[edit]

You can shield your friends in combat.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6, Shield Proficiency

Benefit: As a move action when using any shield other than a buckler, you may give any adjacent ally a +2 bonus to armor class. This bonus lasts until the start of your next action so long as neither you nor the recipient moves before that time.

Balance: 4.08 (Purp 3.80, Pow 4.20, Port 4.20, Comp 3.80, Rule 4.40)

Shield Edge Deflection[edit]

You have learned to use your shield to stop touch attacks.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +4, Shield Mastery

Benefit: When wielding a shield you have Shield Mastery for, your shield’s AC bonus counts against touch attacks from corporeal opponents.

Normal: Shield AC bonus does not count against touch attacks.

Special: You can not use this feat if flat-footed or otherwise have been denied your Dex bonus to armor class.

Balance: 3.44 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.20, Port 3.40, Comp 3.60, Rule 3.00)

Shield Evasion[edit]

You gain a limited evasion ability when using a large shield.

Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency, Lightning Reflexes, Base reflex saving throw +4

Benefit: You must be using a heavy shield or tower shield to use this feat. If exposed to any effect that normally allows a Reflex saving throw for half damage, you take no damage with a successful saving throw. If you roll a natural 1 on your saving throw, both you and your shield take the full impact of the blast. On any other roll, the shield escapes unharmed.

Notes: Like all objects, shields take half damage from electricity and fire and only one-quarter damage from cold.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Shield Expertise[edit]

You get extra benefit from your shield.

Prerequisite: Shield Focus

Benefit: Your shield’s armor bonus is increased by 1 when you wield it.

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.75, Port 3.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.75)

Shield Focus[edit]

You use shields without effort.

Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: When using any shield with which you have proficiency your armour check penalty is reduced by one and your arcane spell failure chance by 5%. This cannot reduce the penalties to sub-zero levels.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Shield Harmony[edit]

You absorb the brunt of incoming damage with your shield.

Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency, Base attack bonus +12

Benefit: While using and receiving the armor class benefits of a shield, you gain a damage reduction of 1/-, which stacks with any other damage reduction you may have.

Balance: 4.07 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 3.00)

Shield Mastery[edit]

You are especially proficient in blocking attacks with your shield.

Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: When using a buckler, light shield or heavy shield, you may choose one opponent. Against this opponent, you gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC. You may select a new opponent each round. You may not use this feat if you are flanked.

Special: You also gain the benefit of this feat when using a tower shield if you have Tower Shield Proficiency, but only if you are not using it for cover.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.04 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.30, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.30)

Shield Proficiency[edit]

You are proficient in the use of shields.

Benefit: You can use a shield and take only the standard penalties.

Normal: When you are using a shield with which you are not proficient, you take the shield’s armor check penalty on attack rolls and on all skill checks that involve moving, including Ride checks.

Special: Barbarians, bards, clerics, druids, fighters, paladins, and rangers automatically have Shield Proficiency as a bonus feat. They need not select it.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Shield Rush[edit]

You use your shield to help in bull rushing opponents.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, Shield Proficiency, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: When you bull rush while wielding a small, medium, or tower shield you may add your shield’s total AC bonus to your opposed strength check instead of your Armor Class until the beginning of your next action.

Notes: Improved Shield Bash does not allow you to retain your shields bonus to your AC while using this feat.

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 3.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.75)

Shield Skill[edit]

You are particularly skilled at defending yourself with a shield.

Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: When using a shield and fighting defensively or using the total defense combat option, you gain an additional +2 dodge bonus to AC. If you are using a heavy shield you also gain a +2 cover bonus to Reflex saves.

Special: You gain the same benefits as if you were using a heavy shield when using this feat with a tower shield if you have Tower Shield Proficiency. A fighter may select Shield Skill as a fighter bonus feat.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.48 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.60, Port 4.80, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.40)

Shield Undead[edit]

Special

Undead under your control or command are resistant to the turn/rebuke attempts of others.

Prerequisite: Ability to rebuke undead, Undead Mastery

Benefit: Undead under your control or command increase their Turn Resistance by +2 when resisting the turn or rebuke attempts of others.

Special: This feat can be taken more than once, each time increasing the Turn Resistance of undead under your control or command by +2 when resisting the turn/rebuke attempts of others.

Balance: 4.67 (Purp 4.67, Pow 4.33, Port 4.67, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.67)

Shot On The Run[edit]

You can shoot while moving.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, Dodge, Mobility, Base attack bonus +4, Dex 13

Benefit: When using the attack action with a ranged weapon, you can move both before and after the attack, provided that your total distance moved is not greater than your speed.

Special: A fighter may select Shot on the Run as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Show Of Faith[edit]

General

Your display of devotion to a divine power grants you some protection against the undead.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Knowledge (religion) 6 ranks

Benefit: As a standard action you may make a show of faith. Any undead within 60’ and with a line of sight must make a will save with a DC of 10 + half your Hit Dice + your Charisma bonus. Any undead that fail may not attack you until you take a hostile action against it or until 1 round/level has passed. Any undead that successfully make their save are immune to the effects of this feat for the duration of the encounter. You can do this a number of times per day equal to your Charisma bonus.

Special: To perform this feat you must hold your religious symbol in your hand and you must be a member of good standing in your faith.

Notes: Unlike turn undead, this ability protects you and only you from the undead in question; they are otherwise free to eat your friends or go about their undead business.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 3.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Sidestep Charge[edit]

You are skilled at dodging past charging opponents and taking advantage when they miss.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Dodge

Benefit: You get a +4 dodge bonus to Armor Class against charge attacks. If a charging opponent fails to make a successful attack against you, you gain an immediate attack of opportunity. This feat does not grant you more attacks of opportunity than you are normally allowed in a round. If you are flat-footed or otherwise denied your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class, you do not gain the benefit of this feat.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Signature Focus[edit]

Metamagic

You may replace many costly material components with a special focus item.

Prerequisite: Eschew Materials

Benefit: You may craft (or have made for you) a special item that you declare as your Signature Focus. You must have the Signature Focus item in your possession for one continuous week before it can be used for this feat. If you do not have your Signature Focus in hand, you cannot prepare spells with this feat, or cast spells that have been prepared using it. If you lose your Signature Focus item, if it is broken or destroyed, or if you wish to have a more costly Signature Focus, a new focus may be crafted. You may have only one Signature Focus Item at a time. A Signature Focus must be a non-magical item. The item used must have a value of at least 100gp, and it must be distinctive in appearance. You may use your Signature Focus as a spell focus, replacing any material components for spells prepared with this feat. The maximum value of material components that you can ignore is half the value of the focus, but no more than 25gp per caster level. A Signature Focus spell takes up a spell slot of the spell’s normal level, modified by any other metamagic feats.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.76 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 4.60, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.60)

Silent Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast a spell without speaking.

Benefit: A silent spell can be cast with no verbal components. Spells without verbal components are not affected. A silent spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell’s actual level.

Special: Bard spells cannot be enhanced by this metamagic feat.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Silver Spoon[edit]

Trait

You were born into some privilege and your character starts out with a monetary advantage

Benefit: When creating your character you start with double the maximum starting gold for your class.

Special: This feat may only be taken at first level.

Notes: This can be a big advantage for a low-level warrior type character, but it quickly evaporates as the game progresses.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.54 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.20, Port 3.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 3.00)

Simple Weapon Proficiency[edit]

General

You are proficient in simple weapons.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with simple weapons normally.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a –4 penalty on attack rolls.

Special: All characters except for druids, monks, and wizards are automatically proficient with all simple weapons. They need not select this feat.

Balance: 4.90 (Purp 4.50, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Skill Focus[edit]

General

Choose a skill.

Benefit: You get a +3 bonus on all checks involving that skill.

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

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team agrees with the upgrade of this feat from +2 to +3. The edition 3.0 version of this feat had an overall balance score of only 4.10.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 4.50, Pow 5.00, Port 4.50, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Skill Mastery[edit]

General

You have mastered the basics of a skill, and can move on to the advanced parts.

Prerequisite: Skill Focus And 5 Ranks In The Focused Skill

Benefit: You gain an additional +3 bonus on all checks involving this skill

Special: This feat can be taken several times, but does not stack with itself. Each time it is taken, it must be applied to a separate skill.

Notes: This stacks with Skill Focus. It incorporates the Skill Perfection feat from earlier versions of the Netbook of Feats.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Skilled Multiclass[edit]

General

You treat the class skills of all of your classes as class skills when you gain a new level.

Prerequisite: Multiclassed character

Benefit: Regardless of which class you advance when you gain a new level, you can treat the class skills of all of your classes as class skills when buying new skills.

Normal: When a multiclassed character advances in level, only the class skills of the class increased in level are treated as class skills for purposes of buying new skills. All other skills, including the class skills of the multiclassed character's other classes, are treated as cross-class skills.

Balance: 3.87 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.67, Port 3.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 3.67)

Skip Shot[edit]

Modern

You can skip a bullet off a hard surface to hit an opponent with cover.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot

Benefit: If you have a solid, relatively smooth surface on which to skip a bullet (such as a street or a concrete wall), and a target within 10 feet of that surface, you may ignore cover between you and the target. However, you receive a –2 penalty on your attack roll, and your attack deals –1 die of damage.

Special: The surface doesn’t have to be perfectly smooth and level; a brick wall or an asphalt road can be used. The target can have no more than nine-tenths cover to attempt a skip shot.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.75, Port 3.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Skirmishing[edit]

You have mastered the art of skirmishing, ducking and weaving while returning accurate shots of your own.

Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot, Dodge, Mobility, Shot On The Run, Dex 13, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: When you make a ranged attack or reload a missile weapon, and move at least 5 ft. while doing so, you get a +2 dodge bonus to Armor Class until the beginning of your next action.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Slander[edit]

General

You speak with a poisoned tongue.

Benefit: You can attempt to undermine the words of others with subtle character assassination. To use slander you must make a Diplomacy check and select an individual or closely associated group you wish to slander. Reference the table below to see how the target’s attitude changes. If the attitude to the target improves, their attitude towards you worsens by one step. Slander takes at least a minute; it can be done hurriedly as a full-round action at a -10 penalty.

	Initial Attitude
New Attitude (DC to achieve)	Helpful	Friendly	Indifferent	Unfriendly	Hostile
Helpful	Less Than 20	20	25	35	50
Friendly	Less Than 5	5	15	25	40
Indifferent	-	Less Than 1	1	15	30
Unfriendly	-	-	Less than 1	1	20
Hostile	-	-	-	Less than 1	1

Attitude	Means	Possible Actions
Hostile	Will take risks to hurt you	Attack, interfere, berate, flee
Unfriendly	Wishes you ill	Mislead, gossip, avoid, watch suspiciously, insult
Indifferent	Doesn’t much care	Socially expected interaction
Friendly	Wishes you well	Chat, advise, offer limited help, advocate
Helpful	Will take risks to help you	Protect, back up, heal, aid

Target’s Attitude to You	DC Modifier
Helpful	-10
Friendly	-5
Indifferent	0
Unfriendly	+5
Hostile	+10

Special: The target need not be present. Someone, including the target, who is present while you slander can make an opposed Diplomacy check; success negates the slander.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Sleep Tight[edit]

General

Your mind is well guarded when you sleep.

Benefit: When you are asleep or unconscious, you receive a +4 bonus to all Will saving throws. If the effect is restricted to sleeping/unconscious targets (e.g.: Nightmare), the bonus increases to +10.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 3.38, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.63, Rule 4.50)

Slow Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast spells more slowly to gain power.

Prerequisite: Any other metamagic feat

Benefit: Any spell with a casting time of a standard-action or less now has a 1-round casting time. The benefit is that the spell takes up a spell slot one level lower than normal. A spell can never become less than its original level through this feat, but the level modification for this feat can be used to offset the level increase from other metamagic feats.

Special: Spontaneous spellcasters can use this feat subject to the standard increase in casting time for the use of metamagic feats. As such a Bard using this feat in conjunction with another metamagic feat would require 1-round plus a full-round action in order to cast a spell that would normally require a standard action.

Notes: A 1-round casting time spell requires a full-round action and takes effect at the beginning of the caster's action on the round after it is cast. This is different from the metamagic cast time increase for spontaneous spellcasters, which only require a full-round action.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Smash Concentration[edit]

You may bash a single opponent into submission.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus (any One Smashing Weapon)

Benefit: You can only get the benefit of this feat with a smash weapon you have Weapon Focus in. Make one extra attack per round at your highest base attack. This requires the full attack action, and all your attacks for the round must use smash weapons and be directed at the same opponent – you may not attack anyone else for the remainder of the round. This includes attacks of opportunity.

Special: Smash weapons for the purpose of this feat include the club, gauntlet, greatclub, heavy mace, light hammer, light mace, morningstar, quarterstaff, sap, singham, unarmed strike, and warhammer.

Balance: 3.45 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.00, Port 3.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.25)

Smooth Talker[edit]

General

You have a natural talent for the con, able to convince "marks" from all walks of life.

Prerequisite: Cha 13

Benefit: You receive a +1 on Bluff, Diplomacy and Sense Motive checks.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.96 (Purp 3.20, Pow 3.80, Port 4.20, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.00)

Snatch[edit]

You can snatch up victims in your claws or jaws.

Prerequisite: Size Huge or larger

Benefit: The creature can choose to start a grapple when it hits with a claw or bite attack, as though it had the improved grab special attack. If the creature gets a hold on a creature three or more sizes smaller, it squeezes each round for automatic bite or claw damage. A snatched opponent held in the creature’s mouth is not allowed a Reflex save against the creature’s breath weapon, if it has one. The creature can drop a creature it has snatched as a free action or use a standard action to fling it aside. A flung creature travels 1d6 x 10 feet, and takes 1d6 points of damage per 10 feet traveled. If the creature flings a snatched opponent while flying, the opponent takes this amount or falling damage, whichever is greater.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Snatch Arrows[edit]

You can catch arrows and weapons directed at you and possibly throw them back.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Deflect Arrows, Improved Unarmed Strike

Benefit: When using the Deflect Arrows feat you may catch the weapon instead of just deflecting it. Thrown weapons can immediately be thrown back at the original attacker (even though it isn’t your turn) or kept for later use. You must have at least one hand free (holding nothing) to use this feat.

Special: A fighter may select Snatch Arrows as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Sneak Attack Of Opportunity[edit]

Epic, Stealth

You can sneak attack anyone who gives you an opening.

Prerequisite: Sneak attack 8d6, Opportunist class feature

Benefit: Any attack of opportunity you make is considered a sneak attack.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Song Magic[edit]

Song

There is magic in your music, allowing you to cast your spells without need of further material components.

Prerequisite: Bard level 1, Perform 3 ranks

Benefit: You can cast any bard spell without need for material components, using your ability to sing, recite or play a musical instrument to power the spell. You must still pay any XP cost required to cast the spell. Using Song Magic to cast any spell with a material component greater than 1 gp uses up one use of your bardic music ability for each 100gp of the normal component cost, rounded up.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.67, Comp 3.83, Rule 3.50)

Soothing Word[edit]

Divine

You are gifted with a calming voice that dispels anger and hostility.

Prerequisite: Cha 15, Ability to turn or rebuke undead

Benefit: By spending one of your turn or rebuke undead attempts, you may remove fear, hostility, or rage of any kind (including the barbarian ability). Roll a turning check and turning damage just as if you were turning or rebuking undead, but apply the result to living creatures. Raging creatures who are affected will immediately return to normal and become fatigued (if this would normally occur after raging) for the rest of the encounter, although they may enter a rage again on their turn if they are still able to do so that day. Hostile creatures affected by this feat will become Unfriendly, and will cease attacking as long as they are not threatened. They will become Hostile again after 1 minute unless you have convinced them that you are not threat in the meantime (such as through Diplomacy). Finally, if you target creatures affected by a fear effect, they may re-roll their saving throw as if they had just been targeted by the effect. Target creatures that are immune to mind-affecting spells are also immune to all Soothing Word effects.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.50)

Soul-mate[edit]

You share an empathic link with your lover.

Benefit: You and another person (usually your lover) must willingly join your souls, meaning each of you must take this feat at the same time (normally during a religious ceremony; typically a wedding). Each of you will always sense the emotional state and general health of the other, whatever the distance may be between you. You gain a +10 insight bonus to Bluff and Sense Motive checks with your soul-mate. In addition, you are as opposed to harming or betraying your soul-mate as you are to killing yourself – which will render seduction and many compulsion spells ineffective.

Special: If your soul-mate is murdered you gain a +2 moral bonus on all rolls necessary to exact revenge on the murderer.

Notes: The main benefit (at least from a role-playing perspective) of this feat is that love between two soul-mates is exquisitely better than any mundane love affair. Bluff and Sense Motive can be used to communicate silently without others understanding the messages.

Balance: 3.36 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.80, Port 2.80, Comp 2.80, Rule 3.20)

Spear And Shield[edit]

You have trained in the use of a two-handed spear and shield together

Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency

Benefit: You can use spear or longspear together with a shield of any size (including a tower shield if you have Tower Shield Proficiency), despite the fact that these are two-handed weapons.

Notes: This feat is right at home in ancient Greece, where hypaspists used it. The shield is slung over the shoulder and maneuvered with the offhand that simultaneously holds the spear.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.50, Port 3.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Spectral Strike[edit]

Epic, Special

You can hit incorporeal creatures.

Prerequisite: Wis 19, Ability to turn or rebuke undead

Benefit: Your attacks deal damage normally against incorporeal creatures.

Normal: Without this feat, even attacks that can damage an incorporeal creature have a 50% chance to deal no damage.

Comments: There is a feeling amongst the Netbook of Feats team that Cha, rather than Wis, would be a better prerequisite bearing in mind what those attributes are normally associated with.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Speed Of Thought[edit]

Psionic

The energy of your mind energizes the alacrity of your body.

Prerequisite: Wis 13

Benefit: As long as you are psionically focused and not wearing heavy armor, you gain an insight bonus to your speed of 10 feet.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.25)

Speed Reader[edit]

General

You are capable of reading the written word very quickly.

Prerequisite: Decipher Script 4 ranks, Int 13

Benefit: You are able to read a single page of written material as a full round action.

Normal: It takes you one minute to read a single page of written material.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.50, Pow 2.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Spell Defense[edit]

General

You have learned to shield yourself from magic, dodge spells at the last second or use some sort of folk ritual to protect yourself from magical attack.

Prerequisite: Knowledge (arcana) 5 ranks

Benefit: When using the Total Defense action, you can forgo the +4 dodge bonus normally granted to your AC in order to gain a +4 circumstance bonus on your saving throws against spells, supernatural abilities and spell like effects.

Balance: 4.47 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.33, Port 4.67, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.67)

Spell Focus[edit]

General

Choose a school of magic.

Benefit: Add +1 to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws against spells from the school of magic you select.

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

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Spell Knowledge[edit]

Epic, Magical

You learn two new arcane spells.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells of the maximum normal spell level of an arcane spellcasting class

Benefit: You learn two new arcane spells of any level up to the maximum level you can cast. This feat does not grant any additional spell slots.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times.

Comments: This feat should state that it does not allow you to learn spells not normally accessible, e.g. spells in the forbidden school of a specialist wizard.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Spell Mastery[edit]

Special

You can memorize selected spells without a spell book.

Prerequisite: Wizard level 1st

Benefit: Each time you take this feat, choose a number of spells equal to your Intelligence modifier that you already know. From that point on, you can prepare these spells without referring to a spellbook.

Normal: Without this feat, you must use a spellbook to prepare all your spells, except read magic.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 3.75)

Spell Opportunity[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can cast touch spells when making an attack of opportunity.

Prerequisite: Combat Casting, Combat Reflexes, Quicken Spell, Spellcraft 25 ranks

Benefit: Whenever you are allowed an attack of opportunity, you may cast (and attack with) a touch spell as your attack of opportunity. This incurs attacks of opportunity just as if you had cast the spell normally.

Normal: Without this feat, a character can only make a melee attack as an attack of opportunity.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Spell Penetration[edit]

General

You are good at overcoming an opponents spell defenses.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on caster level checks (1d20 + caster level) made to overcome a creature’s spell resistance.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Spell Stowaway[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can gain the benefits of another casters spell.

Prerequisite: Spellcraft 24 ranks, Caster level 12th

Benefit: Choose a spell-like ability you know, or a spell you can cast. You are attuned to the magic you choose. If another spellcaster within 300 feet of youuses this magic, you also immediately gains the magic’s effect as if it had been used on you by the same caster. You must have direct line of effect to the spellcaster in order to gain the benefit of the attuned magic (though you do not have to know the spellcaster is present, and you can be flat-footed). The magic’s duration, effect, and other specifics are determined by its original caster’s level.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time a character takes the feat, it applies to a different spell or spell-like ability.

Comments: Spelling error ('cam' vs 'can') corrected. The Netbook of Feats team believes that this feat is easily abuseable, as well as being a book-keeping nightmare for the DM.

Balance: 3.25 (Purp 4.00, Pow 2.75, Port 3.50, Comp 2.75, Rule 3.25)

Spell Touch[edit]

Magical

You can now hit enemies passing by with spells as well as melee attacks.

Prerequisite: The ability to cast spells as a free action

Benefit: You can make an attack of opportunity using a quickened touch spell if you have one hand free. Spell Touch does not preclude the normal casting of a spell during the same round, but it can be used only once per round, regardless of your ability to make multiple attacks of opportunity.

Normal: Attacks of opportunity do not involve casting spells.

Notes: To make use of this feat a Wizard would need to have memorized a quickened touch spell (using a spell slot of 4 levels higher than normal). Sorcerers or Bards are not so restricted but the twin requirements of Quicken Spell and Metaffinity ensures that a spell slot of 5 levels higher than normal would be required. The Epic feat Spell Opportunity is an alternative feat that has a similar benefit.

Balance: 4.60 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.67, Port 4.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 5.00)

Spell Toughness[edit]

General

Choose a school of magic, such as Evocation; you are better able to resist hostile effects from this school

Prerequisite: Base save bonus (any) +4

Benefit: Against spells from the chosen school, you get a +2 bonus to all saving throws.

Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new school of magic.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.30, Port 4.30, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.60)

Spellcasting Harrier[edit]

Epic

You can always attack spellcasters who are casting defensively.

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes

Benefit: Any spellcaster you threatens in melee provokes an attack of opportunity if they tries to cast defensively. You gets a +4 bonus on this attack roll.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.50)

Spinning Attack[edit]

You make a sweeping attack which may hit a secondary target.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +3, Weapon Finesse

Benefit: On your first attack each round, if you miss your intended target you may make an additional attack roll on a different opponent in your threatened area. The second attack has a -2 penalty to hit.

Notes: You do not need to use a finesse weapon to use this feat despite it being a prerequisite.

Balance: 3.53 (Purp 3.33, Pow 2.67, Port 3.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 3.67)

Spinning Weapon Defense[edit]

Your mastery of the double-weapon has developed into a dance-like fighting style that makes you difficult to flank successfully.

Prerequisite: Combat Expertise, Dodge, Tumbling 5 ranks, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: You gain a +1 dodge bonus to your AC when executing a full attack action with a double weapon you are proficient with. Additionally, if you fight defensively, you cannot be flanked by attackers with less than 4 HD greater than your own.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.75, Port 3.75, Comp 3.25, Rule 4.00)

Spirit Of Vengeance[edit]

You exact vengeance from your enemies in blood

Benefit: Whenever an opponent wounds you in combat (deals damage to you), your next melee attack against that foe gets a +1 morale bonus to hit and damage. Once you receive this bonus to an attack, the foe must wound you again for you to gain the bonus again. If a foe wounds you multiple times before you attack them, you only gain the bonus once, and to a single attack.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 3.00, Pow 5.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Spirited[edit]

You are not afraid of larger foes and know how to hurt them.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to all melee damage rolls against opponents one or more size categories larger than yourself.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 3.75, Comp 4.13, Rule 4.38)

Spirited Charge[edit]

You can deal double damage with a mounted charge.

Prerequisite: Mounted Combat, Ride-by Attack, Ride 1 rank

Benefit: When mounted and using the charge action, you deal double damage with a melee weapon (or triple damage with a lance).

Special: A fighter may select Spirited Charge as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.90 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.50, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Spirited Dive[edit]

Monster, Fighter

The creature can perform a terrifying dive-bomb attack.

Prerequisite: Fly speed, Flyby Attack

Benefit: When performing a dive attack, the creature can inflict triple damage with a successful claw or weapon attack. Like a standard dive attack, the creature gains a +2 attack bonus but suffers a 2 penalty to AC when making this attack. The creature can still use its Flyby Attack feat when making a Spirited Dive.

Normal: All flying creatures can make diving claw attacks that inflict double damage and gain the benefits of a charge (+2 attack bonus, -2 penalty to AC).

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Spiritual Familiar[edit]

Special

Your familiar has shed its corporeal body.

Prerequisite: Familiar, Caster level 17

Benefit: Your familiar gains the Incorporeal subtype.

Balance: 4.07 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.33, Port 4.00, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.00)

Split Psionic Ray[edit]

You can affect two targets with a single ray.

Prerequisite: Any other metapsionic feat

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You can split psionic rays you manifest. The split ray affects any two targets that are both within the power’s range and within 30 feet of each other. If the ray deals damage, each target takes as much damage as a single target would take. Using this feat increases the power point cost of the power by 2.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Spontaneous Domain Access[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can convert any spell into a domain spell.

Prerequisite: Wis 25, Spellcraft 30 ranks, Ability to cast 9th-level divine spells

Benefit: Select a domain you have access to. You may spontaneously convert any prepared cleric spell (except a domain spell) into a domain spell of the same level in the selected domain, just as a cleric channels energy to convert spells into cure spells.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Each time a character takes the feat, it applies to a different domain.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Spontaneous Spell[edit]

Epic, Magical

You can substitute a selected spell for any other you know.

Prerequisite: Spellcraft 25 ranks, Ability to cast the maximum normal spell level of at least one spell-casting class

Benefit: Select a spell you can cast. You may spontaneously convert any prepared spell of the selected spell’s level into the selected spell, just as a cleric channels energy to convert spells into cure spells.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Each time he or she takes the feat, it applies to a different spell.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team believes that the benefit should be altered to '.. any prepared spell of the selected spell's level or higher into the selected spell...'.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Spontaneous Spell-like Casting[edit]

Monster, Magical

The creature is able to use its arcane or divine spell knowledge to power its spell-like abilities.

Prerequisite: Innate spell-like ability, Ability to cast spells

Benefit: The creature can use its class-derived spell slots or prepared spells to spontaneously cast any of its spell-like abilities in a manner similar to the way a cleric can spontaneously cast cure or inflict spells. This allows the creature to convert one of its spell slots or prepared spells of the same level or higher to power the casting of the spell-like ability without using up one of its spell-like ability uses per day. The spell-like ability must appear on the same spell list as the spell slot or prepared spell used to power the casting. A spontaneously cast spell-like ability requires a full-round action but does not require any material, somatic or verbal components.

Special: This feat cannot be used to spontaneously cast spell-like abilities that do not duplicate an existing spell or psionic power and hence have no effective level.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.50, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.25)

Spontaneously Convert Spell[edit]

Magical

You can expend a prepared spell in order to spontaneously cast a particular spell.

Prerequisite: Ability to prepare a spell without referring to a spell book, Inability to cast spell without prior preparation

Benefit: When you take this feat, you choose a spell that you can prepare ahead of time without referring to a spell book. Typically, this means a divine spell or a spell for which you have Spell Mastery. You can spontaneously cast that spell, or metamagic versions of it, in the same way that good clerics can spontaneously cast healing spells. That is, you can "lose" any prepared spell of equal or higher level to cast the chosen spell, even though you haven't prepared it ahead of time.

Normal: You must prepare the spell ahead of time in order to cast it.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time it allows you to choose a different spell that you can spontaneously cast.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 5.00, Pow 3.30, Port 4.60, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.00)

Spring Attack[edit]

You can leap in to attack and then back out again.

Prerequisite: Dodge, Mobility, Dex 13, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: When using the attack action with a melee weapon, you can move both before and after the attack, provided that your total distance moved is not greater than your speed. Moving in this way does not provoke an attack of opportunity from the defender you attack, though it might provoke attacks of opportunity from other creatures, if appropriate. You can’t use this feat if you are wearing heavy armor. You must move at least 5 feet both before and after you make your attack in order to utilize the benefits of Spring Attack.

Special: A fighter may select Spring Attack as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.75 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Stable Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You need not concentrate to maintain spells.

Benefit: Any Concentration note in the duration field of a spell is replaced with "1 round/level (D)", indicating that you do not need to concentrate on the spell in order to maintain it and may choose to end the spell with a standard action. A Stable Spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell's actual level.

Special: If you want to control aspects of the spell, such as controlling the movement of an illusion, you must still concentrate on it, although you can cease concentration (as a free action) and then regain it (as a standard action) in order to make these adjustments. If you don't concentrate, the spell effect will still remain, without changing in any way. If the spell has an additional duration after concentration ends this additional amount is added to the duration of the spell.

Example: Major image has a duration of Concentration + 3 rounds normally. A 10th level spellcaster using Stable Spell on major image would allow it to last for 13 rounds (with or without concentration), unless they chose to dismiss it earlier.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.75)

Stalwart Defender[edit]

Special, Racial

You are truly a dwarven bastion of strength.

Prerequisite: Dwarf, Defensive Stance ability, Base attack bonus +9

Benefit: You can use your Defensive Stance class ability one more time per day.

Special: You can take this feat more than once. Its effects stack.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 3.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Stand Still[edit]

You can prevent foes from fleeing or closing.

Prerequisite: Str 13

Benefit: When a foe’s movement out of a square you threaten grants you an attack of opportunity, you can give up that attack and instead attempt to stop your foe in his tracks. Make your attack of opportunity normally. If you hit your foe, he must succeed on a Reflex save against a DC of 10 + your damage roll (the opponent does not actually take damage), or immediately halt as if he had used up his move actions for the round. Since you use the Stand Still feat in place of your attack of opportunity, you can do so only a number of times per round equal to the number of times per round you could make an attack of opportunity (normally just one).

Normal: Attacks of opportunity cannot halt your foes in their tracks.

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 3.25, Rule 3.50)

Stand Your Ground[edit]

You keep fighting no matter how scared you get.

Prerequisite: Iron Will, Base attack bonus +4, Base Will save +2

Benefit: Whenever you would be cowering, frightened or panicked, you are shaken instead.

Balance: 3.37 (Purp 4.33, Pow 3.00, Port 2.83, Comp 3.17, Rule 3.50)

Stay Down[edit]

You can keep an opponent off their feet.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Trip

Benefit: When an opponent you threaten rises from being prone (provoking an attack of opportunity from you), you can make a trip attack as normal (as your attack of opportunity) against that opponent. If you succeed, the opponent remains prone and you may take your bonus attack from Improved Trip if you wish.

Normal: Your opponent can spend a move action (that provokes an attack of opportunity) to stand. Your attack of opportunity cannot be a trip attack as it happens before he finishes standing and you cannot trip a prone opponent.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.13, Port 4.25, Comp 4.13, Rule 4.25)

Stealthy[edit]

General

You are a very sneaky person.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Hide checks and Move Silently checks.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 4.75, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Still Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast a spell without somatic gestures.

Benefit: A stilled spell can be cast with no somatic components. Spells without somatic components are not affected. A stilled spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell’s actual level.

Balance: 5.00 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Stipend[edit]

Trait

You come from a wealthy background.

Benefit: When you select this feat at character creation, roll 2d10 and multiply by 10. When you get your starting funds, and at each game month thereafter, you receive a number of gold pieces equal to this number. This money must be picked up someplace; at your estates, a bank, from an academy, from a patron, or whatever. It will accumulate if not collected.

Special: This feat is only available at character creation.

Balance: 3.75 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.25)

Stone Thrower[edit]

Just as monks can slay with their fists your skill turns a common stone into a dangerous missile.

Benefit: You treat normal stones between 1 and 5 pounds as a simple ranged weapon. A typical stone deals 1d6 damage, has a threat range of 20/x2, and a range increment of 20 feet. A poor stone has the same stats but deals only 1d4 damage. You may find a typical stone in some outdoor environments (DM's discretion) as a full round action, or a poor stone as a move equivalent action. You may take all the usual weapon feats using stone as a weapon of choice.

Normal: A stone is considered an improvised weapon and deals small amounts of nonlethal damage.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Storm Of Throws[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You can throw many weapons in one round.

Prerequisite: Dex 23, Point Blank Shot, Quick Draw, Rapid Shot

Benefit: As a full-round action, you may throw a light weapon at your full base attack bonus at each opponent within 30 feet. All light weapons thrown need not be the same type.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Stout Hearted[edit]

General

Your devotion to the cause of good protects your soul.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Good alignment

Benefit: You gain a +4 circumstance bonus on saves to shrug off the permanent effects of gaining a negative level and to resist any spells that deal negative levels.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.75, Port 3.88, Comp 4.13, Rule 4.00)

Strafe[edit]

Modern

You spray bullets in a side arc.

Prerequisite: Personal Firearms Proficiency, Advanced Firearms Proficiency

Benefit: When using a firearm on autofire, you can affect an area four 5-foot squares long and one square wide (that is, any four squares in a straight line).

Normal: A firearm on autofire normally affects a 10-foot-by-10-foot area.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Streetfighting[edit]

Modern

You know how to make it hurt.

Prerequisite: Brawl, Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: Once per round, if you make a successful melee attack with an unarmed strike or a light weapon, you deal an extra 1d4 points of nonlethal damage.

Balance: 3.20 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 3.50, Comp 2.25, Rule 3.25)

Strength Of The Pious[edit]

Special

You double the duration of one of your granted powers.

Prerequisite: Domain with a granted power with a limited duration

Benefit: Choose one of your granted powers with a limited duration. The duration of the power is doubled.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times but a different granted power must be chosen each time.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.17, Pow 3.67, Port 4.17, Comp 4.17, Rule 3.83)

Strike At The Tail[edit]

You have learned superior disarming techniques.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6, Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Disarm

Benefit: If you successfully disarm an opponent in melee combat, you immediately get a melee attack against that opponent as if you hadn’t used your attack for the disarm attempt. If you succeed you may choose to catch your opponent’s weapon in your off-hand if free. You may only gain one free attack per round using this technique.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Strike Favored Enemy[edit]

Special

You are exceptionally deadly in combat against favored enemies.

Prerequisite: Favored Enemy, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You may add your favored enemy bonus to all weapon attack rolls made in melee combat and ranged combat against targets within 30 feet when attacking any of your favored enemies.

Normal: You may add your favored enemy bonus to Bluff, Listen, Sense Motive, Spot and Wilderness Lore checks as well as weapon damage rolls in melee combat and ranged combat against targets within 30 feet.

Special: This bonus does not apply to creatures that are immune to critical hits.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Strong Swimmer[edit]

General

You swim faster than others of your kind.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Swim 8 ranks

Benefit: With a successful swim check you can move twice as fast as normal: full speed as a full round action, or half speed as a move action.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.38, Port 4.38, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Stubborn Heart[edit]

General

You just refuse to die. Your reserves of willpower keep you alive long after others would have died.

Prerequisite: Con 17, Iron Will

Benefit: You don’t die until you reach –15 hit points.

Normal: You die when you reach -10 hit points.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.72 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.40, Port 4.80, Comp 4.80, Rule 5.00)

Studious[edit]

Modern

You like to read.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Decipher Script and Research checks.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Stunning Fist[edit]

You can stun an opponent with your attack.

Prerequisite: Improved Unarmed Strike, Base attack bonus +8, Dex 13, Wis 13

Benefit: You must declare that you are using this feat before you make your attack roll (thus, a failed attack roll ruins the attempt). Stunning Fist forces a foe damaged by your unarmed attack to make a Fortitude saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Wis modifier), in addition to dealing damage normally. A defender who fails this saving throw is stunned for 1 round (until just before your next action). A stunned character can’t act, loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, and takes a –2 penalty to AC. You may attempt a stunning attack once per day for every four levels you have attained (but see Special), and no more than once per round. Constructs, oozes, plants, undead, incorporeal creatures, and creatures immune to critical hits cannot be stunned.

Special: A monk may select Stunning Fist as a bonus feat at 1st level, even if she does not meet the prerequisites. A monk who selects this feat may attempt a stunning attack a number of times per day equal to her monk level, plus one more time per day for every four levels she has in classes other than monk. A fighter may select Stunning Fist as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 3.88, Pow 4.50, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.13)

Stylize Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can add illusionary elements to your spells that make them more spectacular, in order to impress people.

Prerequisite: Access to the illusion school (or a lack of prohibition against using it)

Benefit: You can subtly change the appearance, sound, taste and smell of spells you cast. The changes to the spell must not have any appreciable game effect outside of making the caster seem impressive. For instance, making a wall of fire appear as something that isn't hot and dangerous would be out of the question, but having it whisper your name would be acceptable. The effects of this spell should never make something dangerous seem less so or something safe seem dangerous. It should never change the apparent area of effect of the spell, disguise the spell in any way, or simulate the appearance of another spell. The particulars can be changed at the whim of the caster and could be different each time they cast the spell. A Stylized Spell uses up a spell slot of the same level as the original spell.

Notes: The DM should be careful not to allow the caster to gain a practical benefit from this feat aside from personal reactions of spectators. This feat is purely for roleplaying purposes and has no combat effect.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.80 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 4.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Substitute Focus[edit]

You may prepare a special focus to substitute for a material component.

Benefit: To create a Substitute Focus, choose a spell that you can cast with a material component. The base price of a Substitute Focus is ten times the normal cost for that material component, or 10gp if that item does not normally have a cost associated with it. Materials to construct the item cost one half the base price, including the actual component that you must supply. The creator must expend XP equal to 1/25th the base price to create the Focus. It takes one day per 1000gp of the base price to craft the Focus. The minimum cost and time to create a Substitute Focus are 5gp, 1 XP and one day. When complete, the substitute focus will not be consumed when used to cast the specific spell for which the focus was created. When using the Substitute Focus, you treat the spell as if that material (M) component was exchanged for a Focus (F) component. If you cast a different spell that uses the same material component, and you use the Substitute Focus in this way, it will be consumed normally, although it will work with metamagic-altered versions of the spell. A Substitute Focus is keyed to only a single spell. Simple Substitute Foci, such as gems, medallions or simple geometric objects, can be attached to or set in larger items, such as art objects or bracers, without disrupting their function. You may create any number of Substitute Foci once you have learned this feat.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.60, Pow 5.00, Port 4.30, Comp 3.30, Rule 4.30)

Subtle Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You know how to disguise the use of material, verbal, and somatic components; thus making your spell casting difficult to recognize.

Prerequisite: Spellcraft 1 rank

Benefit: When you cast a subtle spell those who could observe you must make a Spot check opposed by your Spellcraft check to identify that you are casting a spell. A subtle spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.

Normal: Without this feat spell casting is automatically recognized as spell casting.

Notes: Casting a subtle spell still draws an attack of opportunity. If the person taking the attack of opportunity fails the opposed Spot check (rolled in secret by the DM, if necessary) they still get the attack of opportunity; they realise that you have let your guard down, but not why. This feat is most useful in non-combat situations, such as to surreptiously cast discern lies when talking with someone.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.16 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.20, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Sudden Action[edit]

General

You can take quick and decisive action at the start of combat.

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes, Improved Initiative, Mobility, Quick Draw

Benefit: During a surprise round you may act as if it were a normal combat round. So, instead of taking a single move or standard action you may perform a full round action, full attack, two move actions, or a move action and a standard action.

Normal: You may only take a standard action or move action during a surprise round.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.92 (Purp 3.70, Pow 3.70, Port 5.00, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.70)

Summoning Concentration[edit]

Magical

You can increase the time that your summoned creatures remain by concentrating.

Benefit: You can maintain the duration of a summon spell (such as summon monster or summon nature's ally) through concentration. As long as you concentrate on the spell, do not count time off its duration. After you stop concentrating, the normal duration resumes and then terminates as normal. You cannot resume concentration, regardless of the effects of other feats that would normally allow you to do so.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.56 (Purp 5.00, Pow 3.70, Port 4.70, Comp 4.70, Rule 4.70)

Superior Expertise[edit]

Your ability to defend yourself is nearly unlimited.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When you use the Combat Expertise feat to improve your Armor Class, the number you subtract from your attack and add to your AC can be any number that does not exceed your base attack bonus. This feat eliminates the +5 maximum for the Combat Expertise feat.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Superior Feint[edit]

You can fake out your opponents with incredible speed.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Feint, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: You can make a Bluff check to feint in combat as a swift action.

Notes: A swift action is a free action that can only be performed once per round.

Balance: 4.37 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.33, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Superior Initiative[edit]

Epic

You are an expert at getting the jump on your opponents.

Prerequisite: Improved Initiative

Benefit: You get a +8 bonus on initiative checks. This bonus overlaps (does not stack with) the bonus from Improved Initiative.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Superior Two-weapon Fighting[edit]

You can remove the penalty for using a one handed weapon in your off hand.

Prerequisite: Str 15, Dex 15, Two-weapon Fighting, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: You can use any one-handed weapon in your off hand as if it were a light weapon.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Surface Vehicle Operation[edit]

Modern

You know how to drive a class of ground vehicles.

Prerequisite: Drive 4 ranks

Benefit: Select a class of surface vehicle (heavy wheeled, powerboat, sailboat, ship, or tracked). You are proficient at operating that class of vehicle. The heavy wheeled class includes all kinds of semi-trucks and tractor-trailers, as well as wheeled construction ve¬hicles (such as earth movers) and wheeled armored vehicles (such as some armored personnel carriers). Powerboats are engine-powered water vessels designed for operation by a single person and usually no more than 100 feet in length. Sailboats are wind-powered water vessels. Ships are large, multicrewed water vessels. Tracked vehicles include bulldozers and tanks and other military vehicles. You take no penalty on Drive checks or attack rolls made when operating a surface vehicle of the selected class.

Normal: Without this feat you take a –4 penalty on Drive checks made to operate a surface vehicle that falls under any of these classes, and to attacks made with vehicle weapons. There is no penalty when you operate a general-purpose surface vehicle.

Special: You can gain this feat as many as five times. Each time you take the feat, you select a different class of surface vehicle.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Surgery[edit]

Modern

You are trained in performing surgery.

Prerequisite: Treat Injury 4 ranks

Benefit: You can use the Treat Injury skill to perform surgery without penalty. See the Treat Injury skill description.

Normal: Without this feat you take a –4 penalty on Treat Injury checks made to perform surgery.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 3.00, Pow 3.75, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Swarm Of Arrows[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You can shower your foes with arrows.

Prerequisite: Dex 23, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot, Weapon Focus (type Of Bow Used)

Benefit: As a full-round action, you may fire an arrow at your full base attack bonus at each opponent within 30 feet.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Swing-by Attack[edit]

General

You can swing from a rope past a foe and attack at the same time.

Prerequisite: Climb 1 rank, Rope Climber

Benefit: When you are swinging from a rope and use the charge action, you may move and attack as with a standard charge and then move again (continuing the straight line of the charge). Your total movement for the swing-by attack cannot exceed the total allowed for the swinging charge. You do not provoke an attack of opportunity from the opponent that you attack. The benefit is lost if you are in armor heavier than light armor or you are carrying a heavy load.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 3.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Tactical Spellcasting[edit]

Magical

Your quick and decisive maneuvers do not disrupt your spellcasting.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility

Benefit: When casting a spell, you may move both before and after your spell is cast, provided that the total distance moved is not greater than your current speed. Casting a spell in this fashion is equivalent to casting with vigorous motion; you must make a Concentration check versus a DC of 10 plus the spell level or the spell is lost. When casting a spell in this fashion, you may not also cast defensively.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.48 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.60, Port 4.30, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.30)

Tail Slam[edit]

Racial

You are trained to use your powerful tail and flukes as a weapon.

Prerequisite: Merfolk or tailed half-merrow only

Benefit: You may make a powerful sweep with your tail to slam opponents backward. The opponent must be within 10 feet of you, and there must not be anyone directly between you and the target. You and the defender make opposed Strength checks. You gain a +4 bonus for each size category greater than Medium size or a -4 penalty for each size category below Medium-size. The defender gets a +4 circumstance bonus if he has more than 10 ranks in Swim or has a swim speed. If the defender loses the Strength check, he is shoved back 5 feet, provoking an attack of opportunity if he enters another character's threatened area. You do not need to move to use the Tail Slam. In many cases, your tail never actually touches your opponent, as the maneuver creates a powerful surge of water that can bowl the target over. Anyone slammed while casting a spell must make a Concentration check (DC 10 + spell level + the number of points by which the target failed the opposed Strength check). Using this feat is a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity. This feat may only be used underwater and can only affect underwater targets.

Balance: 3.35 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.75, Port 2.75, Comp 3.00, Rule 3.75)

Tail Tricks[edit]

Monster

You have learned to use your tail to enhance your balance and stability.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1, A tail capable of making natural attacks

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to opposed grapple checks, balance checks, and strength rolls to resist being tripped or bull rushed.

Balance: 4.38 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.38)

Tail Walking[edit]

Racial

You have learned to use your tail while out of water somewhat more gracefully than most of your kind.

Prerequisite: Merfolk or tailed half-merrow only

Benefit: Your base land speed increases to 10 feet.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 2.75, Pow 3.75, Port 2.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.00)

Talented[edit]

Psionic

You can overchannel powers with less cost to yourself.

Prerequisite: Overchannel

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. When manifesting a power of 3rd level or lower, you do not take damage from overchanneling.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team believes this should be renamed Greater Overchannel.

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Talented Healer[edit]

General

You can provide first aid and treat wounds or poison more quickly in combat.

Prerequisite: Heal 4 ranks, Wis 13

Benefit: You can provide first aid, treat wounds or treat poison as a move action.

Normal: Providing first aid, treating a wound, or treating poison is a standard action.

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Tap Item[edit]

Magical

You may draw upon the power of existing magic items in order to create new ones.

Prerequisite: Any craft permanent item feat such as Craft Rod, Craft Wondrous Item or Forge Ring

Benefit: When creating a new magic item using one of the prerequisite feats, you may draw up to half of the XP cost from another, existing item of the same type. The item from which the energy is taken is destroyed in the process. The item tapped cannot be cursed, and this feat has no effect on minor or major artifacts, or epic magic items. The amount of XP that can be drawn from any item is equal to half the XP that would be necessary to create that item. If an item has charges, its original XP value is reduced by the fraction of charges used.

Special: In campaigns with Psionics this feat may also be used to tap existing psionic items for powering magic items, and both magic and psionic items may be used to power non-charged psionic items.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.30, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.60)

Tap Psionic Item[edit]

Psionic

You may drain the power of existing psionic items to create new ones.

Prerequisite: One or more psionic item creation feats

Benefit: When creating a new psionic item you may draw up to half of the XP cost from existing psionic items, destroying them in the process. The amount of XP that can be drawn from psionic items is at most half of what it would have cost to create them originally. For charged items reduce the amount of XP available in proportion to the number of charges used. The items tapped cannot be cursed or minor/major artifacts.

Example: Psikux wants to create a Skin of Striking, which has a base cost of 24000 gp and hence 960 XP (1/25th the base cost). This feat allows Psikux to drain existing items for up to 480 XP to power this. He has a Dorje of Mass Concussion, which has a base cost of 21000 gp and 840 XP to make, so draining this would normally net Psikux 420 XP. However, it only has 25 charges, so provides 210 XP, leaving 270 XP more Psikux can draw. Psikux decides to tap his 6th level Crystal Anchor as well – with a base of 16400 gp and thus 656 XP Psikux could normally pull 328 XP out of it, but he can only make use of 270 XP, so 58 XP "worth" of power goes to waste. After tapping (and thus destroying) these two items Psikux only has to pay 480 XP, in addition to the 12000 gp base creation cost.

Comments: In worlds where the standard psionics-magic transparency rule is used, psionic items could be drained to help produce new magic items and vice versa, at the DM's option. This feat was adapted from Tap Item by Michael J. Kletch

Balance: 4.47 (Purp 4.33, Pow 4.67, Port 4.67, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.33)

Taunt[edit]

General

You are adept at angering your opponents and provoking them to attack you.

Benefit: As a standard action you may target a specific opponent who can clearly see and hear you within 60’. This only works against intelligent creatures and is an extraordinary, mind-affecting, compulsion effect. Make an opposed Intimidation check against the target’s modified level check (1d20 + Hit Dice + target’s Wisdom bonus). If the target does not understand the language you are speaking your intimidation check suffers a -5 penalty. If successful the target is compelled to direct any attacks or offensive spells/powers it makes at you until one of you is defeated or until the target is attacked by another opponent. If you move out of sight or if it is impossible for your opponent to attack you they are free from the compulsion.

Special: This is a variant of the Demoralize Opponent use of the Intimidation skill; any feat or ability that alters the use of Intimidation to demoralize an opponent in combat also effects this feat.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.75)

Team Fighting[edit]

You know how to fight as a pair, group, and in formation.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: Two or more people can fight together as a team. The team members block and parry blows for each other. Team members also work together to open up opponent’s weaknesses. Team members need to be within each other's threatened area and every team member needs to have the feat. Each person having Team Fighting gets a +1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1 dodge bonus to Armor Class. Also, if two people have Team Fighting they can switch carried items as a free action. This would allow one person to reload a Heavy Crossbow or Repeating Crossbow while the other fires, thus one character could fire the Heavy Crossbow every round while the other person is loading.

Notes: This feat can be used to model the extra effectiveness of Swiss pike men, Monks fighting together, or Athenian bonded battle partners.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.50)

Tenacious Magic[edit]

Epic, Magical

Your spells can resist dispelling.

Prerequisite: Spellcraft 15 ranks

Benefit: Choose one spell you know or spell-like ability your possess. Whenever the chosen form of magic would otherwise end due to a dispel effect, the magic is instead only suppressed for 1d4 rounds. The magic still ends when its duration expires, but the suppressed rounds do not count against its duration. You can dismiss your own spell or spell-like ability (if dismissible) or dispel your own tenacious magic normally.

Special: A character can gain this feat multiple times. Each time he or she takes the feat, it applies to a different spell or spell-like ability.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Terrifying Rage[edit]

Rage

Your rage is terrifying to behold and fearsome to your enemies

Prerequisite: Rage 2/day, Base attack bonus +3

Benefit: When enraged, all opponents within 10 feet with HD less than your own must make a Will save (DC = 10 + 1/2 Rage-associated class levels + Cha bonus) or become shaken (-2 morale penalty on all attack rolls, checks and saving throws) for the duration of your rage. This is an extraordinary ability that only works when you are using your Rage class ability. Its effects also end if you are subdued, restrained, rendered unconscious or slain, or if your opponent moves more than 10 feet away from you. Opponents that succeed in their saving throws are immune to the terrifying effect of your rage for one day.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Third Eye[edit]

Psionic

You have a psionic third eye that enables you to pierce illusions and identify psionic powers and effects.

Prerequisite: Wis 13

Benefit: As long as your are psionically focused, you gain a +2 bonus on all Psicraft checks and a +4 bonus on all Will saves against illusion spells and spell-like effects.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Threatened Reach[edit]

Your mobility and footwork make you a deadly opponent in combat.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: Designate one opponent on your turn as a free action. Against this opponent, your weapon's threat range is increased by 5 feet, as long as you maintain a direct, unimpeded line of sight to your chosen opponent. If this opponent provokes an attack of opportunity within this expanded range, you may take an immediate attack of opportunity against them. You are free to change opponents each round. You may only use this feat when unarmored or in medium or lighter armor.

Normal: Your threat range is normally 5 feet unless larger than Medium size or armed with a reach weapon.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.25, Port 3.50, Comp 3.25, Rule 4.00)

Throw And Charge[edit]

You can hurl a thrown weapon while charging.

Prerequisite: Quick Draw, Run, Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: As a full round action, you can throw a light or one-handed missile weapon, draw another weapon, and then charge. Both attacks are made at your highest base attack bonus, with a +2 bonus to your charge attack. You cannot use this feat in heavy armor or if carrying a heavy load.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.00, Port 4.60, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.30)

Thundering Power[edit]

You can add a thunderclap to your electrical powers.

Benefit: On any power that deals electrical damage, you also deal 1 point of sonic damage per manifester level. This effect occurs on the same round that the power first causes electrical damage, and has no additional effect even if the power has a non-instantaneous duration. If a power allows the target to make a saving throw for half or no damage and the target makes their save, the sonic damage is also halved or negated. The power gains the "Sonic" descriptor. Using this feat increases the power point cost of the power by 2. The power’s total cost cannot exceed your manifester level.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.47 (Purp 3.50, Pow 3.50, Port 3.33, Comp 3.33, Rule 3.67)

Thundering Rage[edit]

Epic, Rage

In rage, your weapons emit a defining crash.

Prerequisite: Str 25, Rage 5/day

Benefit: Any weapon you wield while in a rage is treated as a thundering weapon. The DC of the Fortitude save to resist deafness is equal to 10 + 1/2 your level. This ability does not stack with similar abilities.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Thundering Spell[edit]

Metamagic

Your electrical spells deal additional sonic damage.

Benefit: On any spell that deals electrical damage, you also deal 1 point of sonic damage per caster level. This effect occurs on the same round that the spell first causes electrical damage, and has no additional effect even if the spell has a non-instantaneous duration. If a spell allows the target to make a saving throw for half or no damage and the target makes their save, the sonic damage is also halved or negated. The spell gains the "Sonic" descriptor. A thundering spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell’s actual level.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.60 (Purp 3.71, Pow 3.57, Port 3.43, Comp 3.57, Rule 3.71)

Tight Spell Focus[edit]

Magical

Choose one magic subschool or one type of energy damage (acid, cold, fire, electricity or sonic). Your spells within this limited sphere are incredibly potent.

Benefit: Add +2 to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws against spells from your chosen subschool or within your chosen damage descriptor.

Special: This feat does not stack with Spell Focus. It can be used in place of Spell Focus when meeting the prerequisites for other feats or prestige classes. If Greater Spell Focus is chosen with Tight Spell Focus as a prerequisite, you add +4 to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws against spells from your chosen subschool or damage descriptor.

Notes: Magic schools and their associated subschools are: Conjuration: Calling, Creation, Healing, Summoning & Teleportation; Divination: Scrying; Enchantment: Charm & Compulsion; Illusion: Figment, Glamer, Pattern, Phantasm & Shadow.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.50, Port 5.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 5.00)

Tornado Attack[edit]

You can combine your whirlwind attack with a 5-foot step, moving and striking in a whirlwind of deadly blows.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Int 13, Combat Expertise, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack, Whirlwind Attack, Base attack bonus +12

Benefit: You can take a 5-foot step while making your Whirlwind Attack, allowing you to attack all opponents within range before and after your 5-foot movement. This requires a full-attack action, you can only strike at an individual opponent within range once and you are still limited to one 5-foot step per round. All restrictions and benefits to your 5-foot movement apply normally.

Special: If you have the Whirlwind Attack feat this can substitute for the Combat Expertise and Whirlwind Attack prerequisites

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.70 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 3.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Toss[edit]

You may throw an opponent when grappling.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: When grappling an opponent and you win an opposed grapple check on your action, you may throw your opponent instead of the usual options. For every 5 points you exceed your opponents grapple check by, you may toss your opponent 5 feet. You may also add 5 feet for each size category you are larger than the opponent. If you succeed by less than 5 you still toss your opponent 5 feet. In this case they have still “fallen” but won’t take damage from the fall.

Special: The victim is considered to have fallen a distance equal to the distance they were thrown. This typically results in falling prone and taking 1d6 points of damage per 10’ fallen. A victim striking a wall or other obstacle will take damage as if they were thrown the full distance. You must be strong enough to lift the victim over your head (their weight cannot exceed your maximum load).

Notes: Size is already figured into the grappling roll, but I felt that it didn’t give a realistically large boost to the distance thrown so distance was added without affecting the grapple check.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 3.25, Rule 4.00)

Totem Animal[edit]

General

You share a spiritual bond with an animal companion, that in return grants you special abilities.

Prerequisite: Animal Companion ability

Benefit: Select an animal companion that you gained through the animal companion ability. While that animal is within one mile of you, you gain one special ability, as indicated on the following table. If your animal companion is not on the list, then the special ability is determined by your DM. This should provide a +3 bonus to one skill check or a +2 bonus on a more commonly used check (e.g. saving throw or initiative). The ability should be something that you would associate with the animal in question. When the animal is within arm's reach, you also gain the Alertness feat. Spells and feats which specifically target "your familiar" may affect your totem animal.

Special: You may only have one totem animal at any one time. If your totem animal dies or you dismiss it, you must attempt a DC 15 Fortitude saving throw. Failure means that you lose 200 experience points for each level you have in a class that grants you an animal companion; success reduces the loss to one-half that amount, although your experience point total can never go below 0 as the result of this. A slain or dismissed totem animal cannot be replaced for a year and day, although you may find a different animal companion as per normal during this time of mourning, and form the spiritual bond with it after this time has passed. A slain totem animal can be raised from the dead just as a character can be, and it does not lose a level or a Constitution point when this happy event occurs.

Totem	Special Ability
Ape	+2 to Grapple checks
Baboon	+3 to spot checks
Badger	+3 hit points
Bat	+3 to Listen checks
Bear	+3 to Wilderness Lore checks
Boar	+3 to Spot checks (by scent)
Camel	Gain the Endurance feat
Cheetah	+3 to Initiative
Crocodile	+3 to Swim checks
Dog	+3 to Sense Motive checks
Eagle	+3 to Spot checks
Ferret	+3 to tumble checks
Fox	+2 to Reflex saves
Horse	+3 to Ride checks
Leopard	+3 to Move Silently checks
Lion	+3 to Intimidate checks
Lizard, Giant	+3 to Hide checks
Monkey	+3 to Balance checks
Octopus	+2 to Grapple checks
Otter	+3 to Search checks
Porcupine	+3 to Escape Artist checks
Racoon	+3 to Climb checks
Rhinoceros	+2 damage when charging
Shark	+3 to Swim checks
Skunk	+3 to Intimidate checks
Snake, Constrictor	+3 to Climb checks
Snake, Viper	+3 to Hide checks
Tiger	+3 to Jump checks
Turtle	Reduce armor check penalties by 2
Wolf	+2 to Trip checks
Wolverine	+2 to Fortitude saves

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Touch Mastery[edit]

The attribute behind your powers makes your touch attacks strike true.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: When making a touch attack with a spell or psionic power, you use your associated spellcasting/psionic attribute bonus rather than your Strength or Dexterity bonus on your attack roll.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.73 (Purp 4.67, Pow 4.67, Port 4.67, Comp 4.67, Rule 5.00)

Touch Of Grace[edit]

General

Fate is looking out for you.

Prerequisite: Cha 15

Benefit: You get a +1 bonus on all saving throws.

Special: This feat can be taken several times, but only once at any level, and the benefits stack. For each time after the first, increase the Charisma prerequisite by 2.

Balance: 4.52 (Purp 4.40, Pow 4.40, Port 4.40, Comp 4.60, Rule 4.80)

Toughness[edit]

General

You are tougher than average.

Benefit: You gain +3 hit points.

Special: A character may gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.25, Port 4.50, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.75)

Tower Shield Proficiency[edit]

You are proficient in the use of tower shields.

Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency

Benefit: You can use a tower shield and suffer only the standard penalties.

Normal: A character who is using a shield with which he or she is not proficient takes the shield’s armor check penalty on attack rolls and on all skill checks that involve moving, including Ride.

Special: Fighters automatically have Tower Shield Proficiency as a bonus feat. They need not select it.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Track[edit]

General

You can use the survival skill to track enemies.

Benefit: To find tracks or to follow them for 1 mile requires a successful Survival check. You must make another Survival check every time the tracks become difficult to follow.

You move at half your normal speed (or at your normal speed with a -5 penalty on the check, or at up to twice your normal speed with a -20 penalty on the check). The DC depends on the surface and the prevailing conditions, as given on the table below:

Surface	Survival DC	Surface	Survival DC
Very soft ground	5	Firm ground	15
Soft ground	10	Hard ground	20

Very Soft Ground: Any surface (fresh snow, thick dust, wet mud) that holds deep, clear impressions of footprints.

Soft Ground: Any surface soft enough to yield to pressure, but firmer than wet mud or fresh snow, in which a creature leaves frequent but shallow footprints.

Firm Ground: Most normal outdoor surfaces (such as lawns, fields, woods, and the like) or exceptionally soft or dirty indoor surfaces (thick rugs and very dirty or dusty floors). The creature might leave some traces (broken branches or tufts of hair), but it leaves only occasional or partial footprints.

Hard Ground: Any surface that doesn't hold footprints at all, such as bare rock or an indoor floor. Most streambeds fall into this category, since any footprints left behind are obscured or washed away. The creature leaves only traces (scuff marks or displaced pebbles).

Several modifiers may apply to the Survival check, as given on the table below:

Condition	Survival DC Modifier
Every three creatures in the group being tracked	-1
Size of creature or creatures being tracked: ¹
Fine	+8
Diminutive	+4
Tiny	+2
Small	+1
Medium-sized	0
Large	-1
Huge	-2
Gargantuan	-4
Colossal	-8
Every 24 hours since the trail was made	+1
Every hour of rain since the trail was made	+1
Fresh snow cover since the trail was made	+10
Poor visibility: ²
Overcast or moonless night	+6
Moonlight	+3
Fog or precipitation	+3
Tracked party hides trail (and moves at half speed)	+5

For a group of mixed sizes, apply only the modifier for the largest size category.
Apply only the largest modifier from this category.

If you fail a Survival check, you can retry after 1 hour (outdoors) or 10 minutes (indoors) of searching.

Normal: Without this feat, you can use the Survival skill to find tracks, but you can follow them only if the DC for the task is 10 or lower. Alternatively, you can use the Search skill to find a footprint or similar sign of a creature’s passage using the DCs given above, but you can’t use Search to follow tracks, even if someone else has already found them.

Special: A ranger automatically has Track as a bonus feat. He need not select it. This feat does not allow you to find or follow the tracks made by a subject of a pass without trace spell.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.50)

Track Spirits[edit]

General

Your studies of ghosts and wraiths have revealed to you clues that allow you to track incorporeal undead.

Prerequisite: Track, Knowledge (Religion) 5 ranks, Survival 5 ranks

Benefit: You can follow the energy left over from the passing of incorporeal undead, allowing you to track them. The base Survival DC required for tracking is 25, regardless of the surface, and normal conditions apply, except for time – see the table below. This feat even allows you to track incorporeal undead if they go into the ground, through the air or through walls, but unless you have the ability to follow this will not be of much help. If you need to "pick up the trail" on the other side of a wall or a similar obstacle then you need to make another Survival check to resume tracking. As noted in the detect undead spell, the lingering aura of undead creatures fades after time, depending upon their hit dice. Apply the following time-based modifier (since the creature passed) to the Track Survival DC:

HD +1 to DC every
<=1 round
2-4 minute
5-10 hour
11+ day

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 3.75, Comp 3.50, Rule 4.00)

Trample[edit]

You can run down foes when overrunning on a mount.

Prerequisite: Mounted Combat, Ride 1 rank

Benefit: When you attempt to overrun an opponent while mounted, your target may not choose to avoid you. Your mount may make one hoof attack against any target you knock down, gaining the standard +4 bonus on attack rolls against prone targets.

Special: A fighter may select Trample as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.85 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Transfer Spell[edit]

Metamagic

You can cast personal effect spells on others as touch spells

Benefit: You can cast a spell with a range of Personal and use it on another person. This feat has no effect on spells with a range other than Personal. The target of the spell must accept the spell voluntarily. A Transferred spell takes up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.

Special: If used to transfer a divine spell to an opponent of the caster's faith the caster's deity will probably refuse to grant the caster any further spells until they seek atonement.

Example: Divine Favor (1st level) allows the caster to call upon the strength and wisdom of a deity for luck bonuses to their own hit and damage rolls. Transferred Divine Favor (2nd level) allows the caster to call upon the strength and wisdom of a deity for luck bonuses to hit and damage rolls and bestow them upon a touched target.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.82 (Purp 4.30, Pow 3.60, Port 3.60, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.00)

Transference[edit]

Magical

Allows a spellcaster to draw from the life force of another while using item creation feats.

Prerequisite: Any item creation feat

Benefit: While touching another creature or creatures, you may use their XPs to fuel an item creation feat instead of (or in addition to) your own. The creature touched must be a willing subject with a current Intelligence of 3 or greater. If the creature is under the control of any magic (such as a charm spell) the effort will also fail, even if the creature would normally co-operate. You may choose how many XP you wish to contribute and how many the another creature will, but the other creature can choose to donate no more than a certain amount.

Notes: Under no circumstances can another creature ever be forced (even through a wish spell) to succumb to the effects of this feat. It must be a voluntary action. This feat may be used as a house rule in some campaigns.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.52 (Purp 4.60, Pow 4.40, Port 4.20, Comp 4.80, Rule 4.60)

Trap Sense[edit]

Epic, Stealth

You have a second sense for traps.

Prerequisite: Search 25 ranks, Spot 25 ranks, Trapfinding class ability

Benefit: If you passes within 5 feet of a trap, you is entitled to a Search check to notice it as if you were actively looking for it.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Trick Spell[edit]

Metamagic

Opposing spellcasters cannot identify your spells.

Prerequisite: Spell Focus

Benefit: The Spellcraft DC for others to identify the name or school of a Trick Spell is increased by +4. Trick Spells cannot be counterspelled normally. Dispel Magic can be used per its description to counterspell a spell prepared as a Trick Spell. A spellcaster must have Spell Focus in the school of the spell that he or she wishes to prepare as a Trick Spell. A Trick Spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell’s actual level.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.18 (Purp 4.30, Pow 4.00, Port 4.30, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.30)

True Spell Mastery[edit]

Magical

You know a spell so innately that you can cast it without memorization.

Prerequisite: Int 17, Spell Mastery (selected Spell)

Benefit: When this feat is taken you must select a spell for which you have spell mastery. You may cast this spell once per day without the need to memorize it and without using a spell slot. You may not use metamagic feats when casting the spell in this way.

Notes: This feat can be taken more than once to gain true mastery over a number of spells, but never more than your Intelligence modifier (e.g. Int 17 gives you up to 3 spells).

Balance: 3.73 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.67, Port 3.33, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.67)

Tumbling Attack[edit]

Execute a startling series of attacks while you tumble through your enemy's midst.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Int 13, Combat Expertise, Dodge, Mobility, Skill Focus (tumble), Spring Attack, Tumble 1 rank, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: As a full attack action, you are able to tumble at one-half speed, and if you succeed at your tumble check (see Tumble skill, SRD), you suffer no attacks of opportunity and may make your full number of attacks while you tumble. However, you are able to attack no more than once from any single five foot square through which you move (including the squares in which you start and finish the tumble). Even with this feat, the move is so difficult to execute that it adds +2 to the DC of your tumble check and all attacks suffer -2 penalty to hit. If you fail your tumble check, you suffer attacks of opportunity normally and can make only a single attack.

Normal: You tumble as a move action and can make a single attack as a standard action.

Special: This feat cannot be used with ranged attacks or reach weapons. If you are using two weapons or a double weapon, you still may only attack once from each square, so that the maximum number of attacks you can execute is 5.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 3.25, Rule 4.50)

Turn/rebuke Resistance[edit]

Monster

By virtue of unholy power or exceptional strength of will, the creature is more difficult to turn or rebuke than normal.

Benefit: The creature adds +2 to its Hit Dice total when resisting turn or rebuke attempts.

Special: This feat can be taken more than once and its benefits stack with itself. Each time it is taken, add +2 to the creature's Hit Dice when resisting turn or rebuke attempts.

Balance: 4.75 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Twin Power[edit]

You can manifest a power simultaneously with another power just like it.

Benefit: To use this feat, you must expend your psionic focus. You can twin a power. Manifesting a power altered by this feat causes the power to take effect twice on the area or target, as if you were simultaneously manifesting the same power two times on the same location or target. Any variables in the power (such as duration, number of targets, and so on) are the same for both of the resulting powers. The target experiences all the effects of both powers individually and receives a saving throw (if applicable) for each. In some cases, such as a twinned psionic charm, failing both saving throws results in redundant effects (although, in this example, any ally of the target would have to succeed on two dispel attempts to free the target from the charm effect). Using this feat increases the power point cost of the power by 6. The power’s total cost cannot exceed your manifester level.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Twin Weapon Fighting[edit]

You can wield a matching pair of weapons, one in each hand, with extraordinary ability.

Prerequisite: Two-weapon Fighting, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: Choose a one-handed weapon, based on your size. When wielding one of the chosen weapons in each hand, you suffer only a -2 attack penalty with both weapons.

Normal: With the Two-Weapon Fighting feat and a one-handed weapon, you get a -4 penalty on attacks with both weapons.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Two Handed Power Strike[edit]

You use your weight and momentum to maximum effect.

Prerequisite: Str 15, Power Attack, Base attack bonus +9

Benefit: You may add twice your Strength bonus to damage when using a two-handed melee weapon instead of the usual one and a half times Strength bonus.

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.38, Port 3.63, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Two-handed Flurry[edit]

You are adept at wielding a one-handed weapon with two hands.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Dex 15, Combat Expertise, Weapon Focus, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: Select a one-handed weapon that you have previously chosen Weapon Focus for. When wielding this weapon with two hands, you may make one extra attack at your highest base attack bonus. If this extra attack is taken, you suffer a -2 penalty to all of your attack rolls and can only add your normal Strength bonus to damage rolls (rather than 1.5 times your Strength bonus for using a weapon with two hands) until your next action. This feat requires the full attack action.

Special: You cannot use this feat when wielding a double weapon, light weapon or two-handed weapon and you cannot combine the extra attack gained from this feat with any other feat or ability that provides an extra attack except for Cleave and similar feats.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.50)

Two-weapon Cleave[edit]

You can follow through with either weapon.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Cleave, Power Attack, Two-weapon Fighting

Benefit: When using the cleave feat you may make your follow up attack with any melee weapon you are wielding.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.13, Pow 4.25, Port 4.13, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Two-weapon Defense[edit]

You gain a defensive bonus when fighting with two weapons.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Two-weapon Fighting

Benefit: When wielding a double weapon or two weapons (not including natural weapons or unarmed strikes), you gain a +1 shield bonus to your AC. When you are fighting defensively or using the total defense action, this shield bonus increases to +2.

Special: A fighter may select Two-Weapon Defense as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Balance: 4.65 (Purp 5.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Two-weapon Fighting[edit]

You can use two weapons with a reduced penalty.

Benefit: Your penalties for fighting with two weapons are reduced by 2.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team agrees that this feat is better with the abolishment of the Ambidexterity feat. The edition 3.0 version of this feat had an overall balance score of 4.80.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.75, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Two-weapon Harmony[edit]

Your mastery of this style allows you to act with both weapons in harmony.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Two-weapon Fighting, Improved Two-weapon Fighting, Base attack bonus +9

Benefit: Once per round, when fighting with two weapons and making an attack of opportunity or a standard attack you may attack once with your off-hand weapon (with the normal penalties) in addition to the single attack you are normally allowed. If making an attack of opportunity both attacks must be directed at the opponent who triggered the attack.

Normal: You may only make one attack when using an attack of opportunity or standard attack action.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.50, Port 3.75, Comp 4.50, Rule 3.75)

Two-weapon Rend[edit]

Epic, Fighter

You can perform a rend maneuver when using two weapons.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Base attack bonus +9, Improved Two-weapon Fighting, Two-weapon Fighting

Benefit: If you hits an opponent with a weapon in each hand in the same round, you may automatically rend the opponent. This deals additional damage equal to the base damage of the smaller weapon plus 1 1/2 times your Strength modifier. Base weapon damage includes an enhancement bonus on damage, if any. You can only rend once per round, regardless of how many successful attacks your make.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Typhoon Attack[edit]

By jumping headlong into battle you can strike multiple opponents.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Jump 6 ranks, Tumble 4 ranks, Combat Reflexes

Benefit: In order to use this feat you must be unarmed, fighting with two weapons, or using a double weapon. While charging, if you successfully hit your opponent you may immediately make another attack at your highest base attack bonus against another target in your threatened area using what would normally be your off-hand weapon (if applicable).

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 3.75, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Ultimate Cleave[edit]

You can transfer some of the damage you inflict on a powerful blow to your next cleave attack.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, Cleave, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit: Once per round when using your Cleave or Great Cleave feats, all damage inflicted beyond that needed to drop your opponent is gained as a damage bonus on your extra cleave attack. This damage bonus only applies against the opponent targeted by your extra cleave attack and is lost if this attack misses.

Example: Bron, a 6th level dwarven fighter with Cleave, Great Cleave and Ultimate Cleave, is in combat with 3 goblins (each with 6 hit points). Bron hits on his first attack, inflicts 12 points of damage and reduces the first goblin to -6 hit points, triggering a cleave attack. Since he has Ultimate Cleave, he disembowels the first goblin and gains a +5 damage bonus on his cleave attack (6-1 = 5). He slays the second goblin with this attack, triggering another cleave attack, but does not gain an additional damage bonus because he's already used Ultimate Cleave that round.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 3.67, Pow 3.67, Port 4.00, Comp 3.67, Rule 4.00)

Unavoidable Strike[edit]

SRD:Unavoidable Strike Psionic, Fighter

You can make an unarmed strike or use a natural weapon against your foe as if delivering a touch attack.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Unbalancing Feint[edit]

Your feint can unbalance your opponent.

Prerequisite: Int 15, Combat Expertise, Improved Feint, Vexing Feint, Base attack bonus +7

Benefit: When you feint in combat, your opponent is considered flat-footed until they take a move action to regain their balance. Any ability that allows you to rise from a prone position to standing can also be used to regain balance in this case.

Balance: 3.65 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.50, Port 3.50, Comp 3.75, Rule 3.75)

Unbalancing Fist[edit]

You can throw your enemy off balance with a single precise blow to a nerve center.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Improved Unarmed Strike, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: Declare that you are using the feat before you make your attack roll. If you successfully strike your opponent with an unarmed strike, he must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + ½ your level +Wis Modifier). In addition to suffering normal damage, if the defender fails his saving throw, he is considered flat footed for 1 round. You may use Unbalancing Fist once per day for every four character levels, and no more than once per round.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Uncanny Accuracy[edit]

SRD:Uncanny Accuracy Epic, Fighter

You can hit targets you can not even see.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team is unsure as to whether this feat would allow you to make sneak attacks against creatures with concealment, which are normally immune to such attacks.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Uncanny Reaction[edit]

General

You think so quickly on your feet, it almost seems supernatural. Often, you are moving before anyone else knows what is happening.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Alertness, Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes

Benefit: When rolling for initiative, you roll twice and take the highest result. Your initiative modifiers are then added to the rolled number normally.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.80, Port 4.20, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.60)

Uncanny Tactics[edit]

Stealth

You are skilled at attacking with or avoiding sneak attacks versus skilled opponents.

Prerequisite: Improved Uncanny Dodge

Benefit: When calculating your level for using or overcoming "Improved Uncanny Dodge", add 4 to your level for the check.

Normal: Improved Uncanny Dodge denies the attacking rogue the ability to sneak attack the target by flanking her, unless the attacker has at least four more rogue levels than the target does

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 3.83, Pow 3.67, Port 4.33, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.50)

Unconditional Power[edit]

SRD:Unconditional Power Metapsionic

Disabling conditions do not hold you back.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.50)

Undead Horde[edit]

Special

You may control a small army of lesser undead.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast animate dead, Cha 13, Improved Undead Control

Benefit: Mindless corporeal undead with hit dice equal to or less than your Charisma modifier do not count against your normal control undead limit. For creatures with Turning Resistance, include their Turning Resistance in their effective HD for this feat.

Normal: You can normally command a total number of undead with HD equal to your rebuke undead level (and an additional number of undead animated through the animate dead spell equal to 4 HD per caster level).

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.75, Port 4.00, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Undead Hunter[edit]

General

You are an expert at finding the undead.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Ability to detect either undead or evil as a spell spell-like or supernatural ability

Benefit: You gain Detect Undead as a spell-like ability you may use at will.

Balance: 3.73 (Purp 3.67, Pow 4.00, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 3.33)

Undead Mastery[edit]

SRD:Undead Mastery Epic

You can command a great number of undead.

Comments: This feat is incorrectly listed as having the Divine feat type in the SRD. The SRD definition of a Divine feat states "Each use of a divine feat costs the character one turn/rebuke attempt from his or her number of attempts each day. If a character doesn't have any turn/rebuke attempts left, he or she can't use the feat."

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Undead’s Foe[edit]

General

You are an expert at fighting the undead.

Prerequisite: Wis 13, Ability to detect either undead or evil as a spell spell-like or supernatural ability, Undead Hunter

Benefit: You gain a +2 Attack Bonus against undead

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.67, Port 4.33, Comp 4.67, Rule 4.33)

Unholy Strike[edit]

SRD:Unholy Strike Epic, Special

Any weapon in your hands becomes unholy.

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Unique Spell[edit]

You gain access to and learn a single spell from any spell list.

Prerequisite: Ability to cast 3rd level spells

Benefit: Choose one spellcasting class. You learn one additional spell of any level up to two lower than the highest level spell that you can currently cast in your chosen class, chosen from any class spell list. The chosen spell is added to your spells known or spellbook and is treated in all ways as being two levels higher than the spell’s actual level. If a spell appears on multiple spell lists, you must take it from the list where it has the highest spell level. The spell is considered divine if you are a divine caster and arcane if you are an arcane caster.

Special: This feat can be chosen multiple times, each time enabling you to learn one additional spell. If a spell requires a divine focus you must obtain an appropriate holy symbol to use for the casting. All material components are still required no matter your class.

Balance: 3.53 (Purp 4.33, Pow 3.17, Port 3.83, Comp 3.50, Rule 2.83)

Up And Down[edit]

You exploit the mechanical leverage of your long weapons.

Prerequisite: Improved Trip, Near And Far

Benefit: When using a weapon with reach, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to all rolls when you make a trip attack. If you fail in your trip attempt your opponent may not make a trip in return.

Normal: When you fail in a trip attempt, your opponent may attempt to trip you in return.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.24 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.30, Port 4.60, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.30)

Up The Walls[edit]

SRD:Up the Walls Psionic

You can run on walls for brief distances.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Use Prejudice[edit]

You can use people’s prejudices against them.

Benefit: Whenever you can fall into a stereotype your mark believes in (such as that orcs are brutal and cruel, women are scared and helpless, or that halflings are all thieves, etc.) you get a +4 bonus on all Bluff, Disguise and Intimidate checks to stay in role and maintain this belief.

Notes: This bonus is not cumulative if several prejudices can be used at once. For example, if your mark believes that halflings are scared and helpless, and that women are also scared and helpless, you do not gain a +8 bonus for being a halfling woman; only the normal +4.

Balance: 3.96 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.60, Port 4.20, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.40)

Usurp Spell[edit]

Special

You can attempt to steal control of any spell that you successfully counterspell.

Prerequisite: Knowledge (arcana) 5 ranks, Spellcraft 5 ranks

Benefit: After a successful counterspell using a prepared spell rather than a dispel check, you can attempt to steal control of the spell being cast. You immediately make an opposed caster level check (1d20 + caster level) against the original caster of the spell. If successful, you usurp control of the spell and can make all decisions regarding the spell’s target and effect. Level based spell variables, including the range and point of origin for the spell, are still based on the original caster of the spell. If you fail the opposed caster level check made to usurp the spell, the spell is negated just as if the spell had been counterspelled normally.

Balance: 4.05 (Purp 4.50, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.25)

Vampire Mind[edit]

Psionic

You can insidiously drain power points from opposing minds on a successful psionic attack.

Prerequisite: Cha 13, Base Will save +3

Benefit: To use this feat you must expend your psionic focus. When attacking with a psionic power that does not employ an energy type to inflict damage, you gain half the hit point or ability damage inflicted as temporary power points, up to your normal power point maximum. Alternatively, when manifesting psychic vampire, you gain any power points drained by your touch attack as temporary power points. In both cases, these temporary power points last up to 10 minutes.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.00, Port 3.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Vehicle Dodge[edit]

Modern

You are good at taking evasive maneuvers.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Drive 6 ranks or Pilot 6 ranks, Vehicle Expert

Benefit: When driving a vehicle, during your action you designate an opposing vehicle or a single opponent. Your vehicle and everyone aboard it receive a +1 dodge bonus to Defense against attacks from that vehicle or opponent. You can select a new vehicle or opponent on any action.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.75, Port 3.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.75)

Vehicle Expert[edit]

Modern

You really know how to fly/drive.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Drive and Pilot checks.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 3.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 5.00)

Ventriloquism[edit]

General

You have learned to throw your voice, making it appear to come from someplace else.

Prerequisite: Perform (comedy) 1 rank

Benefit: As a standard action, you can use the Perform (comedy) skill to make your voice appear to come from another location. You must decide where you want your voice to appear to come from; the DC is equal to the number of feet away you wish to throw your voice. If there is something there that moves in a manner suggestive of speech or of making the sounds you are throwing, reduce the difficulty by 10. Listeners can try to realize what you are doing with an opposed listen roll, but such a listen roll is subject to normal range penalties.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.98 (Purp 3.90, Pow 3.90, Port 4.40, Comp 4.10, Rule 3.60)

Vermin Wild Shape[edit]

SRD:Vermin Wild Shape Epic, Wild

You can wild shape into a vermin.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Vertical Walk[edit]

General

You can walk short distances on vertical surfaces.

Prerequisite: Climb 5 ranks, Jump 5 ranks

Benefit: You may move on a vertical surface for a portion of your movement provided you begin and end your movement on a horizontal surface. The distance you may travel vertically in a round is equal to one third your current speed. You may use the remainder of your movement normally on horizontal surfaces in the same move action.

Example: Clement the Monk with a movement speed of 40’ can run up or down a wall up to 10’ tall without any jump check so long as there is something he can stand on at the top and bottom of the wall. He could also move along the wall for up to 10’ and back to the ground, perhaps to avoid a pit trap or the like.

Balance: 3.96 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.20, Port 3.80, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.00)

Vexing Feint[edit]

Your feinting technique has a longer lasting effect.

Prerequisite: Int 15, Combat Expertise, Improved Feint, Base attack bonus +5

Benefit: A successful feint denies your opponent their Dexterity bonus to AC (if any) until the end of your next round.

Normal: A successful feint denies your opponent their dex bonus only for your next attack against them.

Balance: 3.92 (Purp 4.20, Pow 3.80, Port 3.40, Comp 4.20, Rule 4.00)

Vigilant Psychic Defender[edit]

Psionic

You are adept at defending yourself with your psionic powers.

Prerequisite: Ability to manifest empty mind, Intellect fortress, Intellect fortress, Mental barrier, Thought shield or Tower of iron will

Benefit: You are able to react instantly to attack and can manifest a psionic defense as an immediate action even when flat-footed. As long as you know the power in question, you can manifest empty mind, intellect fortress, mental barrier, thought shield or tower of iron will when flat-footed.

Normal: An immediate action cannot be taken when flat-footed.

Balance: 4.25 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Vigor Of The Stag[edit]

General

You can temporarily focus your energies on staying alive in difficult circumstances.

Prerequisite: Con 13, Great Fortitude

Benefit: Once per day as a swift action you can gain 1d4 temporary hit points per point of constitution bonus for one minute.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times, each time enabling you to use it one more time per day, however you can not use the feat more than once per minute.

Balance: 3.85 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 3.75, Comp 3.25, Rule 3.75)

Vorpal Strike[edit]

SRD:Vorpal Strike Epic, Special

You unarmed strikes act as vorpal weapons.

Balance: 3.95 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Watchman[edit]

General

Through practice, training and experience, you are more alert and aware.

Benefit: You get a +1 bonus to Spot and Listen checks. In addition, Spot and Listen are always considered class skills for you.

Balance: 3.80 (Purp 3.75, Pow 3.25, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.25)

Way Of The Gargoyle[edit]

Psionic, Fighter, Wild

You have mastered the art of combat in alternate forms.

Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes

Benefit: Whenever you change shape (whether via a spell or power like polymorph self, wild shape or the like) into a creature with three or more natural attacks (e.g. two claws and a bite) you may use all of these natural attacks in combat as if you have the Multiattack feat; your primary attack suffers no attack penalty and all of your secondary attacks suffer only a -2 penalty.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Way Of The Hare[edit]

You have mastered the art of the leaping attack.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1, Dex 13, Jump 1 rank

Benefit: You gain a +4 attack bonus on any attack made while leaping five feet or more just prior to making an attack. The jump must be made in the same round as the attack, the idea being that you are attacking as you come down. Should you fail your jump check you fall prone at the end of the jump and do not gain an attack bonus from this feat.

Balance: 4.00 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 3.75, Comp 3.75, Rule 4.00)

Weapon And Shield Offensive Harmony[edit]

You have mastered the art of using your shield as a weapon, to complement your blade.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack, Base attack bonus +5

Benefit: When using a melee weapon and shield with proficiency, you can attack with both as if you had the benefits of the Two-Weapon Fighting feat. In addition, any successful attack with your shield inflicts +1 damage, or grants an additional +2 bonus to your Strength check for a special combat maneuver requiring one (e.g. during a Bull Rush or Overrun).

Notes: Light shields are usable as light martial melee weapons and heavy shields as one-handed martial melee weapons. However, when using your shield in this manner you do not gain the AC benefits it would otherwise give you during that round.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 3.72 (Purp 3.60, Pow 3.20, Port 4.20, Comp 3.60, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Brace[edit]

By bracing your weapons together, you can resist a Sundering attack more effectively.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +2

Benefit: When fighting with two weapons you automatically brace your two weapons together to increase their resistance to a Sunder attack; add half (round down) the "other" weapon's hardness to the hardness of the weapon being Sundered. Half (round up) of any Sunder damage which exceeds this increased hardness is applied to the targeted weapon’s hit points; the remaining damage is applied to the bracing weapon’s hit points.

Example: Rorwernrn brought her guisarme down in a mighty two-handed strike at the halfling's paired shortswords. The halfling rogue quickly braced her weapons against the blow, giving her shortsword a Hardness of 15 (10 for steel, +5 for braced steel weapon). The guisarme strike inflicts 16 damage; without bracing, the halfling's shortsword would have been shattered! It is left with a large crack, however (only 1 of its 2 hit points remain).

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 3.62 (Purp 4.30, Pow 3.60, Port 3.60, Comp 2.60, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Finesse[edit]

SRD:Weapon Finesse General, Fighter

You can use certain weapons with finesse instead of force.

Comments: The Netbook of Feats team agrees with the upgrade of this feat to allow its use with all light weapons, rather than just a single one. The edition 3.0 version of this feat had an overall balance score of 4.70.

Balance: 4.95 (Purp 5.00, Pow 5.00, Port 5.00, Comp 4.75, Rule 5.00)

Weapon Focus[edit]

SRD:Weapon Focus General, Fighter

Choose one type of weapon. You can also choose unarmed strike or grapple (or ray, if you are a spellcaster) as your weapon for purposes of this feat.

Balance: 4.75 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.25, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Weapon Grace[edit]

General, Fighter, Regional

You are an expert in the graceful use of a regional weapon.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: Pick one weapon for which your region is famed. Similar to the Weapon Finesse feat, you may use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on attack rolls when wielding this weapon. If a shield is used you must apply the shield’s armor check penalty to your attack rolls.

Special: This is a variant of the Weapon Finesse feat. Weapon Grace can be used in place of Weapon Finesse as a prerequisite for other feats.

Notes: When making this feat available for a certain region, the DM should specify which weapons in can be applied to. It is suitable for elven regions in different versions, such as longsword for regular elves, scimitar for drow, trident for aquatic elves, spear and longspear for wild elves and so on. It would be against the spirit of the feat to apply this to very large or very heavy weapons such as a greatsword or halberd.

Balance: 3.57 (Purp 3.67, Pow 3.50, Port 3.33, Comp 3.50, Rule 3.83)

Weapon Group (axes)[edit]

You understand how to use axes and axelike weapons.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: throwing axe, handaxe, battleaxe, greataxe, and dwarven waraxe (two-handed use).

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (basic Weapons)[edit]

You understand how to use a few basic weapons.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: club, dagger, and quarterstaff.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (bows)[edit]

You understand how to use bows.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: shortbow, longbow, composite shortbow, and composite longbow.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (claw Weapons)[edit]

You understand how to use weapons strapped to the hands.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: punching dagger, spiked gauntlet.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (crossbows)[edit]

You understand how to use crossbows.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: heavy crossbow, light crossbow, repeating heavy crossbow, and repeating light crossbow.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (druid Weapons)[edit]

You understand how to use weapons favored by druids.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: club, dagger, dart, quarterstaff, scimitar, sickle, shortspear, sling and spear.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (exotic Double Weapon)[edit]

You understand how to use the exotic double weapons associated with the weapon groups that you have mastered.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: Whenever you take a Weapon Group proficiency feat, you also gain proficiency in the exotic double weapons associated with that group. When you take this feat, you gain proficiency in the exotic double weapons associated with the weapon groups that you already know how to use. Some exotic double weapons require you to be proficient with two weapon groups to gain proficiency in their use from this feat.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (exotic Weapons)[edit]

You understand how to use the exotic weapons associated with the weapon groups that you have mastered.

Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1

Benefit: Whenever you take a Weapon Group proficiency feat, you also gain proficiency in the exotic weapons associated with that group. When you take this feat, you gain proficiency in the exotic weapons associated with the weapon groups that you already know how to use.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (flail And Chains)[edit]

You understand how to use flails and chain weapons.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: light flail and heavy flail.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (heavy Blades)[edit]

You understand how to use large bladed weapons.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: longsword, greatsword, falchion, scimitar and bastard sword (two-handed use).

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (light Blades)[edit]

You understand how to use light bladed weapons.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: dagger, kukri, punching dagger, rapier and short sword.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (maces And Clubs)[edit]

You understand how to use maces and clubs.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: club, light mace, heavy mace, greatclub, quarterstaff and sap.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (monk Weapons)[edit]

You understand how to use weapons normally favored by monks.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: kama, nunchaku, quarterstaff, sai, shuriken and siangham.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (picks And Hammers)[edit]

You understand how to use picks and hammers.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: light pick, heavy pick, light hammer, warhammer and scythe.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (polearms)[edit]

You understand how to use polearms.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: glaive, guisarme, halberd and ranseur.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (slings And Thrown Weapons)[edit]

You understand how to use slings and handheld thrown weapons.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: dart and sling.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Group (spears And Lances)[edit]

You understand how to use spears and javelins.

Benefit: You make attack rolls with the following weapons normally: javelin, lance, longspear, shortspear and trident.

Normal: When using a weapon with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 penalty on attack rolls.

Balance: 3.97 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.17, Port 3.67, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Weapon Juggle[edit]

You can change and pick up weapons as a free action.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Quick Draw, Sleight Of Hand 1 rank

Benefit: You can juggle weapons and similarly sized objects during combat. You can draw, sheathe, or shift them from hand to hand as a free action. You can even pick them up from the ground as a free action, as long as you can kick at them. You can do this at the start and end of your turn, but not on somebody else's turn or in the middle of an attack sequence. These actions never trigger attacks of opportunity.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.10 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.25)

Weapon Mastery[edit]

You have perfected the art of using a particular weapon.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus, Weapon Specialization, Improved Critical, Base Attack bonus +12

Benefit: Choose one weapon for which you have Weapon Specialization and Improved Critical that is not a natural weapon. When using a weapon of that type the base weapon damage is increased as if it were once size category larger.

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

Balance: 3.96 (Purp 3.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.10, Comp 4.15, Rule 4.05)

Weapon Reliability[edit]

Your skill with your chosen weapon means that you don’t miss the easy ones.

Prerequisite: Martial Weapon Proficiency, Weapon Focus, Base attack bonus +10

Benefit: Choose one weapon with which you have Weapon Focus. With your chosen weapon, a one is not an automatic miss for you.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 4.25, Pow 3.50, Port 4.00, Comp 4.25, Rule 3.50)

Weapon Specialization[edit]

SRD:Weapon Specialization Special, Fighter

Balance: 4.75 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.75, Port 4.75, Comp 5.00, Rule 4.50)

Weapon Tricks[edit]

You can change the type of damage you do with melee weapons.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus

Benefit: Many types of melee weapons can conceivably do different types of damage. Examples are swords (could do slashing and bludgeoning, even piercing), picks (could do bludgeoning or piercing) and single-edged or bludgeon-backed axes (could do slashing and bludgeoning). When wielding such a weapon that you have Weapon Focus with, you can opt to alter its damage type without penalty. For example, you can choose to attack zombies with the flat of a sword in order to do bludgeoning damage, avoiding their damage reduction versus slashing weapons.

Notes: The DM is the final arbiter on what types of damage a weapon can do, based on the illustration, common sense and knowledge on how these weapons are used in real life. If in doubt, go with your gut feeling. Many weapons are already listed as doing two or even all three types of damage and so do not require this feat.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.55 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.75)

Wheeling Attack[edit]

You can attack at any point along your mount's path.

Prerequisite: Mounted Combat, Ride 1 rank

Benefit: Your mount may make a double move and you can still make an attack at any point along your path of movement at no extra penalty. This move cannot be a charge. The target of your attack does not receive an attack of opportunity when you move through their threat range.

Notes: This represents the hit-and-run tactics of light cavalry.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 5.00, Pow 3.60, Port 4.60, Comp 4.30, Rule 4.00)

Whirlwind Attack[edit]

SRD:Whirlwind Attack General, Fighter

You can attack everyone within reach.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.75, Pow 4.50, Port 4.75, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.75)

Whirlwind Defense[edit]

You are adept at defending yourself against multiple opponents.

Prerequisite: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: When flanked in melee combat, your opponents lose their flanking bonus to attack rolls and can only make sneak attacks against you if their character level is higher than yours.

Normal: Attackers in flanking position gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and can make sneak attacks against you.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.00, Rule 4.00)

Widen Aura Of Courage[edit]

SRD:Widen Aura of Courage Epic, Special

Your aura of courage extends to a greater range.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.75)

Widen Aura Of Despair[edit]

SRD:Widen Aura of Despair Epic, Special

Your aura of despair extends to a greater range.

Comments: The benefit is incorrect; Aura of Despair affects enemies, not allies.

Balance: 4.35 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Widen Power[edit]

SRD:Widen Power Metapsionic

You can increase the area of your powers.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.50)

Widen Spell[edit]

SRD:Widen Spell Metamagic

You can widen the effect of your spells.

Balance: 4.70 (Purp 4.75, Pow 3.75, Port 5.00, Comp 5.00, Rule 5.00)

Wild Rider[edit]

You can ride anything, in any fashion

Prerequisite: Ride 1 rank

Benefit: You do not suffer the normal -5 penalties when riding ill-suited mounts or bareback.

Balance: 4.32 (Purp 4.20, Pow 4.20, Port 4.00, Comp 4.70, Rule 4.50)

Wild Talent[edit]

SRD:Wild Talent General

Your mind wakes to a previously unrealized talent for psionics.

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Willow Step[edit]

You may charge past your enemies with a graceful dancing step.

Prerequisite: Dex 15, Tumble 10 ranks, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack

Benefit: When charging, you may move and attack as if with a standard charge and then move again (continuing the straight line of the charge). Your total movement for the round can’t exceed double your speed. You do not provoke an attack of opportunity from the opponent that you attack. You may move through your targets space when doing this.

Balance: 3.67 (Purp 4.00, Pow 3.67, Port 3.33, Comp 3.33, Rule 4.00)

Windfall[edit]

Modern

You have come into some unexpected wealth.

Benefit: Your Wealth bonus increases by +3. Also, this feat provides a +1 bonus on all Profession checks.

Special: You can select this feat multiple times. Each time, both of its effects stack.

Balance: 4.40 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.50)

Wingover[edit]

SRD:Wingover Monster, Special

You can change directions sharply while flying.

Balance: 4.50 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.50, Port 4.25, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Wisdom Of Age[edit]

General, Trait

You have learned much as you got older.

Prerequisite: Old

Benefit: You start with 12 extra skill points.

Special: This feat may only be taken at first level.

Notes: The SRD age rules allow starting at Old.

Balance: 3.55 (Purp 2.75, Pow 3.25, Port 3.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.00)

Wondrous Pet[edit]

General

You gain an exceptional animal companion that is devoted to you.

Prerequisite: Handle Animal 1 rank

Benefit: You can train any one animal or vermin that you have already tamed. Your wondrous pet is clever for a creature of its type (although its intelligence score is not altered) and it can perform any simple task (like those an animal can normally be trained to perform) under your direct supervision. With the Handle Animal skill, you can teach the creature twice the usual number of tricks for its Intelligence score (unless it is mindless, in which case you can teach it 3 tricks rather than the normal 0). You can also teach it a number of additional skill ranks equal to your ranks in the Handle Animal skill, with a training time of one week per skill rank. Finally, you can increase the creature's toughness. It can gain a number of additional hit points equal to your ranks in Handle Animal. Each extra hit point requires one week of training. If you do not have any interaction with your pet for a month it forgets a lot of what you have taught it, losing any abilities above what you would normally be able to teach such a creature with Handle Animal. However, you can retrain your existing pet. If you lose your pet or it dies, you may begin training from scratch with a new creature after one month has elapsed.

Special: You can take this feat several times. Each time it allows you to train an additional creature. Druids and worshippers of deities of plants and nature may also use this feat to train plant creatures with an Intelligence score of 0-2 that they can communicate with, at the DM’s discretion.

Notes: Many creatures lack the limbs and intelligence to learn certain skills. The ability to tame wild creatures is not included in this feat; it requires other abilities, such as the charm animal spell.

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.42 (Purp 5.00, Pow 4.60, Port 4.60, Comp 3.30, Rule 4.60)

Woodscraft[edit]

General

Your hunches and guesses tend to be more accurate about the world around you.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Knowledge (Nature) checks and Survival checks.

Balance: 3.90 (Purp 3.33, Pow 3.67, Port 4.00, Comp 4.33, Rule 4.17)

Wounding Attack[edit]

SRD:Wounding Attack Psionic, Fighter

Your vicious attacks wound your foe.

Balance: 4.20 (Purp 4.25, Pow 4.25, Port 4.25, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Wrap Shot[edit]

You have learned to swing your flexible weapon around obstructions.

Prerequisite: Weapon Focus (any One Flexible Weapon)

Benefit: When using a flexible weapon for which you have Weapon Focus, you may ignore any shield or cover bonuses an opponent has to Armor Class, but you cannot negate full cover.

Special: Flexible weapons include the dire flail, heavy flail, light flail, net, nunchaku, spiked chain, and whip.

Balance: 4.45 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.75, Rule 4.50)

Wrenching Attack[edit]

Your attacks hinder your opponent’s ability to attack.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Base attack bonus +4

Benefit: Once per round you may declare a standard attack as a Wrenching Attack. You suffer a -4 to hit penalty but if you hit and deal damage the target must make a Fortitude Save (DC 10 + ½ damage dealt) or they will suffer a -2 penalty on all to-hit rolls. This penalty lasts for 24 hours, or until the creature is successfully treated with a DC 15 Heal check, or until it receives at least 1 point of magical curing. Multiple Wrenching Attacks are cumulative in effect but all effects are removed when the target is healed.

Special: This feat is ineffective against creatures that are not subject to critical hits (e.g. constructs, elementals, oozes, plants, undead, and characters whose armor fortification successfully activated).

Balance: 3.73 (Purp 3.83, Pow 3.67, Port 3.83, Comp 3.33, Rule 4.00)

Zealous Smite[edit]

Special

The strength of your faith flows through you, allowing you to inflict terrible blows against your enemies.

Prerequisite: Smite ability

Benefit: You can use your Smite ability one additional time per day.

Special: A character can choose this feat multiple times, gaining one additional Smite attack each time this feat is chosen. If you have multiple Smite abilities that are usable against different opponents you must choose which particular Smite ability you wish to improve each time you take this feat.

Revised by the Netbook of Feats Review Board

(Updated to 3.5 by NBOF)

Balance: 4.15 (Purp 4.00, Pow 4.00, Port 4.50, Comp 4.25, Rule 4.00)

Zone Of Animation[edit]

SRD:Zone of Animation Epic, Divine

You can use your rebuking powers to animate the undead.

Balance: 4.30 (Purp 4.50, Pow 4.00, Port 4.25, Comp 4.50, Rule 4.25)

Zone Of Deflection[edit]