Symposium of Feats

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This thread for Tobbhou feats that aren't tied to any specific class or school.

Focus Fire

Taking the opponent before you is your main priority, even at the risk of your own safety.
Pre-requisites: Must know at least one martial stance.
Benefit: When you enter a martial stance, you may choose to focus fire. All your movement speeds are halved, you take a -1 penalty to AC and Saves, and in return you gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls and the DCs of your abilities. You can increase the penalty and bonus by an amount up to half the stance level you enter, rounded up. The bonus/penalty lasts until you exit the stance.


Border of Duel

A proper battle demands a proper arena.
Pre-requisites:Must know a martial stance.
Benefit: When you enter a martial stance, you can select one opponent within view. If she makes an attack that doesn't include you as the target, they take a penalty equal to your stance's level on attack rolls, IL, damage rolls, DC, skill checks and ability checks on that attack. A single creature can't be affected by more than 1 Border of Duel at a time, any new attempts fail, it lasts until the one who started it dies, is rendered helpless, exits the stance, or 5 rounds have passed, whatever happens first. 
Special: If the stance you entered is a supernatural one, you may choose for mystic and colourful patterns reflecting your personality and specialization(s) to surround you and your opponent for the duration.

Border of Death

When you're on the verge of losing everything it's the best time to give it your all.
Pre-requisites:Must know a martial stance and at least one strike maneuver.
Benefit:When you would be rendered helpess or reduced to below 0 HP by another creature and you're in a martial stance and have at least one strike maneuver readied, you may expend the maneuver as a non-action to use the strike on the one that attacked you. If you inflict them at least 1 damage or they fail a save against your strike (if any), then you're not rendered helpess and/or you don't drop below 0 HP. You then exit your martial stance and unready all your maneuvers.


Hit Box

Harsh training allows you to shift your vital organs into a smaller space inside your body that's thus harder to hit.
Pre-requisites: Must know one martial stance.
Benefit:While on a martial stance, you gain a 50% chance plus 5% chance per stance level to ignore the extra damage from critical hits. This stacks with other effects that increase chance to ignore critical hits. In addition you can re-roll natural 1s on saves.

Mundane Magic

The border between fantastic and common can be pretty thin.
Prerequisite: Knowledge of both Su and Ex maneuvers.
Benefit: You can choose for your maneuvers to count as either Ex or Su when you use them.

Graze

By getting in the thick of danger and surviving, you can better attack your opponents.
Pre-requisites: Must know a martial stance.
Benefit:While on a martial stance, when you succeed on a save against an effect caused from another creature without using any maneuver, you gain a bonus on the next attack roll and damage roll against said opponent equal to 1+Stance level, plus a bonus to the DC (if any) equal to half of that rounded down. This bonus is lost if you don't attack that opponent again within 1 round. Making multiple saves against effects from a single opponent in a single turn doesn't stack against a single opponent.


Everything Explodes.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of at least one maneuver that deals damage.
Benefit: You can use maneuvers to deal damage to attack things that interact physically with the world but do not normally have HP such as a fog or a wall of force/fire or mage's tentacles. In the case of area effects such effects count as enemy creatures. In the case you use a maneuver that demands a target(s) instead of affecting an area, you must pick the effect(s) you want to explode as target(s). The effects count as having 10 HP per CL/IL. If the effect was created by a spell/maneuver/similar of a lower level than the maneuver you're using, it is automatically destroyed instead.

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Those feats can be applied to a maneuver you initiate assuming its level is lower than your current stance's level by an equal or greater amount to the feat's meta level in brackets. You can apply multiple meta maneuvers to a single one assuming the sum of their levels is no greater than the difference. So for example if you're in a 9th level stance you could apply Quicken maneuver to a 5th level maximum maximum or Extend, Widen, Silent and Still.

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Prerequisite: Knowledge of a 3rd level Martial Stance.
Benefit: The maneuver's duration(if any) is doubled.

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Prerequisite:Extend maneuver, Knowledge of a 8th level Martial Stance
Benefit:The maneuver's duration (if any) changes to 24 hours.

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Prerequisite: Knowledge of a 6th level Martial Stance.
Benefit: If the maneuver took a fullround action to use, now it takes a standard action. If it took a standard action, now it takes a swift. If it took a swift action, it can now be used as a free action.

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Prerequisite: Knowledge of a 3rd level Martial Stance.
Benefit: The maneuver's range, length and radius (if any) are doubled. If they grant a bonus to melee reach, it is doubled as well.

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Prerequisite: Knowledge of a 3rd level Martial Stance.
Benefit: Your maneuver makes no sound when used. No effects based on Listen checks can be used against it.

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Prerequisite: Knowledge of a 3rd level Martial Stance.
Benefit: You do not need to be able to move to use the maneuver.

Quick Ready
Pre-requisites: Must ready maneuvers.
Benefit: You can change one of your currently readied non-expended maneuvers for another of your known maneuvers as a swift or move action.

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Weather Rhapsody

Heh heh heh,
I've found another amusing way to pass the time.
The weather is the materialization of spirit, was it.
Spirit, or in other words, ghosts.
Meaning, if I watch the surrounding weather,
I can understand the shape the afterlife will take.
Prerequisite: IL 11, must know at least one Martial Stance.
Benefit: When you enter a Martial Stance pick one opponent you can detect and one of the below options. You deem the opponent guilty of that and the weather around them changes accordingly, giving you a bonus as detailed on the spoiler section until you change stances again. Your target is allowed a Will save with DC 10+Stance level+Your highest stat mod to make a counter-accusation, defend their case or trash talk back, in which case they also gain the benefits of the weather against you. However if your opponent isn't guilty of the thing you accused them of, then the weather doesn't change.

 If two warriors with Weather Rhapsody  pick each other as the targets, the last one to change stances becomes the dominant weather (if their accusation was correct). However if the one who got their weather supressed enters a new stance, they can choose for theirs to become the dominant weather between them. It's possible for a creature to be the target of multiple Weather Rhapsodies from different opponents, in which case the local weather becomes a messy mix of the options, but the combatants still gain the respective benefits against each other.
 

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-If they ever stole something.

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Your spells and maneuvers deal 20% more HP damage to the target.

Drizzling rain is thin, gloomy, and unremarkable,
but it has a gentle quality about it.
You'll become a ghost that is always in the background, I bet.
Neither ascending to heaven nor reincarnating,
just a spirit eternally waiting for judgment in Higan.

-If they ever casted an arcane spell.

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Your target cannot use melee attacks against you, except for single-melee attack maneuvers.

-If they ever casted a divine spell.

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You gain an extra 2 immediate actions per round that can only be used in reaction to actions from the target.

...Mmm, it's warm.
Fine weather with not a single cloud in the sky.
Good weather is just harmless sunlight and the earth's vitality passing by.
Hot in the daytime, cool during the night.
Straight shooting and inflexible,
neither merciless nor kind.

-If they ever killed someone with a melee attack.

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Your crit multiplier increases by 1 and your crit threat range is doubled against the target (or you can inflict normal criticals if your opponent was immune to them).


Oh, nothing.
Well, that's good to hear.
Speaking of which, your weather is such a magnificent blue sky.
Azure skies were once a symbol of emptiness.
Among the living obtaining that spirit is difficult,
but among the dead it's quite common.
You might become a ghost with a gaping hole in your heart.

-If they ever killed someone with a ranged attack.

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Every time you damage the target you recover an expended maneuver of the stance you're in.



It's alright, to become like a cloud means you won't be brilliant or wealthy,
but, you can avoid harmful light, and spend your days telling fortunes,
a very handy spirit to have, I'll let you know.
While they were living, these skilled ghosts were mostly
knowledgeable and successful leaders, living without a single discomfort.
But, when it comes time for judgment in Higan,
those techniques' transient usefulness won't come forth.

-If they're an undead.

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Each time you damage the target they lose one random maneuver or one random prepared spell/spell slot/SLA use from among their highest level spell available (if they have both spells and maneuvers, both).

-If they ever seeked complete isolation from other sentient beings.

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If you full attack the target, you can make one extra attack against them at your highest attack bonus.

-If they ever drained energy from sentient beings.

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You heal half the damage you inflict to the target.

-If they ever manipulated others to do their bidding.

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The target cannot take immediate or free actions when it's your turn.

-If they ever keep repeating an action until colapsing just for the pleasure of it.

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The DCs of all your abilities increase by 20% against the target.

-If they ever stalked people.

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You gain an extra move and swift action per turn that can only be spent approaching or somehow affecting the target.

-If they ever fled from their duty.

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Your Target acts as Confused, bypassing any immunity to that effect they have, except that they roll every turn even if being attacked.

A spirit of wind is a sign of imbalance in the heart.
A ghost who changes depending on who they're with, I predict.
Skillful in worldly affairs,
but weak to ailments of the mind.

-If they've led a life actually quite similar to your own.

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The target cannot willingly move more than 5 feet closer or further apart from you each turn and cannot take 5-feet steps.

-If they ever before and intentionally interfered with your actions before this battle.

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You ignore all ill effects with a duration other than instantaneous or permanent that the target inflicts on you.

-If they're  a non-undead immortal.

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Choose one rabdom option at random at the start of each turn.

-If they're mortal beings cheating their lifespans somehow.

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Pick one of your choice

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Together We Ride

Mount is easy.
Prerequisite: 4+ Ranks in Ride
Benefit: You know how to find and gain the trust of a creature to serve as your steed. Choose one of the following options, which shall therefore be refered as the Trusted Steed while the character shall be refered as Trusted Rider. It takes 24 hours to find and bound with it, and it takes another 24 hours to find them a nice place to retire and replace them.

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Light Horse

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Camel
Large Monstrous Centipede
Light Warhorse
Heavy Horse

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Dire Bat
Heavy Warhorse
Hippogriph
Large Monstrous Spider

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Dire Wolf
Giant Eagle
Giant Wasp
Lion
Pegasus

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Brown Bear
Dire Boar
Giant Stag Beetle
Gryphon
Polar Bear
Rhinoceros
Tiger

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Dire Lion

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Wyvern
Megaraptor

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Dire Bear
Elephant

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Dire Tiger
Tyrannosaurus

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Triceratops

Other creatures may be obtained with the DM's permission, using the base guideline of needing ranks in Ride equal to 4+CR for each.

Either way, the Trusted Steed is primarly expected to carry you, not to be used as a scout or meatshield, trusting you to be the one actually fighting while it carries you.
The Trusted Steed can't take any action besides movement (including trample, if it has it) and non-Cha skill checks unless noted otherwise. If the Trusted Steed rolls worst than the Trusted Rider in a non Cha skill check they both rolled (like using Hide and Move Silently to try to sneak around), then the Trusted Steed may use the Trusted Rider's result instead of her own.
The Trusted Rider suffers any and all damage and ill effects its Mount would receive while mounting it. In the case of area effects, they affect only the Trusted Rider while she's riding it.
In addition, the trusted Rider  can count herself as her Trusted Steed's size whenever it would be convenient for her, and the other way around as well.
Should the Trusted Rider dismount, the Trusted Mount will patiently wait for her return but otherwise don't take any actions besides eating any available food and resting.
Should the Trusted Rider die, the Trusted Mount will do its best to run away.

If the Trusted Rider has more ranks in Ride than the minimum needed to control her current Trusted Steed, the Trusted Rider can better control her mount, gainining the difference as a number of "Trust points" that can be spent or changed with 8 hours of training with the Trusted Steed, at the rate of 1 Trust point per pick unless noted otherwise.

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-Trusted Steed gains +10 feet to a movement speed, can be picked multiple times, stacking.
-Choose one ability score. The Trusted Rider can add half the Trusted Steed's ability score bonus to her own respective bonus. Can be picked multiple times, each one choosing a different ability score.
-Trusted Steed ignores hard terrain.
-Trusted Steed's flying maneuverability (if any) increased by one step, can be taken multiple times, stacking.
-Trusted Steed can use one of its natural weapons while being ridden by the Trusted Rider. Can be taken multiple times, each time choose a different natural weapon.
-Choose a special sense from the Trusted Steed such as Scent. The Trusted Rider benefits from it as well.
-Trusted Steed can use some or all of its SLAs, at the cost of 1 Trust Point per SLA level, zero level SLAs count as costing 1/2.
-Trusted Steed can use one special ability that isn't a SLA such as a Monstrou's Spider's Web.
-While riding the Trusted Steed, the Trusted Rider can count as having any one feat that demands Mounted Combat as a prerequisite even if they don't have Mounted Combat, but any other prerequisites must be met.

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In fantasy mounts of all kinds are a common staple, however in D&D although there are riding rules, they're not exactly very convenient to use.
Besides needing to acquire a mount in the first place, then you need to take care of two statblocks including the mount gettings its own attacks which has the added problem of a mount either adding a lot of extra damage independent from your actual attacks or being so weak it will be vaporized by Aoos.

And thinking about it lots of computer rpgs don't bother with mounts at all, and the few times mounts are an option they're almost always just a transport option for between battles and you'll be fighting on foot.

A significant exception is Fire Emblem. There you can get basic knights as low level units and eventually everybody can promote for riding around in more or less exotic mounts.

So strongly inspired by that here's my attempt at a simple and effective way of getting your mount in D&D. The rider takes all the damage and the mount at basic just helps you move around but the more skilled at riding you are the more you can pump out of it.
For starters just used more "basic" mounts, but if I see arguments for more exotic stuff like true dragons and whatnot I may think about how to add them.