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Title: Handbook of the Exotic Practice of Feat Binding
Post by: nijineko on March 21, 2012, 03:17:38 AM
Handbook of the Exotic Practice of Feat Binding
...or, the Handbook of Feat-granting Items and Effects


Discussion and Suggestion Thread (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=4098.new#new)

Feats. Let's face it, feats are at a premium. Many characters never receive more than 7 feats in their career. Wizards get a few more. Fighters get even more, but they usually are hard pressed to do everything they want to, unless the follow one of the "optimized paths". Flaws might net you another one or two, but depend on a generous DM.

And there are so many feats to choose from. In the consolidated list of feats alone, there are 3279 feats listed. And that is not all of the official feats, either. Kingdoms of Kalamar, Ravenloft, Athas.org's DarkSun, and more, also offer additional lists of official feats beyond the consolidated list.

There are quite a few items that grant feats or feat-like abilities. These can potentially save precious feat slots for other needed feats. Be forewarned that if the item becomes lost, broken, suppressed, or disjoined, the feat will no longer be available to you, nor will anything that requires that feat as a prerequisite, be it a prestige class, or another feat in a chain.

The list will be in four parts:


There is some debate about if an ability duplicates a feat-whether it can count as the feat or not, as well as items that 'grant the benefit of a feat' being the same as granting a feat or not. This becomes an important consideration, as in many cases the purpose of taking a feat is to meet the prerequisite for another feat or class. Verify with your DM before proceeding to spend your cold, hard cash.

Note: the items listed here are pre-crafted items listed in an official source (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=2100.0).
Title: Re: Handbook of the Exotic Practice of Feat Binding
Post by: nijineko on March 21, 2012, 11:57:45 PM
Items that Grant Feats


Alertness

Ambidexterity (3.0)

Aquatic Shot

Any

Blind-Fight

Cleave

Combat Reflexes

Craft Construct

Craft Magic Arms and Armor

Deflect Arrows

Dodge

Empower Turning

Expertise

Extend Spell

Extra Turning

Far Shot

Great Fortitude

Great Sunder [3.0]

Improved Bull Rush

Improved Combat Reflexes [Epic]

Improved Counterspell

Improved Disarm

Improved Initiative

Improved Natural Attack

Improved Sunder

Improved Trip

Improved Two-Weapon Fighting

Improved Unarmed Strike

Incite Rage [Epic]

Infinite Deflection [Epic]

Lightning Reflexes (MIC)

Martial Weapon Proficiency

Mobility

Mounted Combat

Point Blank Shot

Positive Energy Aura [Epic]

Powerful Charge

Ride-By Attack

Sand Camouflage

Sandskimmer

Scorpion's Resolve and Scorpion's Sense

Scribe Scroll

Skill Focus

Snatch Arrows

Spell Focus

Spring Attack

Spirited Charge

Track

Trample, Ride-By Attack, and Spirited Charge

Two-Weapon Fighting

Weapon Focus

Title: Re: Handbook of the Exotic Practice of Feat Binding
Post by: nijineko on March 21, 2012, 11:58:06 PM
Items that Grant Benefits of a Feat


Augment Summoning

Blind Fight

Danger Sense

Deflect Arrows

Extra Music


Extra Spell


Far Shot

Improved Unarmed Strike (3 options)

Maximize Spell

Quicken Spell

Ride-By Attack

Run

Track

Two Weapon Fighting
Title: Re: Handbook of the Exotic Practice of Feat Binding
Post by: nijineko on November 22, 2017, 08:27:42 AM
Items that Otherwise Duplicate Effect of a Feat



Chaining Spell

Cooperation Spell

Dash

Deflect Arrow


Empower Spell

Enlarge Spell

Extend Spell

Extra Slot

Extra Turning

Heighten Spell

Improved Critical

Improved Disarm

Improved Sunder

Maximize Spell

Metamagic Spell Trigger

Piercing Cold

Precise Shot

Quickdraw

Quicken Spell

Rapid Spell

Reach Spell

Sculpting Spell

Silent Spell

Spell Penetration

Substitution Spell

Weapon Finesse

Widen Spell

Whirlwind Attack


Title: Re: Handbook of the Exotic Practice of Feat Binding
Post by: nijineko on November 22, 2017, 09:02:23 AM
Feat Related Powers & Spells


Any

Blind Fight

Catfolk Pounce

Diehard

Empower Spell

Endurance

Extra Rage

Improved Critical

Mobility

Multi-Attack

Power Attack

Spring Attack

Weapon Finesse

Whirlwind Attack
Title: Re: Handbook of the Exotic Practice of Feat Binding
Post by: nijineko on November 22, 2017, 09:04:09 AM
Comments


Quote from: ~ftm3/JHtB
Most of the deconstruction of item costs to extract the price for feats is straightforward by following the cost tables. By looking at several items I determined (with reasonable confidence, I think) that WotC figures the cost for a single save bonus (such as Reflex) is 1/3 the cost of a resistance bonus to all three saves. (When added to an item with other features, such as a granted feat, remember the 1.5x cost multiplier for an additional property.)

Quote from: A&EG, partial quote.
Magic Items that Grant Feats
Pricing feats for magic items is a very fuzzy area. If a feat is purely mechanical... default to the rules in the Dungeon Master's Guide with an adjustment for the fact that the bonus has no type.... Metamagic feats should adjust the level of the spells to which they apply, and thus change the price... consider increasing all the spell levels by +1 if the item affects spells of 0–3rd level, by +2 if the item affects spells of 0–6th level, and by +4 if the item affects spells of any level. A general guideline for other kinds of feats is that they cost 10,000 gp, plus another 5,000 gp to 10,000 gp per prerequisite.




Sources and Credits


~ftm3/JHtB (http://home.comcast.net/~ftm3/JHtB/feats.html)

BrilliantGameologists (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=8240.0)

WizCom Boards (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19871950/Items_that_Grant_Feats?pg=1)

Discussion and Suggestion Thread (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=4098.new#new)

Thanks to authors and contributors of these excellent sources, from whom I have copied much verbatim with minimal editing. I have also added suggestions from the Discussion Thread (http://minmaxforum.com/index.php?topic=4098.20), up to post #23.