FEATS COMPENDIUM

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 3 CRITICAL FEATS 106
Introduction 4 A 107
B 107
Feats 4 C 107
Prerequisites 4 D 107
Types of Feats 4 E 108
Feat Descriptions 7 G 108
I 108
S 108
GENERAL FEATS 8 T 109
A 9
B 12 GRIT FEATS 110
C 15
D 19 D 111
E 23 E 111
F 28 L 111
G 32 N 111
H 34 R 111
I 35 S 111
J 39
K 39
L 40 HERO FEATS 112
M 42
N 44 B 113
O 45 H 113
P 45 L 113
Q 47
R 47
S 50 ITEM CREATION FEATS 114
T 58
U 61 B 115
V 61 C 115
W 62 F 116
Z 63 S 116
COMBAT FEATS 64 METAMAGIC FEATS 117
A 65 B 118
B 66 C 118
C 68 D 119
D 71 E 119
E 75 F 119
F 75 H 120
G 77 I 120
H 81 L 120
I 81 M 120
J 85 P 120
K 85 Q 120
L 86 R 120
M 86 S 121
N 88 T 121
O 89 W 122
P 90
Q 92
R 93 MYTHIC FEATS 123
S 94
T 101 A 124
U 104 B 125
V 104 C 125
W 104 D 126
E 127
F 128
G 129
H 129
I 129
K 131
L 131
M 131
N 132
P 133
Q 133
R 133
S 134
T 136
U 137
V 137
W 137
MONSTER FEATS 139
A 140
B 140
C 140
D 140
E 140
F 141
G 141
H 141
I 142
L 142
M 142
Q 143
R 143
S 143
T 144
W 144
PANACHE FEATS 145
C 146
D 146
E 146
L 146
P 146
S 146
PERFORMANCE FEATS 147
D 148
H 148
M 148
S 148
STORY FEATS 149
A 150
B 151
C 151
D 151
E 151
F 152
G 152
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I 153
L 153
M 153
N 154
P 154
R 155
S 155
T 155
U 156
V 156

STYLE FEATS 157

B 159
C 160
D 160
E 161
F 162
G 162
J 163
K 163
M 164
O 165
P 166
S 166
T 167

TECHNOLOGY FEATS 169

C 170
R 170
S 170
T 170
W 171

TEAMWORK FEATS 172

A 173
B 173
C 173
D 173
E 174
F 174
H 174
I 174
L 175
M 175
O 175
P 175
S 175
T 176
W 176

OPEN GAME LICENSE 177

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INTRODUCTION

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Introduction
This file is a compendium made by me to put togheter in
one place the PRD information about all feats and its rules.
The intention of the file is just make easier to those who have
no full access to internet during the game sessions or while
building its character sheet.
To play the full game, visit the official rules site and buy the
books of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game at www.paizo.com.
Feats
Some abilities are not tied to your race, class, or skill—
things like particularly quick reflexes that allow you to react
to danger more swiftly, the ability to craft magic items, the
training to deliver powerful strikes with melee weapons, or
the knack for deflecting arrows fired at you. These abilities
are represented as feats. While some feats are more useful to
certain types of characters than others, and many of them
have special prerequisites that must be met before they are
selected, as a general rule feats represent abilities outside of
the normal scope of your character's race and class. Many of
them alter or enhance class abilities or soften class
restrictions, while others might apply bonuses to your
statistics or grant you the ability to take actions otherwise
prohibited to you. By selecting feats, you can customize and
adapt your character to be uniquely yours.
PREREQUISITES
Some feats have prerequisites. Your character must have the
indicated ability score, class feature, feat, skill, base attack
bonus, or other quality designated in order to select or use
that feat. A character can gain a feat at the same level at
which he gains the prerequisite.
A character can't use a feat if he loses a prerequisite, but he
does not lose the feat itself. If, at a later time, he regains the
lost prerequisite, he immediately regains full use of the feat
that prerequisite enables.
TYPES OF FEATS
Some feats are general, meaning that no special rules
govern them as a group. Others are item creation feats, which
allow characters to create magic items of all sorts. A
metamagic feat lets a spellcaster prepare and cast a spell with
greater effect, albeit as if the spell were of a higher spell level
than it actually is.
Combat Feats
Any feat designated as a combat feat can be selected as a
fighter's bonus feat. This designation does not restrict
characters of other classes from selecting these feats,
assuming that they meet the prerequisites.
Critical Feats
Critical feats modify the effects of a critical hit by inflicting
an additional condition on the victim of the critical hit.
Characters without the Critical Mastery feat can only apply
the effects of one critical feat to an individual critical hit.
Characters with multiple critical feats can decide which feat
to apply after the critical hit has been confirmed.
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Extra Uses Feats
Feats that grant extra uses of class abilities, like Extra
Channel or Extra Rage, effectively grant the affected ability a
pool of additional uses each day. If you have levels in
multiple classes that have the same ability (or abilities that
are counted as others for the purposes of meeting feat
prerequisites, like the skald's raging song counting as bardic
performance), this single pool applies to all those abilities
together, and doesn't grant extra uses to each one separately.
You may spend this pool of uses each day on any of these
abilities in whatever manner you choose.
For example, if you have levels in both barbarian and
bloodrager and you take the Extra Rage feat, you gain 6 extra
rounds that you can either use to rage or bloodrage or split
between the two. The feat does not give both an extra 6
rounds of rage and 6 rounds of bloodrage—it gives you
exactly 6 rounds each day that you can use for either one of
these abilities. One day, you might use 4 of these rounds for
rage and 2 on bloodrage; the next day, you might use 3 on
each.
Grit Feats
Grit feats interact with the gunslinger's grit class ability or
the grit granted by the Amateur Gunslinger feat, usually by
adding to her set of deeds. Sometimes these feats increase the
number of grit points a character has or how that character
regains grit points. Gunslingers can take grit feats as bonus
feats.
Hero Point Feats
The hero point feats enhance a character ability to store and
gain hero points.
Item Creation Feats
An item creation feat lets a character create a magic item of
a certain type. Regardless of the type of item each involves,
the various item creation feats all have certain features in
common.
Raw Materials Cost: The cost of creating a magic item
equals half the base price of the item.
Using an item creation feat also requires access to a
laboratory or magical workshop, special tools, and so on. A
character generally has access to what he needs unless
unusual circumstances apply.
Time: The time to create a magic item depends on the feat
and the cost of the item.
Item Cost: Brew Potion, Craft Staff, Craft Wand, and Scribe
Scroll create items that directly reproduce spell effects, and
the power of these items depends on their caster level—that
is, a spell from such an item has the power it would have if
cast by a spellcaster of that level. The price of these items
(and thus the cost of the raw materials) also depends on the
caster level. The caster level must be low enough that the
spellcaster creating the item can cast the spell at that level. To
find the final price in each case, multiply the caster level by
the spell level, then multiply the result by a constant, as
shown below:
Scrolls: Base price = spell level × caster level × 25 gp.
Potions: Base price = spell level × caster level × 50 gp.
Wands: Base price = spell level × caster level × 750 gp.
Staves: The price for staves is calculated using more
complex formulas (see Magic Items).
A 0-level spell is considered to have a spell level of 1/2 for
the purpose of this calculation.
 Extra Costs: Any potion, scroll, or wand that stores a spell
with a costly material component also carries a
commensurate cost. For potions and scrolls, the creator must
expend the material component cost when creating the item.
For a wand, the creator must expend 50 units of the material
component. Some magic items similarly incur extra costs in
material components, as noted in their descriptions.
Skill Check: Successfully creating a magic item requires a
Spellcraft check with a DC equal to 5 + the item's caster level.
Alternatively, you can use an associated Craft or Profession
skill to attempt this check instead, depending upon the item
being crafted. See Magic Item Creation for more details on
which Craft and Profession checks may be substituted in this
manner. The DC of this check can increase if the crafter is
rushed or does not meet all of the prerequisites. A failed
check ruins the materials used, while a check that fails by 5 or
more results in a cursed item. See Magic Items for more
details.
Metamagic Feats
As a spellcaster's knowledge of magic grows, he can learn to
cast spells in ways slightly different from the norm.
Preparing and casting a spell in such a way is harder than
normal but, thanks to metamagic feats, is at least possible.
Spells modified by a metamagic feat use a spell slot higher
than normal. This does not change the level of the spell, so
the DC for saving throws against it does not go up.
Metamagic feats do not affect spell-like abilities.
Wizards and Divine Spellcasters: Wizards and divine
spellcasters must prepare their spells in advance. During
preparation, the character chooses which spells to prepare
with metamagic feats (and thus which ones take up higher-
level spell slots than normal).
Sorcerers and Bards: Sorcerers and bards choose spells as
they cast them. They can choose when they cast their spells
whether to apply their metamagic feats to improve them. As
with other spellcasters, the improved spell uses up a higher-
level spell slot. Because the sorcerer or bard has not prepared
the spell in a metamagic form in advance, he must apply the
metamagic feat on the spot. Therefore, such a character must
also take more time to cast a metamagic spell (one enhanced
by a metamagic feat) than he does to cast a regular spell. If
the spell's normal casting time is a standard action, casting a
metamagic version is a full-round action for a sorcerer or
bard. (This isn't the same as a 1-round casting time.) The only
exception is for spells modified by the Quicken Spell
metamagic feat, which can be cast as normal using the feat.
For a spell with a longer casting time, it takes an extra full-
round action to cast the spell.
Spontaneous Casting and Metamagic Feats: A cleric
spontaneously casting a cure or inflict spell, or a druid
spontaneously casting a summon nature's ally spell, can cast a
metamagic version of it instead. Extra time is also required in
this case. Casting a standard action metamagic spell
spontaneously is a full-round action, and a spell with a longer
casting time takes an extra full-round action to cast. The only
exception is for spells modified by the Quicken Spell feat,
which can be cast as a swift action.
Effects of Metamagic Feats on a Spell: In all ways, a
metamagic spell operates at its original spell level, even
though it is prepared and cast using a higher-level spell slot.
Saving throw modifications are not changed unless stated
otherwise in the feat description.
The modifications made by these feats only apply to spells
cast directly by the feat user. A spellcaster can't use a
metamagic feat to alter a spell being cast from a wand, scroll,
or other device.
Metamagic feats that eliminate components of a spell don't
eliminate the attack of opportunity provoked by casting a
spell while threatened. Casting a spell modified by Quicken
Spell does not provoke an attack of opportunity.
Metamagic feats cannot be used with all spells. See the
specific feat descriptions for the spells that a particular feat
can't modify.
Multiple Metamagic Feats on a Spell: A spellcaster can
apply multiple metamagic feats to a single spell. Changes to
its level are cumulative. You can't apply the same metamagic
feat more than once to a single spell.
Magic Items and Metamagic Spells: With the right item
creation feat, you can store a metamagic version of a spell in a
scroll, potion, or wand. Level limits for potions and wands
apply to the spell's higher spell level (after the application of
the metamagic feat). A character doesn't need the metamagic
feat to activate an item storing a metamagic version of a spell.
Counterspelling Metamagic Spells: Whether or not a spell
has been enhanced by a metamagic feat does not affect its
vulnerability to counterspelling or its ability to counterspell
another spell (see Magic).
Monster Feats
Most of these feats apply specifically to monsters, although
some player characters might qualify for them (as Craft
Construct).
Mythic Feats
Mythic characters and monsters gain mythic feats as they
gain tiers or ranks. These feats can be selected only as part of
mythic advancement, not as part of a character's normal
advancement or in place of any other bonus feat.
Most mythic feats require a non-mythic feat as a
prerequisite. These mythic feats enhance the benefits of their
prerequisite feats, making them truly awe-inspiring. If a
character doesn't possess any of the necessary prerequisite
feats when she gains a mythic feat, she can wait to select a
mythic feat until the next time she gains a tier or level.
A value in a mythic feat based on a fraction of your tier
(such as a +1 bonus for every 3 tiers you possess) always has
a minimum of 1.
This section includes some non-mythic feats. These grant a
character who hasn't had a moment of ascension a measure of
mythic might, and remain relevant if that character later
becomes mythic.
Only characters with mythic tiers or creatures with mythic
ranks can take these feats. If a creature becomes non-mythic,
it no longer gains the benefit of these feats, but it doesn't lose
them permanently. If the creature becomes mythic again, it
regains the use of all the mythic feats it once had.
Many mythic feats enhance non-mythic feats with the same
name. When a creature has a mythic version of a feat, that
feat is denoted with a superscript "M" in the feat line of its
stat block.
Panache Feats
Panache feats interact with the swashbuckler's panache
class ability or the panache granted by the Amateur
Swashbuckler feat. Swashbucklers can take panache feats as
bonus feats.
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Performance Feats
Performance feats are used when you make a performance
combat check, typically granting a special action that occurs
when you make that check. Unless you have the Masterful
Display feat, you can only apply the effect of one
performance feat to each performance combat check you
make.
Story Feats
A story feat reflects a goal—often an all-consuming one—
that shapes your life. Each story feat incorporates a trigger
event (which comes from either a campaign occurrence or
your background), an immediate benefit, a goal, and a further
benefit for achieving that goal.
Story feats are marked with the story keyword. Each feat
has at least two possible prerequisites, representing
conditions most likely met during play or a background that
fits the feat. You need to meet only one of these prerequisites.
Anytime you gain a new feat, you may take a story feat, but
you can have only one uncompleted story feat at a time. Story
feats are designed for PCs, but can be taken by NPCs and
monsters as well.
Unlike typical feats, story feats have nebulous prerequisites,
and you should chose one only after talking with the GM.
The GM should weave a story feat into the greater story of
the campaign and even adjust it as needed to fit the
campaign's long-term goals and the specifics of your
background. Story feats should work organically within the
story of the campaign, rather than be chosen purely for their
mechanical benefits.
Like the prerequisites, the completion conditions for a story
feat might require GM adjudication. If the events of the
campaign are not likely to resolve the story implied by the
story feat, the GM should consider shifting the goal to
something you can achieve. Establishing a meaningful story
arc is more important than adhering to the letter of the feat.
Because a story feat represents both your motivation and
character development, the GM should make an effort to
incorporate elements related to the feat into the ongoing
campaign. These can be direct elements, like the appearance
of a villain or hated creature, or indirect elements, such as
rumors of the fate of a lost relative or NPCs who are
impressed by a PC's artistic endeavors. A good rule of thumb
is to work in a reference to each PC's story feat once every
three to five sessions.
In most cases, allies can assist in completing a story feat. At
the GM's discretion, if you do not take a leadership role in
tasks or conflicts related to your own story feat, you might
need to complete additional goals to resolve the story feat, or
might even be denied completion altogether.
Common Rules
Many story feats share similar terminology in their
prerequisites and completion conditions. The following terms
have special meanings when used in story feats.
Appropriate Number: These are either creatures whose
individual CRs add up to 20, or creatures whose individual
CRs add up to 5 times your character level, whichever is
greater. For example, if you're at 6th level, an appropriate
number of creatures have CRs that add up to 30. This
calculation is based on your current character level, not the
level at which you selected the story feat. Overly easy
challenges (encounters with CRs of 3 or more below your
character level) don't count unless circumstances make them
much more difficult to handle.
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Challenging Foe: This is a foe or group of foes with a total
CR of 10 or a CR of 3 plus your character level, whichever is
higher. If this refers to a distinct individual, the foe's CR is set
when the feat is taken, but the foe advances in power as you
do. Otherwise, it refers to your current level. A typical
recurring foe advances in CR by 1 for every 1—2 levels you
gain.
Character's Level: Normally, this is your actual character
level. If you're a creature best represented by CR rather than
character level (such as most monsters with more than 1 HD),
use your calculated CR instead of your character level.
Decisively Defeat: You overcome a foe in some way, such
as by killing the creature, knocking it unconscious, or causing
it to be taken prisoner. You must be a significant participant
in the conflict to defeat the opponent, even if another strikes
the final blow. Whether or not merely causing the enemy to
flee qualifies is up to the GM. Generally, driving off an
enemy while causing little actual harm does not qualify as a
decisive defeat.
Slay: Slaying a foe includes killing it, destroying it, turning
it to stone, banishing it to the Abyss, or otherwise eliminating
it in a fashion reversible only by powerful magic. Unless
otherwise noted, you must deal the final blow yourself to slay
a creature.
Thwart: Distinct from defeating a foe, thwarting a foe
involves disrupting its plans in a substantial and essentially
permanent fashion. Deposing a lord, bringing down a priest's
temple, or banishing a sorcerer to the depths of Hell all
qualify as thwarting. You keep any benefits gained by
thwarting a foe even if it survives defeat and returns more
powerful than before. You must be a significant participant in
the events that lead to your foe being thwarted for your
actions to count toward fulfilling a story requirement.
Story Feats and Stacking
Most story feat bonuses are untyped, and stack with almost
any other bonus. However, if you have multiple story feats,
their untyped bonuses do not stack with each other. For
example, if two story feats gave you a bonus on saving
throws, you would add only the higher bonus.
Style Feats
For centuries, great warriors have looked to nature and the
multiverse to find inspiration in battle. Countless monastic
and contemplative orders have crafted intricate unarmed
fighting styles based on the deadliness and grace of natural
and supernatural creatures. Although many such fighting
techniques were created by secretive orders, they have since
spread to practitioners the world over.
As a swift action, you can enter the stance employed by the
fighting style a style feat embodies. Although you cannot use
a style feat before combat begins, the style you are in persists
until you spend a swift action to switch to a different combat
style. You can use a feat that has a style feat as a prerequisite
only while in the stance of the associated style. For example,
if you have feats associated with Mantis Style and Tiger Style,
you can use a swift action to adopt Tiger Style at the start of
one turn, and then can use other feats that have Tiger Style as
a prerequisite. By using another swift action at the start of
your next turn, you could adopt Mantis Style and use other
feats that have Mantis Style as a prerequisite.
Teamwork Feats
Teamwork feats grant large bonuses, but they only function
under specific circumstances. In most cases, these feats
require an ally who also possesses the feat to be positioned
carefully on the battlefield. Teamwork feats provide no bonus
if the listed conditions are not met. Note that allies who are
paralyzed, stunned, unconscious, or otherwise unable to act
do not count for the purposes of these feats.

FEAT DESCRIPTIONS
Feats are summarized on Table: Feats below. Note that the
prerequisites and benefits of the feats on this table are
abbreviated for ease of reference. See the feats description for
full details.
The following format is used for all feat descriptions.
Feat Name: The feat's name also indicates what
subcategory, if any, the feat belongs to, and is followed by a
basic description of what the feat does.
Prerequisite: A minimum ability score, another feat or feats,
a minimum base attack bonus, a minimum number of ranks
in one or more skills, or anything else required in order to
take the feat. This entry is absent if a feat has no prerequisite.
A feat may have more than one prerequisite.
Benefit: What the feat enables the character ("you" in the
feat description) to do. If a character has the same feat more
than once, its benefits do not stack unless indicated otherwise
in the description.
Normal: What a character who does not have this feat is
limited to or restricted from doing. If not having the feat
causes no particular drawback, this entry is absent.
Special: Additional unusual facts about the feat.

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GENERAL FEATS

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GENERAL FEATS
Some feats are general, meaning that no special rules
govern them as a group.
Aberrant Tumor
To the surprise of others, that strange growth on you is
actually your spellcasting companion.
Prerequisite: Aberrant bloodline.
Benefit: You gain a tumor familiar, as the tumor familiar
alchemist discovery, with an effective alchemist level equal to
the level of the class that grants your aberrant bloodline for
determining the tumor familiar's abilities. If multiple classes
grant you the aberrant bloodline, those class levels stack for
determining your effective alchemist level.
Absorb Spirit
You absorb restless spirits into your body at the cost of your
own life force and sanity.
Prerequisites: Con 13, must have died at least once or been
possessed by an undead creature.
Benefit: When an incorporeal undead with the rejuvenation
special ability or a haunt is reduced to 0 or fewer hit points
within 30 feet of you, you can attempt to absorb its spirit into
your body as an immediate action. You must attempt a Will
save with a DC equal to 5 + twice the CR of the undead
creature or haunt. If you are a medium with the haunt
channelerOA class feature, you receive a +2 bonus on this
saving throw. If you succeed, you harbor the undead or
haunt’s essence, and it cannot continue to rejuvenate or
manifest until you release it. For every 24 hours that you
harbor the entity, you must attempt a Constitution check (DC
= 10 + the CR of the undead or haunt). If you are a medium
with the haunt channeler class feature, you receive a +2
bonus on this check. If you fail the check, you take 1d4 points
of Constitution and Wisdom damage. If you succeed, you
take 1 point of Constitution and Wisdom damage. No effect
can prevent or reduce this ability damage, nor can the ability
damage be healed or suppressed by any means until you
release the spirit. You can release the spirit at any time as a
standard action, at which point the spirit returns to its former
location and begins rejuvenating or manifesting again as
normal. If you die from the Constitution damage, the spirit is
released, and if you become comatose from the Wisdom
damage, the spirit gains control of your body (and can release
itself whenever it desires).
Special: If you are using the sanity system and fail your
Constitution check while harboring the spirit, you take sanity
damage equal to 1/2 the spirit’s CR (minimum 1) instead of
1d4 points of Wisdom damage. If you succeed at the
Constitution check, you take sanity damage equal to 1/4 the
spirit’s CR instead of 1 point of Wisdom damage. Either way,
you still take the normal amount of Constitution damage. No
effect can prevent or reduce the damage, nor can it be healed
or suppressed by any means until you release the spirit.
Abundant Revelations
You can plumb the depths of your mystery to use your
revelations more often.
Prerequisite: Mystery class feature.
Benefit: Choose one of your revelations that has a number
of uses per day. You gain 1 additional use per day of that
revelation.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new
revelation.
Accursed Hex
You can make a second attempt at failed hexes.
Prerequisite: Hex class feature.
Benefit: When you target a creature with a hex that cannot
target the same creature more than once per day, and that
creature succeeds at its saving throw against the hex's effect,
you can target the creature with the same hex a second time
before the end of your next turn. If the second attempt fails,
you can make no further attempts to target that creature with
the same hex for 1 day.
Normal: You can only target a creature with these hexes
once per day.
Acrobatic
You are skilled at leaping, jumping, and flying.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Acrobatics and Fly skill
checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the
bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Acrobatic Steps
You can easily move over and through obstacles.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Nimble Moves.
Benefit: Whenever you move, you may move through up to
15 feet of difficult terrain each round as if it were normal
terrain. The effects of this feat stack with those provided by
Nimble Moves (allowing you to move normally through a
total of 20 feet of difficult terrain each round).
Adaptive Fortune
Your luck takes on almost legendary proportions.
Prerequisites: Fortunate One, adaptable luck racial trait,
character level 10th, halfling.
Benefit: Increase the number of times per day you can use
the adaptable luck racial trait by 1. Furthermore, when you
use adaptable luck, increase the luck bonus for each type of
use by 2.
Adept Champion
You can alter your smite ability, channeling the power of
your deity into divine inspiration that grants you greater
aptitude for performing combat maneuvers.
Prerequisites: Smite evil class feature, base attack bonus +5.
Benefit: While using your smite evil class feature, as a swift
action at the start of your turn, you can forgo the bonus on
damage rolls and instead gain half that bonus as a bonus on
combat maneuver checks against the target of your smite.
The effects of your smite evil feature return to normal at the
start of your next turn.
Additional Traits
You have more traits than normal.
Benefit: You gain two character traits of your choice. These
traits must be chosen from different lists, and cannot be
chosen from lists from which you have already selected a
character trait. You must meet any additional qualifications
for the character traits you choose.
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Advanced Ranger Trap
Your ranger traps are especially difficult to notice and
avoid.
Prerequisites: Trap class feature, ranger level 5th.
Benefit: Add +1 to the Difficulty Class on all Perception and
Disable Device skill checks to find or disable the traps you
make with your trap class feature. Add a +1 to the Difficulty
Class on all saving throws against the effects of the trap you
make with your trap class feature.
Agent of Fear
You inspire fear so powerful that it’s hard to shake off.
Prerequisites: Persuasive, frightening appearance class
feature.
Benefit: When you target a creature with your frightening
appearance or stunning appearance class feature, it does not
become immune to the effects of those features for 24 hours,
but does gain a +2 bonus on the saving throws against those
class features for 24 hours. This bonus stacks with itself if you
use those abilities against the same creature multiple times in
the same 24- hour period. Because these abilities alert the
creature to your presence, you still can’t use them on the
creature again until after the end of that specific combat.
Normal: A creature targeted by frightening appearance or
stunning appearance becomes immune to the feature’s effect
for 24 hours.
Agile Tongue
Your long pink tongue is capable of manipulating small
items and even stealing objects.
Prerequisite: Grippli.
Benefit: You have a prehensile tongue with a range of 10
feet. You can pick up items weighing no more than 5 pounds,
make Sleight of Hand checks, perform the steal or disarm
combat maneuvers, or make melee touch attacks with your
tongue.
Airy Step
The air responds to your innate elemental nature, protecting
you from harm and cushioning your falls.
Prerequisite: Sylph.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against
effects with the air or electricity descriptors and effects that
deal electricity damage. You may ignore the first 30 feet of
any fall when determining falling damage.
Alertness
You often notice things that others might miss.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on Perception and Sense
Motive skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of
these skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Amateur Investigator
Your knowledge is more than plain smarts—it's inspired.
Prerequisites: Int 13, 1 rank in at least one Knowledge skill,
no levels in a class that has the inspiration class feature.
Benefit: Like an investigator, you have the ability to
augment your Knowledge, Linguistics, and Spellcraft checks.
You gain a pool of inspiration equal to your Intelligence
modifier. You can expend one use of inspiration as a free
action to add 1d6 to the result of a Knowledge, Linguistics, or
Spellcraft check, as long as you are trained in that skill (even
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if you take 10 or take 20 on that check). You make this choice
after the check is rolled and before the result of the roll is
revealed. You can use inspiration only once per skill check.
Your pool of inspiration refreshes each day, typically after
you get a restful night's sleep.
Special: If you later gain levels in a class that has the
inspiration class feature, you can immediately trade this feat
for the Extra Inspiration feat.
Angel Wings
Feathered wings sprout from your back.
Prerequisites: Angelic Blood, aasimar, character level 10th.
Benefit: You gain a pair of gleaming feathered wings that
grant a fly speed of 30 feet (average maneuverability) if
wearing light armor or unencumbered, or 20 feet (poor
maneuverability) with a medium or heavy load or medium or
heavy armor. Fly is a class skill for you.
Angelic Blood
Your blood is infused with holy power.
Prerequisites: Con 13, aasimar.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against
effects with the evil descriptor and on Constitution checks to
stabilize when you are reduced to negative hit points (but not
dead). Furthermore, each time you take bleed or blood drain
damage, each undead creature or creature with the evil
subtype that is currently adjacent to you also takes 1 point of
damage.
Angelic Flesh
Your skin shines like burnished metal.
Prerequisites: Angelic Blood, aasimar.
Benefit: You take a –2 penalty on Disguise and Stealth
checks but gain one of the following benefits, depending on
the metallic affinity of your flesh (choose one).
Brazen: You gain fire resistance 5 and a +2 bonus on saves
against fire effects.
Golden: You gain a +2 bonus on saves against blindness,
dazzling, patterns, and effects with the light descriptor. When
you cast spells or use spell-like abilities that are from the
illusion (pattern) subschool or have the light descriptor, you
do so at +1 caster level.
Silver: You gain a +2 bonus on saves against paralysis,
petrification, and poison, and your unarmed strikes or
natural weapons count as silver for the purpose of
overcoming damage reduction.
Steel: You gain a +1 natural armor bonus to AC, and your
unarmed strikes or natural weapons count as cold iron for the
purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
Alignment Channel
Choose chaos, evil, good, or law. You can channel divine
energy to affect outsiders that possess this subtype.
Prerequisites: Ability to channel energy.
Benefit: Instead of its normal effect, you can choose to have
your ability to channel energy heal or harm outsiders of the
chosen alignment subtype. You must make this choice each
time you channel energy. If you choose to heal or harm
creatures of the chosen alignment subtype, your channel
energy has no effect on other creatures. The amount of
damage healed or dealt and the DC to halve the damage is
otherwise unchanged.
 Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new
alignment subtype. Whenever you channel energy, you must
choose which type to effect.
Animal Affinity
You are skilled at working with animals and mounts.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Handle Animal and Ride
skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these
skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Animal Soul
Your close bond with an animal allows you to ignore
harmful magic that cannot affect your wild side.
Prerequisite: Animal companion or mount class feature.
Benefit: You can choose not to allow spells and effects to
effect you if they would not be capable of affecting both your
original creature type and the animal creature type.
Antagonize
Whether with biting remarks or hurtful words, you are
adept at making creatures angry with you.
Benefit: You can make Diplomacy and Intimidate checks to
make creatures respond to you with hostility. No matter
which skill you use, antagonizing a creature takes a standard
action that does not provoke attacks of opportunity, and has
a DC equal to 10+ the target's Hit Dice + the target's Wisdom
modifier. You cannot make this check against a creature that
does not understand you or has an Intelligence score of 3 or
lower. Before you make these checks, you may make a Sense
Motive check (DC 20) as a swift action to gain an insight
bonus on these Diplomacy or Intimitade checks equal to your
Charisma bonus until the end of your next turn. The benefits
you gain for this check depend on the skill you use. This is a
mind-affecting effect.
Diplomacy: You fluster your enemy. For the next minute, the
target takes a –2 penalty on all attacks rolls made against
creatures other than you and has a 10% spell failure chance
on all spells that do not target you or that have you within
their area of effect.
Intimidate: The creature flies into a rage. On its next turn, the
target must attempt to make a melee attack against you,
make a ranged attack against you, target you with a spell, or
include you in the area of a spell. The effect ends if the
creature is prevented from attacking you or attempting to do
so would harm it (for example, if you are on the other side of
a chasm or a wall of fire). If it cannot attack you on its turn,
you may make the check again as an immediate action to
extend the effect for 1 round (but cannot extend it thereafter).
The effect ends as soon as the creature attacks you. Once you
have targeted a creature with this ability, you cannot target it
again for 1 day.
Aquatic Ancestry
You favor your outsider ancestry and are better adapted to
life in the water.
Prerequisite: Undine.
Benefit: You gain the amphibious special quality. Your
swim speed increases by +10 feet.
Arcane Blast
You can convert any spell into an attack.
Prerequisites: Arcane spellcaster, caster level 10th.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can sacrifice a prepared
spell or unused spell slot of 1st level or higher and transform
it into a ray, targeting any foe within 30 feet as a ranged
touch attack. This attack deals 2d6 points of damage plus an
additional 1d6 points of damage for every level of the spell or
spell slot you sacrificed. 0-level spells may not be sacrificed in
this manner.
Arcane Shield
You can convert any spell into a defense.
Prerequisites: Arcane spellcaster, caster level 10th.
Benefit: As a immediate action, you can sacrifice a prepared
spell or unused spell slot of 1st level or higher and gain a
deflection bonus to AC equal to the level of the spell or spell
slot you sacrificed for 1 round. 0-level spells may not be
sacrificed in this manner.
Arcane Talent
Magic is in your blood, and at your fingertips.
Prerequisites: Cha 10; elf, half-elf, or gnome.
Benefit: Choose a 0-level spell from the sorcerer/wizard
spell list. You can cast this spell three times per day as a spell-
like ability. The caster level is equal to your character level.
The save DC is 10 + your Charisma modifier.
Armor of the Pit
Your fiendish traits take the form of a protective scaly skin.
Prerequisite: Tiefling.
Benefit: You gain a +2 natural armor bonus.
Special: If you have the scaled skin racial trait, you instead
gain resistance 5 to two of the following energy types that
you don't have resistance to already: cold, electricity, and fire.
Aspect of the Beast
Whether by magic or a curse of your blood, some part of
you is more beast than man.
Prerequisite: wild shape class feature, see Special.
Benefit: Your bestial nature manifests itself in one of the
following ways. You choose the manifestation when you
choose the feat, and then you cannot change it.
Night Senses (Ex): If your base race has normal vision, you
gain low-light vision. If your base race has low-light vision,
you gain darkvision out to a range of 30 feet. If your base race
has darkvision, the range of your darkvision increases by 30
feet.
Claws of the Beast (Ex): You grow a pair of claws. These
claws are primary attacks that deal 1d4 points of damage
(1d3 if you are Small).
Predator's Leap (Ex): You can make a running jump without
needing to run 10 feet before you jump.
Wild Instinct (Ex): You gain a +2 bonus on initiative checks
and a +2 bonus on Survival skill checks.
Special: A character that has contracted lycanthropy can
take this feat without having to meet the prerequisites. A
ranger who selects the natural weapon combat style can take
this feat without having to meet the prerequisites (even if he
does not select Aspect of the Beast as a bonus feat).
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Athletic
You possess inherent physical prowess.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on Climb and Swim skill
checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the
bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Attuned to the Wild
You share a strong mystic connection with one type of
wilderness terrain.
Prerequisite: Elf.
Benefit: Select one type of terrain from the ranger class's
favored terrain class feature (except urban). While you are in
your selected terrain type, your natural healing rate (the
amount of hit points and ability damage you heal from a full
night's rest) doubles.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take it, it applies to a different
terrain type.
Augment Summoning
Your summoned creatures are more powerful and robust.
Prerequisite: Spell Focus (conjuration).
Benefit: Each creature you conjure with any summon spell
gains a +4 enhancement bonus to Strength and Constitution
for the duration of the spell that summoned it.
Aura Flare
You are able to flare your alignment aura to debilitate your
foes.
Prerequisites: Cha 13; aura, aura of good, or aura of evil
class feature; channel energy 4d6; strong or overwhelming
good or evil aura.
Benefit: Once per day, when you channel energy, you are
also able to cause your divine aura to flare in a display of
overwhelming force, affecting all good creatures within the
aura (if you channel negative energy) or all evil creatures in
the aura (if you channel positive energy). This effect is in
addition to the normal effects of channeling energy.
When you flare your aura, select from one of the following
options based on the strength of your alignment aura. You
can select a lower-strength effect.
Strong: Affected creatures must succeed at a Fortitude save
(DC = 10 + 1/2 your class level in the class granting you the
channel energy ability + your Charisma bonus) or be fatigued
for 1d4 rounds.
Overwhelming: Affected creatures must succeed at a
Fortitude save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your class level in the class
granting you the channel energy ability + your Charisma
bonus) or be staggered for 1d4 rounds.
Beast Rider
You gain the service of a monstrous companion or mount.
Prerequisites: Animal companion or mount class feature,
character level 7th, half-orc or orc.
Benefit: Select one of the following creature types: elephant,
pteranodon, rhinoceros, stegosaurus, or triceratops. Add this
creature type to your list of possible animal companions or
mounts. When summoning a creature of the selected type to
serve as a mount or companion, treat your effective druid
level as if it were two levels higher (to a maximum of your
character level). If the creature is large enough for you to ride,
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it gains the combat training general purpose (see Handle
Animal) at no cost.
Believer's Boon
Your deity rewards you for your faithfulness and your
steadfast worship.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, alignment must be within one step of
your deity's.
Benefit: When you take this feat, choose one domain
granted by your deity. You can use the 1st-level domain
ability that clerics of that domain can use a number of times
or rounds per day, but you can use it only once per day or 1
round per day, whichever is appropriate. Your effective cleric
level in regard to this ability is 1st level. If the domain has a
1st-level ability that does not meet this specification, you
cannot use it.
Special: You can take this feat twice. When you take it a
second time, you choose another domain granted by your
deity.
If you grossly violate the code of conduct required by your
deity, your alignment shifts so that it is more than one step
away from your deity's, or you no longer worship your deity,
you lose access to this feat. You can regain it once you atone
for your misdeeds to your deity (see the atonement spell).
Believer's Hands
Thanks to your faith, you can heal others with a mere touch
of your hand.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, Believer's Boon, must be lawful good,
alignment must be within one step of your deity's.
Benefit: Once per day, you can use the paladin's lay on
hands ability. Your effective paladin level is equal to 1/2
your character level (minimum 1). If you already have (or
later gain) the lay on hands ability, you instead gain one extra
use of lay on hands each day.
Special: This feat counts as having the lay on hands ability
for the purpose of qualifying for feats such as Extra Lay on
Hands.
If you grossly violate the code of conduct required by your
deity, your alignment shifts so that it is more than one step
away from your deity's, or you no longer worship your deity,
you lose access to this feat. You can regain it once you atone
for your misdeeds to your deity (see the atonement spell).
Bestow Luck
You are extremely lucky and sometimes your allies are as
well.
Prerequisites: Defiant Luck, Inexplicable Luck, human.
Benefit: You gain an extra use per day of your Defiant Luck
ability. You can also use your Inexplicable Luck ability to
grant an ally that can see and hear its benefit as an immediate
action.
Betrayer
You can charm people into lowering their defenses,
allowing you to ambush them more effectively.
Prerequisites: Quick Draw, Persuasive, base attack bonus
+3.
Benefit: When you succeed at a Diplomacy check to change
a creature's attitude, you can draw a weapon and make a
single melee attack against that creature as an immediate
action. If you changed your target's attitude to friendly or
better, your target is considered flat-footed against this
attack. If the target survives, it takes a –2 penalty on its
initiative check for this combat.
Once you attack a creature, its attitude becomes hostile.
Black Cat
Bad luck befalls those who dare to cross you.
Prerequisite: Catfolk.
Benefit: Once per day as an immediate action, when you
are hit by a melee attack, you can force the opponent who
made the attack to reroll it with a –4 penalty. The opponent
must take the result of the second attack roll. This is a
supernatural ability.
Special: If you take this feat and don't already have all black
fur, your fur turns completely black when you takes this feat.
Blasting Charge
You funnel the power of your bloodrage into a strike
capable of erupting with arcane power.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +7, ability to cast 2nd-level
bloodrager spells, bloodrage class feature.
Benefit: While you are bloodraging, at the end of a charge
you can expend a bloodrager spell slot as a swift action to
imbue your charge attack with extra power. You deal an
additional 1d6 points of damage per level of the spell slot
expended. This extra damage is force damage, and it's not
multiplied in the case of a critical hit.
If your bloodline has a specific energy type associated with
it (as the elemental or draconic bloodlines do), you can
increase the damage to 1d8 points per level of the spell slot
expended, and this extra damage is of that type.
Blessed Striker
You attacks are augmented by the strength of your and
your deity's shared alignment.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +11, ability to cast divine
spells, alignment must be within one step of your deity's.
Benefit: All of your attacks are treated as having whatever
alignment components you and your deity share for the
purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
Special: If you grossly violate the code of conduct required
by your deity, your alignment shifts so that it is more than
one step away from your deity's, or you no longer worship
your deity, you lose access to this feat. You can regain it once
you atone for your misdeeds to your deity (see the atonement
spell).
Blighted Critical Mastery
You control the type of spellblight your critical hits give
your opponent.
Prerequisites: Blighted Critical, caster level 9th.
Benefit: Whenever you apply a spellblight by way of the
Blighted Critical or Greater Blighted critical feat, you can
choose the spellblight you apply rather than determining it
randomly.
Blood Drinker
Consuming blood reinvigorates you.
Prerequisite: Dhampir.
Benefit: Choose one humanoid subtype, such as "goblinoid"
(this subtype cannot be "dhampir"). You have acquired a taste
for the blood of creatures with this subtype. Whenever you
drink fresh blood from such a creature, you gain 5 temporary
hit points and a +1 bonus on checks and saves based on
Constitution. The effects last 1 hour. If you feed multiple
times, you continue to gain hit points to a maximum of 5
temporary hit points for every three Hit Dice you have, but
the +1 bonus on Constitution-based skill checks and saving
throws does not stack.
Normally, you can only drink blood from an opponent who
is helpless, grappled, paralyzed, pinned, unconscious, or
similarly disabled. If you have a bite attack, you can drink
blood automatically as part of your bite attack; otherwise,
you must first cut your target by dealing 1 hit point of
damage with a slashing or piercing weapon (though you may
feed upon a creature with severe wounds or a bleed effect
without cutting it first). Once you cut the target, you can
drink from its wound as a standard action. Drinking blood
deals 2 points of Constitution damage to the creature you
feed upon.
The blood must come from a living creature of the specified
humanoid subtype. It cannot come from a dead or
summoned creature. Feeding on unwilling intelligent
creatures is an evil act.
Blood Feaster
Consuming blood gives you superhuman strength.
Prerequisites: Blood Drinker, base attack bonus +6,
dhampir.
Benefit: If you use your Blood Drinker feat to drain 4 or
more points of Constitution from a living creature, you gain a
+2 bonus on damage rolls and a +1 bonus on Strength-based
skill checks. This bonus lasts for a number of rounds equal to
1/2 your Hit Dice.
Blood Salvage
You do not need to drink blood from a living creature to
gain healing benefits.
Prerequisites: Blood Drinker, dhampir.
Benefit: You can use your Blood Drinker feat on a dead
creature of the appropriate humanoid subtype. The creature
must have died less than 6 hours beforehand.
Normal: You only benefit from the Blood Drinker feat if you
consume fresh blood from a living creature.
Blood Vengeance
Seeing an ally fall in combat fills you with a raging and
murderous fury.
Prerequisites: Half-orc or orc, nonlawful.
Benefit: Whenever one of your allies is reduced to negative
hit points or killed, you may enter a state similar to but less
powerful than a barbarian's rage as a free action on your next
turn. If you have the rage class feature and are already
raging, your morale bonuses to Strength and Constitution
increase by +2 for the duration of your rage. If you do not
have the rage class feature, or you have no more rage rounds
left, this weaker rage gives you all the benefits and penalties
of a barbarian's rage, except your morale bonus to Strength
and Constitution is only +2. In either case, this state lasts for 4
rounds.
As with a barbarian's rage, when this weaker rage ends, you
are fatigued; if another ally falls before this duration ends, the
weaker rage lasts for an additional 4 rounds. This feat does
not allow you to enter a rage if you are fatigued. You may
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only use this feat if the fallen ally had at least as many Hit
Dice as you (excluding conjured or summoned allies).
Blustering Bluff
You can verbally bully others into believing unlikely or
outrageous lies.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Bluff 1 rank, Intimidate 1 rank.
Benefit: When using Bluff to fool a foe, you can bully that
person to reduce the penalty for telling an unlikely or far-
fetched lie by 5. If you do so and your check would not have
succeeded otherwise, after 1d6×10 minutes, the person you
fooled realizes you bullied him into believing a lie, treats you
as unfriendly, and might report you or take other actions
against you.
Normal: The penalty for telling unlikely lies is –5, and the
penalty for telling far-fetched lies is –10.
Bolstered Resilience
You can dramatically increase your damage reduction in
exchange for its temporary loss.
Prerequisite: Damage reduction.
Benefit: As an immediate action, you can double your DR
against a single attack, to a maximum of DR 20. The type of
the DR remains unchanged. If the attack you are guarding
against is not successful, the increased damage reduction
persists until you are hit with an attack or until the start of
your next turn, whichever happens first. At the start of your
next turn, you become fatigued. You cannot use this feat
while you are fatigued.
Bookish Rogue
Thanks to your preparation, your arcane ability is more
varied than most.
Prerequisite: Minor magic rogue talent.
Benefit: By studying a spellbook for 10 minutes, you can
change one spell you are able to cast using your minor magic
or major magic rogue talent to one sorcerer/wizard spell of
the same level contained in the spellbook. This change is
permanent until you take the time to change it via this feat
again.
Born Alone
You are so tough and vicious that you killed and ate the rest
of your litter while still in the womb.
Prerequisite: Orc.
Benefit: Whenever you kill or knock unconscious an
opponent with a melee attack, you gain temporary hit points
equal to your Constitution bonus (minimum 1) until your
next turn. These temporary hit points do not stack. You do
not gain this bonus if the opponent is helpless or has less than
half your Hit Dice.
Branded for Retribution
You brand an enemy with your bane weapon, making it
more vulnerable to your allies' attacks.
Prerequisite: Bane class feature.
Benefit: As a standard action, expend 3 rounds of your bane
class feature and make a melee touch attack with the weapon
affected by bane. If you hit, your target takes no damage but
is branded until the start of your next turn. While this brand
remains, your allies' weapons are considered to have the bane
ability with which your weapon is imbued when they attack
the branded creature.
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Breadth of Experience
Although still young for your kind, you have a lifetime of
knowledge and training.
Prerequisites: Dwarf, elf, or gnome; 100+ years old.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Knowledge and
Profession skill checks, and can make checks with those skills
untrained.
Brewmaster
You can concoct potent brews.
Prerequisites: Craft (alchemy) 1 rank, Profession (brewer) 1
rank, dwarf.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Craft (alchemy) and
Profession (brewer) checks, and you add +1 to the DC of any
ingested poison you create.
Brilliant Planner
Your experience and intellect enable you to create prescient
plans and contingencies.
Prerequisites: Int 13, character level 5th.
Benefit: You can prepare for future contingencies without
defining what those preparations are until they are relevant.
As a part of this preparation, while in a settlement for at least
24 hours, you can take 8 hours and spend up to 50 gp per
character level, which becomes your brilliant plan fund.
While you have a brilliant plan pending, you are always
treated as carrying 20 additional pounds of weight, even
before you define your brilliant plan.
Once per day, you can take 10 minutes to enact a brilliant
plan, withdrawing an item that would have been available in
a settlement you visited or procuring a mundane service that
your character planned ahead of time. Once you enact the
plan, subtract the price of the item or service from this feat’s
fund. Any item procured must weigh 10 pounds or less.
Likewise, the GM must approve any nonmagical service you
gain by using this feat as being appropriate for the location
selected.
Once you have spent all the money in your brilliant plan
fund or procured 20 pounds of objects with this feat, you
cannot use the feat again until you replenish your brilliant
plan fund.
Brilliant Spell Preparation
You have the foresight to prepare just the right spell for the
troubles you face.
Prerequisites: Int 13, ability to prepare 3rd-level spells.
Benefit: Select one class for which you prepare spells of 3rd
level or higher. Once you select a class, it can’t be changed.
When you prepare spells for that class, you can leave one
spell slot open as a special slot. The slot must be at least 2
levels lower than the highest-level spell you can cast. You can
then prepare a spell in this special open slot as a standard
action instead of it taking 15 minutes.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you can leave an additional special slot open.
Bully Breed
Your animal companion can terrify as well as fight.
Prerequisites: Handle Animal 4 ranks, Intimidate 4 ranks,
animal companion or mount class feature.
 Benefit: Your animal companion or mount gains Intimidate
as a class skill. It can attempt to demoralize an opponent
using the Intimidate skill as a move action on the same round
that it damages an opponent with a natural attack.
Special: Your animal companion can select the Dazzling
Display and Shatter Defenses feats if it meets the
prerequisites. This feat does not allow your animal
companion to use Intimidate to make a target friendly or gain
their assistance.
Normal: Animal companions and mounts with an
Intelligence score of 2 or less must select feats from a limited
list.
Burn! Burn! Burn!
You take the goblin love of arson and fire play to a whole
new level.
Prerequisites: Disable Device 1 rank, goblin.
Benefit: You deal an extra 1d4 points of fire damage when
you attack with fire from an alchemical or nonmagical source
(such as with alchemical fire or torches) and gain a +4
competence bonus on Reflex saving throws made to avoid
catching on fire or to put yourself out when on fire.
Additional damage caused by this feat does not apply to
magical attacks (such as an alchemist's bomb) or to splash
damage.
Burrowing Teeth
You have teeth and claws that suit you well to digging.
Prerequisites: Sharpclaw, Tunnel Rat, ratfolk.
Benefit: You gain a burrow speed equal to 1/2 your base
speed. You can burrow through sand, dirt, clay, gravel, or
similar materials, but not solid stone. You do not leave a hole
behind, nor is your passage marked on the surface.
Call Truce
You can passionately entreat your enemies with the aim of
making combat unnecessary.
Prerequisites: Cha 15, Persuasive, Diplomacy 5 ranks.
Benefit: While in combat, as a 1-round action (as if it were a
spell with a 1-round casting time, you can call for a truce with
any creatures that have an Intelligence score of 4 or greater
and can understand you. When doing so, you can’t be
wielding a weapon or threatening implement, such as a
charged spell, wand, or anything else the creatures you are
entreating might consider threatening. You must also be in
plain sight of most the creatures you are entreating.
Once you’ve called for a truce, if any of your allies attack or
take any threatening action against those you are entreating
before the start of your next turn, your call is unsuccessful. At
the start of your next turn, attempt a single Diplomacy check
(DC = 30 + the Charisma modifier of the creature with the
highest Charisma modifier in the opposing group). If you are
successful, combat ceases for 1 minute, or until any creature
in the opposing group is threatened or attacked.
If you fail the check by 5 or more, you cannot use
Diplomacy again with any creature you attempted to entreat
for 1d4 hours. If anyone in your group instead plans to use
the parley to gain a combat advantage, the opponents can
attempt a Sense Motive check against each such member of
your group to get a hunch, with a DC equal to either 20 or the
result of that character’s Bluff check, whichever is higher.
Special: If the parley would inherently result in the
opponents surrendering or losing, if the opponents are mind-
controlled or fanatics, or if there are other appropriate
circumstances at the GM’s discretion, you might not be able
to use this feat. For instance, if the opponents’ main
advantage over your group comes from a short-duration
spell that would end during a parley (see Calling for a Cease-
Fire), you cannot use this feat. Circumstances could
potentially increase the check’s DC by 5, 10, or even up to 20.
Careful Flyer
You move with ease when you f ly at a slower rate.
Prerequisites: Acrobatic, Fly 5 ranks.
Benefit: As long as you take a move action to f ly, even
when moving less than half your speed, you do not need to
succeed at a Fly check to continue f lying. When moving less
than half your speed in a round, you also gain a +2 bonus on
Acrobatics checks to avoid attacks of opportunity and a +2
bonus to your AC against attacks of opportunity you provoke
because of movement.
Normal: You must succeed at a Fly check to continue flying
unless you move at least half your speed. Careful Sneak By
taking your time, you negate penalties while sneaking in
most armor.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Stealth 3 ranks.
Benefit: You do not apply the armor check penalty for light
and medium armor on Stealth skill checks as long as you
move half your speed or less. You still cannot run or charge
while using Stealth in this way.
Carrion Feeder
Like many scavengers, you can stomach foods that would
make weaker creatures ill.
Prerequisite: Tengu.
Benefit: You gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws
against diseases and ingested poisons (but not other poisons).
You receive a +2 bonus on Survival skill checks to find food
for yourself (and only yourself).
Cartogramancer
You combine your knowledge of geography with the art of
teleportation.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (geography) 10 ranks, ability to
cast greater teleport.
Benefit: If you cast greater teleport—or similar teleportation
effects that require a reliable description of the location—but
do not have a reliable description of the destination, you can
attempt a DC 25 Knowledge (geography) check prior to
casting the spell to gain a reliable description of some
location within 100 miles of the destination. If you exceed the
DC by 10, you gain a description of some location within 50
miles, and if you succeed the DC by 20, you gain a
description of some location within 25 miles. Once you have
attempted such a check for a specific location, you cannot
attempt it again, and if you attempt to use greater teleport
elsewhere in the same general area, the result is the same. For
instance, if you don’t know the location of the villain’s castle,
you also don’t know a location within 100 miles of the stables
next to the villain’s castle, or within 100 miles of the town half
a mile away from the villain’s castle.
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Cartwheel Dodge
You use your knack for avoiding damage to reposition
yourself in combat.
Prerequisites: Evasion class feature, improved evasion class
feature, acrobatics 12 ranks.
Benefit: When you successfully use improved evasion to
avoid taking damage, you can move up to half your speed as
an immediate action. This movement provokes attacks of
opportunity as normal.
Casual Illusionist
You can use your innate magic to create minor illusions that
augment your efforts at trickery and deceit.
Prerequisites: Gnome, gnome magic racial trait.
Benefit: As long as you have at least one spell-like ability
unused from your gnome magic racial trait, you gain a +2
racial bonus on all Bluff, Disguise, and Sleight of Hand
checks you make. At 10th level, these bonuses increase to +4.
Special: This feat counts as the Deceitful feat for the
purposes of all prerequisites.
Catfolk Exemplar
Your feline traits are more defined and prominent than
those of other members of your race.
Prerequisite: Catfolk.
Benefit: You can take the Aspect of the Beast feat even if
you do not meet the normal prerequisites. Furthermore, your
catlike nature manifests in one of the following ways. You
choose the manifestation when you take this feat, and cannot
change it later.
Enhanced Senses (Ex): If you have low-light vision, you gain
the scent catfolk racial trait. If you have the scent racial trait,
you gain low-light vision.
Fast Sprinter (Ex): You gain a 10-foot racial bonus to your
speed when using the charge, run, or withdraw actions. If
you have the sprinter racial trait, your racial bonus to speed
when using the charge, run, or withdraw action increases to a
20-foot bonus.
Sharp Claws (Ex): If you do not have the cat's claws racial
trait or the claws of the beast manifestation from the Aspect
of the Beast feat , you gain the cat's claws racial trait. If you
have either the cat's claws racial trait or the claws of the beast
manifestation, your claw damage increases to 1d6.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you select it, you must choose a different
manifestation.
Cat’s Fall
Much like a cat, you can instantly shift your balance when
you fall and roll with the impact, avoiding serious injury and
landing on your feet.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Acrobatics 1 rank.
Benefit: When you succeed at a DC 15 Acrobatics skill
check to soften a fall, you ignore the first 20 feet of that fall
and convert the damage from the next 10 feet of the fall to
nonlethal damage. You land on your feet as long as you take
less than 20 points of damage from the fall.
Normal: A successful DC 15 Acrobatics check allows you to
ignore the first 10 feet fallen, and you fall prone if you take
any falling damage.
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Celestial Servant
Rather than being a normal animal or beast, your
companion or familiar hails from the heavenly realms.
Prerequisites: Aasimar, animal companion, familiar, or
mount class feature.
Benefit: Your animal companion, familiar, or mount gains
the celestial template and becomes a magical beast, though
you may still treat it as an animal when using Handle
Animal, wild empathy, or any other spells or class abilities
that specifically affect animals.
Channel Force
Your channel is bolstered by your faith, allowing you to
move and damage your foes.
Prerequisites: Aasimar, channel energy 2d6.
Benefit: When you channel energy to deal damage, you
may choose to affect only a single target within 30 feet. In
addition to dealing damage, if that single target fails its
saving throw, you may pull or push the target up to 5 feet for
every 2d6 points of channel energy damage you are capable
of dealing.
Channeled Blessing
Your channeled energy can deliver a warpriest's blessing.
Prerequisites: Blessings class feature, channel energy class
feature.
Benefit: When you channel energy to heal, you can instead
deliver a warpriest's blessing to a single willing creature
(including yourself) in the area that otherwise would have
been healed by your channeled energy. The blessing must be
one that requires a standard action and affects one or more
creatures. If the blessing would normally affect multiple
targets, you affect only a single target. The target receives the
blessing in place of the healing and any other effects of the
channeled energy. (This application doesn't count toward
your uses of blessings per day.)
Channeled Revival
You can expend a large portion of your channeling power
to reverse death itself.
Prerequisite: Channel energy 6d6 (positive energy).
Benefit: As a full-round action that provokes attacks of
opportunity, you can expend three uses of your channel
energy class feature to restore a dead creature to life as if you
had cast the breath of life spell.
Channeled Shield Wall
You draw upon your channel energy to enhance the
protective ability of your shield and those of allies while they
are adjacent to you.
Prerequisites: Channel energy, 3d6 proficiency with a
shield.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can spend a use of your
channel energy to grant yourself a +2 deflection bonus while
using a shield. This bonus lasts 1 minute per cleric level or
effective cleric level. While you benefit from this bonus, allies
with shields also gain a +2 deflection bonus while they are
adjacent to you.
Channeling Scourge
Your zeal for hunting your faith's enemies empowers your
ability to channel divine energy, as long as you channel that
energy for harm.
Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature, inquisitor level
1st.
Benefit: When you use channel energy to deal damage,
your inquisitor levels count as cleric levels for determining
the number of damage dice and the saving throw DC.
Childlike
Your resemblance to a human child tends to make others
trust you, perhaps more than they should.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, halfling.
Benefit: You can take 10 on Bluff checks to convince others
you are telling the truth, so long as your story makes you
appear innocent. You gain a +2 bonus on Disguise skill
checks to pose as a human child, and ignore the check
penalties for disguising yourself as a different race and age
category while doing so.
City Sprinter
You are skilled at moving quickly through forbidding parts
of cities.
Prerequisite: Street Smarts.
Benefit: You do not treat crowds as difficult terrain. You
also gain an additional +2 bonus on Acrobatics checks to
move along rooftops and on slippery sections of city streets
and sewers.
Clarity of Pain
You can inflict pain upon yourself to sharpen your focus.
Prerequisites: Con 13, Improved Iron Will, Iron Will.
Benefit: Three times per day, as an immediate action when
you fail a saving throw against a charm or compulsion effect,
you can inflict 1d6 points of slashing, piercing, or
bludgeoning damage to yourself in order to reroll that saving
throw. You can’t reroll the saving throw if you negate the
damage, such as by having damage reduction greater than or
equal to the damage you dealt to yourself; instead, you spend
the immediate action and daily use of this feat but gain no
benefit. You must take the result of the second roll, even if it
is worse.
Cloud Gazer
Your insight into your elemental heritage gives you a clarity
of sight few humans possess.
Prerequisite: Sylph.
Benefit: You can see through fog, mist, and clouds, without
penalty, ignoring any cover or concealment bonuses from
such effects. If the effect is created by magic, this feat instead
triples the distance you can see without penalty.
Cloud Step
Your tread is of unearthly lightness.
Prerequisites: Spider Step, monk level 12th.
Benefit: As a move action, you can air walk (as the spell) up
to half your slow fall distance, maximum 50 feet. You must
reach a solid, level surface by the end of your turn or you will
fall.
Combat Casting
You are adept at spellcasting when threatened or distracted.
Benefit: You get a +4 bonus on concentration checks made
to cast a spell or use a spell-like ability when casting on the
defensive or while grappled.
Command Undead
Using foul powers of necromancy, you can command
undead creatures, making them into your servants.
Prerequisites: Channel negative energy class feature.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can use one of your uses
of channel negative energy to enslave undead within 30 feet.
Undead receive a Will save to negate the effect. The DC for
this Will save is equal to 10 + 1/2 your cleric level + your
Charisma modifier. Undead that fail their saves fall under
your control, obeying your commands to the best of their
ability, as if under the effects of control undead. Intelligent
undead receive a new saving throw each day to resist your
command. You can control any number of undead, so long as
their total Hit Dice do not exceed your cleric level. If you use
channel energy in this way, it has no other effect (it does not
heal or harm nearby creatures). If an undead creature is
under the control of another creature, you must make an
opposed Charisma check whenever your orders conflict.
Conceal Spell
You can hide the evidence of spells you cast.
Prerequisites: Deceitful, Bluff 1 rank, Disguise 1 rank
Sleight of Hand 1 rank.
Benefit: When you cast a spell or use a spell-like ability,
you can attempt to conceal verbal and somatic components
among other speech and gestures, and to conceal the
manifestation of casting the spell, so others don’t realize
you’re casting a spell or using a spell-like ability until it is too
late. The attempt to hide the spell slows your casting slightly,
such that spells that normally take a standard action to cast
now take a full-round action, and spells that normally take
longer than a standard action take twice as long. (Swift action
spells still take a swift action.) To discover your ruse, a
creature must succeed at a Perception, Sense Motive, or
Spellcraft check (the creature receives an automatic check
with whichever of those skills has the highest bonus) against
a DC equal to 15 + your number of ranks in Bluff or Disguise
(whichever is higher) + your Charisma modifier; the creature
gains a bonus on its check equal to the level of the spell or
spelllike ability you are concealing.
If your spell has a somatic component, any creature that can
see you receives a Perception or Spellcraft check (whichever
has the highest bonus) against a DC equal to 15 + your
number of ranks in Sleight of Hand + your Dexterity
modifier; the creature gains a bonus on its check equal to the
level of the spell or spell-like ability you are concealing.
Since you are concealing the spell’s manifestation through
other actions, others observing you realize you’re doing
something, even if they don’t realize you’re casting a spell. If
there is a verbal component, they still hear your loud, clear
voice but don’t notice the spell woven within. If an opponent
fails its check, your casting also does not provoke attacks of
opportunity, and an opponent that fails its check can’t use
readied actions that depend on realizing that you’re casting a
spell or using a spell-like ability, or readied actions such as
counterspelling that require identifying the spell you’re
casting. Spells such as fireball that create an additional
obvious effect (aside from the manifestation of casting that all
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spells and spell-like abilities share) still create that effect,
though it might not be obvious who cast the spell unless it
emanates from you.
If a character interacts with you long enough to attempt a
Sense Motive check without realizing you have been casting
spells, that character can use Sense Motive to gain a hunch
that you’re behaving unusually.
Confabulist
Sometimes your second attempt at a deception does the
trick.
Prerequisites: Bluff 9 ranks, Sense Motive 9 ranks.
Benefit: When you fail to deceive someone with a Bluff
check, you can immediately attempt another version of the
same basic deception against that creature at a –5 penalty by
downplaying the failed Bluff and quickly moving on to
another one. You cannot use this ability if the first Bluff was
so egregious that further checks would have been impossible
(as per the Bluff skill). If you fail the second attempt, you
cannot retry the Bluff check and all further attempts to
perpetrate that particular deception are impossible.
Normal: When you fail a Bluff check against a creature, that
creature is innately suspicious. You take a –10 penalty on
future attempts to deceive that creature, or at the GM’s
discretion, such attempts may be impossible.
Contingent Channeling
You can imbue others with your healing energy so that they
can use it at the moment of greatest need.
Prerequisites: True healer class feature, Selective
Channeling.
Benefit: You can use a standard action to touch an ally and
expend one of your daily uses of channel energy to create a
repository of positive energy within that ally. This repository
contains the same number and type of dice as normal for
your channel energy feature, and it lasts for 1 minute. An ally
who has such a repository can use an immediate action to roll
the repository's dice and regain a number of hit points equal
to the result. If an ally who has such a repository is reduced
to negative hit points, the repository triggers, allowing the
ally to heal without using an action.
Cooperative Crafting
Your assistance makes item crafting far more efficient.
Prerequisites: 1 rank in any Craft skill, any item creation
feat.
Benefit: You can assist another character in crafting
mundane and magical items. You must both possess the
relevant Craft skill or item creation feat, but either one of you
can fulfill any other prerequisites for crafting the item. You
provide a +2 circumstance bonus on any Craft or Spellcraft
checks related to making an item, and your assistance
doubles the gp value of items that can be crafted each day.
Cosmopolitan
Living in large, exotic cities has put you in touch with many
diverse civilizations, cultures, and races.
Benefit: You can speak and read two additional languages
of your choice. In addition, choose two Intelligence-,
Wisdom-, or Charisma-based skills. Those skills always count
as class skills for you.
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Courageous Resolve
Even when others run, you tend to stand your ground.
Prerequisites: Craven racial trait or fearless racial trait,
halfling.
Benefit: If you have the fearless racial trait, your racial
bonus on saving throws against fear effects increases to +4. If
you have the craven racial trait, you still take the –2 penalty
on fear saves, but you can gain the benefit of morale bonuses
on saving throws against fear effects.
Create Reliquary Arms and Shields
Your magical creations are infused with divine power.
Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, ability to cast
consecrate or desecrate.
Benefit: When you craft a magic weapon, magic armor, or
magic shield, you may add one casting of consecrate or
desecrate as part of the item crafting process. This increases
the item's price by 250 gp. The item becomes a reliquary and
can be used as a holy (or unholy) symbol divine focus of your
deity. If you cast consecrate or desecrate, your reliquary counts
as a permanent fixture for that spell while it remains in the
spell's area.
Create Sanguine Elixir
You can condense a fraction of your bloodline's power into
a powerful elixir.
Prerequisites: Cha 15, Brew Potion, Craft (alchemy) 12
ranks, sorcerer level 3rd.
Benefit: Once per day, when you clear your mind to regain
spell slots, you can create a sanguine elixir. When you do,
pick one of your bloodline powers. You transfer that power
into a small potion that any creature can drink to temporarily
gain the benefit of your bloodline power. Creating a sanguine
elixir takes 1 hour, and requires special oils and distillates
worth 100 gp, and when you make the sanguine elixir, you
lose access to the bloodline power until the next time you
clear your mind to regain spell slots.
When a creature drinks a sanguine elixir, it can activate the
bloodline power anytime before the end of its next turn, as if
it had access to that bloodline power. A creature that drinks
the elixir cannot gain the benefit if its character level does not
equal or exceed the minimum level of the bloodline power.
Any level-dependent effects use the character level of the
creature that drinks the sanguine elixir, or your sorcerer level,
whichever is lower. Drinking a sanguine elixir is just like
drinking a potion. A sanguine elixir is treated as a magic item
with your caster level.
Sanguine elixirs are extremely unstable. They lose their
potency 1 day after they are created.
Criminal Reputation
Your acts of audacious larceny have endeared you to the
criminal underworld.
Prerequisites: Diplomacy 5 ranks, Intimidate 5 ranks.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Diplomacy and Intimidate
checks when interacting with criminals, whether they’re
individual thieves and cutpurses or criminal organizations. If
you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the bonus
increases to +4 for that skill.
These bonuses do not stack with those granted by
Persuasive, but this feat counts as Persuasive for the purposes
of feats and other rules elements with Persuasive as a
prerequisite.
Crusader's Flurry
You learned to use your deity's favored weapon as part of
your martial arts form.
Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature, flurry of blows
class feature, Weapon Focus with your deity's favored melee
weapon.
Benefit: You can use your deity's favored weapon as if it
were a monk weapon.
Cutting Humiliation
You know how to cut a foe deeply with humiliation.
Prerequisites: Persuasive, Intimidate 5 ranks.
Benefit: When you successfully demoralize a target by
using a verbal Intimidate check in a social situation (rather
than an Intimidate check you can make via an ability such as
Dazzling Display or Enforcer), you can instead humiliate the
target, causing it to take a –2 penalty on Charisma-based skill
checks and Charisma ability checks for 1 hour + 1 additional
hour for every 5 by which the result of your check exceeds
the DC. The target can remove the effect early by taking 10
minutes to compose herself. If you fail this check, any
creature who witnessed the failure is immune to your
humiliation from this feat for 24 hours. If you fail by 5 or
more, you become humiliated for 1 hour instead of your
target.
Dark Sight
With further modification, your eyes can pierce the gloom
of even magical darkness.
Prerequisites: Gloom Sight, fetchling.
Benefit: You gain the ability to see up to 15 feet clearly in
magical darkness, such as that created by the deeper darkness
spell.
Darkness Trick
You can manipulate the luminescence of magic weapons.
Prerequisites: Use Magic Device 5 ranks, ability to cast
darkness.
Benefit: When wielding a magic weapon that sheds light or
that features a luminescent quality, such as a f laming or
brilliant energy weapon, you can deactivate that illumination
as a swift action. You can reignite the illumination at any
time as a free action. Any intrinsic magic properties that
would force the weapon to shed light, such as the extra
damage of a f laming weapon, do not function while the
illumination is deactivated, and the “significant portion” of a
brilliant energy weapon that is normally made of light ceases
to exist.
If a weapon affected by this ability ever leaves your
possession (for instance, if you drop the weapon or pass it to
another creature), its illumination and related abilities
instantly return.
Dauntless Destiny
Your ability to avert disaster is impressive.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Fearless Curiosity, Intimidate 10
ranks, human.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on saving throws against
effects with the emotion descriptor; this bonus stacks with
those granted by Fearless Curiosity and Intimidating
Confidence. In addition, once per day you may reroll a
natural 1 on a saving throw or an attack roll. If your reroll
results in a successful saving throw or attack roll, as a free
action you can make an Intimidate check to demoralize the
target of your attack or the creature that forced you to make a
saving throw, as long as the creature is within 30 feet and can
see and hear you. This effect does not apply on saving throws
against traps or other objects. This does not stack with other
effects that allow you to reroll a saving throw or an attack
roll. You may only make one reroll.
Deafening Explosion
Your bombs explode with deafening force.
Prerequisites: Bomb class feature, hobgoblin.
Benefit: You may reduce your bomb damage by one die to
give it the ability to deafen the creature struck by it. The
bomb must deal fire, force, or sonic damage. If a creature
takes a direct hit from your bomb, it must make a saving
throw against the bomb's DC or be deafened for 1 minute.
This deafening is in addition to any other effects the bomb
would normally have.
Deceitful
You are skilled at deceiving others, both with the spoken
word and with physical disguises.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Bluff and Disguise skill
checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the
bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Deceptive Exchange
You trick an adversary into grabbing an object you hand
them, even in the midst of combat.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Feint.
Benefit: If you successfully feint an opponent, you can trick
that opponent into accepting a one-handed object you are
holding instead of denying that opponent its Dexterity bonus
to AC against your next attack. The opponent must have
appendages capable of holding the object you offer, and it
must have one such appendage free to take the object.
Special: An alchemist who has the delayed bomb alchemist
discovery can use this feat to hand an enemy a delayed
bomb. Such a delayed bomb detonates at the end of the
alchemist's turn. If the bomb is in a creature's square at the
end of the alchemist's turn, the bomb deals that creature a
direct hit.
Defending Eidolon
You have trained your eidolon to protect you.
Prerequisite: Shield ally feature.
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to your eidolon, you
can choose for the eidolon to take a –1 penalty on melee
attack rolls and combat maneuver checks to gain a +1 dodge
bonus to your Armor Class. When your eidolon's base attack
bonus reaches +5, and for every +5 thereafter, the penalty
increases by –1 and the dodge bonus increases by +1. You
must choose to use this feat when your eidolon is making an
attack or full-attack action with melee or natural weapons,
and its effect lasts until your eidolon's next turn, or until you
are no longer adjacent to the eidolon, whichever occurs first.
Deft Catcher
You possess a preternatural skill for catching items that slip
from your grasp.
Prerequisite: Skill Focus (Sleight of Hand).
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 Benefit: Whenever you drop or are forced to drop an item
you possess (other than by an effect that disarms or steals the
item), you can attempt a DC 20 Sleight of Hand check as an
immediate action to catch the item before it falls away. If you
are targeted by an effect that would disarm or steal an item
you’re holding, such as a disarm or steal combat maneuver or
the effects of a spell like telekinesis, you can also attempt a
Sleight of Hand check as an immediate action to maintain
possession of the errant item (DC = 10 + the combat
maneuver check result if there was a combat maneuver
check, or 20 + the DC of the spell if there was no combat
maneuver check). In either case, if you fail the Sleight of
Hand check by 10 or more, you fall prone.
Deep Drinker
You draw greater amounts of ki from your libations.
Prerequisites: Con 13, monk level 11, drunken ki class
feature.
Benefit: When you gain temporary ki from drunken ki, you
gain 2 temporary ki rather than just 1.
Deepsight
Your senses are especially keen in the utter darkness.
Prerequisite: Darkvision 60 feet.
Benefit: Your darkvision has a range of 120 feet.
Normal: Darkvision normally extends 60 or 90 feet.
Defiant Luck
You can sometimes defiantly shrug off spells and attacks
that would kill a lesser creature.
Prerequisite: Human.
Benefit: Once per day, after you roll a natural 1 on a saving
throw or a critical hit is confirmed against you, you can either
reroll that saving throw, or force the creature that confirmed
the critical hit against you to reroll the critical confirmation
roll. This does not stack with other effects that allow you to
reroll a saving throw or an attack roll. You may only make
one reroll.
Special: If you are using the optional hero point system,
you can also spend 1 hero point when a critical hit is
confirmed against you to have the opponent reroll the critical
hit confirmation roll.
Deft Hands
You have exceptional manual dexterity.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on Disable Device and Sleight
of Hand skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of
these skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Deny Death
Your ki is so strong that it can deny death.
Prerequisite: Ki pool, Endurance
Benefit: As long as you have 1 ki point in your ki pool,
when you fail your Constitution check to stabilize, you do not
lose 1 hit point. If you succeed at the check, you can spend 1
ki point to heal 1d6 hit points. If you roll a natural 20 on the
check to stabilize, you can spend 1 ki point to heal 2d6 hit
points of damage instead.
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Destructive Dispel
When you dispel an enemy's magical defenses, those
defenses crash down with debilitating effects.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast dispel magic or greater dispel
magic, caster level 11th.
Benefit: When you successfully make a targeted dispel
check against an opponent, that opponent must succeed at a
Fortitude save (DC equals the DC of the spell used to dispel)
or be stunned until the start of your next turn. If the save
succeeds, the opponent is instead sickened until the start of
your next turn.
Detect Expertise
You can detect the mystic specialty of a foe.
Prerequisites: Int 13; ability to cast detect chaos, detect evil,
detect good, detect law, or detect magic.
Benefit: When you use any of the spells listed in this feat's
prerequisites to detect a creature's alignment or its magic,
you have a chance of detecting what spellcasting expertise it
has. After you observe a creature with the detect spell for 3
rounds, it must make a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 your caster
level + your Intelligence modifier). If it fails the saving throw,
you learn what bloodlines, domains, hexes, schools, or
mysteries (if any) the creature possesses. If the creature
makes its save, it is immune to the effects of this feat for 24
hours.
Die for Your Master
Your tumor familiar goes to any length to save your life.
Prerequisites: Tumor familiar alchemist discovery.
Benefit: If your tumor familiar is attached, and you would
be reduced to 0 or fewer hit points by damage in combat
(from a weapon or other blow, not a spell or special ability),
the familiar throws itself in the way of the attack as an
immediate action. If it makes a Reflex saving throw (DC =
damage dealt), it takes all the damage from the attack; if it
fails, it takes half damage and you take half damage.
The familiar must be aware of the attack and able to react to
it in order to use this ability, and it can only do this once per
day—if it is denied its Dexterity bonus to AC, it can't use this
ability. Since this effect would not normally allow the familiar
to make a Reflex save for half damage, its improved evasion
ability does not apply on this saving throw.
Diehard
You are especially hard to kill. Not only do your wounds
automatically stabilize when grievously injured, but you can
remain conscious and continue to act even at death's door.
Prerequisite: Endurance.
Benefit: When your hit point total is below 0, but you are
not dead, you automatically stabilize. You do not need to
make a Constitution check each round to avoid losing
additional hit points. You may choose to act as if you were
disabled, rather than dying. You must make this decision as
soon as you are reduced to negative hit points (even if it isn't
your turn). If you do not choose to act as if you were
disabled, you immediately fall unconscious.
When using this feat, you are staggered. You can take a
move action without further injuring yourself, but if you
perform any standard action (or any other action deemed as
strenuous, including some swift actions, such as casting a
quickened spell) you take 1 point of damage after completing
the act. If your negative hit points are equal to or greater than
your Constitution score, you immediately die.
Normal: A character without this feat who is reduced to
negative hit points is unconscious and dying.
Dimensional Agility
Teleportation does not faze you.
Prerequisites: Ability to use the abundant step class feature
or cast dimension door.
Benefit: After using abundant step or casting dimension door,
you can take any actions you still have remaining on your
turn. You also gain a +4 bonus on Concentration checks when
casting teleportation spells.
Dimensional Assault
You have been trained to use magical movement as part of
your combat tactics.
Prerequisites: Ability to use the abundant step class feature
or cast dimension door, Dimensional Agility.
Benefit: As a full-round action, you use abundant step or
cast dimension door as a special charge. Doing so allows you to
teleport up to double your current speed (up to the
maximum distance allowed by the spell or ability) and to
make the attack normally allowed on a charge.
Dimensional Dervish
You teleport with a mere thought, savaging your opponents
as you flash in and out of reality.
Prerequisites: Ability to use the abundant step class feature
or cast dimension door, Dimensional Agility, Dimensional
Assault, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You can take a full-attack action, activating
abundant step or casting dimension door as a swift action. If
your do, you can teleport up to twice your speed (up to the
maximum distance allowed by the spell or ability), dividing
this teleportation into increments you use before your first
attack, between each attack, and after your last attack. You
must teleport at least 5 feet each time you teleport.
Special: A monk can use additional points from his ki pool
to increase his speed before determining the total speed for
this teleportation.
Dimensional Maneuvers
Your rapid teleportation makes your combat maneuvers
more difficult to avoid.
Prerequisites: Ability to use the abundant step class feature
or cast dimension door, Dimensional Agility, Dimensional
Assault, Dimensional Dervish, base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: While using the Dimensional Dervish feat, you
gain a +4 bonus on combat maneuver checks to bull rush,
disarm, reposition, or trip an opponent.
Dimensional Savant
You flash into and out of reality so quickly it is impossible
to tell exactly where you are at any given time.
Prerequisites: Dimensional Agility, Dimensional Assault,
Dimensional Dervish, ability to use the abundant step class
feature or cast dimension door, base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: While using the Dimensional Dervish feat, you
provide flanking from all squares you attack from. Flanking
starts from the moment you make an attack until the start of
your next turn. You can effectively flank with yourself and
with multiple allies when using this feat.
Disable Dweomer
You can disable a magic item, suppressing it for a short
time.
Prerequisites: Disable Device 5 ranks, Use Magic Device 5
ranks, trapfinding.
Benefit: You can use Disable Device to suppress the magic
of a non-artifact magic item for 1d4 rounds, after which the
item recovers its magical properties. A suppressed item
becomes nonmagical for the duration of the suppression.
Using Disable Device in this way takes 2d4 rounds, with a
DC of 15 + the item's caster level.
Discerning Eye
You are not easily fooled by illusions and forgeries.
Prerequisites: Elf or half-elf, keen senses racial trait.
Benefit: You receive a +2 racial bonus on saving throws
against illusion spells and effects and a +2 bonus on
Linguistic checks to detect forgeries. You can use the
Linguistic skill to detect forgeries untrained.
Disconcerting Knowledge
You unsettle your enemies by demonstrating that you how
to defeat them.
Prerequisites: Bardic knowledge class ability or Knowledge
domain, Knowledge (any two) 3 ranks each.
Benefit: You can use your knowledge to demoralize an
enemy. When you use a standard action to Intimidate a
creature with a base CR of 2 or greater, you can use a
Knowledge skill that could be used to identify the creature’s
type in place of Intimidate when attempting to demoralize
that creature. The target creature must be intelligent and
understand the language that you are using when conveying
the disconcerting knowledge.
Discordant Voice
By singing out a precise tone, you cause discordant
vibrations to run through allies' weapons.
Prerequisites: Bardic performance class feature, Perform
(oratory or sing) 10 ranks.
Benefit: Whenever you are using bardic performance to
create a spell-like or supernatural effect, allies within 30 feet
of you deal an extra 1d6 points of sonic damage with
successful weapon attacks. This damage stacks with other
energy damage a weapon might deal. Projectile weapons
bestow this extra damage on their ammunition, but the extra
damage is dealt only if the projectile hits a target within 30
feet of you.
Disorienting Maneuver
Your erratic movements disorient your opponent.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Acrobatics 5 ranks.
Benefit: If you successfully use Acrobatics to tumble
through an opponent's space, you gain a +2 circumstance
bonus on attack rolls against that opponent until the start of
your next turn. If you choose to make a trip attempt against
that opponent, you gain a +4 circumstance bonus on your
combat maneuver check. This bonus on trip also lasts until
the start of your next turn.
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Dispel Synergy
By tearing away an opponent's magical defenses, you leave
your enemy vulnerable, making it difficult for him to resist
your spells.
Prerequisite: Spellcraft 5 ranks.
Benefit: If you successfully dispel an ongoing magical effect
on an opponent, that opponent takes a –2 penalty on saving
throws against your spells until the end of your next turn.
Dispelling Fist
By focusing on your knowledge of magic and spells that
negate its powers, you use your bare hands to rip magical
defenses from your enemy.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus
+11, ability to cast dispel magic, caster level 7th.
Benefit: If you have dispel magic prepared or can cast it
spontaneously, you can cast it as a swift action after hitting
an opponent with an unarmed strike. Treat this as a targeted
dispel against the opponent you hit.
Disposable Weapon
You ignore the limitations of your equipment, striking
harder despite the damage it does to your weapon.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, proficient with
weapon.
Benefit: Whenever you use a melee or thrown weapon with
the fragile weapon special quality to score a critical threat
against an opponent, you can give your weapon the broken
condition to automatically confirm the critical hit.
Disruptive Recall
You can disrupt an enemy caster's spells to fuel your own
arcane power.
Prerequisites: Spell recall class feature, Spellcraft 5 ranks.
Benefit: When you use a melee attack to successfully
disrupt an arcane spellcaster's spell, you can immediately use
your spell recall class feature to regain a magus spell you
have already cast. This ability functions as if you had
expended a number of points from your arcane pool equal to
the level of the spell you disrupted, up to the maximum level
spell you can cast.
Diverse Palate
Your taste for blood is broader than that of other dhampirs.
Prerequisites: Blood Drinker, dhampir.
Benefit: Choose a humanoid subtype or the monstrous
humanoid type. You may use your Blood Drinker feat on
creatures of this subtype or type.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you select it, choose a new humanoid subtype or the
monstrous humanoid.
Divine Interference
You can convert a spell to interfere with an enemy's attack.
Prerequisites: Divine spellcaster, caster level 10th.
Benefit: As an immediate action, when an enemy within 30
feet hits an ally with an attack, you can sacrifice a prepared
divine spell or (if you are a spontaneous caster) an unused
spell slot and make the enemy reroll the attack roll. The
second attack roll takes a penalty equal to the level of the
spell you sacrifice. You must sacrifice a spell of 1st-level or
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higher to use this ability. Whether or not the second attack is
successful, you cannot use this effect on the same creature
again for 1 day.
Divine Protection
Your deity protects you against deadly attacks.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Knowledge (religion) 5 ranks.
Benefit: Once per day as an immediate action before rolling
a saving throw, you can add your Charisma modifier on that
saving throw. As usual, this does not stack if you already
apply your Charisma modifier to that saving throw. If you
possess the charmed life class feature, you can instead apply
Divine Protection's bonus after rolling the saving throw but
before the result is revealed.
Diviner's Delving
Your keen magical intuition makes reading signs, portents,
and mystical clues quick and easy.
Prerequisite: Spell Focus (divination).
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on caster level checks with
divinations to overcome spell resistance or effects that
impede divination (for example, nondetection). When using a
divination spell that requires concentration, you gain
information from the spell 1 round sooner than normal (so
you gain information from the first 2 rounds with 1 round of
concentration, and information from the third round in the
second round of concentration).
Double Bane
You extend your bane effect to two weapons.
Prerequisites: Bane class feature, Two-Weapon Fighting.
Benefit: You can apply your bane to a second weapon you
are wielding. While your bane class feature is active, at the
start of each of your turns as a free action, you choose
whether to apply the ability to one weapon or the other, or
both. For each round you apply your bane class feature to
two weapons, you expend 2 rounds of that feature.
Draconic Aspect
You possess some of the qualities of your dragon ancestors.
Prerequisite: Kobold.
Benefit: Your scales take on the color and some of the
resistances of one of the chromatic dragons. Choose one of
the following chromatic dragon types: black (acid), blue
(electricity), green (acid), red (fire), or white (cold). Your
scales take on the color of that dragon, and you gain
resistance 5 to the dragon color's corresponding energy type.
Special: If you have the dragon-scaled racial trait, your
scale color does not change and you gain a +1 natural armor
bonus instead.
Draconic Breath
You possess draconic defenses and a draconic breath
weapon.
Prerequisites: Draconic Aspect, kobold.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus against sleep and paralysis
effects. You gain a breath weapon that is determined by your
scale coloration by either the Draconic Aspect feat or the
dragon-scaled racial trait. Using a breath weapon is a
standard action that does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
You can use your breath weapon once per day. Creatures
within the area of your breath weapon who succeed at a
Reflex saving throw (DC 10 + your character level + your
Constitution modifier) take only half damage.
Black (Su): You breathe a 30-foot line of acid that deals 2d6
points of acid damage.
Blue (Su): You breathe a 30-foot line of electricity that deals
2d6 points of electricity damage.
Green (Su): You breathe a 15-foot cone of acid that deals 2d6
points of acid damage.
Red (Su): You breathe a 15-foot cone of fire that deals 2d6
points of fire damage.
White (Su): You breathe a 15-foot cone of cold that deals 2d6
points of cold damage.
Special: Kobold sorcerers with either the Draconic or
Kobold bloodline can use their Charisma modifier instead of
their Constitution to determine the DC of this breath weapon.
Draconic Glide
You possess draconic defenses and wings that allow you to
glide.
Prerequisites: Draconic Aspect, kobold.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus against sleep and paralysis
effects. You grow a pair of wings that you can use to fall and
glide at a safe pace. You can make a DC 15 Fly check to fall
safely from any height without taking falling damage, as if
using feather fall. When falling safely, you may make an
additional DC 15 Fly check to glide, moving 5 feet laterally
for every 20 feet you fall.
Special: If you have the gliding wings racial trait, you don’t
need to make a Fly check to glide, and you can move 10 feet
laterally for every 20 feet you fall.
Draconic Paragon
You can shrug off sleep and paralysis effects as well as any
dragon, and your draconic aspects improve.
Prerequisites: Draconic Aspect, Draconic Breath, Draconic
Glide, character level 10th, kobold.
Benefit: You gain an additional +2 bonus against sleep and
paralysis effects. You can use your breath weapon twice per
day and your breath weapon damage increases to 4d6 points
of energy damage. Your wings from the Draconic Glide feat
grow stronger, granting you a fly speed of 20 feet (average
maneuverability).
Dragonbane Aura
Those within your dragonbane aura gain the same
protection that you do.
Prerequisites: Aura of courage class feature, caster level
8th.
Benefit: When fighting dragons, your aura of courage
expands to a 20-foot-radius emanation, and allies in the aura
gain a morale bonus on saving throws against dragon breath
equal to your aura of courage's bonus against fear effects.
Normal: The aura of courage is a 10-foot-radius emanation,
and grants a +4 morale bonus on fear effects.
Drow Nobility
Your blood courses with power, granting you greater spell-
like abilities.
Prerequisites: Able to use drow spell-like abilities, drow.
Benefit: You may use detect magic as a spell-like ability at
will, and add feather fall and levitate to the spell-like abilities
that you may use once each per day. Your caster level is equal
to your character level.
Drunkard’s Recovery
You need only a swallow of strong drink to bring you back
from the brink of death.
Prerequisite: Con 13.
Benefit: If you are dying and a creature gives you at least a
sip of alcohol (a standard action for an adjacent creature), you
immediately stabilize.
Dual Enhancement
You can enhance two weapons, or both ends of a double
weapon, with a single act.
Prerequisites: Two-Weapon Fighting; divine bond
(weapon) or sacred weapon class feature.
Benefit: When you use divine bond or sacred weapon to
improve your weapon, you can choose to enhance two
weapons or both ends of a double weapon. All weapons
affected must be in hand or otherwise wielded. Any
enhancement bonus you add to one of your weapons gets
added to the second one at no extra cost, but weapon special
abilities must be accounted for separately. For example, if
you can enhance up to the equivalent of a +2 bonus, you
could give both your weapons an additional +1 bonus and
apply the keen weapon special ability to one of them.
Dwarf Blooded
You have dwarven blood coursing through your veins.
Prerequisite: Oread.
Benefit: Your dwarven heritage manifests in two ways.
First, your speed is never modified by armor or
encumbrance, as the dwarf slow and steady racial trait.
Second, you gain the stonecunning dwarf racial trait.
Eagle Eyes
Your vision is especially keen.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, keen senses racial trait.
Benefit: You ignore up to –5 in penalties due to distance on
visual Perception checks, allowing you to see accurately at
much greater distances than most.
Echoes of Stone
Your senses are keener among the rocks and stones.
Prerequisite: Oread.
Benefit: You gain a +4 racial bonus on Perception checks
underground, and on Survival checks to avoid becoming lost
in caverns and rocky areas.
Eclectic
You have a talent for picking up different vocations.
Prerequisite: Human.
Benefit: Choose an additional favored class and gain either
+1 hit point or +1 skill point whenever you take a level in that
class. If you choose a class in which you already have levels,
the benefits of this feat are retroactive.
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Eldritch Heritage
You are descended from a long line of sorcerers, and some
portion of their power flows in your veins.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Skill Focus with the class skill of
bloodline selected for this feat (see below), character level
3rd.
Benefit: Select one sorcerer bloodline. You must have Skill
focus in the class skill that bloodline grants to a sorcerer at 1st
level (for example, Heal for the celestial bloodline). This
bloodline cannot be a bloodline you already have. You gain
the first-level bloodline power for the selected bloodline. For
purposes of using that power, treat your sorcerer level as
equal to your character level – 2, even if you have levels in
sorcerer. You do not gain any of the other bloodline abilities.
Elemental Channel
Choose one elemental subtype, such as air, earth, fire, or
water. You can channel your divine energy to harm or heal
outsiders that possess your chosen elemental subtype.
Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature.
Benefit: Instead of its normal effect, you can choose to have
your ability to channel energy heal or harm outsiders of your
chosen elemental subtype. You must make this choice each
time you channel energy. If you choose to heal or harm
creatures of your elemental subtype, your channel energy has
no effect on other creatures. The amount of damage healed or
dealt and the DC to halve the damage is otherwise
unchanged.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new
elemental subtype.
Elemental Focus
Your spells of a certain element are more difficult to resist.
Benefit: Choose one energy type (acid, cold, electricity, or
fire). Add +1 to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws
against spells that deal damage of the energy type you select.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new
energy type.
Elemental Jaunt
The spirits of your ancestral home call to you, beckoning
you to return.
Prerequisites: Character level 15th, ifrit, oread, sylph, or
undine.
Benefit: Once per day, you can cast plane shift as a spell-like
ability with a caster level equal to your level to transport
yourself and willing targets to an elemental plane that is
appropriate to your race (ifrits to the Plane of Fire, oreads to
the Plane of Earth, sylphs to the Plane of Air, and undines to
the Plane of Water). While on that plane, you (but not anyone
transported with you) are treated as though under the effect
of the spell planar adaptation.
Elusive Redirection
You can redirect an attack back at your assailant or into an
adjacent enemy.
Prerequisites: Elusive target class feature, Combat
Expertise, Improved Unarmed Strike, flowing monk level
12th.
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Benefit: When you successfully use your elusive target class
feature to avoid taking damage, you can spend an immediate
action and an additional point from your ki pool to redirect
that attack back at your attacker or toward any other
opponent adjacent to you and your attacker. This attack uses
the same attack roll as the original attack, but it targets the
opponent you choose.
Elven Spirit
Although you are of mixed heritage, you are closer to your
elven relatives and the magic in their blood flows freely in
your veins.
Prerequisite: Half-elf.
Benefit: You possess the elven magic racial trait of the elves,
granting you a +2 racial bonus on caster level checks made to
overcome spell resistance. In addition, you receive a +2 racial
bonus on Spellcraft checks made to identify the properties of
magic items. Alternatively, you can instead gain any one
racial trait that elves can exchange for the elven magic racial
trait.
Special: You can only take this feat at 1st level. If you take
this feat, you cannot take the Human Spirit feat.
Endurance
Harsh conditions or long exertions do not easily tire you.
Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus on the following checks and
saves: Swim checks made to resist nonlethal damage from
exhaustion; Constitution checks made to continue running;
Constitution checks made to avoid nonlethal damage from a
forced march; Constitution checks made to hold your breath;
Constitution checks made to avoid nonlethal damage from
starvation or thirst; Fortitude saves made to avoid nonlethal
damage from hot or cold environments; and Fortitude saves
made to resist damage from suffocation.
You may sleep in light or medium armor without becoming
fatigued.
Normal: A character without this feat who sleeps in
medium or heavier armor is fatigued the next day.
Energy Channel
You distill your channeled energy into your weapon.
Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature; Air, Earth, Fire,
or Water domain or blessing.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can expend one use of
channel energy to grant your weapon attacks a bonus on
damage rolls equal to twice the number of dice rolled for
your channel energy. This additional damage is of an energy
type determined by your domain or blessing: acid (Earth),
cold (Water), electricity (Air), or fire (Fire). If you have more
than one of those domains or blessings, you choose one of
those damage types each time you use this ability. This effect
lasts for your next three weapon attacks or until the end of
the combat encounter, whichever comes first.
Eschew Materials
You can cast many spells without needing to utilize minor
material components.
Benefit: You can cast any spell with a material component
costing 1 gp or less without needing that component. The
casting of the spell still provokes attacks of opportunity as
normal. If the spell requires a material component that costs
more than 1 gp, you must have the material component on
hand to cast the spell, as normal.
Esoteric Linguistics
You can decipher even the most exotic of writings,
including those that contain magic.
Prerequisite: Skill Focus (Linguistics).
Benefit: You can attempt a Linguistics check in place of a
Use Magic Device check to activate a scroll, or in place of a
Spellcraft check to identify a scroll. You must still have (or
emulate) the ability score required to cast a spell of the
desired level, and you cannot use Linguistics on the check to
emulate the required ability score.
Evolved Companion
Your animal companion has unique abilities.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, animal companion class feature.
Benefit: When you take this feat, select a 1-point evolution
other than pounce or reach from those available to a
summoner's eidolon. Your animal companion gains this
evolution. The animal companion must conform to any
limitations of the evolution. For instance, you can give the
mount evolution only to an animal companion of an
appropriate size and base form.
If you gain a new animal companion, your old animal
companion loses this evolution, and you can select a new 1-
point evolution for the new animal companion.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, select an additional 1-point evolution for your animal
companion.
Evolved Familiar
Your familiar is different from others of its kind.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Cha 13, familiar class feature.
Benefit: Select an evolution from the list of 1-point
evolutions available to a summoner's eidolon. Your familiar
has this evolution. The familiar must conform to any
limitations of the evolution. For instance, no familiars can
benefit from the mount evolution and only familiars with
wings can take the wing buffet evolution.
If you gain a new familiar, your old familiar loses all
evolutions, and you can select a new 1-point evolution for the
new familiar.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects
stack, granting a new 1-point evolution to your familiar each
time you gain this feat.
Evolved Summoned Monster
The creatures you summon have evolved to have even
greater abilities.
Prerequisites: Augmented Summoning, Spell Focus
(conjuration), ability to cast summon monster I.
Benefit: Each time you cast a summon monster spell, you can
select a 1-point evolution other than pounce or reach from
those available to a summoner's eidolon. Your summoned
creature gains this evolution. The summoned creature must
conform to any limitations of the evolution. (For instance,
only a creature with a reach of 10 feet or greater can have the
pull evolution.) Evolutions that grant additional attacks or
enhance existing attacks can be applied only to Medium or
larger summoned creatures.
If you summon more than one creature with a single spell,
only one creature gains the evolution.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, select an additional 1–point evolution for one of your
summoned creatures. If you summon more than one
creature, you can apply all the chosen evolutions to a single
summoned creature or split them between the creatures.
Exile's Path
A lifetime spent shunned by others and eschewing your
heritage makes you resistant to efforts to pry inside of your
mind.
Prerequisite: Half-elf.
Benefit: Once per day, when you fail a Will save against an
enchantment spell or effect, you may reroll that saving throw,
but must take the reroll result even if it's worse.
Exorcising Mutilation
Malevolent entities that seek to possess or dominate you are
unaware of how far you will go to stop them.
Prerequisites: Con 15, Clarity of Pain, Improved Iron Will,
Iron Will.
Benefit: When you fail a saving throw to resist possession
or a dominate spell, you can deal 4 points of Constitution
damage to yourself and reroll your saving throw as an
immediate action. You cannot reduce or negate this damage
in any way, and the only way to heal the damage is through
natural recovery; magical methods don’t work. You must
take the result of the second roll, even if it is worse. If you
succeed at the second saving throw, you also become
immune to that spell or ability from that creature for 24
hours. You must be wielding a lethal piercing or slashing
weapon, or possess a claw natural attack or some way to
draw such a weapon reactively without using your
immediate action, to use this ability.
Expanded Arcana
Your research has revealed new spells.
Prerequisites: Caster level 1st, see Special.
Benefit: Add one spell from your class's spell list to your
list of spells known. This is in addition to the number of
spells normally gained at each new level in your class. You
may instead add two spells from your class's spell list to your
list of spells known, but both of these spells must be at least
one level lower than the highest level spell you can cast in
that class. Once made, these choices cannot be changed.
Special: You can only take this feat if you possess levels in a
class whose spellcasting relies on a limited list of spells
known, such as the bard, oracle, and sorcerer.
You can gain Expanded Arcana multiple times.
Expanded Fiendish Resistance
You gain extra fiendish resistances.
Prerequisite: Tiefling.
Benefit: Pick one of the following energy types that you do
not already have resistance to: acid, cold, electricity, or fire.
You gain resistance 5 to that energy type.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, pick another energy type you do not have resistance
to. You gain resistance 5 to that energy type.
Expanded Preparation
You can prepare more spells than other arcanists can.
Prerequisite: Arcanist level 1st.
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 Benefit: You gain an extra spell prepared of the highest
level you can currently cast as an arcanist when selecting this
feat. This is in addition to the number of spells you can
normally prepare from your spellbook. You can instead add
two spells prepared, but both of these slots must be at least 1
level lower than the highest-level spell you can currently cast
as an arcanist when selecting this feat. You must choose
which benefit you gain when you take this feat, and the extra
spells prepared do not change level when you gain access to
higher-level spells.
Special: You can take this feat up to three times. Each time
you do, you can choose either benefit.
Expanded Resistance
You have expanded your natural resistance to magic to
encompass different kinds of magic.
Prerequisites: Gnome, illusion resistance racial trait.
Benefit: Select one school of magic other than illusion. You
gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against spells or
effects from the selected school.
Special: You may select this feat more than once. Its effects
do not stack. Each time you select it, it applies to a different
school of magic.
Expeditious Sleuth
You mind is meticulous and sharp, making it easy for you
to thoroughly search an area.
Prerequisites: Perception 3 ranks, inspiration or lore master
class feature.
Benefit: You can take 20 on a Perception check in only 10
times the usual amount of time, and gain a +2 bonus on
Perception checks when you take 20.
Normal: It takes 20 times as long to take 20 on a skill check.
Exquisite Sneak You know how to move silently even while
wearing some forms of armor.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Careful Sneak, Stealth 6 ranks.
Benefit: You do not apply the armor check penalty for light
and medium armor on Stealth skill checks no matter how fast
you move. You still cannot use Stealth while running or
charging.
Expert Driver
When driving a chosen type of vehicle, you exhibit
incredible control, maneuvering the vehicle with greater ease
and stopping with uncanny precision.
Prerequisite: Skilled Driver with the selected vehicle type.
Benefit: You can make an accelerate, decelerate, or turn
action as a move action instead of a standard action.
Furthermore, when stopping a vehicle, you subtract 10 feet
from the roll to determine how many feet the vehicle moves
forward before it stops.
Exploit Lore
You can use your knowledge of a creature's weaknesses to
deliver a driving and relentless assault against it.
Prerequisites: Monster lore class feature, base attack bonus
+11.
Benefit: Once per day, when you successfully identify all
abilities and weaknesses of a creature using the appropriate
Knowledge check, you gain a +2 bonus on attack and damage
rolls against that creature for 1 minute. If you identify the
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abilities and weaknesses of numerous creatures, you must
pick one creature to be the target of this effect.
Extended Animal Focus
Your ability to emulate an animal lingers longer.
Prerequisite: Animal focus class feature.
Benefit: Add your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1) to the
number of minutes per day that you can use your animal
focus ability.
Extended Bane
Your dedication knows no limit. Your wrath dies hard.
Prerequisite: Bane class feature.
Benefit: Add your Wisdom bonus to the number of rounds
per day that you can use your bane ability.
Extra Arcana
You have unlocked the secret of a new magus arcana.
Prerequisite: Magus arcana class feature.
Benefit: You gain one additional magus arcana. You must
meet all the prerequisites for this magus arcana.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects
stack, granting a new arcana each time you gain this feat.
Extra Arcane Pool
You have learned how to draw more power from your
arcane pool.
Prerequisite: Arcane pool class feature.
Benefit: Your arcane pool increases by 2.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects
stack, granting you an increase to your arcane pool each time
you take this feat.
Extra Arcanist Exploit
Your repertoire of arcanist exploits expands.
Prerequisite: Arcanist exploit class feature.
Benefit: You gain one additional arcanist exploit. You must
meet the prerequisites for this arcanist exploit.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you gain another arcanist exploit.
Extra Bane
You can use your bane ability more often than normal.
Prerequisite: Bane class feature.
Benefit: You can use your bane ability for 3 additional
rounds per day.
Extra Bombs
You can throw more bombs per day.
Prerequisite: Bomb class feature.
Benefit: You can throw two additional bombs per day.
Special: You can gain Extra Bombs multiple times. Its
effects stack.
Extra Cantrips or Orisons
You are a master of minor spells.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast cantrips or orisons.
 Benefit: Add two cantrips to your cantrips known or two
orisons to your orisons known.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, add two cantrips or orisons to your spells known.
Extra Channel
You can channel divine energy more often.
Prerequisite: Channel energy class feature.
Benefit: You can channel energy two additional times per
day.
Special: If a paladin with the ability to channel positive
energy takes this feat, she can use lay on hands four
additional times per day, but only to channel positive energy.
If a warpriest with the ability to channel energy takes this
feat, he gains four additional uses of fervor per day, but can
use them only to channel energy.
Extra Contingency
You can manage multiple contingency effects.
Prerequisite: Character level 19th.
Benefit: You can have two contingency effects active at one
time. If they would both trigger on the same round, one
(chosen randomly) does not trigger until 1 round later.
Normal: You can benefit from only a single contingency
active at a time.
Extra Discovery
You have made a new alchemical discovery.
Prerequisite: Discovery class feature.
Benefit: You gain one additional discovery. You must meet
all of the prerequisites for this discovery.
Special: You can gain Extra Discovery multiple times.
Extra Elemental Assault
You have unlocked greater elemental power.
Prerequisite: Suli.
Benefit: Your elemental assault ability lasts an additional 2
rounds per day.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects
stack.
Extra Evolution
Your eidolon has more evolutions.
Prerequisite: Eidolon class feature.
Benefit: Your eidolon's evolution pool increases by 1.
Special: This evolution can be taken once at 1st level, and
again at 5th, 10th, 15th and 20th.
Extra Hex
You have learned the secrets of a new hex.
Prerequisite: Hex class feature.
Benefit: You gain one additional hex. You must meet the
prerequisites for this hex. If you are a shaman, it must be a
hex granted by your spirit rather than one from a wandering
spirit.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you gain another hex.
Extra Inspiration
You are more able to draw upon inspiration than most.
Prerequisite: Amateur Investigator or inspiration class
feature.
Benefit: You gain three extra use per day of inspiration in
your inspiration pool.
Special: If you have levels in the investigator class, you can
take this feat multiple times. Each time you do, you gain
three extra uses of inspiration per day.
Extra Investigator Talent
You learn a new way to use your training and inspiration.
Prerequisite: Investigator talent class feature.
Benefit: You gain one additional investigator talent. You
must meet the prerequisites for this investigator talent.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you gain another investigator talent.
Extra Ki
You can use your ki pool more times per day than most.
Prerequisite: Ki pool class feature.
Benefit: Your ki pool increases by 2.
Special: You can gain Extra Ki multiple times. Its effects
stack.
Extra Lay On Hands
You can use your lay on hands ability more often.
Prerequisite: Lay on hands class feature.
Benefit: You can use your lay on hands ability two
additional times per day.
Special: You can gain Extra Lay On Hands multiple times.
Its effects stack.
Extra Martial Flexibility
You are extremely versatile in a fight.
Prerequisite: Martial flexibility class feature.
Benefit: You can use your martial flexibility ability three
additional times per day.
Extra Mercy
Your lay on hands ability adds an additional mercy.
Prerequisites: Lay on hands class feature, mercy class
feature.
Benefit: Select one additional mercy for which you qualify.
When you use lay on hands to heal damage to one target, it
also receives the additional effects of this mercy.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, select a new mercy.
Extra Performance
You can use your bardic performance ability more often
than normal.
Prerequisite: Bardic performance class feature.
Benefit: You can use bardic performance for 6 additional
rounds per day.
Special: You can gain Extra Performance multiple times. Its
effects stack.
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Extra Rage
You can use your rage ability more than normal.
Prerequisite: Rage class feature.
Benefit: You can rage for 6 additional rounds per day.
Special: You can gain Extra Rage multiple times. Its effects
stack.
Extra Rage Power
You have unlocked a new ability to use while raging.
Prerequisite: Rage power class feature.
Benefit: You gain one additional rage power. You must
meet all of the prerequisites for this rage power.
Special: You can gain Extra Rage Power multiple times.
Extra Ranger Trap
You can use ranger traps more often.
Prerequisite: Trap class feature.
Benefit: You can set ranger traps two additional times per
day.
Extra Reservoir
Your reservoir of arcane energy is greater than the
reservoirs of others.
Prerequisite: Arcane reservoir class feature.
Benefit: You gain 3 more points in your arcane reservoir,
and the maximum number of points in your arcane reservoir
increases by that amount.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects
stack.
Extra Revelation
You have discovered a new aspect of your mystery.
Prerequisite: Revelation class feature.
Benefit: You gain one additional revelation. You must meet
all of the prerequisites for this revelation.
Special: You can gain Extra Revelation multiple times.
Extra Rogue Talent
Through constant practice, you have learned how to
perform a special trick.
Prerequisite: Rogue talent class feature.
Benefit: You gain one additional rogue talent. You must
meet all of the prerequisites for this rogue talent.
Special: You can gain Extra Rogue Talent multiple times.
Extra Slayer Talent
Through long practice, you have learned how to perform a
special talent.
Prerequisite: Slayer talent class feature.
Benefit: You gain one additional slayer talent. You must
meet the prerequisites for this slayer talent.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you gain another slayer talent.
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Extra Summons
You can summon monsters more often each day.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast summon monster as a spell-like
ability, summoner 1st.
Benefit: You gain 1 additional use of your summon monster
spell-like ability per day.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times, but it can
only be taken once for every five summoner levels you
possess.
Eye for Ingredients
Your keen eyes help you find better deals on magical
components for your spells.
Prerequisites: Eschew Materials, Appraise 6 ranks,
Spellcraft 6 ranks.
Benefit: When in a large city or larger settlement, you can
search the markets carefully for 4 hours in order to purchase
material components for your spells at a 10% discount. You
can purchase up to 1,000 gp worth of material components
(which costs you 900 gp) each day. These cheaper
components work perfectly well for their spells, but their
resale value is also 10% less.
Eyes of Judgment
The true motives of creatures cannot escape your discerning
gaze.
Prerequisites: Detect alignment class feature, caster level
6th.
Benefit: When using your detect alignment class feature,
you may spend 3 rounds studying a creature within 60 feet.
You cannot take any other actions while doing this. After that
time has passed, you learn the alignment of the creature.
Fast Drinker
You swiftly guzzle spirits to draw forth ki.
Prerequisites: Con 18, drunken ki class feature.
Benefit: Drinking strong alcohol to gain temporary ki, takes
a swift action rather than a standard action.
Fast Healer
You benefit greatly from your healing, be it from spells or
natural healing.
Prerequisites: Con 13, Diehard, Endurance.
Benefit: When you regain hit points by resting or through
magical healing, you recover additional hit points equal to
half your Constitution modifier (minimum +1).
Fast Empathy
Your empathic attunement to nature connects you swiftly
with bestial minds.
Prerequisites: Handle Animal 5 ranks, wild empathy class
feature.
Benefit: Using wild empathy is a standard action for you.
Normal: Using wild empathy requires 1 minute.
Fast Learner
You progress gain extra versatility.
Prerequisites: Int 13, human.
Benefit: When you gain a level in a favored class, you gain
both +1 hit point and +1 skill rank instead of choosing either
one or the other benefit or you can choose an alternate class
reward.
Favored Defense
Your cunning is your shield against your quarry's attacks.
Prerequisite: Favored enemy class feature.
Benefit: Choose one of your favored enemy types. You add
half your favored enemy bonus to your CMD and as a dodge
bonus to AC when attacked by a favored enemy.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new
favored enemy type.
Favored Judgment
Your judgment against a particular type of creature is
particularly harsh.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, judgment class feature.
Benefit: Select a favored race from the ranger's favored
enemies chart. Any sacred or profane bonus you gain from a
judgment is 1 higher for attacks you make against or take
from creatures that match the selected favored enemy.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a different
favored enemy.
Favored Enemy Spellcasting
Your spells are more effective against creatures that you
especially abhor.
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells.
Benefit: When you take this feat, choose a creature type or a
humanoid subtype from the Ranger Favored Enemies table.
When creatures of the chosen type attempt saving throws
against your spells, they treat the spells' DCs as 1 higher. If
you also have the favored enemy class feature and the chosen
type is already a favored enemy of yours, such creatures treat
your spells' DCs as 2 higher.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, it applies to a different creature type.
Fear Eater
You eat the fear of others, freeing them from its effects.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Iron Will, have no immunity to fear
effects.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can remove a fear effect
from another creature by touching it. The fear effect is
transferred from that creature to you, with the same
remaining duration. If the fear effect has varying effects
depending on the target (such as the effects of cause fear
depending on the target’s Hit Dice), it has the effect it had on
the original creature or the effect it would have on you,
whichever is more severe. When you choose to accept
another creature’s fear, you don’t receive any saving throw,
spell resistance, or other defenses you would normally have
against the fear effect.
Fearless Aura
Your aura of courage becomes more potent, as your
steadfast resolve is also manifested by your allies.
Prerequisites: Aura of courage class feature, caster level
8th.
Benefit: Your aura of courage expands to a 20-foot-radius
emanation. Allies within the aura are immune to fear effects.
Normal: The aura of courage affects each ally within 10 feet,
and grants a +4 morale bonus on saving throws against fear
effects.
Fearless Curiosity
Your desire to see and experience the world overrides
healthy caution.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, human.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on saving throws against
effects with the emotion descriptor. In addition, for any
round in which you begin your turn affected by a fear effect,
you gain a new save at the beginning of your turn to reduce
the severity of the fear effect, from panicked to frightened,
frightened to shaken, and shaken to unaffected.
Feign Curse
You can fool others into believing you have ensorcelled
them.
Prerequisites: Deceitful, Bluff 5 ranks, Spellcraft 1 rank.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can feign placing a curse
on a target. The target must attempt a Sense Motive or
Spellcraft check (whichever skill that target has a higher
bonus with) against a DC equal to 15 + your number of ranks
in Bluff + your Charisma modifier, with a bonus on his skill
check equal to any conditional bonus he has on saving
throws against hexes or curses (like from the spell hex ward).
If he fails, he becomes plagued by self-doubt and second-
guesses himself. For his next two attack rolls, saving throws,
skill checks, or ability checks, he rolls twice and takes the
lower result; for every 5 ranks of Bluff you possess beyond 5,
this ability affects an additional roll. This is a mind-affecting
effect, and it doesn’t work if the target is immune to curses.
Once you attempt to feign putting a curse on a creature, you
cannot do so again against the same creature for 24 hours,
and if the target succeeds at detecting your ruse, he gains a
+10 bonus against future attempts.
Feline Grace
Your innate grace allows you to get out of the stickiest
situations.
Prerequisites: Dexterity 13, catfolk.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to your CMD against bull
rush, grapple, overrun, repositioning, and trip combat
maneuvers.
Ferocious Action
You ferocity is quick but shorter lived.
Prerequisites: Ferocity racial trait, orc.
Benefit: When you fall to 0 hit points or fewer, you lose 2
hit points each round, but you are not staggered. If you are in
a rage (such as that caused by the barbarian rage class
feature), you instead only lose 1 hit point per round.
Ferocious Resolve
Your orc heritage allows you to fight on.
Prerequisites: Con 13, half-orc, orc ferocity racial trait.
Benefit: You gain the ferocity universal monster ability,
allowing you to continue fighting at negative hit points.
When using this ability, you gain a +2 bonus on Intimidate
checks.
Normal: A half-orc with the orc ferocity racial trait can fight
for 1 more round after he is brought below 0 hit points.
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Ferocious Summons Fiend Sight
Your summoned creatures gain your ferocity. Your eyes develop keener sight in dim light and darkness.
Prerequisites: Augment Summoning, Spell Focus Prerequisites: Darkvision 60 ft., tiefling.
(conjuration), half-orc or orc.
Benefit: You gain low-light vision and your darkvision
Benefit: Creatures you summon gain the ferocity universal improves to 120 ft.
monster ability.
Special: You can take this feat twice. When you take it a
Fey Spell Lore second time, you gain the see in darkness universal monster
You have learned the treacherous spells employed by the ability.
fey.
Fight On
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Spellcraft 1 rank, ability to cast druid You can keep fighting even after you should be dead.
spells.
Prerequisites: Con 13; dwarf, half-orc, or orc.
Benefit: Add the following spells to your druid spell list at
Benefit: Once per day, you can gain a number of temporary
the indicated levels: 0—dancing lights, 1st—lesser confusion,
hit points equal to your Constitution modifier. You can
2nd—charm person, 3rd—invisibility, 4th—bestow curse, 5th—
activate this feat as an immediate action when reduced to 0 or
charm monster, 6th—major curseUM, 7th—cloak of dreams, 8th—
fewer hit points. You can use this feat to prevent yourself
insanity, 9th—irresistible dance.
from dying. These temporary hit points last for 1 minute. If
Fey Spell Versatility your hit points drop below 0 due to the loss of these
You have learned magical secrets from the fey. temporary hit points, you fall unconscious and are dying as
normal. If you also have the ferocity racial trait, you can use
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Spellcraft 1 rank, ability to cast that once you have lost the temporary hit points from this
ranger spells. feat.
Benefit: Choose a 1st-level spell, a 2nd-level spell, a 3rd- Fire Music
level spell, and a 4th-level spell from the bard,
Your ability to command fire and bardic music has created
sorcerer/wizard, or witch spell list that is either from the
a strange blend of both magics.
enchantment or illusion school or a spell with the curse
descriptor. Add those spells to your ranger spell list. Once Prerequisites: Spellcraft 5 ranks, ability to cast bard spells,
chosen, these spells cannot be changed. ability to cast an arcane fire spell from some other
spellcasting class.
Field Repair
You can repair your broken weapon or armor to Benefit: When you cast a bard spell that deals damage, you
serviceability even without the benefits of artisan tools. may replace the spell's normal damage with fire damage or
split the spell's damage so that half of it is the normal damage
Prerequisite: Craft 4 ranks. type and half is fire damage.
Benefit: If you are trained in a Craft skill appropriate to a If you cast a summon monster spell as a bard spell, you may
broken item, you can repair that item with no raw material choose to give the summoned creature a fiery appearance,
cost and no penalty on your Craft skill check for using which gives it fire resistance 5 and adds +1 fire damage to all
improvised tools. If you spend a day, the item regains 1 hit of its natural attacks. The creature sheds dim light in a 5-foot
point plus one-quarter of its original hit points. Alternatively, radius. This aspect of the feat has no effect if the creature
if the item gained the broken condition because it is a firearm already has the fire subtype.
that has misfired or a siege engine that suffered a mishap, or
has the broken condition because it has the fragile weapon When you use this feat, the affected spell gains the fire
quality (or some similar quality), you can make a Craft check descriptor.
with the DC it takes to craft that item (see Table: New Item
Craft DCs, below). If the check succeeds, the item loses the
Fire Tamer
You know your way around even magical fire.
broken condition.
Prerequisite: Goblin.
Normal: Improvised tools impose a –2 penalty on Craft
checks. Items require raw materials to repair. Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on saves against spells with
the fire descriptor. Additionally, your scars mark you as a
Table: New Item Craft DCs
talented fire tamer, granting you a +2 circumstance bonus on
Item Craft Skill Craft DC Diplomacy and Intimidate checks when dealing with other
A weapon with the fragile Weapon or Normal DC
goblins.
special quality Bow –5
One-handed firearm Firearm 20 Firesight
Two-handed firearm Firearm 20 Fire no longer blinds you, and smoke conceals nothing from
Siege firearm, heavy Firearm 25 your gaze.
Siege firearm, medium Firearm 30
Siege firearm, light Firearm 35 Prerequisite: Ifrit.
Ranged siege engine, heavy Siege Engine 20
Benefit: You can see through fire and smoke without
Ranged siege engine, medium Siege Engine 25
penalty, ignoring any cover or concealment bonuses from fire
and smoke. This does not allow you to see anything you
could not otherwise see (for example, invisible creatures are
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Flame Heart
You have mastered fire magic and alchemy.
Prerequisites: Fire Tamer, character level 5th, goblin.
Benefit: You gain fire resistance 5. When casting spells with
the fire descriptor or throwing alchemist bombs that deal fire
damage, treat your caster level or alchemist level as if you
were 1 level higher.
Fleet
You are faster than most.
Benefit: While you are wearing light or no armor, your base
speed increases by 5 feet. You lose the benefits of this feat if
you carry a medium or heavy load.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. The effects
stack.
Flexible Hex
Your wandering hex shifts at your command.
Prerequisite: Wandering hex class feature.
Benefit: Once per day as a swift action, you can change
your wandering hex. When you change your hex, the new
hex must be associated with the wandering spirit with which
you are currently bonded. At 12th level, you can change
either or both of your wandering hexes with the feat.
Normal: Shamans select their hexes every day when they
prepare their spells and cannot change them.
Flexible Wizardry
You have learned a trick that makes your spellcasting more
flexible.
Prerequisites: Spell Mastery, wizard level 1st.
Benefit: When you prepare your spells each day, you can
choose to keep a number of spell slots equal to your
Intelligence modifier (minimum 1) flexibly prepared. Instead
of preparing a single spell within each of these slots, you can
partially prepare two spells. Anytime after you prepare these
flexible slots, you can spend a full-round action to finalize
one slot, choosing one of the two spells to be finished and
fully prepared in that slot.
Focused Eidolon
Your bond with your eidolon helps to focus your
concentration.
Prerequisite: Shield ally class feature.
Benefit: While you are adjacent to your eidolon, you receive
a +4 bonus on concentration checks.
Focused Inspiration
Two of your skills gain a bit more from your inspiration
than others.
Prerequisites: Inspiration class feature, keen recollection
class feature.
Benefit: When you take this feat, choose two skills that you
either are trained in or can use untrained. You must be able to
use inspiration with these skills. When you use inspiration on
checks involving those skills, roll a d8 instead of a d6, or a
d10 if you would normally roll a d8. If you have the true
inspiration class feature, you roll twice as many such dice
(2d8 or 2d10) as normal.
Foment the Blood
You can unleash a wave of energy that drives orcs into a
frenzy.
Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature, orc.
Benefit: When you channel energy, instead of creating its
normal effect, you can give orcs a bonus on weapon damage
and critical hit confirmation rolls until your next turn. This
bonus is equal to the number of dice your channeled energy
normally heals or harms. Your channel has its normal effect
on other creatures in the area.
Fool Magic
You can mislead magic items by virtue of your disguise.
Prerequisites: Deceitful, Disguise 1 rank, Use Magic Device
1 rank.
Benefit: When you are in disguise as a member of a
particular race or a person of a particular alignment, you can
use your Disguise bonus instead of your Use Magic Device
bonus to emulate that race and alignment for the purpose of
attempting to activate a magic item.
Force Dash
You can absorb the magic in your force spells to give you a
concentrated burst of speed.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +4, ability to cast 2nd-level
arcane spells, ability to cast at least one arcane force spell.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can sacrifice a prepared
arcane force spell (or if you are a spontaneous caster, a spell
slot of the same level as an arcane force spell you know) to
give yourself an enhancement bonus to speed. The bonus
gained is equal to 10 feet × the level of the spell sacrificed.
The bonus applies to all forms of movement, and it lasts 1
round. If you charge while this bonus is in effect, you do not
take the normal –2 penalty to AC until the start of your next
turn.
Formula Recollection
You are able to record and recall even the complex and
intricate details of spellcasting.
Prerequisites: Spellcraft 5 ranks, keen recollection class
feature.
Benefit: Once per day, you can record the formula for a
spell that you saw being cast and identified with Spellcraft in
the past 24 hours. This spell must be on the alchemist formula
list.
Fortunate One
You have an even greater knack than most halflings for
adaptable luck.
Prerequisites: Adaptable luck racial trait, halfling.
Benefit: The number of times per day you can use the
adaptable luck racial trait increases by 1.
Furious Finish
You channel all of your rage into one massive blow to crush
your enemy.
Prerequisites: Rage class feature, Vital Strike, base attack
bonus +6.
Benefit: While raging, when you use the Vital Strike feat,
you can choose not to roll your damage dice and instead deal
damage equal to the maximum roll possible on those damage
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dice. If you do, your rage immediately ends, and you are
fatigued (even if you would not normally be).
Gaze Reflection
The power of your psychic stare wards you from the potent
gazes of your enemies.
Prerequisites: Spellcraft 10 ranks, bold stare and mesmerist
tricks class features.
Benefit: When you avert your eyes from a creature with a
gaze attack (including one produced by a spell like eyebite or
burning gaze or by a magic item), you can roll twice and select
the better result when checking to see whether you are
exposed to that gaze attack and when rolling your miss
chance on attacks made against that creature (the latter
doesn’t stack with Blind-Fight). In addition, as a swift action,
you can expend one mesmerist trick to make yourself
immune to that creature’s gaze until the beginning of your
next turn. If you expend two mesmerist tricks instead, you
gain immunity to that creature’s gaze and also ref lect its gaze
back at it, affecting it with its own gaze.
Special: A mesmerist’s hypnotic stare, a witch’s or hag’s
evil eye, and a vampire’s dominate ability are treated as gaze
attacks for the purpose of this feat, as are abilities that are
triggered when looking at a creature, such as a nymph’s
blinding beauty or a sea hag’s horrific appearance. Spending
two mesmerist tricks on this feat does not bypass any
immunity the creature might have to its own gaze, such as a
vampire’s immunity to mind-affecting effects or the fact that
the nymph’s blinding beauty works only on humanoids.
Giant Steps
When enlarged, your speed increases.
Prerequisites: Duergar, slow and steady racial trait.
Benefit: When your size increases to Large or larger, your
base speed increases by 20 feet. This increase applies only if
the effect that changed your size does not alter your speed.
Gliding Steps
You skate across the surface of the earth as if gliding on ice.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Mobility, Nimble Moves, ki pool.
Benefit: If you have at least one ki in your ki pool, when
you move you do not provoke attacks of opportunity when
leaving the first square of that movement. You can spend 1 ki
point to avoid provoking attacks of opportunity during that
entire move.
Gloom Sight
With a combination of strange shadow magic and
chirurgery, your eyes are permanently modified to see farther
in darkness.
Prerequisite: Fetchling.
Benefit: You gain darkvision 90 ft., but gain the light
sensitivity weakness.
Gnome Trickster
Your arcane talents go beyond the illusory.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, gnome, gnome magic racial trait.
Benefit: In addition to your normal gnome spell-like
abilities, you also gain the following spell-like abilities:
1/day—mage hand and prestidigitation.
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Go Unnoticed
Your small size lets you quickly duck out of sight.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Small size or smaller.
Benefit: During the first round of combat, flat-footed
opponents are considered not to have noticed you yet for the
purposes of Stealth skill checks, allowing you to make a
Stealth check that round to hide from them.
Gore Fiend
Horrible wounds, whether on yourself or your enemies,
make your blood sing.
Prerequisites: Half-orc or orc, rage class feature.
Benefit: When you are raging and you confirm a critical hit
with a melee weapon or a critical hit is confirmed on you
(whether by a melee weapon, spell, or ranged weapon), you
regain 1 round of rage (up to your maximum for the day).
You can only gain this benefit once per round.
Grant Initiative
Not only are you a master at taking the initiative, but you
can also grant it to someone else.
Prerequisites: Cunning initiative class feature.
Benefit: At the start of each encounter, you can either
choose to keep the bonus granted to you by your Wisdom
modifier on initiative checks or choose to give that bonus to
one of your allies that you can see. You must make this choice
before you or the ally you are granting the bonus to makes
the initiative check.
Grasping Tail
Your tail becomes more useful.
Prerequisite: Tiefling.
Benefit: You can use your tail to grab stowed items. While
you cannot wield weapons with your tail, you can use it to
retrieve small, stowed objects carried on your person as a
swift action.
Special: If you have the prehensile tail racial trait, you can
use your tail to grab unattended items within 5 feet as a swift
action as well as to grab stowed objects carried on your
person; you can hold such objects with your tail, though you
cannot manipulate them with your tail (other than to put
them in your hand).
Great Fortitude
You are resistant to poisons, diseases, and other maladies.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Fortitude saving throws.
Greater Channel Force
Your eruptions of divine power move your enemies.
Prerequisites: Channel Force, Improved Channel Force,
aasimar, channel energy 6d6.
Benefit: When using Improved Channel Force, you can
affect all creatures in a 30-foot-radius burst.
Greater Channel Smite
You empower your weapon with the might of your deity,
which you discharge as you strike your foes.
Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature, Channel Smite,
base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: Before making any melee attacks on your turn, you
can use a swift action to expend one daily use of your
channel energy class feature. The dice from your channel
energy feature form a pool of damage dice you can access to
further damage creatures normally harmed by the energy
you are channeling—undead for positive energy, living
creatures for negative energy. Prior to making each melee
attack, allocate dice from the pool to be used as extra damage
dice if you hit. Your target can make a Will save, as normal,
to halve this extra damage. This extra damage is not
multiplied when you score a critical hit. If you miss, the extra
damage dice remain in your pool, but any dice left
unexpended at the end of your turn are wasted.
Greater Dirge of Doom
The haunting sound of sepulchral intonations chills the
most stalwart adversary to its very core.
Prerequisites: Improved Dirge of Doom, ability to perform
dirge of doom.
Benefit: The effect of your dirge of doom lingers with a
target for 2 rounds after the creature leaves the dirge's area of
effect. If you use your dirge on a creature that is shaken, it
becomes frightened. If you use it on a creature that is
frightened, it becomes panicked. Once affected by this feat, a
creature cannot be affected by it again for 24 hours.
Normal: Fear effects on a creature end immediately once it
leaves the area of dirge of doom. A fear effect cannot be made
more extreme by dirge of doom and can be changed only to
the frightened condition by the Improved Dirge of Doom
feat.
Greater Drow Nobility
You have mastered the lesser spell-like abilities of the drow,
demonstrating true nobility.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Drow Nobility, Improved Drow
Nobility, able to use drow spell-like abilities, drow.
Benefit: Your detect magic spell-like ability is now constant.
You may use your dancing lights, deeper darkness, faerie fire,
feather fall, and levitate spell-like abilities at will.
Greater Eldritch Heritage
Your discovered bloodline power reaches its zenith.
Prerequisites: Cha 17, Eldritch Heritage, Improved Eldritch
Heritage, character level 17th.
Benefit: You gain an additional power from the bloodline
you selected with the Eldritch Heritage feat. You gain a 15th-
level (or lower) sorcerer bloodline power that you do not
already have. For purposes of using that power, treat your
character level as your sorcerer level for all your sorcerer
bloodline powers granted by this feat, Eldritch Heritage, and
Improved Eldritch Heritage.
Greater Elemental Focus
Choose an energy type to which you have already applied
the Elemental Focus feat. Any spells you cast of this energy
type are very hard to resist.
Prerequisite: Elemental Focus.
Benefit: Add +1 to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws
against spells that deal damage of the energy type you select.
This bonus stacks with the bonus from Elemental Focus.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new
energy type to which you have already applied the Elemental
Focus feat.
Greater Mercy
Your mercy has incredible recuperative properties.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, lay on hands class feature, mercy
class feature.
Benefit: When you use your lay on hands ability and the
target of that ability does not have any conditions your
mercies can remove, it instead heals an additional +1d6
points of damage.
Greater Skald's Vigor
Your song and your enthusiasm invigorate your allies.
Prerequisites: Skald's Vigor, Perform (song) 10 ranks.
Benefit: Your allies share in the fast healing granted by
your Skald's Vigor, starting in the round when you begin
your performance. They must be able to hear the
performance. If you stop maintaining the song, the fast
healing ends immediately, even if other effects of your song
linger.
Greater Spell Focus
Choose a school of magic to which you have already
applied the Spell Focus feat. Any spells you cast of this school
are very hard to resist.
Prerequisite: Spell Focus.
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 to which you already have applied the Spell Focus
feat.
Greater Spell Penetration
Your spells break through spell resistance much more easily
than most.
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.
Greater Spell Specialization
You can sacrifice a prepared spell in order to spontaneously
cast your specialized spell.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Spell Focus, Spell Specialization, able
to prepare 5th-level spells.
Benefit: By sacrificing a prepared spell of the same or
higher level than your specialized spell, you may
spontaneously cast your specialized spell. The specialized
spell is treated as its normal level, regardless of the spell slot
used to cast it. You may add a metamagic feat to the spell by
increasing the spell slot and casting time, just like a cleric
spontaneously casting a cure or inflict spell with a metamagic
feat.
Greater Wild Empathy
Your natural empathy stretches across the world of nature.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (nature) 5 ranks, wild empathy
class feature.
Benefit: You gain a +2 insight bonus on wild empathy
checks, and you may use wild empathy to duplicate an
Intimidate check rather than a Diplomacy check. In addition,
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choose one of the following kinds of creatures: elementals,
fey, lycanthropes, plants, or vermin. You may influence
creatures of that type with wild empathy, if their Intelligence
score is 1 or 2, or they do not possess an Intelligence score.
Once you choose the type of creature, it cannot be changed.
Special: You may select this feat more than once. Each time,
you may choose an additional creature type to influence.
Groundling
You can speak with burrowing animals.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, gnome, gnome magic racial trait.
Benefit: You can use speak with animals as a spell-like ability
at will, but only to communicate with burrowing animals like
gophers, moles, and the like. You can still use your gnome
speak with animals ability once per day to speak with any
animal, as usual.
Guardian of the Wild
Your mystic connection with the wilderness enhances your
ability to react to threats.
Prerequisites: Attuned to the Wild, elf.
Benefit: When you are in a terrain type you have selected
the Attuned to the Wild feat for, you gain a +2 dodge bonus
to Armor Class. If you are in an area that qualifies as more
than one kind of terrain, these bonuses do not stack; you
receive the bonus for only one of the terrain types.
Guided Hand
Your deity blesses any strike you make with that deity's
favored weapon.
Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature, Channel Smite,
proficiency with your deity's favored weapon.
Benefit: With your deity's favored weapon, you can use
your Wisdom modifier instead of your Strength or Dexterity
modifier on attack rolls.
Gunsmithing
You know the secrets of repairing and restoring firearms.
Benefit: If you have access to a gunsmith's kit, you can
create and restore firearms, craft bullets, and mix black
powder for all types of firearms. You do not need to make a
Craft check to create firearms and ammunition or to restore
firearms.
Crafting Firearms: You can craft any early firearm for a cost
in raw materials equal to half the price of the firearm. At your
GM's discretion, you can craft advanced firearms for a cost in
raw materials equal to half the price of the firearm. Crafting a
firearm in this way takes 1 day of work for every 1,000 gp of
the firearm's price (minimum 1 day).
Crafting Ammunition: You can craft bullets, pellets, and
black powder for a cost in raw materials equal to 10% of the
price. If you have at least 1 rank in Craft (alchemy), you can
craft alchemical cartridges for a cost in raw materials equal to
half the price of the cartridge. At your GM's discretion, you
can craft metal cartridges for a cost in raw materials equal to
half the cost of the cartridge. Crafting bullets, black powder,
or cartridges takes 1 day of work for every 1,000 gp of
ammunition (minimum 1 day).
Restoring a Broken Firearm: Each day, with an hour's worth of
work, you can use this feat to repair a single firearm with the
broken condition. You can take time during a rest period to
restore a broken firearm with this feat.
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Special: If you are a gunslinger, this feat grants the
following additional benefit. You can use this feat to repair
and restore your initial, battered weapon. It costs 300 gp and
1 day of work to upgrade it to a masterwork firearm of its
type.
Half-Drow Paragon
Your drow blood is particularly strong.
Prerequisites: Drow-blooded and drow magic racial traits,
half-elf.
Benefit: You count as a drow for any effects that relate to
race. Furthermore, the spell-like abilities granted to you by
your drow magic racial trait count as drow spell-like abilities
for the purposes of any feat prerequisites.
Harmonic Sage
Your thorough understanding of acoustics in artificial
surroundings allows you to improve the power of your
bardic performance.
Prerequisites: Bardic performance class feature, Knowledge
(engineering) 5 ranks.
Benefit: While inside an artificial structure, you can spend a
free action to make a DC 15 Knowledge (engineering) check
when you begin your bardic performance. Success on this
check allows you to do one of the following.
Self-Harmonize: By performing over the acoustic
reverberations of your performance, you increase the DC of
your bardic performance effects +1.
Reverberation: You can choose to have the effect of your
current bardic performance continue for 1 round after you
cease maintaining it, regardless of why you cease
maintaining it. You can still have no more than one bardic
performance in effect at one time.
Normal: A bardic performance lasts only as long as you
maintain it.
Heavenly Radiance
Your heavenly light can be used in a variety of ways.
Prerequisites: Aasimar, daylight spell-like ability,
sufficiently high level (see below).
Benefit: You gain one additional use per day of daylight.
Choose one spell from the table below; by expending a use of
daylight, you may use this spell as a spell-like ability. To select
a spell, you must meet the minimum character level for its
listing in the table. The save DC for this spell is Charisma-
based.
Spell-Like Ability Minimum Character Level
Flare burst 1st
Wake of light 3rd
Searing light 5th
Wandering star motes 7th
Sunbeam (one beam only) 9th
Special: You may take this feat multiple times. Each time
you select it, you gain an additional use of daylight and may
select another spell from the table.
Heroic Defiance
You struggle on when others would fall.
Prerequisites: Diehard, Endurance, base Fortitude save +8.
 Benefit: Once per day as an immediate action you can delay
the onset of one harmful condition or affliction (such as
panicked, paralyzed, stunned, and so on), including
permanent and instantaneous conditions. Activating this feat
delays the onset of the condition until the end of your next
turn, after which time the condition takes its normal effect.
This feat has no effect on hit point damage or ability damage.
Heroic Recovery
You can throw off the effects of crippling conditions.
Prerequisites: Diehard, Endurance, base Fortitude save +4.
Benefit: Once per day as a standard action you may attempt
a new saving throw against a harmful condition or affliction
requiring a Fortitude save that is affecting you. If this save
against the affliction fails, there is no additional effect, but a
successful save counts toward curing an affliction such as
poison or disease. You cannot use this feat to recover from
instantaneous effects, effects that do not allow a saving
throw, or effects that do not require a Fortitude save.
Heroic Will
Your indomitable will breaks free from mental shackles.
Prerequisites: Iron Will, base Will save +4, human.
Benefit: Once per day as a standard action, you may
attempt a new saving throw against a harmful condition
requiring a Will save that is affecting you. If you are
dominated, controlled, or cannot take an action because of
the effect against which you are trying to make a new saving
throw, you can make this saving throw at the start of the turn
as no action, but on a success, your turn ends. You cannot use
this feat to remove instantaneous effects, effects that do not
require a Will save, or effects that do not allow a saving
throw.
Hobgoblin Discipline
The presence of other hobgoblins bolsters your resolve.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, hobgoblin.
Benefit: While you are within 30 feet of at least two other
hobgoblins, you gain a +1 morale bonus on saving throws.
Human Spirit
Your blood burns with the passion and unyielding quest for
self-improvement displayed so prominently by your human
relatives.
Prerequisite: Half-elf.
Benefit: You receive 1 bonus skill rank. Whenever you gain
another Hit Die, you gain an additional skill rank. You cannot
gain more than four skill ranks in this way.
Special: You can only take this feat at 1st level. If you take
this feat, you cannot take the Elven Spirit feat.
Huntmaster
You are an expert trainer of horses, hounds, falcons, or
hunting cats.
Prerequisites: Handle Animal 1 rank; either the animal
companion, divine bond (mount), or mount class feature;
human.
Benefit: If you have the animal companion class feature,
pick one of the following types of animal companions that
this feat affects: bird, dog, small cat, or horse. If you have the
divine bond (mount) or mount class feature, this feat always
affects horses.
You gain a +2 bonus on Handle Animal and Knowledge
(nature) checks with creatures of that type of animal.
Furthermore, you are treated as one level higher when
determining the abilities of your animal companion or
mount, as long as it is of the chosen type.
Hydraulic Maneuver
You can use your hydraulic push to disarm or trip.
Prerequisites: Hydraulic push spell-like ability, undine.
Benefit: You may use hydraulic push to attempt a bull rush,
disarm, dirty trick (blind or dazzle, see ), or trip combat
maneuver. Each time you use hydraulic push, you must decide
which of the allowed combat maneuvers you want to
perform. You may use this feat with your hydraulic push racial
spell-like ability, your class-granted use of hydraulic push, or
any hydraulic push spells you cast, but not with magic items or
other external sources that use that spell.
Normal: Hydraulic push can only be used to make a bull
rush combat maneuver.
Implant Bomb
You can attach a bomb to a creature that explodes when the
creature dies or after 24 hours.
Prerequisites: Heal 5 ranks, delayed bomb alchemist
discovery.
Benefit: You may implant a bomb in a willing or helpless
creature (a mindless creature under your control, such as a
zombie, counts as willing for this purpose). This takes 1 hour
and expends 1 use of your bomb ability for the day. When the
implanted creature dies or is destroyed, the bomb detonates
in the creature's square as if it were a delayed bomb set by
you (though you can set the bomb's damage to less than your
normal bomb damage). You can use any bomb-affecting
discoveries on this implanted bomb (acid bomb, frost bomb,
smoke bomb, and so on) as normal. The bomb automatically
detonates 24 hours after you implant it in the creature.
If you expend 150 gp worth of alchemical reagents per die
of the bomb's damage (for example, 750 gp for a 5d6 bomb),
the bomb does not automatically detonate after 24 hours, and
only detonates if the creature dies or is destroyed (24 hours
after implantation, this bomb no longer counts toward your
daily total).
Implanting a bomb is as invasive as using the Heal skill to
treat deadly wounds and leaves surgical scars unless the
creature is healed by magic or abilities such as regeneration
or fast healing. Some creatures (such as oozes, elementals,
and creatures with the incorporeal quality) cannot have
bombs implanted in them. Removing an implanted bomb
requires a Heal check to treat deadly wounds, followed by a
dispel magic spell or Disable Device check to neutralize the
bomb (DC = 11 + alchemist's caster level).
Improved Channel
Your channeled energy is harder to resist.
Prerequisite: Channel energy class feature.
Benefit: Add 2 to the DC of saving throws made to resist
the effects of your channel energy ability.
Improved Channel Force
You move your enemies within a beam of righteous energy.
Prerequisites: Channel Force, aasimar, channel energy 4d6.
Benefit: When using Channel Force, you can affect all
creatures in a 60-foot line or a 30-foot cone-shaped burst. You
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must choose to either push or pull all creatures within the Improved Eldritch Heritage
affected area that fail their saves. The power of your discovered bloodline continues to grow.
Improved Conceal Prerequisites: Cha 15, Eldritch Heritage, character level
Spell You can conceal the mightiest spells in the subtlest 11th.
fashions.
Benefit: You gain either the 3rd-level or the 9th-level power
Prerequisites: Conceal Spell, Deceitful, Bluff 5 ranks, (your choice) of the bloodline you selected with the Eldritch
Disguise 5 ranks, Sleight of Hand 10 ranks, ability to cast 3rd- Heritage feat. For purposes of using that power, treat your
level spells or use a 3rd-level spell-like ability. sorcerer level as equal to your character level – 2, even if you
have levels in sorcerer. You do not gain any of the other
Benefit: When you use Conceal Spell, creatures no longer
bloodline abilities.
gain a bonus equal to the level of the spell or spell-like ability
on their checks to notice the hidden spell. Special: You may select this feat multiple times. Its effects
do not stack. Each time you select the feat, it applies to a
Normal: Creatures attempting to notice a spell hidden with
different bloodline power for that bloodline available at
Conceal Spell gain a bonus equal to the level of the spell or
sorcerer level 3 or 9.
spell-like ability on their Perception, Sense Motive, and
Spellcraft checks. Improved Familiar
This feat allows you to acquire a powerful familiar, but only
Improved Counterspell when you could normally acquire a new familiar.
You are skilled at countering the spells of others using
similar spells. Prerequisites: Ability to acquire a new familiar, compatible
alignment, sufficiently high level (see below).
Benefit: When counterspelling, you may use a spell of the
same school that is one or more spell levels higher than the Benefit: When choosing a familiar, the creatures listed
target spell. below are also available to you. You may choose a familiar
with an alignment up to one step away on each alignment
Normal: Without this feat, you may counter a spell only
axis (lawful through chaotic, good through evil).
with the same spell or with a spell specifically designated as
countering the target spell. Familiar Alignment Arcane Spellcaster Level
Celestial hawk1 Neutral 3rd
Improved Dark Sight good
With further modification, your eyes see clearly in not only Dire rat Neutral 3rd
normal darkness, but in magical darkness as well. Fiendish viper2 Neutral evil 3rd
Prerequisites: Dark Sight, Gloom Sight, fetchling. Elemental, Small Neutral 5th
(any type)
Benefit: You gain the see in darkness ability and lose the Stirge Neutral 5th
light sensitivity weakness, but gain the light blindness Homunculus3 Any 7th
weakness. Imp Lawful evil 7th
Mephit (any type) Neutral 7th
Improved Dirge of Doom Pseudodragon Neutral 7th
The foreboding tone of your dirge is especially effective at good
unsettling your enemies. Quasit Chaotic evil 7th
1 Or other celestial animal from the standard familiar list.
Prerequisite: Ability to perform dirge of doom.
2 Or other fiendish animal from the standard familiar list.
Benefit: The range of your dirge of doom ability is extended 3 The master must first create the homunculus.
to 60 feet. Additionally, if a creature is shaken from another
effect, the effect of your dirge of doom is changed to
frightened for that specific creature. This benefit cannot cause Improved familiars otherwise use the rules for regular
a creature to become panicked, even if a target is already familiars, with two exceptions: if the creature's type is
frightened from another effect. Once affected by this feat, a something other than animal, its type does not change; and
creature cannot be affected by it again for 24 hours. improved familiars do not gain the ability to speak with other
creatures of their kind (although many of them already have
Normal: The range of dirge of doom is 30 feet. A creature the ability to communicate).
that is already shaken cannot become frightened by dirge of
doom. Improved Flexible Wizardry
You possess an impressive versatility in casting that other
Improved Drow Nobility wizards lack.
Your magical heritage is more potent than that of your
peers, as demonstrated by your superior spell-like abilities. Prerequisites: Flexible Wizardry, Spell Mastery, wizard
level 8th.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Drow Nobility, able to use drow
spell-like abilities, drow. Benefit: When you use Flexible Wizardry, you can flexibly
prepare a number of spell slots equal to your Intelligence
Benefit: You may use your dancing lights, faerie fire, feather modifier + 4. Furthermore, you can finalize one of these slots
fall, and levitate spell-like abilities twice per day. Your with a standard action instead of a full-round action.
darkness spell-like ability instead becomes deeper darkness,
which you may use twice per day. Improved Great Fortitude
You can draw upon an inner reserve to resist diseases,
poisons, and other grievous harm.
Prerequisites: Great Fortitude.

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 Benefit: Once per day, you may reroll a Fortitude save. You
must decide to use this ability before the results are revealed.
You must take the second roll, even if it is worse.
Improved Improvisation
You are masterful in your improvisation.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Fast Learner, Improvisation, human.
Benefit: Your nonproficiency penalty with weapons, armor,
and shields is halved. In addition, the bonus on all skill
checks for skills you have no ranks in increases to +4 instead
of +2.
Improved Iron Will
Your clarity of thought allows you to resist mental attacks.
Prerequisites: Iron Will.
Benefit: Once per day, you may reroll a Will save. You must
decide to use this ability before the results are revealed. You
must take the second roll, even if it is worse.
Improved Legendary Influence
Each legend grants you more of its power in return for
greater inf luence.
Prerequisites: Legendary Inf luence, lesser spirit power and
propitiation class features.
Benefit: For each spirit you can channel, choose a second
feat other than an item creation feat. Whenever you allow a
spirit to gain 1 point of inf luence over you to gain that
spirit’s associated feat via Legendary Inf luence, you can
allow that spirit to gain 1 additional point of inf luence over
you to gain the second feat.
Improved Lightning Reflexes
You have a knack for avoiding danger all around you.
Prerequisites: Lightning Reflexes.
Benefit: Once per day, you may reroll a Reflex save. You
must decide to use this ability before the results are revealed.
You must take the second roll, even if it is worse.
Improved Monster Lore
You are obsessed with the abilities and weaknesses of
monsters.
Prerequisite: Monster lore class feature.
Benefit: You gain a sacred bonus on all skill checks to
identify the abilities and weaknesses of creatures equal to 1/2
your level in classes that grant you the monster lore class
feature.
Improved Share Spells
You can share spells with those you have a magical
connection with.
Prerequisites: Spellcraft 10 ranks, ability to acquire an
animal companion, eidolon, familiar, or special mount.
Benefit: Any non-instantaneous spell (but not any spell-like
ability) you cast on yourself can also affect a creature bonded
to you (such as an animal companion, eidolon, familiar, or
special mount). The creature must be within 5 feet of you at
the time of casting to receive the benefit. The spell's duration
is halved between you and your bonded creature (for
example, a spell with a duration of 1 hour has a duration of
30 minutes for both you and your bonded creature).
If the spell or effect has a duration other than instantaneous,
it stops affecting the creature if it moves farther than 5 feet
away from you. It does not affect the creature again if it
returns before the duration expires.
You may share spells in this fashion even if the spells
normally do not affect creatures of that type.
This feat only applies to animal companions, eidolons,
familiars, or special mounts gained through a class feature.
Improved Stalwart
You can roll with the punches while simultaneously striking
back at your attackers.
Prerequisites: Diehard, Endurance, Stalwart, base attack
bonus +11.
Benefit: Double the DR you gain from Stalwart, to a
maximum of DR 10/—.
Improved Stonecunning
Your sense for stonework is uncanny.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, dwarf, stonecunning racial trait.
Benefit: You receive a +4 bonus on Perception checks to
notice unusual stonework. This bonus replaces the
stonecunning ability's normal bonus on Perception checks.
Improved Studied Combatant
Deep understanding of your foes' tics grants you the upper
hand in combat.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Amateur Investigator, Studied
Combatant, base attack bonus +8, 1 rank in at least one
Knowledge skill, no levels in a class that has the inspiration
class feature.
Benefit: Your bonuses for Studied Combatant increase to a
+4 insight bonus on melee attack rolls and a +4 bonus on
damage rolls. This feat otherwise works like the Studied
Combatant feat.
Improved Umbral Scion
You are a master of drow noble magic.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Wis 13, Drow Nobility, Greater Drow
Nobility, Improved Drow Nobility, Umbral Scion, able to use
drow spell-like abilities, drow.
Benefit: You may use dispel magic, divine favor, and
suggestion once per day as spell-like abilities. Your caster level
is equal to your character level.
Improvisation
You can figure out how to do almost anything.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Fast Learner, human.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on all skill checks for skills
you have no ranks in. Furthermore, you can use all skills
designated "trained only" untrained.
Incorporeal Intuition
You notice incorporeal creatures, even those lurking in
walls.
Prerequisites: Psychic Sensitivity or the ability to cast
psychic spells, Spirit Sense.
Benefit: You can sense the presence and movement of
incorporeal creatures though solid walls, as long as that
incorporeal creature is adjacent to you. When you sense a
creature in this way, you can attempt a Knowledge (religion)
check to identify the creature and its special powers or
vulnerabilities, with a –5 penalty. When you sense an
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incorporeal creature with this ability and use a readied action
to attack it when it attacks from inside the wall, it doesn’t
gain cover against your attack.
Normal: Incorporeal creatures are silent unless they choose
to make a sound and are thus almost impossible to detect
when inside a solid wall. When readying to attack an
incorporeal creature in a solid wall, it gains cover against
your attack.
Incremental Elemental Assault
You may activate and quench your elemental assault ability
multiple times per day.
Prerequisite: Suli.
Benefits: You may use your elemental assault ability in 1-
round increments, up to a maximum number of rounds per
day equal to your character level. These rounds do not have
to be consecutive. Activating the ability is a swift action;
ending it is a free action.
Normal: You can use elemental assault once per day. It lasts
a number of rounds equal to your class level.
Inexplicable Luck
Others are often dumfounded by your luck.
Prerequisites: Defiant Luck, human.
Benefit: Once per day, as a free action before a roll is made,
you gain a +8 bonus on any single d20 roll. You can also use
this ability after the roll is made, but if you do, this bonus is
reduced to +4.
Inner Breath
Your body is suffused with elemental air that provides for
all your respiratory needs.
Prerequisites: Character level 11th, sylph.
Benefit: You no longer need to breathe. You are immune to
effects that require breathing (such as inhaled poison). This
does not give you immunity to cloud or gas attacks that do
not require breathing, such as cloudkill.
Insightful Advice
You teach others how to make the most of their skills.
Prerequisite: Perform (oratory) 3 ranks.
Benefit: You can attempt a skill check to aid an ally within
30 feet with a skill in which you are trained. This takes 1
minute, and during that time, you need only speak and be
heard by your chosen ally to offer this aid. The bonus you
grant is +2, regardless of any other effects that would alter
your aid another bonus. This bonus applies to all checks the
ally attempts with that skill for 1 day and does not stack with
any other aid another bonus. Whether you succeed at or fail
the skill check to aid another, you can attempt to use this
ability only once per day for each ally.
Insightful Delivery
Your knowledge of where to strike makes your poisons
more deadly.
Prerequisites: Poison use class feature, studied strike +4d6.
Benefit: When you use a poisoned weapon to attempt an
attack in conjunction with studied strike, the DC to resist the
poison increases by half the number of your studied strike
dice.
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Insightful Gaze
In your personal interactions, you notice what others don't.
It's hard to get anything past you.
Prerequisites: Stern gaze class feature, Sense Motive 5
ranks.
Benefit: Whenever you make a Sense Motive check to
oppose someone's Bluff check, you can roll two dice and take
the higher result.
Inspired Alchemy
With some inspiration and elbow grease, you can recreate a
consumed extract in a pinch.
Prerequisites: Ability to create 2nd-level extracts, alchemy
class feature, inspiration class feature.
Benefit: You can recreate an extract that you consumed
during the past hour. You must spend 10 minutes and
expend a number of uses of inspiration equal to the level of
the extract's formula to do so. When you recreate an extract in
this way, it does not count toward the number of extracts you
can prepare in a day.
Inspired by Fear
When spreading fear to your enemies, you further
embolden your allies.
Prerequisite: Ability to perform dirge of doom.
Benefit: Allies in the area of your dirge of doom receive a
+4 morale bonus on saving throws against fear effects. At
least one enemy must be in the dirge's area and become
shaken by the dirge for you and your allies to receive this
bonus.
Inspired Strike
You are as talented with weapon-work as with skills.
Prerequisites: Inspiration and studied combat class
features.
Benefit: When you damage a creature by using the studied
combat class feature, you can expend one use of inspiration
to roll an inspiration die and increase the damage by the
number rolled.
Inspiring Mentor
Others listen to your words of encouragement and perform
acts above and beyond as a result.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, inspire competence bardic
performance.
Benefit: Inspire competence now affects all allies within 30
feet who can hear your performance, as long as they are
attempting the skill you’ve selected.
Normal: Inspire competence only affects one ally.
Instant Judgment
Your hastiest condemnations can have power.
Prerequisite: Second judgment class feature.
Benefit: You can spend an immediate action to pronounce a
judgment or change an active judgment.
Normal: Pronouncing or changing a judgment requires a
swift action.
Intimidating Bane
Your bane weapon strikes fear into your enemies.
Prerequisites: Bane class feature, Dazzling Display,
Weapon Focus, character level 8th.
Benefit: Whenever you use Dazzling Display while your
bane feature is active, you gain a +2 bonus on the Intimidate
check that Dazzling Display allows against creatures of the
type your bane weapon currently affects. Such creatures
remain shaken while your bane feature is still active and
effective against their creature type.
Intimidating Confidence
You have boundless faith in your success.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Fearless Curiosity, Intimidate 5
ranks, human.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on saving throws against
effects with the emotion descriptor; this bonus stacks with the
bonus granted by Fearless Curiosity. When you confirm a
critical hit, as a free action you can make an Intimidate check
to demoralize one creature you threaten. If you have the
Dazzling Display feat, you can make Intimidate checks to
demoralize all creatures you threaten instead. You gain a +2
bonus on this check if your weapon has a ×3 critical modifier,
or +4 if it has a ×4 critical modifier.
Intimidating Gaze
There is something in your eyes that scares people.
Prerequisites: Cha 13+, stern gaze class feature, Intimidate
5 ranks.
Benefit: Once per day, as a free action, when making an
Intimidate skill check, you can roll two dice and take the
higher result.
Intimidating Performance
Your performance strikes fear in the hearts of foes.
Prerequisites: Ability to start a performance or a raging
song as a move action, bardic performance or raging song
class feature.
Benefit: When you start a performance or a raging song as a
move action or a swift action, you can use a standard action
to demoralize a foe, attempting a Perform check appropriate
to your performance in place of the Intimidate check. Your
performance must have an audible component. This is a sonic
effect.
If you can start a performance as a swift action and you
have the Dazzling Display feat, you can gain the benefit of
Dazzling Display by succeeding at a Perform check in place
of an Intimidate check.
Intoxicating Flattery
You know how to compromise a target’s judgment with
lies.
Prerequisites: Deceitful, Bluff 5 ranks.
Benefit: You can f latter a creature in a protracted
interaction (taking at least 1 minute) to bestow in them an inf
lated sense of self worth that muddles their judgment. At the
end of the tirade of f lattery, attempt a Bluff check against a
DC equal to 10 + the creature’s HD + the creature’s Wisdom
modifier or equal to 10 + the creature’s Sense Motive
modifier, whichever is higher. If you succeed, the target takes
a –2 penalty on Will saving throws, Wisdombased skill
checks, and Wisdom ability checks for 1 hour plus an
additional hour for every 5 by which your result exceeds the
DC. The target can remove the effect early by taking 10
minutes to compose herself. If you fail this check, any
creature who witnesses the failure is immune to your flattery
from this feat for 24 hours. If you fail by 5 or more, the
target’s attitude toward you decreases by 1 step.
Iron Will
You are more resistant to mental effects.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Will saving throws.
Ironclad Logic
You appeal to sound reasoning and fact, rather than to
emotion, when attempting to sway others.
Prerequisites: Int 19, Diplomacy 3 ranks.
Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus on Diplomacy checks
whenever you add your Charisma modifier on those checks.
If you have at least 10 ranks in Diplomacy and an Intelligence
score of 27 or more, this bonus increases to +8. This bonus
doesn’t stack with the bonus from Skill Focus (Diplomacy),
but this feat counts as Skill Focus (Diplomacy) for the
purpose of feats and other elements with Skill Focus
(Diplomacy) as a prerequisite. In verbal duels, when using
tactics to which you assigned an Intelligence-based skill, you
can add your Intelligence modifier instead of your Charisma
modifier to the associated skill check.
Ironguts
You have an especially strong stomach.
Prerequisites: Con 13; dwarf, half-orc, or orc.
Benefit: You gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws
against any effect causing the nauseated or sickened
conditions and against all ingested poisons (but not other
poisons). In addition, you receive a +2 bonus on Survival skill
checks to find food for yourself (and only yourself).
Ironhide
Your skin is thicker and more resilient than that of most of
your people.
Prerequisites: Con 13; dwarf, half-orc, or orc.
Benefit: You gain a +1 natural armor bonus due to your
unusually tough hide.
Judgment Surge
Once per day, the power of your faith surges, further
empowering your judgments.
Prerequisites: Judgment class feature.
Benefit: Once per day, you can treat your class level for
your judgment class feature as if it were 3 higher than
normal. If you have multiple judgments active at the same
time, this benefit applies to all of them.
Keen Scent
Your nose is as sensitive as that of a wild predator.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, half-orc or orc.
Benefit: You gain the scent special ability.
Ki Stand
If an opponent knocks you down, you swiftly rebound with
an attack.
Prerequisite: Ki pool.
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 Benefit: While you have at least 1 ki point in your ki pool, Leadership
you can stand up as a swift action that provokes attacks of You attract followers to your cause and a companion to join
opportunity. you on your adventures.
You may spend 1 point of your ki pool to stand up as a Prerequisite: Character level 7th.
swift action without provoking attacks of opportunity.
Benefits: This feat enables you to attract a loyal cohort and
Knockout Artist a number of devoted subordinates who assist you. A cohort is
You can throw devastating knockout punches. generally an NPC with class levels, while followers are
typically lower level NPCs. See Table: Leadership for what
Prerequisites: Sneak attack class feature, Improved
level of cohort and how many followers you can recruit.
Unarmed Strike.
Leadership Modifiers: Several factors can affect your
Benefit: When you use your unarmed strike to deal
Leadership score, causing it to vary from the base score
nonlethal damage and sneak attack damage to an opponent
(character level + Cha modifier). Your reputation (from the
denied his Dexterity bonus to AC, you gain a +1 bonus on the
point of view of the cohort or follower you are trying to
damage roll per each sneak attack damage die you roll.
attract) raises or lowers your Leadership score:
Lay of the Land Leader's Reputation Modifier
Your affinity to nature grants you greater insight into Great renown +2
specific biomes. Fairness and generosity +1
Prerequisites: Animal focus class feature, wild empathy Special power +1
class feature. Failure –1
Aloofness –1
Benefit: You gain a favored terrain as the ranger ability of Cruelty –2
the same name, though the favored terrain bonuses you
receive do not increase with your level. This ability counts as
the favored terrain class feature for the purposes of Other modifiers may apply when you try to attract a cohort,
prerequisites and other effects. as listed below.

Special: You can select this feat up to four times. Each time The Leader... Modifier
you take it, you apply it to a different terrain. Unlike with the Has a familiar, special mount, or animal
ranger's favored terrain class feature, the bonuses you gain companion –2
for previously chosen terrain types don't increase. Recruits a cohort of a different alignment –1
Caused the death of a cohort –2*
* Cumulative per cohort killed.
Table: Leadership
Number of Followers by Followers have different priorities from cohorts. When you
Leadership Cohort Level try to attract a follower, use the following modifiers.
Score Level 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
1 or lower — — — — — — — The Leader... Modifier
2 1st — — — — — — Has a stronghold, base of operations, guildhouse,
3 2nd — — — — — — etc. +2
4 3rd — — — — — — Moves around a lot –1
5 3rd — — — — — — Caused the death of other followers –1
6 4th — — — — — —
7 5th — — — — — — Leadership Score: Your base Leadership score equals your level
8 5th — — — — — — plus your Charisma modifier. In order to take into account
9 6th — — — — — — negative Charisma modifiers, this table allows for very low
10 7th 5 — — — — — Leadership scores, but you must still be 7th level or higher in
11 7th 6 — — — — — order to gain the Leadership feat. Outside factors can affect
12 8th 8 — — — — — your Leadership score, as detailed above.
13 9th 10 1 — — — —
14 10th 15 1 — — — — Cohort Level: You can attract a cohort of up to this level.
15 10th 20 2 1 — — — Regardless of your Leadership score, you can only recruit a
16 11th 25 2 1 — — — cohort who is two or more levels lower than yourself. The
17 12th 30 3 1 1 — — cohort should be equipped with gear appropriate for its level
18 12th 35 3 1 1 — — (see Creating NPCs). A cohort can be of any race or class. The
19 13th 40 4 2 1 1 — cohort's alignment may not be opposed to your alignment on
20 14th 50 5 3 2 1 — either the law/chaos or good/evil axis, and you take a –1
21 15th 60 6 3 2 1 1 penalty to your Leadership score if you recruit a cohort of an
22 15th 75 7 4 2 2 1 alignment different from your own.
23 16th 90 9 5 3 2 1 A cohort does not count as a party member when
24 17th 110 11 6 3 2 1 determining the party's XP. Instead, divide the cohort's level
25 or higher 17th 135 13 7 4 2 2 by your level. Multiply this result by the total XP awarded to
you, then add that number of experience points to the
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 If a cohort gains enough XP to bring it to a level one lower
than your level, the cohort does not gain the new level—its
new XP total is 1 less than the amount needed to 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 usually 5 or more levels behind you, they're
rarely effective in combat.
Followers don't earn experience and thus don't gain levels.
When you gain a new level, consult Table: Leadership to
determine if you acquire more followers, some of whom may
be higher level than the existing followers. Don't consult the
table to see if your cohort gains levels, however, because
cohorts earn experience on their own.
Leaf Singer
Your songs recount the ways and mysteries of your people.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, bardic performance class feature, elf
or half-elf.
Benefit: When you use bardic performance with audible
components in a forest, the range or area of your chosen
performance is doubled. In addition, the DC for saving
throws against your bardic performance is increased by +2
for creatures of the fey type, regardless of where the
performance occurs.
Learn Ranger Trap
You learn how to create one kind of ranger trap.
Prerequisites: Survival 5 ranks.
Benefit: Select one ranger trap. You may use this trap a
number of times per day equal to your Wisdom bonus
(minimum 1). The DC for your trap is equal to 10 + 1/2 your
character's level + your Wisdom bonus, and it lasts 1 day per
two character levels.
If you are not a ranger, you can only set extraordinary traps
with this feat; like all extraordinary ranger traps, this
decreases the trap DC by 2.
Special: A ranger may use ranger traps a number of times
per day equal to 1/2 his ranger level plus his Wisdom bonus.
See the description of ranger traps for durations.
Ledge Walker
You negotiate tiny ledges like a mountain goat.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, dwarf, mountaineer or stability racial
trait.
Benefit: You can move at full speed while using Acrobatics
to balance on narrow surfaces, and you gain a +4 bonus on
Climb checks to catch yourself or another creature while
falling. You also gain a +4 bonus on saving throws against
effects that would cause you to fall prone (such as
earthquakes). This bonus does not apply to your CMD
against bull rush or trip attacks.
Legendary Influence
Each legend grants you more of its power in return for
greater influence.
Prerequisite: Lesser spirit powerOA class feature.
Benefit: Immediately select one feat (other than an item
creation feat) for each spirit you can channel. Whenever you
perform a seance to channel a spirit, you can allow the spirit
to gain 1 point of inf luence over you to gain access to that
spirit’s Legendary Inf luence feat for as long as you channel
that spirit. You can use this bonus feat as a prerequisite for
any feats granted by a spirit power (such as the champion’s
legendary champion ability), but not for any other feats.
Life's Blood
Your blood flows with eternal life, and its healing powers
allow you use your blood to heal others.
Prerequisite: Samsaran.
Benefit: At will as a full-round action, you may perform a
special bloodletting ritual through which you sacrifice some
of your own vitality to heal another creature. When using this
feat, you take 1d4 points of damage and apply your blood to
the wounds of a living creature, healing it for a number of hit
points equal to the amount of damage you took from the
ritual. This is a supernatural ability. Only you can perform
this bloodletting. A creature cannot be healed by this ability
more than once per day.
Life Lure
Your channeled positive energy is irresistibly sweet to
nearby undead.
Prerequisite: Channel positive energy class feature.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can channel positive
energy to fascinate all undead within 30 feet for a number of
rounds equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1).
Undead that succeed at a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 your cleric
level + your Charisma modifier) are unaffected. Channeling
energy for this purpose does not heal or harm creatures.
Lifeless Gaze
Your cold visage and eyes devoid of sentiment cause fear in
those making contact with your gaze.
Prerequisites: Iron Will, Bluff 5 ranks.
Benefit: Your haunting gaze grants horrifying insights to
the darker places of your inner psyche. You gain a +2 insight
bonus on Will saving throws against emotionUM effects and
a +2 insight bonus on Bluff checks. Additionally, if a
humanoid creature attempts to read your mind using an
ability like detect thoughts, it is shaken for 2d4 rounds
regardless of whether the mind-reading attempt succeeds. If
a humanoid fails a Diplomacy check against you by 5 or
more, it becomes shaken for 2d4 rounds by your emotionless
gaze.
Light Step
You pick your way nimbly through even the most
dangerous and uneven terrain.
Prerequisites: Acrobatic Steps, Nimble Moves, elf.
Benefit: You can ignore the effects of difficult terrain in
natural environments, as if it were normal terrain.
Lightning Reflexes
You have faster reflexes than normal.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Reflex saving throws.
Lingering Invisibility
You remain briefly translucent after losing invisibility.
Prerequisite: Duergar.
Benefit: When your invisibility ends, you gain concealment
for 1 round per minute of duration the invisibility effect had
remaining (minimum 1 round). This only occurs if the
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invisibility is from your racial spell-like ability or a spell you
cast. Effects that negate invisibility negate this concealment.
Lingering Performance
The effects of your bardic performance carry on, even after
you have stopped performing.
Prerequisite: Bardic performance class feature.
Benefit: The bonuses and penalties from your bardic
performance continue for 2 rounds after you cease
performing. Any other requirement, such as range or specific
conditions, must still be met for the effect to continue. If you
begin a new bardic performance during this time, the effects
of the previous performance immediately cease.
Long-Nose Form
You can shift into the form of a human with an unusually
long nose.
Prerequisites: Character level 3rd, tengu.
Benefit: Once per day, you can assume the form of a human
whose nose is the length of your beak. This spell-like ability
functions as alter self with a caster level equal to your level.
While in this form you gain the scent ability and a +2 bonus
to your Strength score. Because your long nose in this form
clearly indicates you are not fully human, you do not gain the
normal bonus to Disguise checks for using a polymorph
effect (however, you could possibly explain the nose as an
unfortunate curse or deformity, or hide it with an item such
as a plague doctor's mask).
Lucky Halfling
You bring luck to those with whom you travel.
Prerequisite: Halfling.
Benefit: Once per day, when one of your allies within 30
feet makes a saving throw, you may roll the same saving
throw as if you were the one subject to the effect requiring it.
You may use this ability after your ally has rolled, but before
the GM declares if the roll was a success or failure. Your ally
may choose to use your saving throw in place of his own.
Lucky Healer
Your luck allows you to draw from magical healing far
more efficiently than most.
Prerequisites: Adaptive luck racial trait, halfling.
Benefit: When a magical healing effect (such as a spell with
"cure" in the title or channel energy) cures you, you can
spend one use of your adaptable luck racial trait to reroll the
amount of damage cured. You regain a number of hit points
equal to the new roll or the original roll, whichever is greater.
Other creatures healed by the effect do not gain this benefit.
Lunging Spell Touch
You can extend your spells' reach to affect foes that would
normally be too far away.
Prerequisite: Spellcraft 6 ranks.
Benefit: As a free action, you can increase the reach of your
spells' melee touch attacks by 5 feet until the end of your turn
by taking a –2 penalty to your AC until the start of your next
turn. You must decide to use this ability before you make any
attacks on your turn.
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Mage of the Wild
Your mystic connection with the wilderness enhances your
spellcasting.
Prerequisites: Attuned to the Wild, elf.
Benefit: When you are in a terrain type you have selected
the Attuned to the Wild feat for, you gain a +2 bonus on
caster level checks, concentration checks, and, Knowledge
(arcana) and Spellcraft checks. If you are in an area that
qualifies as more than one kind of terrain, these bonuses do
not stack; you receive the bonus for only one of the terrain
types.
Magical Aptitude
You are skilled at spellcasting and using magic items.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Spellcraft checks and Use
Magic Device checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of
these skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Magical Tail
You grow an extra tail that represents your growing
magical powers.
Prerequisite: Kitsune.
Benefit: You gain a new spell-like ability, each usable twice
per day, from the following list, in order: disguise self, charm
person, misdirection, invisibility, suggestion, displacement,
confusion, dominate person. For example, the first time you
select this feat, you gain disguise self 2/day; the second time
you select this feat, you gain charm person 2/day. Your caster
level for these spells is equal to your Hit Dice. The DCs for
these abilities are Charisma-based.
Special: You may select this feat up to eight times. Each
time you take it, you gain an additional ability as described
above.
Major Spell Expertise
You can cast a single low-level spell as a spell-like ability.
Prerequisites: Minor Spell Expertise, ability to cast 9th-level
spells.
Benefit: Choose one spell that you know of 5th level or
lower. You may cast that spell twice per day as a spell-like
ability. The caster level for this spell-like ability is equal to
your caster level in the class from whose spell list the spell is
taken. The spell-like ability's save DC is Charisma-based. If
the spell has an expensive focus or material component, it
may not be chosen for this feat. You cannot apply metamagic
feats to this spell.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new
spell.
Manifested Blood
You can use the power of your bloodline to surround
yourself in its element.
Prerequisites: Cha 13; draconic or elemental bloodline.
Benefit: Once per day, you can surround yourself with the
element associated with your bloodline. For a number of
rounds equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1), you
gain resistance 5 to that energy type, and all creatures that
attempt a natural weapon attack or an unarmed strike against
you take 2 points of damage of that same energy type. If you
already have resistance to that energy type, the resistance
increases by 5.
 Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you gain an additional daily use of this feat.
Manipulative Agility
You can use your agility to manipulate people as well as
small objects.
Prerequisites: Bluff 1 rank, Sleight of Hand 1 rank.
Benefit: You can use Sleight of Hand in place of Bluff for
checks to feint in combat, as well as for checks to pass secret
messages without being noticed (by using gestures and body
language). In both cases, the effects become visual and don’t
work if the target or recipient is blind or cannot see you. In
the case of secret messages, the limitations of hand gestures
and body language might impact what sorts of messages you
can pass, at the GM’s discretion.
Master Alchemist
Your mastery of alchemy is nearly supernatural.
Prerequisite: Craft (alchemy) 5 ranks.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on Craft (alchemy) checks,
and you may create mundane alchemical items much more
quickly than normal. When making poisons, you can create a
number of doses equal to your Intelligence modifier
(minimum 1) at one time. These additional doses do not
increase the time required, but they do increase the raw
material cost.
In addition, whenever you make alchemical items or
poisons using Craft (alchemy), use the item's gp value as its
sp value when determining your progress (do not multiply
the item's gp cost by 10 to determine its sp cost).
Master Craftsman
Your superior crafting skills allow you to create simple
magic items.
Prerequisites: 5 ranks in any Craft or Profession skill.
Benefit: Choose one Craft or Profession skill in which you
possess at least 5 ranks. You receive a +2 bonus on your
chosen Craft or Profession skill. Ranks in your chosen skill
count as your caster level for the purposes of qualifying for
the Craft Magic Arms and Armor and Craft Wondrous Item
feats. You can create magic items using these feats,
substituting your ranks in the chosen skill for your total
caster level. You must use the chosen skill for the check to
create the item. The DC to create the item still increases for
any necessary spell requirements (see the magic item creation
rules in Magic Items). You cannot use this feat to create any
spell-trigger or spell-activation item.
Normal: Only spellcasters can qualify for the Craft Magic
Arms and Armor and Craft Wondrous Item feats.
Maximized Spellstrike
You deal brutal damage against opponents caught
unawares.
Prerequisites: Maximized magic magus arcana, weapon
expertise class feature or Quick Draw.
Benefit: When you make a melee attack and successfully
use your spellstrike ability against an opponent denied his
Dexterity bonus to AC, you can spend 3 points from your
arcane pool to maximize the spell delivered through your
spellstrike as if using the Maximize Spell metamagic feat.
Menacing Bane
You are deadly when you team up with allies against a
single foe.
Prerequisite: Bane class feature.
Benefit: You can use your bane class feature to imbue a
melee weapon with the menacing special weapon ability
instead of bane. You can spend a swift action to switch
between the two special weapon abilities. Doing so otherwise
works according to your bane class feature.
Special: If you have the Double Bane feat, you can imbue
each weapon you wield with either bane or menacing. No
single weapon can have both.
Merciful Bane
You can use your bane ability to inflict nonlethal damage.
Prerequisite: Bane class feature.
Benefit: While a weapon you wield is under the effect of
your bane class feature, you can spend a swift action to
switch between dealing lethal or nonlethal damage with
bane. While your bane effect allows you to deal nonlethal
damage in this way, you take no penalty on your attack roll
for using a lethal weapon to deal nonlethal damage.
Normal: When using a lethal weapon to deal nonlethal
damage, you take a –4 penalty on attack rolls.
Metallic Wings
Your wing feathers are made of gleaming metal.
Prerequisites: Angelic Blood, Angelic Flesh, Angel Wings,
aasimar, character level 11th.
Benefit: You gain two wing attacks. These are secondary
natural attacks that deal 1d4 points of slashing damage (or
1d3 if you are Small).
Minor Spell Expertise
You are able to cast a 1st-level spell as a spell-like ability.
Prerequisite: Ability to cast 4th-level spells.
Benefit: Choose one 1st-level spell that you know. You may
cast that spell twice per day as a spell-like ability. The caster
level for this spell-like ability is equal to your caster level in
the class from whose spell list the spell is taken. The spell-like
ability's save DC is Charisma-based. If the spell has an
expensive focus or material component, it may not be chosen
for this feat. You cannot apply metamagic feats to this spell.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new
spell.
Moonlight Summons
Your summoned minions are infused with the power of the
moon.
Prerequisites: Spell Focus (conjuration), able to cast summon
nature's ally.
Benefit: Creatures you summon shed light as a light spell.
They are immune to confusion and sleep effects, and their
natural weapons are treated as silver for the purposes of
overcoming damage reduction.
Mother's Gift
You inherit a special boon from your hag parent.
Prerequisite: Changeling.
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 Benefit: Your dark legacy manifests in one of the following
ways. You choose the manifestation when you choose the
feat, and once selected it cannot be changed.
Hag Claws (Ex): You gain a +1 bonus on attack and damage
rolls with your claws.
Surprisingly Tough (Ex): Your natural armor bonus increases
by +1.
Uncanny Resistance (Su): You gain spell resistance equal to 6
+ your character level.
Special: You can gain this feat up to three times. Its effects
do not stack. Each time you take the feat, you must select a
different manifestation.
Multitalented Mastery
You are adept at numerous disciplines.
Prerequisites: Character level 5th, half-elf, multitalented
racial trait.
Benefit: All of your classes are considered favored classes.
You gain either +1 hit point or +1 skill point whenever you
take a level in any class. Apply these bonuses retroactively
for all class levels that have not yet gained one of these
bonuses.
Normal: Half-elves with the multitalented racial trait have
two favored classes.
Murmurs of Earth
The earth opens up her secrets to your perceptions.
Prerequisites: Echoes of Stone, character level 9th, oread.
Benefit: You gain a limited form of tremorsense. As a move
action, you become aware of all creatures within 15 feet that
are in contact with the ground at that moment.
Mutilating Ritualist
You add a personal sacrifice to heighten the power of your
ritual magic.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (arcana) 4 ranks, Knowledge
(religion) 4 ranks, Spellcraft 4 ranks.
Benefit: Once during the casting of an occult ritual, you can
inflict 1d6 hit points of damage per 2 Hit Dice and 1d4
Constitution damage (or Charisma damage if you’re undead)
to yourself as an immediate action with a piercing or slashing
weapon. You can’t reduce or ignore this damage in any way.
This damage doesn’t disrupt the ritual, and you can roll twice
for the next skill check made as part of a ritual casting and
take the better result. If the resulting ritual effect has the fear
descriptor or is in the phantasm subschool, increase its saving
throw DC by 1. Multiple characters with this feat can each
use it once per ritual on their skill checks, but the DC
increases don’t stack.
Mystic Stride
Enchanted vegetation does not bar your path.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Nimble Moves, woodland stride class
feature.
Benefit: You can move at full speed even through thorns,
briars, and overgrown areas that are enchanted or magically
manipulated to impede motion, even if those areas confer the
entangled condition.
Normal: Woodland stride does not apply to thorns, briars,
and overgrowth areas that are enchanted or magically
manipulated.
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Natural Charmer
You possess some of the dominating powers of your
vampire progenitor.
Prerequisites: Cha 17, dhampir.
Benefit: You can take 20 on any Charisma-based skills to
charm, convince, persuade, or seduce humanoids whose
attitude is at least friendly to you. Taking 20 still requires 20
times the normal time to perform the skill.
Normal: You cannot take 20 on any check where you incur
penalties for failure.
Natural Spell
You can cast spells even while in a form that cannot
normally cast spells.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, wild shape class feature.
Benefit: You can complete the verbal and somatic
components of spells while using 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 using wild shape.
Nature Magic
You are able to use simple spells by drawing on nature's
raw majesty.
Prerequisite: Knowledge (nature) 1 rank.
Benefit: You gain know direction as a constant spell-like
ability, and can choose another druid orison you can cast as a
spell-like ability once per day. Your caster level for both of
these spell-like abilities is equal to your character level.
Neither Elf nor Human
You have removed yourself from your heritage so
thoroughly that even magic does not recognize you.
Prerequisites: Exile's Path, Seen and Unseen, character level
11th, half-elf.
Benefit: You are not considered elven or human for the
purpose of harmful spells or effects based on your type, like a
bane weapon or a ranger's favored enemy class feature.
Nerve-Racking Negotiator
You’ve mastered the art of intimidation to get what you
want without suffering unwanted repercussions.
Prerequisite: Persuasive.
Benefit: When you successfully use the Intimidate skill to
force an opponent to act friendly toward you, the target must
attempt a Will save once the intimidation wears off. The DC
is equal to 10 + your number of ranks in Intimidate. If the
target fails this save, after the intimidation period expires, the
target counts as having the same attitude toward you as it
initially did (usually indifferent) and will not report you to
the authorities for intimidating it.
Normal: The target of a successful Intimidate check is
unfriendly to you and potentially reports you to the
authorities after the duration ends.
Nimble Moves
You can move across a single obstacle with ease.
Prerequisites: Dex 13.
Benefit: Whenever you move, you may move through 5 feet
of difficult terrain each round as if it were normal terrain.
This feat allows you to take a 5-foot step into difficult terrain.
Noble Spell Resistance
Your ascension is complete; you have the spell resistance
approaching that of a demon.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Wis 13, Greater Drow Nobility,
character level 13th, drow.
Benefit: Your spell resistance is equal to 11 + your character
level.
Special: You receive a +1 circumstance bonus on Diplomacy
and Intimidate checks made against any drow.
Omnipresent Mentor
You’re able to impart your guidance to a single ally,
regardless of location.
Prerequisites: Cha 17, Inspiring Mentor, inspire competence
bardic performance.
Benefit: By expending 4 rounds of your bardic performance
at the start of the day, you can instill one ally with your
inspiring words. Select one skill in which you possess ranks.
Your ally gains the benefits of your inspire competence
bardic performance, regardless of distance, until the next
time you replenish rounds of bardic performance. This
doesn’t count as an active performance, so the effects don’t
end if you start another performance. Only one ally can be
affected by this ability at a time; if you use this ability again
before the duration expires, the ally currently affected loses
the bonuses from this feat.
Oracular Intuition
You are highly sensitive to magic and changes in a person's
demeanor.
Prerequisite: Mystery class feature.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on Sense Motive checks and
Spellcraft checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these
skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Orator
You're able to construct statements and commands that are
much more convincing than their content would otherwise
suggest.
Prerequisite: Skill Focus (Linguistics).
Benefit: You can use a Linguistics check in place of a Bluff
check to tell a falsehood or conceal information, in place of a
Diplomacy check to change the attitude of a creature, or in
place of an Intimidate check to force a creature to cooperate.
You must deliver your attempt in a language the target
understands.
Oread Burrower
The ground parts for you at the slightest touch, allowing
you to dig with great speed.
Prerequisites: Stony Step, character level 9th, oread.
Benefit: You gain a burrow speed equal to 1/2 your base
speed. You can burrow through sand, dirt, clay, gravel, or
similar materials, but not solid stone. You do not leave a hole
behind, nor is your passage marked on the surface.
Oread Earth Glider
The earth welcomes you, showing you the secret paths
through sand and soil.
Prerequisites: Oread Burrower, Stony Step, character level
13th, oread.
Benefit: You gain the earth glide universal monster ability
and can use it to travel at your full base speed through sand,
dirt, clay, gravel, or similar materials. If protected against fire
damage, you can even burrow through lava. You can burrow
through solid stone at 1/2 your base speed.
Painful Anchor
Evil outsiders take damage when they attempt to connect to
other planes.
Prerequisite: Anchoring aura class feature.
Benefit: When an evil outsider uses a calling, summoning,
or teleportation effect, or any ability that physically
transports a creature to or from another plane (such as blink
or etherealness) within your anchoring aura, it takes damage
equal to 4d8 + your Charisma modifier. This damage comes
from holy power and is not subject to damage reduction,
energy immunities, or energy resistances.
Parry Spell
You can throw an enemy spell back at its caster.
Prerequisites: Spellcraft 15 ranks, Improved Counterspell.
Benefit: Whenever you successfully counter a spell, it
returns back to its caster. This works exactly like the spell
turning spell.
Pass For Human
You're easily mistaken for a human rather than a member of
your own race.
Prerequisite: Half-elf, half-orc, or halfling (see Special).
Benefit: You receive a +10 bonus on Disguise checks to
disguise yourself as a human, and do not receive the penalty
for disguising yourself as a member of another race when
you do so. In areas largely populated or settled by humans,
you can take 10 on your Disguise check, meaning most
people tend to assume you are human unless given a reason
to think otherwise.
Special: A halfling may take this feat, but must have the
Childlike feat as a prerequisite. The benefits of the two feats
stack.
Persuasive
You are skilled at swaying attitudes and intimidating others
into your way of thinking.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on Diplomacy and Intimidate
skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these
skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Persuasive Bribery
You know how to get the most out of bribes.
Prerequisite: Persuasive.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Diplomacy checks when
attempting to bribe someone and on Diplomacy or Charisma
checks to bargain with a conjured creature (such as with
planar ally or planar binding), in addition to any bonus granted
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by the bribe itself. The first time someone refuses a bribe you
offer, that person’s attitude toward you doesn’t worsen, even
if the offer would normally offend the person.
Planar Preservationist
You know how to preserve and reconstitute extraplanar
monsters as well as normal animals.
Prerequisite: Preservationist alchemist archetype.
Benefit: For every summon nature's ally extract you know,
you learn the equivalent summon monster spell as an extract. If
you later learn other summon nature's ally extracts, you
automatically learn the equivalent summon monster spell as
an extract.
Planar Wanderer
Your knowledge of the planes and teleportation allows you
to travel with more precision.
Prerequisites: Cartogramancer, Knowledge (geography) 10
ranks, Knowledge (planes) 10 ranks, ability to cast greater
teleport and plane shift.
Benefit: When researching a plane to which you intend to
plane shift, you can attempt a DC 25 Knowledge (planes)
check as you cast the spell. If you succeed at the check, you’re
able to more precisely target your planar transport, allowing
you to arrive 5d20 miles away from your intended
destination instead of 5d% miles away. If you exceed the DC
by 10 or more, you arrive 5d10 miles away instead, and if you
exceed the DC by 20 or more, you arrive 5d6 miles away.
Planar Wild Shape
You can infuse your wild shape with planar strength.
Prerequisites: Wild shape class feature, Knowledge (planes)
5 ranks.
Benefit: When you use wild shape to take the form of an
animal, you can expend an additional daily use of your wild
shape class feature to add the celestial template or fiendish
template to your animal form. (Good druids must use the
celestial template, while evil druids must use the fiendish
template.) If your form has the celestial template and you
score a critical threat against an evil creature while using
your form's natural weapons, you gain a +2 bonus on the
attack roll to confirm the critical hit. The same bonus applies
if your form has the fiendish template and you score a critical
threat against a good creature.
Play to the Crowd
You can glean the interests of others and use that
information to strengthen your rhetoric.
Prerequisites: Int 19, Ironclad Logic, Diplomacy 5 ranks,
Sense Motive 5 ranks.
Benefit: When you use Diplomacy to change the attitude of
a character, you can first attempt a Sense Motive check
against that NPC to get a hunch to determine whether the
character is under the inf luence of an enchantment, to use
Sense Assumptions, or to determine biases for a verbal duel.
If you succeed at the Sense Motive check, you gain a +2
bonus on the Diplomacy check, and if you learned any biases
for a verbal duel, you learn one additional bias of your
choice. You do not worsen an NPC’s attitude if you fail a
Diplomacy check by 5 or more.
Powerful Shape
Your wild shapes are mighty and muscular.
Prerequisites: Wild shape class feature, druid level 8th.
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Benefit: When in wild shape, treat your size as one category
larger for the purpose of calculating CMB, CMD, carrying
capacity, and any size-based special attacks you use or that
are used against you (such as grab, swallow whole, and
trample).
Practiced Tactician
With only a few quick gestures and commands, you can
direct others in combat.
Prerequisite: Tactician class feature.
Benefit: You can use your tactician ability to grant allies a
teamwork feat one additional time per day.
Special: You can gain Practiced Tactician multiple times. Its
effects stack.
Preferred Spell
You find it very easy to cast one particular spell.
Prerequisites: Spellcraft 5 ranks, Heighten Spell.
Benefit: Choose one spell which you have the ability to cast.
You can cast that spell spontaneously by sacrificing a
prepared spell or spell slot of equal or higher level. You can
apply any metamagic feats you possess to this spell when
you cast it. This increases the minimum level of the prepared
spell or spell slot you must sacrifice in order to cast it but
does not affect the casting time.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a different
spell.
Prodigy
You are naturally skilled at arts, professions, and the
acquisition of knowledge.
Benefit: Choose two Craft, Perform, or Profession skills in
any combination (two Craft skills, a Craft skill and a Perform
skill, and so on). You receive a +2 bonus on checks with these
skills. If you have 10 or more ranks in any one of these skills,
the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to two new
skills.
Profane Studies
Your study of fiends grants you advantages when
summoning or fighting them.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Knowledge (planes) 4 ranks, ability to
cast a summon monster spell.
Benefit: You gain a +5 bonus on Knowledge (planes) checks
involving evil outsiders. Additionally, when you cast a
summon monster spell to summon an evil outsider, treat your
caster level as 2 levels higher for the purpose of determining
the duration.
Prophetic Visionary
Your oracular abilities give you a glimpse into the future.
Prerequisite: Mystery class feature.
Benefit: Once per day, you can enter a deep trance to
receive a vision of the future. The trance lasts for 10 minutes,
during which time you can take no other actions. If you are
interrupted, you must begin again. When you come out of the
trance, you know whether a particular action in the
immediate future will bring good or bad results, as an augury
spell with a 70% chance of success.
Pure Faith
Not only are you immune to disease, like most paladins, but
you also are highly resilient to poisons.
Prerequisite: Divine health class feature.
Benefit: You gain a +4 sacred bonus to saving throws
against poison.
Purging Emesis
You learn to purge toxins by vomiting.
Prerequisite: Great Fortitude.
Benefit: As a full-round action that provokes attacks of
opportunity, you can attempt to end an ingested poison effect
by making yourself vomit. If you succeed at a new saving
throw against the initial effect, you gain the nauseated
condition for 1 round but end the poison effect as if you had
succeeded at the requisite saving throws. Your vomiting
causes one adjacent square to become slippery until your
vomit is cleaned (usually taking 1 full round) or dries up
(usually 1 hour). Once you use this feat, you must wait at
least 1 hour and consume food or drink before you can use it
again.
Putrid Summons
You summon creatures whose very presence turns the
stomach of your foes.
Prerequisites: Spell Focus (conjuration); ability to cast
summon monster or summon nature’s ally.
Benefit: When you cast a summon monster or summon
nature’s ally spell, you can choose to summon a single
creature that exudes a putrid odor or befouls the water
surrounding it, granting it the stench universal monster
ability. The duration of the sickened condition created by this
stench is a number of rounds equal to the spell’s level. When
performing a putrid summon, you summon a creature from
the next lower list than the spell you are casting. For instance,
if you cast summon monster IV, you summon a creature from
the summon monster III list.
Quick Channel
Your divine energies flash with dazzling speed.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (religion) 5 ranks, channel energy
class feature.
Benefit: You may channel energy as a move action by
spending 2 daily uses of that ability.
Quick Favor
You can quickly take advantage of your charm.
Prerequisite: Persuasive.
Benefit: Once per day, you can decrease the time required
for a Diplomacy check to gather information to 4d10 minutes
when you use Diplomacy to gather information again just
after you previously gathered information there (whether or
not the previous attempt was successful).
Normal: You must spend 1d4 hours to gather information
using Diplomacy.
Quick Wild Shape
You sacrifice power for speed in changing form.
Prerequisites: Wild shape class feature, caster level 8th.
Benefit: You can wild shape as a move action or a swift
action. However, you are limited to forms available to a
druid two levels lower when changing form as a move action,
or four levels lower as a swift action.
Quicken Blessing
You can deliver one of your blessings with greater speed
than most.
Prerequisites: Access to a blessing's major power, blessings
class feature.
Benefit: When you take this feat, choose one of your
blessings that normally requires a standard action to use. You
can expend two of your daily uses of blessings to deliver that
blessing (regardless of whether it's a minor or a major effect)
as a swift action instead.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you choose a different blessing.
Racial Heritage
The blood of a non-human ancestor flows in your veins.
Prerequisite: Human.
Benefit: Choose another humanoid race. You count as both
human and that race for any effects related to race. For
example, if you choose dwarf, you are considered both a
human and a dwarf for the purpose of taking traits, feats,
how spells and magic items affect you, and so on.
Radiant Charge
When you charge, you do so with the power of faith.
Prerequisite: Lay on hands class feature.
Benefit: When you hit with a charge attack, you can expend
all of your remaining uses of lay on hands to deal extra
damage equal to 1d6 per use of lay on hands expended +
your Charisma bonus. This damage comes from holy power
and is not subject to damage reduction, energy immunities,
or energy resistances.
Rage Casting
Your blood is raw and potent power, and you can burn it to
empower your spells.
Prerequisites: Blood casting class feature.
Benefit: When you cast a bloodrager spell, as a swift action
you can sacrifice some of your life force to augment the
spell's potency. You can opt to take up to 1d6 points of
damage per spell level of the spell you are casting, choosing
the number of dice before rolling. You cannot overcome this
damage in any way, and it cannot be taken from temporary
hit points. For each of these damage dice you roll, the DC of
the spell you are casting increases by 1.
Raging Absorption
You can absorb hostile spell energy to refuel your continued
bloodrage.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast 2nd-level bloodrager spells,
bloodrage class feature.
Benefit: While you are bloodraging, if you successfully save
against a damaging arcane spell that either targets you or
includes you in its area, and you take no damage from that
spell, you can absorb a portion of its arcane energy to
replenish your bloodrage. You regain 1 round of bloodrage
for every 2 levels of the spell you successfully saved against.
You cannot use this feat to regain more rounds of bloodrage
each day than your daily maximum number of rounds, nor
can you ever exceed your maximum number of rounds.
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Raging Blood
Your blood boils with latent energy, filling you with an
intense fury.
Prerequisite: Eldritch Heritage or sorcerer bloodline class
feature.
Benefit: You gain the 1st-level bloodrager bloodline power
for your bloodline. In addition, you gain the ability to enter a
state similar to (but less powerful than) a bloodrager's
bloodrage. You can enter this lesser bloodrage twice per day,
for up to 4 rounds. During this lesser bloodrage, you gain a
+2 morale bonus to Strength and Constitution, and no morale
bonus on Will saving throws. Otherwise, this benefit is the
same as the bloodrage class feature.
If you have more than one bloodline, you choose the
bloodline this feat applies to when you take the feat.
Raging Brutality
You expend some of your rage to strike your opponents
with a more powerful weapon blow.
Prerequisites: Str 13, rage class feature, Power Attack, base
attack bonus +12.
Benefit: While raging and using Power Attack, you can
spend 3 additional rounds of your rage as a swift action to
add your Constitution bonus on damage rolls for melee
attacks or thrown weapon attacks you make on your turn. If
you are using the weapon two-handed, instead add 1-1/2
times your Constitution bonus. This bonus damage is not
multiplied on a critical hit.
Raging Concentration
When you are in the heat of rage, not even pain can break
your concentration.
Prerequisite: Blood casting class feature.
Benefit: While in a bloodrage, you gain a bonus on
concentration checks equal to the morale bonus granted to
your Constitution by the bloodrage.
Raging Deathblow
Every killing blow gives you a surge of vitality, further
fueling your rage.
Prerequisite: Greater rage class feature.
Benefit: While raging, whenever your attack reduces an
opponent of a CR greater than or equal to your character
level to –1 or fewer hit points, you gain 1 extra round of rage
for that day. If that attack was a critical hit, you gain 1
additional extra round of rage for that day. Whenever you
rest to renew your total number of rounds of rage per day,
any extra rounds you still have from this feat are lost.
Raging Hurler
An opponent can do little to evade your wrathful pitching
of weapons and objects.
Prerequisites: Rage class feature, Throw Anything.
Benefit: While raging, you can throw a two-handed
weapon as a standard action, and you double the range
increment for weapons you throw. If you also have the Quick
Draw feat, you can throw two-handed weapons at your full
normal rate of attacks. Further, you can pick up an
unattended object that you can use as a improvised weapon
within your reach as part of the attack action to throw that
item.
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Raging Throw
You expend some of your rage to throw one opponent at
another.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Con 13, rage class feature, Improved
Bull Rush, Power Attack, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: While raging, when you attempt a bull rush
combat maneuver, you can spend 1 additional round of your
rage as a swift action to add your Constitution bonus on your
combat maneuver check to the bull rush. Further, if you bull
rush an opponent into a square another creature occupies or
into a solid object, the opponent and the creature or object
take bludgeoning damage equal to your Strength modifier +
your Constitution modifier.
Raging Vitality
While raging, you are full of vigor and health.
Prerequisites: Con 15, rage class feature.
Benefit: Whenever you are raging, the morale bonus to
your Constitution increases by +2. Your rage does not end if
you become unconscious. While unconscious you must still
expend rounds of rage per day each round.
Ranged Disable
You can disable devices with ranged weapons.
Prerequisites: Far Shot, Point-Blank Shot, Weapon Focus,
Disable Device 9 ranks.
Benefit: As a full-round action, you can attempt a Disable
Device check with a ranged weapon you have chosen with
Weapon Focus. You can use this ability against only a simple
device (one that would normally take a full-round action to
disable), and you can’t use it if the device has any cover or
concealment. This use of the ranged weapon deals no damage
to the device, but it allows you to attempt a Disable Device
check instead. You treat the ranged attack as if you were
using tools inappropriate for the job, taking a –4 penalty on
your Disable Device check. You also apply any range penalty
for the weapon to the Disable Device check, but you do not
gain any bonuses that would normally apply on attack rolls
on the Disable Device check.
Ranged Study
You can use a limited form of studied combat and studied
strike with a weapon of your choice.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon,
studied combat class feature.
Benefit: When you take this feat, choose one kind of ranged
weapon. You gain the bonuses for studied combat with your
chosen weapon and can use studied strike with your chosen
weapon as long as the target of your studied strike is within
30 feet of you.
Normal: You gain the bonuses for studied combat and can
use studied strike only with melee weapons.
Razortusk
Your powerful jaws and steely teeth are deadly enough to
give you a bite attack.
Prerequisite: Half-orc.
Benefit: You can make a bite attack for 1d4 points of
damage, plus your Strength modifier. You're considered
proficient in this attack and can apply feats or effects
appropriate to natural attacks to it. If used as part of a full
attack action, the bite is considered a secondary attack and is
made at your full base attack bonus –5, and adds half your
Strength modifier to damage.
Reactive Healing
You can channel healing energy in response to an attack
that would knock you unconscious.
Prerequisites: Quick Channel or Quicken Spell; channel
energy or lay on hands class feature.
Benefit: When the damage from an attack or an effect
would reduce you to 0 or fewer hit points, you can expend
one use of channel energy (of a form that would heal you) or
lay on hands as an immediate action to heal yourself. The
healing affects only you, even if it would normally affect
others.
Read Spell Traces
You can identify spells by the lingering traces they leave.
Benefit: When using identify or any spell of a higher level
that normally allows you to detect the school and aura
strength of an active spell, if you exceed the DC by 10 or
more, you also learn the exact spell. If the spell you are using
would already allow you to learn the exact spell from its
aura, you can attempt to identify the spell from the traces in a
lingering aura, though you take a –10 penalty on such an
attempt. When using greater detect magic to attempt to identify
unique magical signatures, you receive a +2 bonus on your
Knowledge (arcana) checks. In addition, you gain a +2 bonus
on saving throws against magic aura and other spells and
effects that conceal a spell’s true aura unless you succeed at a
saving throw.
Realistic Likeness
When you are in human form, you can take the shape of a
specific individual.
Prerequisite: Kitsune.
Benefit: You can precisely mimic the physical features of
any individual you have encountered. When you use your
racial change shape ability, you can attempt to take the form
of an individual, granting you a +10 circumstance bonus on
Disguise checks made to fool others with your
impersonation.
Reckless Rage
Your boundless rage grants your blows extra strength,
though at the expense of accuracy.
Prerequisites: Power Attack; rage or raging song class
feature.
Benefit: When you use Power Attack while raging or while
using raging song, you take an additional –1 penalty on
melee attack rolls and combat maneuver checks, and you
gain an additional +2 bonus on melee damage rolls. Modify
this damage bonus appropriately based on the type of
weapon you are using, as normal for Power Attack.
Recovered Rage
You regain rounds of rage or raging song performance
when you drop a foe.
Prerequisite: Rage or raging song class feature.
Benefit: Whenever you reduce a foe to 0 or fewer hit points
while you are raging or using raging song, you regain 1
round of rage or raging song (your choice if you have both
abilities), as long as the number of Hit Dice that foe possesses
is equal to or greater than 1/2 your character level. You
cannot use this feat to regain more rounds of rage or raging
song each day than your daily maximum number of rounds ,
nor can you ever exceed your maximum number of rounds.
Remote Bomb
You can set off your delayed bombs at great distances.
Prerequisite: Delayed bomb discovery.
Benefit: The maximum delay for your delayed bombs
increases to a number of minutes equal to your level.
If you have line of effect to your delayed bomb, you may
detonate it earlier than its preset time by making a DC 20
Intelligence check; the DC increases by +1 for every 10 feet of
distance between you and the bomb.
Resilient Armor
When you enhance your armor or shield, you gain a
measure of damage reduction.
Prerequisite: Divine bond (armor or shield) or sacred armor
class feature.
Benefit: While your armor or shield is under the effect of
your divine bond or your sacred armor ability, you gain an
amount of damage reduction equal to your armor's
enhancement bonus (including the bonus from your divine
bond or sacred armor) against the first attack to strike you in
each round. An adamantine weapon overcomes this damage
reduction, but any attack against you made with such a
weapon does not count against this effect's duration.
Resilient Brute
You absorb punishment others find deadly.
Prerequisite: Half-orc or orc.
Benefit: Once per day, when a creature confirms a critical
hit against you, you may treat half the damage as nonlethal
damage. You cannot use this ability if you are immune to
nonlethal damage. When your base attack bonus reaches +10,
you may use this ability an additional time per day.
Resilient Eidolon
Your link with your eidolon is strong enough that it can
remain with you for a short time after you fall unconscious or
are killed.
Prerequisite: Eidolon class feature.
Benefit: If you are knocked unconscious, fall asleep, or are
killed, your eidolon remains for a number of rounds equal to
your summoner level before it is banished. If you are brought
back to consciousness before this duration expires, your
eidolon is not banished. If the duration expires before you are
brought back to consciousness, your eidolon is banished
normally.
Normal: An eidolon is immediately banished when its
summoner is unconscious, asleep, or killed.
Resolute Rager
Fear passes quickly while you are raging.
Prerequisites: Orc, rage class feature.
Benefit: While raging, when under the effect of a fear effect
that allows a saving throw, you can make a new saving
throw against that fear effect at the start of each of your turns
before acting. If you make the new save, the fear effect ends.
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Reward of Grace
When you lay on hands, divine energy ripples through you,
granting you grace.
Prerequisite: Lay on hands class feature.
Benefit: Each time you use your lay on hands ability, you
gain a +1 sacred bonus on all attack rolls for 1 round.
Reward of Life
When you lay on hands, you are also healed.
Prerequisite: Lay on hands class feature.
Benefit: Each time you use your lay on hands ability to heal
a creature other than yourself, you heal a number of hit
points equal to your Charisma bonus. This ability has no
effect if you use lay on hands to harm undead.
Rhetorical Flourish
You rapidly change topics and employ confusing rhetoric to
distract people from your true intent.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Persuasive.
Benefit: When using the Diplomacy skill to make a request
or change a creature's attitude, you can use verbal
misdirection. To do so, make a Bluff check against that
creature. If you succeed, you gain a +4 bonus on your next
Diplomacy check against that creature if the check is made
within the next minute. If you fail by 5 or more, you instead
take a –2 penalty on your next Diplomacy check against that
creature.
Alternatively, you can use this feat to retry a single failed
Diplomacy check against a creature. You take a –4 penalty on
your Bluff check when using Rhetorical Flourish in this way.
If you succeed, rather than gaining this feat's normal bonus,
you can retry your last Diplomacy check against the creature
if that check was made in the past minute.
Ricochet Splash Weapon
Even when your thrown splash weapons miss, they are
especially dangerous.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Throw Anything.
Benefit: Whenever your splash weapon misses and the
misdirection roll indicates it lands in a square occupied by a
creature, you may make an attack roll (at a –5 penalty) as if
you had thrown the splash weapon at that creature. If this
attack roll succeeds, the splash weapon hits and the creature
takes full damage instead of splash damage. Squares adjacent
to this creature still take splash damage as normal.
Normal: A thrown splash weapon that misses deals splash
damage in the square where it lands and in adjacent squares.
Righteous Healing
Your healing spells are more potent when you have a
judgment active.
Prerequisite: Judgment class feature.
Benefit: If you cast a cure spell while you have a judgment
active, each target regains 1 extra hit point from the cure spell
+ 1 hit point per three inquisitor levels you possess.
Run
You are swift of foot.
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
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wearing heavy armor or carrying a heavy load). If you make
a jump after a running start (see the Acrobatics skill
description), you gain a +4 bonus on your Acrobatics check.
While running, you retain your Dexterity bonus to your
Armor Class.
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.
Sabotage Magic Item
You can cause magic items to suffer mishaps.
Prerequisites: Magical Aptitude, Disable Device 5 ranks,
Use Magic Device 5 ranks.
Benefit: You can attempt a Use Magic Device check to
sabotage a magic item rather than to activate it, with the same
DC as activating it blindly. If you succeed at the check, you
define a condition under which the magic item will suffer a
mishap, either dealing 2d6 points of damage to the creature
attempting to use the magic item and failing to perform its
desired function or else affecting the wrong target. The
condition must be either an audible or a visual trigger, as
defined by the magic mouth spell. If you fail the check, you
suffer a mishap instead, just as if you had failed to activate
the item blindly by 10 or more.
Sabotage Specialist
You have an amazing knack for sabotaging devices.
Prerequisites: Deft Hands, Disable Device 5 ranks.
Benefit: When you use the Disable Device skill to rig simple
or tricky devices (such as a saddle or wagon wheel) to work
normally for a while and then fail or fall off some time later,
you can designate the time the device will fail, up to 60
minutes after you successfully sabotaged it. The device fails
1d6–3 rounds after the designated time (a result of –1 or –2
means it fails 1 round or 2 rounds before the designated
time).
Normal: You can use the Disable Device skill to rig simple
devices such as saddles or wagon wheels to work normally
for a while and then fail or fall off some time later (usually
after 1d4 rounds or minutes of use).
Sacred Summons
The minions of your divine patrons stand ready to answer
your call.
Prerequisites: Aura class feature, ability to cast summon
monster.
Benefit: When using summon monster to summon creatures
whose alignment subtype or subtypes exactly match your
aura, you may cast the spell as a standard action instead of
with a casting time of 1 round.
Sacrificial Adept
The deaths of living, sentient creatures fuel your spells and
heighten their potency.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (arcana) 4 ranks, Knowledge
(planes) 4 ranks, Knowledge (religion) 4 ranks, Spellcraft 4
ranks, ability to cast 3rd-level spells, evil alignment.
Benefit: By partaking in a heinous ritual that takes at least
10 minutes to complete and which requires you to perform a
successful coup de grace upon a sacrifice, you can enhance
the power of a single spell you know or have prepared for the
next 24 hours, regardless of how many times you cast it
within that period. Your sacrifice must be a sentient creature
with a total number of Hit Dice greater than or equal to your
caster level, and it must die from your coup de grace; if it
doesn’t die or comes back to life, you lose all benefits related
to that sacrifice.
After successfully performing the ritual, you choose the
spell that the ritual enhances and gain your choice of a +2
bonus to any attack rolls and combat maneuvers made with
that spell or a +2 bonus on caster level checks to overcome
spell resistance with that spell for 24 hours.
You can perform this ritual a number of times per day equal
to your Charisma modifier, but you cannot affect the same
spell more than once at a time.
Sacrificial Ritualist
Your magical power used to originate in yourself, but now
you draw it from others.
Prerequisites: Mutilating Ritualist, Knowledge (arcana) 4
ranks, Knowledge (religion) 4 ranks, Spellcraft 4 ranks.
Benefit: You can improve your ability to cast an occult
ritual by powering it with the blood of creatures. When you
begin the occult ritual with the death of a sentient creature (or
number of sentient creatures with a total number of Hit Dice
equal to twice the effective level of the ritual), you and all
secondary casters gain a +4 bonus on all skill checks
necessary to complete the occult ritual. This feat’s sacrifices
are in addition to any sacrifices normally required to
complete the ritual.
Scavenger's Eye
Your gaze is naturally drawn to valuable glittering objects.
Prerequisite: Tengu.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Appraise checks. You may
determine the most valuable item in a hoard as a standard
action and gain an additional +2 bonus on the Appraise check
to do so. In addition, if you fail an Appraise check by 5 or
more, you treat the check as if you had failed by less than 5.
Normal: Determining the most valuable object in a treasure
hoard takes 1 full-round action.
Sea Legs
You have a sailor's instincts for moving about while aboard
seagoing vessels.
Prerequisite: Profession (sailor) 5 ranks.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Acrobatics, Climb, and
Swim checks.
Seen and Unseen
Your anonymity makes you difficult to find through
magical or mundane means, and you have learned how to
combat both of your progenitor races.
Prerequisites: Exile's Path, character level 5th, half-elf.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on all saving throws against
scrying or divination effects. Additionally, you gain a +2
bonus on all Stealth checks, and elves, half-elves, and humans
take a –4 penalty on all efforts to track you through the
Survival skill.
Selective Channeling
You can choose whom to affect when you channel energy.
Prerequisite: Cha 13, channel energy class feature.
Benefit: When you channel energy, you can choose a
number of targets in the area up to your Charisma modifier.
These targets are not affected by your channeled energy.
Normal: All targets in a 30-foot burst are affected when you
channel energy. You can only choose whether or not you are
affected.
Self-Sufficient
You know how to get along in the wild and how to
effectively treat wounds.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Heal checks and Survival
checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the
bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Sense Assumptions
You can easily intuit an opponent’s preconceptions.
Prerequisite: Sense Motive 3 ranks.
Benefit: You can attempt a Sense Motive check to intuit
some of another person’s assumptions after 1 minute of
conversation. The DC equals 20, or 10 + the target’s Bluff
modifier, whichever is higher. If you succeed, you learn
whether or not a falsehood of your choice related to the topic
of conversation would impose a penalty on Bluff checks to
convince the target of that falsehood’s truth. If you fail by 4 or
less, you learn nothing. If you fail by 5 or more, the target
realizes you are trying to glean information from it. You can
retry this check, but the DC increases by 5 for each previous
failure on this check against that target.
Sense Link
When you and your eidolon share senses, your combined
minds grant you exceptional powers of observation.
Prerequisite: Bond senses class feature.
Benefit: When sharing the senses of your eidolon, you gain
a +4 competence bonus on Perception checks for the duration
of your bond senses ability.
Sense Relationships
You can quickly sense relationships between others and use
that knowledge to manipulate them.
Prerequisite: Street Smarts.
Benefit: After 1 minute or more of interaction or
observation, you can attempt a DC 20 Sense Motive check to
get a hunch in order to intuit the relationship between any
two creatures interacting with one another. If you don’t
understand the language they are speaking, you take a –5
penalty on the check, and if the creatures are a different type
than you, you take an additional –5 penalty on the check.
If you succeed at this check by 5 or more, for the next hour,
you gain a +2 bonus on Bluff checks to lie about one of the
creatures to the other and on Diplomacy checks to request
that one act against the other. If you fail the check, you
cannot attempt this ability on the same creatures again until
you gain an additional rank in Sense Motive.
Shadow Caster
Your command over shadow and darkness create longer-
lasting spell effects.
Prerequisites: Caster level 1st, drow.
Benefit: When you cast spells of the shadow subschool or
spells with the darkness or shadow descriptor, you are
considered two levels higher when determining the duration
of those spells.
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Shadow Ghost
You can move between the Shadow Plane and the Material
Plane more often.
Prerequisites: Fetchling, shadow walk spell-like ability.
Benefit: You gain the ability to use shadow walk an
additional time each day.
Special: You may select this feat multiple times. Its effects
stack.
Shadow Walker
You can pierce the veil between the Shadow Plane and the
Material Plane more often, and to greater effect.
Prerequisites: Fetchling, shadow walk spell-like ability.
Benefit: You can expend one use of your shadow walk
spell-like ability to use dimension door as a spell-like ability.
Your start and end locations for this ability must be in dim
light or darkness.
Shadowy Dash
In dim light, you resemble little more than a shadow.
Prerequisite: Wayang.
Benefit: Whenever you are in an area of dim light or
darkness, you can move at full speed using Stealth without
taking the normal –5 penalty for doing so.
Normal: When moving at more than half your speed and
up to your normal speed, you take a –5 penalty on Stealth
checks.
Shapeshifter Foil
Your command of shapeshifting magic can disrupt similar
effects in others.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (arcana) 5 ranks or Knowledge
(nature) 5 ranks, ability to use any polymorph effect.
Benefit: A creature you deal damage to has difficulty using
or maintaining polymorph effects until the end your next
turn. To use a polymorph effect it must make a concentration
check (DC 15 + twice the level of the effect). If you deal
damage to an opponent under a polymorph effect, that
opponent must succeed at a Will saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2
your character level + your Wisdom modifier) or be forced
back to its original form. If you score a critical hit against
such an opponent, no saving throw is allowed.
Shapeshifting Hunter
You blend your knowledge of foes and your shapeshifting
abilities together.
Prerequisites: Favored enemy class feature, wild shape
class feature.
Benefit: Your levels of druid stack with your ranger levels
for determining when you select your next favored enemy.
Also, your ranger levels stack with your druid levels in
determining the number of times per day you can use your
wild shape class feature, up to a maximum of eight times per
day.
Shaping Focus
Your powers of shapeshifting outstrip your dabbling in the
druidic faith.
Prerequisites: Wild shape class feature, Knowledge (nature)
5 ranks.
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Benefit: If you are a multiclassed druid, your wild shape
ability is calculated as though your druid level were four
higher, to a maximum level equal to your character level.
Special: This feat has no effect if you are not a multiclassed
druid.
Shared Insight
You deftly direct others' attentions where you wish.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, half-elf.
Benefit: As a move action, you can grant all friendly
creatures within 30 feet who can see or hear you a +2 bonus
on Perception checks for a number of rounds equal to your
Wisdom modifier (minimum 1 round).
Shared Judgment
You extend the benefits of your judgment to an ally.
Prerequisite: Second judgment class feature.
Benefit: You can pronounce a single judgment and extend
its effects to one adjacent ally instead of pronouncing a
second judgment. Similarly, once you have the third
judgment class feature, you can pronounce a single judgment
and extend its effects to two adjacent allies instead of
pronouncing a second and third judgment. Alternatively,
once you have the third judgment class feature, you can
pronounce two judgments and extend the effects of one
judgment to one adjacent ally instead of pronouncing a third
judgment. Once an ally has gained the effects of your
judgment, he need not remain adjacent to you to continue
gaining that benefit. You can spend a free action to end this
benefit for one or both allies. If your judgment bonus is
suspended for you, it is suspended for all allies, but when it
resumes, it does so for all allies.
Shared Manipulation
You can subtly bolster allies' ability to misdirect and
infuriate their enemies.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, half-elf.
Benefit: As a move action, you can grant all friendly
creatures within 30 feet who can see or hear you a +2 bonus
on Bluff or Intimidate checks (choose which skill to affect
each time you use this ability) for a number of rounds equal
to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1 round).
Sharp Senses
Your senses are especially sharp, even for your kind.
Prerequisite: Keen senses racial trait.
Benefit: You receive a +4 racial bonus on Perception skill
checks. This replaces the normal bonus from the keen senses
racial trait.
Normal: The keen senses trait normally grants a +2 racial
bonus on Perception skill checks.
Sin Seer
Unlike others who have taken the oath against undeath,
your preoccupation with the undead does not cloud your
view of good and evil.
Prerequisite: Detect undead paladin class feature.
Benefit: You gain the detect evil class feature. You may use it
or the detect undead class feature, but not at the same time.
Skald's Vigor
Your song and your enthusiasm combine to invigorate you
in battle.
Prerequisites: Raging song class feature.
Benefit: While you maintain a raging song, you gain fast
healing equal to the Strength bonus your song provides,
starting in the round after you begin the song. If you stop
maintaining your song, the fast healing ends, even if the
effects of your song persist.
Skeleton Summoner
The walking dead respond to your call.
Prerequisites: Spell Focus (necromancy), ability to cast
summon monster.
Benefit: Add "human skeleton" to the list of creatures you
can summon with summon monster I and "human skeletal
champion" to the list of creatures you can summon with
summon monster III.
Once per day, when you cast summon monster, you may
summon a skeletal version of one of the creatures on that
spell's summoning list (apply the skeleton template to that
creature to create this monster).
Skill Focus
Choose a skill. You are particularly adept at that skill.
Benefit: You get a +3 bonus on all checks involving the
chosen skill. If you have 10 or more ranks in that skill, this
bonus increases to +6.
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.
Skilled Driver
Choose a type a type of vehicle (either air, land, or water).
You are more skilled when driving that vehicle.
Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus on driving checks with your
chosen vehicle.
Skilled Rager
With practice, you've mastered your rage to allow yourself
more versatility.
Prerequisite: Rage class feature.
Benefit: When you take this feat, choose one Charisma-,
Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skill. While you're raging,
you can use this skill.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, it applies to a different skill.
Slayer's Knack
You know how to battle your favored enemies with such
efficacy that any weapon you wield against them becomes
more deadly.
Prerequisites: Favored enemy class feature, base attack
bonus +6.
Benefit: When you take this feat, choose one of your
favored enemy types. Against enemies of that type, the threat
range of any weapon you wield is doubled. This effect does
not stack with any other effect that expands a weapon's threat
range.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you take it, you choose a different favored enemy type.
Sleep Venom
You can change the nature of your toxic spittle to put your
enemies to sleep.
Prerequisite: Vishkanya.
Benefit: As a swift action, you may alter the effects of your
venom so the target falls unconscious. This changes the initial
and secondary effect of your venom to the following: initial
effect staggered for 1d4 rounds; secondary effect
unconsciousness for 1 minute. You must make the decision to
alter your venom before you apply it to a weapon.
Normal: Vishkanya venom deals Dexterity damage.
Slow Faller
You can reduce the amount of falling damage you take
when you are close to a wall.
Prerequisite: Acrobatics 5 ranks or slow fall class feature.
Benefit: When you are within arm's reach of a wall, you can
slow your descent, as long as you are not in heavy armor.
You take damage as if the fall were 10 feet shorter than it
actually is. This ability stacks with the slow fall class feature.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you take damage as if the fall were an additional 10
feet shorter.
Smell Fear
You can catch the sour scent of fear on the wind.
Prerequisites: Keen Scent, half-orc or orc.
Benefit: You receive a +4 bonus on Perception checks to
detect creatures with the shaken, frightened, or panicked
conditions using scent. You can substitute your Perception
skill for Sense Motive skill checks if the subject has one of the
previous conditions or is attempting to cover up their fear in
some way.
Sneaking Precision
Your knowledge of your enemies' vulnerable spots is
especially punishing.
Prerequisites: Sneak attack +6d6, Critical Focus, any critical
feat, base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: Whenever you successfully sneak attack an
opponent for a second time on your turn, you can spend a
swift action to apply the effects of one critical feat you know
to that opponent.
Sociable
You have a way of helping others to get along.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, half-elf.
Benefit: As a move action, you grant all friendly creatures
within 30 feet who can see or hear you (including yourself) a
+2 bonus on Diplomacy checks for a number of rounds equal
to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1 round).
Sorcerous Bloodstrike
You can regain power when you kill a creature.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, sorcerer bloodline class feature.
Benefit: Once per day, as an immediate action upon
reducing a creature to 0 or fewer hit points with one of your
sorcerer spells, you can regain one usage of a sorcerer
bloodline power that has a limited number of uses per day.
The slain creature must have at least half as many Hit Dice as
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your sorcerer level. You cannot use this feat to gain another
usage of a bloodline power that you have not yet used today.
Spell Bane
While your bane weapon is active, creatures that your bane
affects find it more difficult to resist your spells.
Prerequisite: Bane class feature.
Benefit: While your bane class feature is affecting a creature
type, the saving throw's DCs for your spells increase by +2
for creatures of that type.
Spell Bluff
You know the principles of arcane dueling, and when
fighting other spellcasters, you have learned to hide the true
nature of your spells until the last possible moment.
Prerequisites: Bluff 5 ranks, Spellcraft 5 ranks.
Benefit: If another spellcaster tries to counterspell your
casting, she adds +4 to her Spellcraft DC when trying to
determine your spell.
Because you have studied how to mask the recognizable
elements of your spellcasting, you gain a +2 bonus on your
Spellcraft checks to identify and counter an opponent's spell
if it is a spell you know or have in your spellbook.
Spell Focus
Choose a school of magic. Any spells you cast of that school
are more difficult to resist.
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.
Spell Hex
You can transform a 1st-level spell into a hex.
Prerequisite: Major hex class feature.
Benefit: Select one 1st-level spell in the class that grants you
the major hex class feature. You can learn that spell as a hex,
and can use that hex three times per day. This is a spell-like
ability. You use your class level in the major-hex-granting
class as your caster level for the spell hex. The spell hex uses
your hex DC instead of its original spell DC.
If the spell is a touch spell and you miss the creature, you
cannot target the creature with that spell hex again for 24
hours. If the spell allows a saving throw to negate or take a
partial effect from the spell, and the target succeeds at that
saving throw, it cannot be affected by the spell hex for 24
hours, even if it is in the area of the spell hex.
Spell Mastery
You have mastered a small handful of spells, and can
prepare these spells without referencing your spellbooks at
all.
Prerequisite: 1st-level wizard
Benefit: Each time you take this feat, choose a number of
spells that you already know equal to your Intelligence
modifier. 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.
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Spell Penetration
Your spells break through spell resistance more easily than
most.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on caster level checks (1d20 +
caster level) made to overcome a creature's spell resistance.
Spell Perfection
You are unequaled at the casting of one particular spell.
Prerequisites: Spellcraft 15 ranks, at least three metamagic
feats.
Benefit: Pick one spell which you have the ability to cast.
Whenever you cast that spell you may apply any one
metamagic feat you have to that spell without affecting its
level or casting time, as long as the total modified level of the
spell does not use a spell slot above 9th level. In addition, if
you have other feats which allow you to apply a set
numerical bonus to any aspect of this spell (such as Spell
Focus, Spell Penetration, Weapon Focus [ray], and so on),
double the bonus granted by that feat when applied to this
spell.
Spell Specialization
Select one spell. You cast that spell with greater than normal
power.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Spell Focus.
Benefit: Select one spell of a school for which you have
taken the Spell Focus feat. Treat your caster level as being
two higher for all level-variable effects of the spell.
Every time you gain an even level in the spellcasting class
you chose your spell from, you can choose a new spell to
replace the spell selected with this feat, and that spell
becomes your specialized spell.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do
not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a different
spell.
Spellsong
You can blend the power of your performance and
spellcasting.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, bardic performance class ability, able
to cast 1st-level spells.
Benefit: You can combine your bardic performance and
your spellcasting in two ways.
First, you can conceal the activity of casting a bard spell by
masking it in a performance. As a swift action, you may
combine your casting time of a spell with a Perform check.
Observers must make a Perception or Sense Motive check
opposed by your Perform check to realize you are also
casting a spell. This uses 1 round of your bardic performance
ability, regardless of the spell's casting time.
Second, as a move action, you can use 1 round of bardic
performance to maintain a bard spell with a duration of
concentration. You can cast another spell in the same round
you are using bardic magic to maintain concentration; if you
do this, your concentration on the maintained spell ends
when you end the bardic performance the spell is part of.
Spider Climber
You tread where only arachnids dare.
Prerequisites: Character level 3rd, drow.
 Benefit: You can cast spider climb once per day as a spell-like
ability, using your character level as the caster level.
Furthermore, you gain a +4 bonus on saving throws against
the web special attacks of spiders and the effects of web and
other similar spells (such as the web cloud spell).
Spider Step
Your physical mastery grants you an impossible stride.
Prerequisites: Acrobatics 6 ranks, Climb 6 ranks, monk
level 6th.
Benefit: As a move action, you can move up to half your
slow fall distance (maximum 50 feet) across a wall or ceiling
or across ropes, branches, or even water or other surfaces that
cannot support your weight. You must reach a solid, level
surface by the end of your turn or you will fall.
Spider Summoner
You gain the ability to summon powerful spiders.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast summon monster or summon
nature's ally spells, drow.
Benefit: When casting either a summon monster spell or a
summon nature's ally spell, your options increase. Depending
on the level of the spell, you can summon the spiders listed
below.
Summon Monster: 1st level—giant crab spider*; 4th level—
giant black widow*; 5th level—ogre spider*; 7th level—giant
tarantula*
Summon Nature's Ally: 1st level—giant crab spider; 4th
level—giant black widow; 5th level—ogre spider; 7th level—
giant tarantula
Creatures marked with an asterisk (*) are summoned with
the celestial template if you are good, and the fiendish
template if you are evil. If you are neutral, you may choose
which template to apply to the creature.
Furthermore, when you summon spiders using summon
monster or summon nature's ally, the DC of the summoned
monster's poison and web effects increases by 2.
Spirit of the Wild
Your mystic connection with one type of wilderness has
grown even stronger.
Prerequisites: Attuned to the Wild, Guardian of the Wild,
elf.
Benefit: When you are in a terrain type you have selected
the Attuned to the Wild feat for, you gain a +4 bonus on
Perception checks made to act in the surprise round of
combat. If you act in the surprise round, you gain blindsense
out to a range of 30 feet during the surprise round. If you are
in an area that qualifies as more than one kind of terrain,
these bonuses do not stack; you receive the bonus for only
one terrain type.
Spirit Speaker
By absorbing spirits, you can learn how to set them free.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Con 13, Absorb Spirit, Diplomacy 5
ranks, must have died at least once or been possessed by an
undead creature.
Benefit: When you absorb a spirit with the Absorb Spirit
feat, you can converse with it through an internal dialogue in
your mind. While conversing with the spirit, you can attempt
Diplomacy checks to change its attitude toward you, as a
normal use of that skill. If you are a medium with the haunt
channelerOA class feature, you gain a +4 bonus on these
Diplomacy checks. Once the spirit’s attitude is indifferent or
better, you can request to know what must be done to lay the
spirit to rest, though the DC to do so is the DC to change its
current attitude + 15. This takes into account the
circumstance modifiers for the request in a typical situation,
though it could be higher or lower in an unusual
circumstance.
The spirit’s starting attitude is usually hostile since you
destroyed it and imprisoned it within you, interfering with its
rejuvenation. If it’s the spirit of an undead creature, it has the
same Charisma bonus it had while fully manifested. If the
spirit is that of a haunt, it has an effective Charisma based on
its CR using the following table.
Haunt CR Effective Charisma (Modifier)
1–4 12 (+1)
5–8 16 (+3)
9–12 20 (+5)
13–16 24 (+7)
17–20 28 (+9)
21+ 32 (+11)
Conversing with a spirit in this manner unsettles the mind.
Each time you attempt a Diplomacy check using this ability
to influence the spirit’s attitude or make a request, you take 1
point of Wisdom damage. No effect can prevent or reduce the
ability damage, nor can the ability damage be healed or
suppressed by any means until you release the spirit.
Special: If you are using the sanity system, when you
attempt a Diplomacy check using this ability, you take 1d6
points of sanity damage instead of 1 point of Wisdom
damage. No effect can prevent or reduce the damage, nor can
the damage be healed or suppressed by any means until you
release the spirit.
Spirit Talker
By forging a temporary bond with a spirit, you gain access
to an unfamiliar hex.
Prerequisites: Hex class feature; shaman level 6th or witch
level 6th.
Benefit: Once per day, you can spend 10 minutes
communing with a shaman spirit of your choice. When you
do, you gain the temporary use of one hex from its list of
hexes. This hex is added to your list of available hexes for the
next hour, after which you immediately lose all benefits of
that hex.
Spirit's Gift
You commune with a spirit of your choice, and it grants
your animal companion or familiar a boon.
Prerequisite: Ability to acquire an animal companion or a
familiar.
Benefit: At the start of each day, you can commune with a
single shaman spirit. (Although a shaman would need an
hour of preparation, this action takes you no time.) Once
during the next 24 hours, you can spend a standard action to
grant your animal companion or familiar that shaman spirit's
spirit animal ability for 1 minute per level in the class that
grants your animal companion or familiar.
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Spiritual Guardian
Your spiritual guardians are unusually powerful.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast spiritual weapon or spiritual ally,
spirit magic class feature.
Benefit: Whenever you cast spiritual weapon, spiritual ally, or
a similar spell that grants you a spiritual guardian, that
guardian uses your shaman level instead of your base attack
bonus to determine its base attack bonus, potentially granting
it multiple attacks. Additionally, it gains a +2 bonus on caster
level checks to overcome spell resistance as well as on
damage rolls.
Splintering Weapon
Your fragile weapon works to your advantage, breaking off
fragments in wounds you inflict.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, proficient with
weapon, weapon made of primitive material.
Benefit: Whenever you use a melee or thrown weapon with
the fragile weapon feature or similar quality and hit an
opponent, you can give your weapon the broken condition to
deal that opponent 1d4 points of bleed damage.
Split Hex
You can split the effect of one of your targeted hexes,
affecting another creature you can see.
Prerequisite: Witch level 10th.
Benefit: When you use one of your hexes (not a major hex
or a grand hex) that targets a single creature, you can choose
another creature within 30 feet of the first target to also be
targeted by the hex.
Split Major Hex
You can split the effect of one of your targeted hexes,
affecting another creature you can see.
Prerequisites: Split hex, caster level 18th.
Benefit: When you use one of your major hexes (not a
grand hex) that targets a creature, you can choose another
creature within 30 feet of the first target to also be targeted by
the major hex.
Spontaneous Metafocus
You can focus to combine one of your known spells and
metamagic feats.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, one metamagic feat, able to
spontaneously cast spells.
Benefit: Pick a single spell that you are able to cast
spontaneously. When you apply metamagic feats to that
spell, you can cast the spell using the normal casting time
instead of at the slower casting time.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you select this feat, choose a new spell that you can cast
spontaneously; the feat applies to that spell.
Spontaneous Nature's Ally
Instead of casting a cure spell, you can instead cast summon
nature's ally.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (nature) 5 ranks, ability to
spontaneously cast cure spells or inflict spells, Animal or
Plant domain.
Benefit: You can "lose" a prepared spell in order to cast any
summon nature's ally spell of the same level or lower, instead
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of casting a cure spell or an inflict spell as you normally
would. For the purpose of this feat only, the summon nature's
ally spells of the appropriate spell levels count as being on
your spell list at the same spell level as for a druid.
Stalker's Focus
Your affinity to the natural world allows you to adopt the
focus of a particular animal.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (nature) 3 ranks, Survival 3
ranks, no levels in a class that has the animal focus class
feature.
Benefit: When you take this feat, choose one type of animal
to emulate from those given in the hunter's animal focus class
feature. Once per day, you or your animal companion (if you
have one) can gain the benefit of that animal focus for 1
minute. Treat your character level as your hunter level for the
purpose of determining the benefits granted by your chosen
animal focus.
Special: If you gain levels in a class that has the animal
focus class feature, when you gain that feature you gain 1
additional minute of use each day of your animal focus class
feature.
Stalwart
You adopt a defensive stance that allows you to absorb and
redirect hits.
Prerequisites: Diehard, Endurance, base attack bonus +4.
Benefit: While using the total defense action, fighting
defensively action, or Combat Expertise, you can forgo the
dodge bonus to AC you would normally gain to instead gain
an equivalent amount of DR, to a maximum of DR 5/—, until
the start of your next turn. This damage reduction stacks with
DR you gain from class features, such as the barbarian's, but
not with DR from any other source. If you are denied your
Dexterity bonus to AC, you are also denied this DR.
Starlight Summons
Your summoned minions slink along under the shadows of
the stars.
Prerequisites: Spell Focus (conjuration), able to cast summon
nature's ally.
Benefit: Creatures you summon gain the Blind-Fight feat, a
+5 bonus to Perception and Stealth checks in dim light or
darkness, and their natural weapons are treated as cold iron
for overcoming damage reduction.
Steadfast Personality
You rely on your sense of self to keep your mind clear.
Benefit: Add your Charisma modifier instead of your
Wisdom bonus to Will saves. If you have a Wisdom penalty,
you must apply both your Wisdom penalty and your
Charisma modifier.
Stealthy
You are good at avoiding unwanted attention and slipping
out of bonds.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on all Escape Artist and Stealth
skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these
skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill.
Steam Caster
You imbue your fire spells with elemental water,
transforming them into powerful gouts of steam.
Prerequisite: Undine.
Benefit: You may increase the casting time of a fire spell to
a full-round action, infusing it with elemental power (spells
with a casting time of 1 full-round action or longer do not
have an increased casting time). The spell is treated as if it
had the water descriptor. All fire effects of the altered spell
instead manifest as superheated steam. The altered spell
works normally underwater without requiring a caster level
check. Unlike fire, the steam cannot ignite objects or set
creatures on fire. As the spell still deals fire damage, fire
resistance or immunity still applies to the spell's effects.
Steel Soul
You are especially resistant to magic.
Prerequisites: Dwarf, hardy racial trait.
Benefit: You receive a +4 racial bonus on saving throws
against spells and spell-like abilities. This replaces the normal
bonus from the dwarf's hardy racial trait.
Normal: Dwarves normally receive a +2 racial bonus on
saving throws against spells and spell-like abilities.
Stoic Pose
You can hold yourself as still as a statue, evading detection.
Prerequisite: Svirfneblin.
Benefit: By spending 5 rounds finding a suitable location,
you can hold yourself so still that you appear to be a Small
object such as a pile of rocks. This allows you to make a
Stealth check without cover or concealment, as long as you
do not move or take any other actions.
Stone-Faced
Rocks show more expression than you.
Prerequisite: Dwarf.
Benefit: You receive a +4 bonus on Bluff checks to lie or
conceal your feelings or true motives, but not to feint in
combat or deliver secret messages. In addition, the DC for
Sense Motive checks to get a hunch about you is 25 rather
than 20.
Stone Sense
You can feel movement in the very earth and stones around
you.
Prerequisites: Improved Stonecunning, Perception 10
ranks.
Benefit: You gain tremorsense to a range of 10 feet.
Stone Singer
Your songs are in accordance with the ways and lands of
your people.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, bardic performance class feature,
dwarf.
Benefit: When you use bardic performance with audible
components underground, the range or area of your chosen
performance is doubled, and you can affect deaf creatures if
they possess tremorsense and are in your new range. In
addition, the DC for saving throws against your bardic
performance is increased by +2 for creatures of the earth
subtype, regardless of where the performance occurs.
Stony Step
The earth recognizes its kinship with you and does not
impede your movement.
Prerequisite: Oread.
Benefit: Whenever you move, you may move through 5 feet
of earth- or stone-based difficult terrain (rubble, stone stairs,
and so on) each round as if it were normal terrain. The effects
of this feat stack with similar feats such as Acrobatic Steps
and Nimble Moves. This feat allows you to take a 5-foot step
into this kind of difficult terrain.
Stouthearted
You fight back your fear by voicing the song in your heart.
Prerequisite: Raging song class feature.
Benefit: While you're maintaining a raging song, if you fail
a saving throw against a fear effect, you can expend a round
of performing to reroll your saving throw as an immediate
action. You must keep this second result, even if it's lower.
Street Smarts
You are able to navigate the streets and personalities of
whatever locale you run across.
Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on Knowledge (local) and
Sense Motive checks, and Knowledge (local) is always a class
skill for you. If you have 10 or more ranks in one of these
skills, the bonus increases to +4 for that skill. The bonus on
Sense Motive checks doesn’t stack with Alertness.
Stretched Wings
You strengthen your crippled wings.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Skill Focus (Fly), strix, wing-clipped
racial trait.
Benefit: Your strix racial fly speed increases to 60 feet
(average). You ignore the wing-clipped trait's Fly check
requirement to fly upward.
Strong Comeback
You learn quickly from past mistakes.
Benefit: Whenever you are allowed to reroll an ability
check, a skill check, or a saving throw, you gain a +2
circumstance bonus on the reroll.
Stubborn Curse
Your curses are particularly tenacious.
Prerequisite: Ability to cast a spell or spell-like ability with
the curseUM descriptor, or a special ability with a curse
effect.
Benefit: Any curse effect you create is difficult to remove.
When a creature makes a caster level check to remove the
curse, it must roll twice and take the worse result.
Studied Combatant
Your inspiration guides your strikes when you take a
moment to assess your foe.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Amateur Investigator, base attack
bonus +6, 1 rank in at least one Knowledge skill, no levels in
a class that has the inspiration class feature.
Benefit: You can expend one use of inspiration as a move
action to study a single enemy that you can see. When you do
so, you gain a +2 insight bonus on melee attack rolls and a +2
bonus on damage rolls for a number of rounds equal to your
Intelligence modifier. The bonus on damage rolls is precision
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damage, and is not multiplied on a critical hit. Once affected
by this feat, a target cannot be affect by your use of it again
for 24 hours.
Subtle Enchantments
Your enchantments inf luence targets in more subtle ways
and are harder to notice.
Prerequisites: Deceitful, Spell Focus (enchantment).
Benefit: When you cast an enchantment spell or use an
enchantment spell-like ability to inf luence a creature’s
attitude or actions and the foe negates the spell with a
successful Will save, she has a 50% chance not to notice that
she just succeeded at a saving throw (she still can attempt to
identify your spell or spell-like ability as normal). If the foe
fails the saving throw or is otherwise affected by the spell, the
Sense Motive DC to notice she is under the effects of an
enchantment increases by 5.
Normal: Anyone who successfully saves against a spell
notices the mental intrusion automatically.
Superior Scryer
You are adept at seeing more when scrying.
Prerequisites: Spell Focus (divination), the ability to cast at
least one spell of the scrying subschool.
Benefit: When casting a scrying spell, you see through the
spell’s sensor with darkvision 60 feet, whether or not you
possess darkvision normally and whether or not the spell
normally allows you to see with darkvision. If the spell sends
back sensory information only within 10 feet of the sensor
(such as with scrying and greater scrying), this feat doesn’t
increase that range. You receive a +2 bonus on Perception
checks to notice things through a scrying sensor, and your
prying eyes and insect spies also receive a +2 bonus on
Perception checks.
When you use the scrying or greater scrying spell, you have a
10% increase to the chance of using spells through the sensor.
Sure and Fleet
You are both fast and careful.
Prerequisites: Fleet of foot racial trait, halfling.
Benefit: You gain a +2 racial bonus on Acrobatics and
Climb checks.
Sure Grasp
Your quick reflexes and skill at climbing keep you from
falling to your doom.
Prerequisite: Climb 1 rank.
Benefit: Roll twice while climbing or when making a Reflex
save to avoid falling, and take the higher result.
Surge of Success
Your success drives your further actions.
Prerequisite: Human.
Benefit: When you confirm a critical hit or roll a natural 20
on a saving throw, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus on a
single attack roll, saving throw, skill check, or ability check of
your choice before the end of your next turn. You must
choose to use this bonus before you make the attack roll,
saving throw, skill check, or ability check.
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Summoner's Call
Whenever you summon your eidolon, it is more powerful
for a brief period of time.
Prerequisite: Eidolon class feature.
Benefit: Whenever you summon your eidolon, you may
give it a +2 enhancement bonus to its Strength, Dexterity, or
Constitution. This bonus lasts 10 minutes after the
summoning ritual is complete.
Sunlight Summons
Your summoned minions shine with the power of the sun.
Prerequisites: Spell Focus (conjuration), able to cast summon
nature's ally.
Benefit: Creatures that you summon shed light as a light
spell. They are immune to blinding or dazzling effects, and
their natural weapons are treated as magical for overcoming
damage reduction.
Superior Summoning
You can summon more creatures.
Prerequisites: Augment Summoning, caster level 3rd.
Benefit: Each time you cast a summoning spell that
conjures more than one creature, add one to the total number
of creatures summoned.
Surprise Maneuver
Your maneuvers are devastating against disadvantaged
foes.

Prerequisites: Combat Expertise; sneak attack +3d6 or
studied strike +3d6.
Benefit: If you have sneak attack, when you attempt a
combat maneuver check against a creature that you are
flanking or that is denied its Dexterity bonus to AC against
your attack, you gain a bonus on the combat maneuver check
that's equal to the number of sneak attack dice you roll.
If you have the studied combat class feature, you can use
studied strike on a combat maneuver check. When you do so,
you gain a bonus on the combat maneuver check equal to
your number of studied strike dice.
Talented Magician
Roguish magic comes easily to you.
Prerequisites: Major magic rogue talent, minor magic rogue
talent.

Benefit: You gain an additional daily use of each of your
minor magic and major magic rogue talents.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you gain an additional daily use of each talent.
Taunt
You may be small, but your remarks cut others down to
size.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Small size or smaller.
Benefit: You can demoralize opponents using Bluff rather
than Intimidate (see the Intimidate skill description for
details) and take no skill check penalty for being smaller than
your target.
Telepathy Tap
You are able to notice, intercept, and interpret telepathic
communication around you.
Prerequisites: Sense Motive 10 ranks, ability to cast detect
thoughts or telepathyOA as a spell or spell-like ability or
telepathy supernatural ability.
Benefit: When a creature within range of your telepathy (or
within 60 feet if you are using detect thoughts) uses telepathy
to communicate, including when that creature sends or
receives a magical message such as dream or sending, you can
notice the attempt with a successful DC 30 Sense Motive
check. At this point, you can either use your telepathy ability
or spend a use or casting of detect thoughts as an immediate
action. If you do so, for every 5 points by which your check
exceeds the DC, you glean one fragment of information about
the communication, such as the identity of its source; its
general nature; the emotional state of the sender or the
recipient; or a specific person, place, or thing mentioned in
the message. In addition, the creature must attempt a saving
throw (with a DC equal to that of the spell if you spent a use
of detect thoughts or are using telepathy, or 10 + 1/2 your racial
HD + your Charisma modifier if you are using a racial
telepathy ability). If the target fails its save, you can listen to
both sides of the telepathic or magical communication as long
as you continue to concentrate each round as a standard
action.
Tenacious Survivor
Your spirit lingers long after any other's would have passed
on.
Prerequisites: Con 13, Diehard, Endurance, half-orc or orc.
Benefit: When you are killed by hit point damage, your
soul lingers in your body for a number of rounds equal to
your Constitution bonus. You are still dead, but a creature
can make a DC 10 Heal check as a standard action to realize
that you can still be saved. You can be healed by magic as if
you were alive. If you are healed enough hit points that you
would no longer be dead, you are alive again, but you gain
one permanent negative level.
Tenacious Transmutation
Your mastery of the magic of changing makes your
transmutations more durable.
Prerequisite: Spell Focus (transmutation).
Benefit: The DC of caster level checks to dispel or remove
your transmutations increases by 2; even if the spell is
negated, its effects persist for 1 additional round before
dissipating.
Tengu Raven Form
You can shift into the form of a giant black raven.
Prerequisites: Tengu Wings, character level 7th, tengu.
Benefit: Once per day, you can take the form of a Large
black bird resembling a raven, granting you a fly speed of 60
feet (good maneuverability), a +4 size bonus to your Strength,
a –2 penalty to your Dexterity, and a +4 natural armor bonus.
This spell-like ability otherwise functions as beast shape II with
a caster level equal to your level.
Tengu Wings
You can grow wings that allow you to fly.
Prerequisites: Character level 5th, tengu.
Benefit: Once per day, you can sprout a pair of giant black
crow's wings, granting you a fly speed of 30 feet (average
maneuverability). This spell-like ability otherwise functions
as beast shape I (though you do not gain any other benefits of
that spell) with a caster level equal to your level.
Theurgy
You can blend the power of arcane and divine magic.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, Int or Cha 13, able to cast 1st-level
arcane spells, able to cast 1st-level divine spells.
Benefit: You can augment the power of your divine spells
with arcane energy and augment your arcane spells with
divine energy.
When casting a divine spell, you may sacrifice an arcane
spell slot or arcane prepared spell of that spell's level or
higher as a swift action. The caster level for that divine spell
increases by +1.
When casting an arcane spell, you may sacrifice a divine
spell slot or prepared divine spell of the same or higher level
as a swift action. Half the damage dealt by the arcane spell
becomes holy (if you channel positive energy) or unholy (if
you channel negative energy).
Thoughtful Discernment
Thinking back, you discover a lie in what you once thought
to be words of truth.
Prerequisite: Discern lies class feature.
Benefit: Once per day as a free action, you can think back
about a single statement you heard in the last day and
determine if it was a lie. This acts like the discern lies spell, but
instead of affecting a creature, it affects a single statement a
creature has made.
For example, if the king told you, "My daughter is in the
monster's dungeon" before you left to find her, as long as the
king said that to you within the past day, you can use this
feat to determine whether or not the king deliberately and
knowingly lied to you when he made that statement.
Threatening Negotiator
Those who you intimidate know that you’ll go through with
your threats.
Prerequisites: Nerve-Racking Negotiator, Persuasive, Skill
Focus (Intimidate).
Benefit: When you successfully use the Intimidate skill to
force an opponent to act friendly toward you, the duration of
the attitude change lasts 2d6 hours.
Normal: Changing an opponent’s attitude with Intimidate
normally changes the foe’s attitude to friendly for 1d6×10
minutes.
Thrill of the Kill
Killing fuels your rage.
Prerequisites: Half-orc or orc, rage class feature.
Benefit: When you are raging and your attack reduces an
enemy to negative hit points or kills it, you regain 1 round of
rage. You may only use this feat if the fallen enemy had at
least as many Hit Dice as you. You can only gain this benefit
once per round.
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Touch of Evil
You instill unbidden thoughts and desires into another with
your touch.
Prerequisites: Channel negative energy 6d6, evil alignment.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can expend three uses of
your channel negative energy and make a melee touch attack
against a target. You can attempt an opposed Sleight of Hand
check against the target’s Perception to make this attack
without the target noticing. If the attack hits, the target gets a
Will save (DC=10 + 1/2 your character level + your Charisma
modifier). On a failed save, you implant a suggestion into the
creature’s mind. This works similar to the suggestion spell,
however, you can suggest to the creature to commit a
harmful or destructive act against another creature or object.
If you choose the latter, the creature attempts to carry out the
suggestion in 1d6+1 days as it thinks over the suggestion and
plans it out. The creature can attempt another Will save at the
original DC to resist the suggestion right before it carries it
out. If it fails the save, it gains a +4 circumstance bonus on
one die roll used in carrying out the suggestion. This
relentless planning causes the creature 1 point of Wisdom
damage (or 1d6 sanity damage, if you are using that system),
until the suggestion is carried out.
Toughness
You have enhanced physical stamina.
Benefit: You gain +3 hit points. For every Hit Die you
possess beyond 3, you gain an additional +1 hit point. If you
have more than 3 Hit Dice, you gain +1 hit points whenever
you gain a Hit Die (such as when you gain a level).
Toxic Recovery
Your system recuperates from the effects of poisons with
astonishing speed.
Prerequisites: Dwarf, hardy racial trait.
Benefit: Whenever you succeed at a saving throw against
poison, you heal 1 point of ability damage of the type dealt
by the poison. Whenever you heal ability damage naturally
or magically, you heal 1 additional point of ability damage.
This feat has no effect on penalties to ability scores or ability
drain.
Trap Wrecker
You can smash traps instead of disarming them.
Prerequisites: Power Attack, Disable Device 1 rank, orc.
Benefit: You can attempt to disarm a trap by striking it with
a melee weapon instead of making a Disable Device check.
As a full-round action, make a melee attack against an Armor
Class equal to the trap's Disable Device DC. If you miss, the
trap activates. If you hit, roll damage. If this damage is at
least half the trap's Disable Device DC, you disable the trap.
If this damage is less than half the trap's Disable Device DC,
the trap activates. You can only attempt this on nonmagical
traps. You must be able to reach some part of the trap with
your attack in order to use this feat. At the GM's discretion,
some traps may not be susceptible to this feat.
Trapper's Setup
You have an instinct for waiting until just the right moment
to spring a hazard or trap.
Prerequisite: Craft (traps) 5 ranks.
Benefit: When you manually trigger a trap against
opponents, that trap receives either a +2 circumstance bonus
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on melee attack rolls or a +2 circumstance bonus to its saving
throw DC.
Triton Portal
You can channel your inner magic to summon allies.
Prerequisites: Character level 5th, hydraulic push spell-like
ability, undine.
Benefit: Once per day, you may expend your racial
hydraulic push ability to instead cast summon nature's ally III as
a spell-like ability with a caster level equal to your character
level. This use of the ability can only summon 1d3 Small
water elementals, 1d4+1 dolphins, a shark, or an electric eel.
Using this ability is a full-round action.
True Deception
Time spent learning the mystic arts of disguise has given
you insight into the anonymity of the everyday.
Prerequisites: Cha 17, Disguise 17 ranks, master disguise
master ninja trick or master of disguise advanced rogue
talent, ninja level 10th or rogue level 10th.
Benefit: When using the master disguise master ninja trick
or master of disguise advanced rogue talent to take on the
appearance of a specific individual, you can fool divination
magic and effects designed to locate the subject of your
disguise as per the vigilante’s any guise social talent. In
addition, you gain a +10 bonus on Bluff checks to act like that
individual.
Tunnel Rat
You are a master of fighting in confined spaces.
Prerequisites: Ratfolk, swarming racial trait.
Benefit: You count as one size smaller than normal for the
purpose of squeezing.
Turn Undead
Calling upon higher powers, you cause undead to flee from
the might of your unleashed divine energy.
Prerequisites: Channel positive energy class feature.
Benefit: You can, as a standard action, use one of your uses
of channel positive energy to cause all undead within 30 feet
of you to flee, as if panicked. Undead receive a Will save to
negate the effect. The DC for this Will save is equal to 10 +
1/2 your cleric level + your Charisma modifier. Undead that
fail their save flee for 1 minute. Intelligent undead receive a
new saving throw each round to end the effect. If you use
channel energy in this way, it has no other effect (it does not
heal or harm nearby creatures).
Twist Away
Your quick reflexes and dexterous movements make up for
your lack of stamina.
Prerequisite: Evasion.
Benefit: While you are wearing light armor or no armor, if
you are forced to attempt a Fortitude saving throw, you can
use an immediate action to instead attempt a Reflex saving
throw (at the same DC). If you succeed at this saving throw
and the attack has a reduced effect on a successful save, you
avoid the effect entirely. Whether the saving throw is
successful or not, you are staggered until the end of your next
turn. If you are prevented from becoming staggered, you
can't use Twist Away , nor can you ignore the staggered
condition from Twist Away or remove it early.
Ultimate Mercy
By using lay on hands, you can bring the dead back to life.
Prerequisites: Cha 19, Greater Mercy, lay on hands, mercy
class feature.
Benefit: You can expend 10 uses of lay on hands to bring a
single dead creature you touch back to life as a raise dead spell
with a caster level equal to your paladin level. You must
provide the material component for raise dead or choose to
accept 1 temporary negative level; this level automatically
goes away after 24 hours, never becomes a permanent
negative level, and cannot be overcome in any way except by
waiting for the duration to expire.
Ultimate Resolve
Your aura of resolve does not fall with you.
Prerequisite: Aura of resolve class feature.
Benefit: Your aura of resolve is a 20-foot emanation, and
does not end if you fall unconscious.
Normal: The aura of resolve affects each ally within 10 feet,
and ends when you fall unconscious.
Umbral Scion
New spell-like abilities are unlocked for you as you rise to
ascendency among the drow people.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Wis 13, Drow Nobility, Greater Drow
Nobility, Improved Drow Nobility, able to use drow spell-
like abilities, drow.
Benefit: Select one of the following: dispel magic, divine favor,
or suggestion. You may use this spell once per day as a spell-
like ability. Your caster level is equal to your character level.
Uncanny Alertness
Your research into arcana and the nature of reality has
given you heightened senses.
Prerequisite: Alertness.
Benefit: This feat gives you an additional +1 bonus on
Perception and Sense Motive checks, and you gain a +2
bonus on saving throws against sleep and charm effects.
Uncanny Concentration
You have learned to enter a deeper state when casting
spells, allowing you to shrug off distractions, damage,
weather effects, and even the effects of other spells.
Prerequisite: Combat Casting.
Benefit: You do not need to make concentration checks
when affected by vigorous or violent motion or by violent
weather. You gain a +2 bonus on all other concentration
checks.
Undead Master
You can marshal vast armies of the undead to serve you.
Prerequisites: Spell focus (necromancy), the ability to cast
animate dead or command undead.
Benefit: When you cast animate dead or use the Command
Undead feat, you are considered to be four levels higher
when determining the number of Hit Dice you animate.
When you cast command undead, your duration is doubled.
Unfettered Familiar
You can channel touch spells through your familiar without
needing to be adjacent to it.
Prerequisites: Caster level 5th, ability to acquire a familiar.
Benefit: Once per day, you can cast a touch spell without
being in contact with your familiar and designate your
familiar as the "toucher." You don't need line of sight to your
familiar to use this ability, but you must be within 30 feet of
your familiar when you cast the spell, and if you can't see or
hear your familiar, you must at least be able to speak with it.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you gain another use of this feat, and the distance
you can be from your familiar increases by 10 feet.
Normal: Your familiar must be in contact with you when a
spell is cast in order for it to deliver the spell.
Unimpeachable Honor
Your devotion to your principles and your allies makes
acting against them unthinkable.
Prerequisite: Iron Will.
Benefit: Whenever you are under the effects of a charm or
compulsion effect and would be compelled to take an action
that violates your fundamental nature, explicitly violates the
strictures of your religion, or would be an act of an alignment
that directly opposes your own (for instance, a chaotic or evil
act if you are lawful good), you gain a +4 bonus on any
saving throw or opposed Charisma check to resist that
command or break free from the effect. Whenever you are
compelled to attack an ally, you take a –4 penalty on your
attack rolls and damage rolls.
Unsanctioned Detection
You can focus your ability to detect evil for more practical
or mundane purposes
Prerequisite: Detect evil class feature.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can focus the clarity granted
by your detect evil ability to heighten your awareness of other
things. This gives you a +10 sacred bonus on Perception and
Sense Motive checks for one round. This expends your use of
the detect evil class ability for the next 24 hours.
Unsanctioned Knowledge
You have searched though forbidden texts and are privy to
powerful but proscribed magic.
Prerequisites: Int 13, ability to cast 1st-level paladin spells.
Benefit: Pick one 1st-level spell, one 2nd-level spell, one
3rd-level spell, and one 4th-level spell from the bard, cleric,
inquisitor, or oracle spell lists. Add these spells to your
paladin spell list as paladin spells of the appropriate level.
Once chosen, these spells cannot be changed.
Versatile Channeler
You can choose to channel positive and negative energy.
Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature, necromancer or
neutrally aligned cleric (see below).
Benefit: You may make a choice whenever you use your
channel energy class feature.
If you normally channel positive energy, you may choose to
channel negative energy as if your effective cleric level were 2
levels lower than normal.
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 If you normally channel negative energy, you may choose
to channel positive energy as if your effective cleric level
were 2 levels lower than normal.
Having this feat means you qualify for feats and abilities
that have "channel positive energy" or "channel negative
energy" as a prerequisite (for example, you qualify for the
Command Undead feat and the Turn Undead feat).
Note: This feat only applies to necromancers, neutral clerics
who worship neutral deities, or neutral clerics who do not
worship a deity—characters who have the channel energy
class ability and have to make a choice to channel positive or
negative energy at 1st level. Clerics whose alignment or deity
makes this choice for them cannot select this feat.
Vigilant Eidolon
Your eidolon is highly observant, and its link with you
increases your own watchfulness.
Prerequisite: Eidolon class feature.
Benefit: While your eidolon is within your reach, you gain a
+4 bonus on Perception checks. If you have 10 or more ranks
in Perception, this bonus increases to +8. This does not apply
if your eidolon is helpless or unconscious.
Vermin Heart
You have a special bond with things that creep, crawl,
skitter, and sting.
Prerequisite: Wild empathy class feature.
Benefit: You may target vermin with spells and special
abilities that only affect animals (although they are still
affected by spells targeting vermin as well). You may use
wild empathy to influence vermin as easily as you influence
animals.
Voice of the Sibyl
Your voice is strangely compelling.
Prerequisite: Cha 15.
Benefit: You get a +1 bonus on all Bluff, Diplomacy, and
Perform (oratory) skill checks. If you have 10 or more ranks
in one of these skills, the bonus increases to +3 for that skill.
You do not get these bonuses if you do not use your voice
when using the skill (such as using Bluff to feint in combat).
Walking Sleight
You’ve developed your skills at picking up items while on
the move.
Prerequisites: Deft Hands, Sleight of Hand 5 ranks.
Benefit: You no longer take the –20 penalty for attempting a
Sleight of Hand check as a move action. You can attempt a
Sleight of Hand check as a standard action in the middle of
your move action.
Normal: You can attempt a Sleight of Hand check as a move
action only by taking a –20 penalty on the check. Willing
Accomplice Your well-placed support can aid friends and
allies in maintaining their most precious secrets.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Bluff 3 ranks, Sense Motive 1 rank.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can attempt a Bluff check
to aid another’s Disguise check. In addition, when attempting
such a check to aid a vigilante ally in maintaining that ally’s
social identity, a successful check grants that ally a +5 bonus
instead of the normal +2.
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War Blessing
Your call to your deity imbues you with a temporary
blessing.
Prerequisite: Mystery or domains class feature.
Benefit: Choose two warpriest blessings when you take this
feat. Each of these blessings must be tied to a domain granted
by your deity or to one of the two domains that represent
your spiritual inclination and abilities. Twice per day, you
can call upon the minor blessing from one or the other of
your chosen blessings. This ability otherwise acts like the
warpriest blessings class feature. Your effective warpriest
level is the highest level that you have in the class that has the
mystery or domains class feature.
War Singer
Your songs draw upon the savage chants and brutal ways
of your people, inspiring those around you to new heights of
violence and savagery.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, bardic performance class feature,
half-orc or orc.
Benefit: When you use bardic performance with audible
components on a battlefield (any area where a combat
involving a dozen or more combatants is taking place), the
range or area of your chosen performance is doubled. In
addition, the DC for saving throws against your bardic
performance is increased by +2 for creatures of the orc
subtype, regardless of where the performance occurs.
Warrior Priest
Your religion is both a shield and a weapon in battle.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast divine spells, domain or
mystery class feature.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on initiative checks and a +2
bonus on concentration checks made to cast a spell or use a
spell-like ability when casting defensively or while grappled.
Water Skinned
Your touch extinguishes small flames.
Prerequisite: Undine.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can extinguish a small
nonmagical fire with a touch, affecting anything up to the
size of a large campfire. This ability does not affect fires with
a total area greater than 5 square feet. Touching the fire in
this way does not harm you.
Well-Prepared
Somehow, you always seem to have the right tools or
supplies close at hand.
Prerequisite: Halfling.
Benefit: Once per day, when confronted with a situation
that calls for a particular mundane item of equipment, you
may make a Sleight of Hand check with a DC of 10 plus the
item's cost in gold pieces to "happen" to have such an item on
your person. For example, having a crowbar would be DC 12,
whereas a flask of acid would be DC 20. The item must be
something you can easily carry—if you are on foot and have
only a backpack, for example, you could not have a large iron
cauldron. You cannot have magical items using this feat, nor
can you have specific items, such as the key to a particular
door. If you are stripped of your equipment or possessions,
you lose the benefits of this feat until you have at least a day
to resupply and "acquire" new items. You must pay for these
items normally.
 Special: At the GM's option, a character can substitute the opposite of your alignment (evil if you are good, and good if
Survival skill for Sleight of Hand with this feat. Such a choice you are evil) you gain a +2 on any saving throw or opposed
is permanente. Charisma check to break free from the effect. This bonus
stacks with itself and with the bonus granted by
Wild Speech Unimpeachable Honor.
You speak with the tongue of men and beasts.
Prerequisites: Druid level 6th, wild shape class feature.
Benefit: When using wild shape to take the form in which
you cannot speak (such as an animal), you are able to speak
normally in any language you know. This allows you to cast
spells with verbal components, speak command words, and
activate spell completion and spell trigger items. However, it
does not give you the ability to cast spells requiring somatic
components unless you also have the Natural Spell feat, or
cast spells with material components merged into your form.
When using wild shape to take the form of an animal, you
may use speak with animals to communicate with animals of
your assumed form. This is a spell-like ability with a caster
level equal to your druid level, and you may use it for a
number of minutes per day equal to your druid level. These
minutes do not have to be consecutive, but must be used in
one-minute increments.

Wings of Air
The winds lift you, carrying you where you want to go.
Prerequisites: Airy Step, character level 9th, sylph.
Benefit: Your bonus on saves against effects with the air or
electricity descriptors and effects that deal electricity damage
increases to +4. In addition, you gain a supernatural fly speed
equal to your base speed (good maneuverability). You may
only fly with this ability when wearing light armor or no
armor.

Witch Knife
You empower your witch spells by incorporating the use of
a special ceremonial knife during your castings.
Prerequisite: Witch class.
Benefit: Each day, when you prepare your spells, you can
select a masterwork or magical dagger, transforming it into a
witch knife, which serves as an additional focus component
for witch patron spells. Add +1 to the DC of all your patron
spells.

Word of Healing
Using the same divine energy as your lay on hands ability,
you can heal others at a distance.
Prerequisite: Lay on hands class feature.
Benefit: You may use your lay on hands to heal another
creature at a range of 30 feet as a standard action that does
not provoke an attack of opportunity. You must be able to
speak and have a free hand to use this ability. The target
heals half the amount they would have healed if you had
touched them, but gains the benefits of your mercies as
normal.

Zealous Mind
You are so steadfast in the principles of your alignment,
even magic has difficult swaying you.
Prerequisites: Iron Will, Unimpeachable HonorUI, lawful
alignment.
Benefit: Whenever you are under the effect of a charm or
compulsion effect cast by or coming from a source with a
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COMBAT FEATS
Any feat designated as a combat feat can be selected as a
fighter's bonus feat. This designation does not restrict
characters of other classes from selecting these feats,
assuming that they meet the prerequisites.
Acrobatic Spellcaster (Combat)
Your skillful movements prevent foes from disrupting your
spells.
Prerequisites: Combat Casting, Skill Focus (Acrobatics).
Benefit: When you succeed at an Acrobatics check to move
through a threatened square without provoking attacks of
opportunity or to move through an enemy’s space, creatures
denied attacks of opportunity by your Acrobatics check also
cannot make attacks of opportunity against you when you
cast spells for the remainder of your turn.
Normal: Casting a spell within an enemy’s reach provokes
attacks of opportunity even after you succeed at an
Acrobatics check to move through a threatened square.
Adder Strike (Combat)
You can quickly apply poison to gloved hands, protected
feet, or other protected body parts, delivering the poison with
your unarmed strikes.
Prerequisites: Poison use class feature, Craft (alchemy) 1
rank, Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can apply one dose of contact
or injury poison to two body parts that you use for unarmed
strikes. You must still protect yourself against exposure to
contact poisons you apply in this way.
Normal: Applying poison to a weapon or single piece of
ammunition is a standard action.
Agile Maneuvers (Combat)
You've learned to use your quickness in place of brute force
when performing combat maneuvers.
Benefit: You add your Dexterity bonus to your base attack
bonus and size bonus when determining your Combat
Maneuver Bonus (see Combat) instead of your Strength
bonus.
Normal: You add your Strength bonus to your base attack
bonus and size bonus when determining your Combat
Maneuver Bonus.
Amateur Gunslinger (Combat)
Although you are not a gunslinger, you have and can use
grit.
Prerequisite: You have no levels in a class that has the grit
class feature.
Benefit: You gain a small amount of grit and the ability to
perform a single 1st-level deed from the gunslinger deed
class feature. At the start of the day, you gain 1 grit point,
though throughout the day you can gain grit points up to a
maximum of your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). You can
regain grit using the rules for the gunslinger's grit class
feature. You can spend this grit to perform the 1st-level deed
you chose upon taking this feat, and any other deed you have
gained through feats or magic items.
Special: If you gain levels in a class that grants the grit class
feature, you can immediately trade this feat for the Extra Grit
feat.
Amateur Swashbuckler (Combat)
Although you're not a swashbuckler, you have and can use
panache.
Prerequisite: No levels in a class that has the panache class
feature.
Benefit: You gain a small amount of panache and the ability
to perform a single 1st-level swashbuckler deed. Choose a
1st-level deed from the swashbuckler's deeds class feature
(you can't select opportune parry and riposte). Once chosen,
this deed can't be changed.
At the start of each day, you gain 1 panache point.
Throughout the day, you can gain a number of panache
points, up to a maximum equal to your Charisma modifier
(minimum 1). You can regain panache points as the
swashbuckler's panache class feature. You can spend these
points to perform the 1st-level deed you chose upon taking
this feat as well as any other deeds you have gained through
feats or magic items.
Special: If you later gain levels in a class that has the
panache class feature, you can immediately trade this feat for
the Extra Panache feat.
Anticipate Dodge (Combat)
Your knowledge of mobility and your attack prowess allow
you to thwart elusive opponents.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Mobility; base attack bonus +7,
brawler level 4th, or monk level 4th.
Benefit: You automatically know whether a creature you
can see has a dodge bonus to its AC. You gain up to a +2
bonus on attack rolls against a target that has a dodge bonus.
This bonus cannot exceed the dodge bonus of the creature
you attack.
Arc Slinger (Combat)
You can twirl your sling in a way that maximizes its
effectiveness.
Prerequisites: Point-Blank Shot, proficient with sling or
halfling sling staff.
Benefit: When using a sling or sling staff, you reduce your
penalty on ranged attack rolls due to range by 2. Point-Blank
Shot's damage bonus applies within the first normal range
increment of your sling (50 feet) or sling staff (80 feet).
Arcane Armor Mastery (Combat)
You have mastered the ability to cast spells while wearing
armor.
Prerequisites: Arcane Armor Training, Medium Armor
Proficiency, caster level 7th.
Benefit: As a swift action, reduce the arcane spell failure
chance due to the armor you are wearing by 20% for any
spells you cast this round. This bonus replaces, and does not
stack with, the bonus granted by Arcane Armor Training.
Arcane Armor Training (Combat)
You have learned how to cast spells while wearing armor.
Prerequisites: Light Armor Proficiency, caster level 3rd.
Benefit: As a swift action, reduce the arcane spell failure
chance due to the armor you are wearing by 10% for any
spells you cast this round.
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Arcane Strike (Combat)
You draw upon your arcane power to enhance your
weapons with magical energy.
Prerequisite: Ability to cast arcane spells.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can imbue your weapons
with a fraction of your power. For 1 round, your weapons
deal +1 damage and are treated as magic for the purpose of
overcoming damage reduction. For every five caster levels
you possess, this bonus increases by +1, to a maximum of +5
at 20th level.
Armor Proficiency, Heavy (Combat)
You are skilled at wearing heavy armor.
Prerequisites: Light Armor Proficiency, Medium Armor
Proficiency.
Benefit: See Armor Proficiency, Light.
Normal: See Armor Proficiency, Light.
Special: Fighters and paladins automatically have Heavy
Armor Proficiency as a bonus feat. They need not select it.
Armor Proficiency, Light (Combat)
You are skilled at wearing light armor.
Benefit: When you wear a type of armor with which you
are proficient, the armor check penalty for that armor applies
only to Dexterity- and Strength-based skill checks.
Normal: A character who is wearing armor with which he is
not proficient applies its armor check penalty to attack rolls
and to all skill checks that involve moving.
Special: All characters except monks, sorcerers, and
wizards automatically have Light Armor Proficiency as a
bonus feat. They need not select it.
Armor Proficiency, Medium (Combat)
You are skilled at wearing medium armor.
Prerequisite: Light Armor Proficiency.
Benefit: See Armor Proficiency, Light.
Normal: See Armor Proficiency, Light.
Special: Barbarians, clerics, druids, fighters, paladins, and
rangers automatically have Medium Armor Proficiency as a
bonus feat. They need not select it.
Barroom Brawler (Combat)
You have learned how to mimic the combat tricks and
forms of others.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +4.
Benefit: Once per day as a move action, you can gain the
benefit of a combat feat that you do not possess for 1 minute.
You must otherwise meet all of the feat's requirements.
Special: If you have the martial flexibility class feature, this
feat instead grants you one additional use per day of that
ability.
Bashing Finish (Combat)
You follow a powerful blow from your weapon with an
opportunistic bash from your shield.
Prerequisites: Improved Shield Bash, Shield Master, Two-
Weapon Fighting, base attack bonus +11.
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Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee
weapon, you can make a shield bash attack against the same
target using the same bonus as a free action.
Battle Cry (Combat)
Your shout heartens your allies and encourages them in the
fight.
Prerequisites: Cha 13; base attack bonus +5 or Perform (act,
oratory, or sing) 5 ranks.
Benefit: A number of times per day equal to your Charisma
bonus, you can let out a battle cry as a swift action. When you
do, allies within 30 feet who can hear you gain a +1 morale
bonus on attack rolls and a +4 morale bonus on saving
throws against fear. This effect lasts for 1 minute.
If an ally is under the effect of this feat and fails a saving
throw against a fear effect, she can choose to end the battle
cry's effect on her to reroll the failed save. The ally must take
the result of the reroll, even if it's lower. Each ally can use this
effect only once per use of this feat.
Befuddling Strike (Combat)
You know just where to strike to temporarily send your
enemy into a confused stupor.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: Befuddling Strike forces a foe damaged by your
unarmed attack to attempt a Fortitude saving throw (DC = 10
+ 1/2 your character level + your Wisdom modifier), in
addition to dealing damage normally. You must declare that
you are using this feat before you make your attack roll—
thus, a failed attack roll ruins the attempt. An opponent who
fails this saving throw is confused for 1d4 rounds. You can
attempt to use Befuddling Strike once per day for every 4
character levels you have, but you can use it no more than
once per round. Constructs, incorporeal creatures, mindless
creatures, plants, undead, and creatures that are immune to
critical hits cannot be affected by this ability.
Betrayal Sense (Combat)
You can sense betrayal and intrigue as well as physical
traps.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, rogue level 3rd, trap sense class
feature.
Benefit: You gain a bonus on Perception checks to pierce
another creature’s disguise and Sense Motive checks to avoid
being surprised by an attack. These bonuses are equal to the
bonus you gain from trap sense.
Binding Throw (Combat)
You can strike your enemy and use the blow as an
opportunity to grab and hold him.
Prerequisites: Improved Grapple, Improved Trip,
Improved Unarmed Strike, Ki Throw.
Benefit: After you successfully use the Ki Throw feat on an
opponent, you can use a swift action to attempt a grapple
combat maneuver against that opponent.
Normal: The grapple combat maneuver is a standard action.
Special: A monk can gain Binding Throw as a bonus feat
starting at 14th level.
Blood Beak (Combat)
Your bleed attack is bloody and dangerous.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +5, natural weapon racial
trait, tengu.
Benefit: Increase the damage of your beak attack to 1d6.
Furthermore, when you confirm a critical hit with your beak
attack, you also deal 1 point of bleed damage.
Special: The bleed effect from this feat stacks with that of
the Bleeding Critical feat and similar effects, adding 1 point
to your bleed damage.
Blooded Arcane Strike (Combat)
Arcane energy guides your devastating attack.
Prerequisites: Arcane Strike, ability to cast arcane spells,
bloodrage class feature.
Benefit: While you are bloodraging, you don't need to
spend a swift action to use your Arcane Strike—it is always
in effect. When you use this ability with Vital Strike,
Improved Vital Strike, or Greater Vital Strike, the bonus on
damage rolls for Arcane Strike is multiplied by the number of
times (two, three, or four) you roll damage dice for one of
those feats.
Bloody Assault (Combat)
Sacrificing accuracy, you can inflict bloody wounds that are
slow to heal.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You can choose to take a –5 penalty on all melee
attack rolls and combat maneuver checks to inflict 1d4 points
of bleed damage with your weapon melee attacks, in addition
to the normal damage dealt by the weapon. A creature
continues to take bleed damage every round at the start of its
turn. Bleed damage can be stopped by a DC 15 Heal check or
through any magical healing. Bleed damage from this feat
does not stack with itself. You must choose to use this feat
before making the attack roll, and its effects last until your
next turn (although the bleeding lasts until healed, as
normal).
Bludgeoner (Combat)
You can knock foes out cold with just about any blunt
instrument.
Benefit: You take no penalty on attack rolls for using a
lethal bludgeoning weapon to deal nonlethal damage.
Normal: You take a –4 penalty on attack rolls when using a
lethal weapon to deal nonlethal damage. You cannot use a
lethal weapon to deal nonlethal damage in a sneak attack.
Special: A rogue with this feat can use a lethal bludgeoning
weapon to deal nonlethal damage with a sneak attack.
Blundering Defense (Combat)
Your feverish and sometimes comical defensive techniques
offer enough distraction to aid allies.
Prerequisites: Cautious Fighter, halfling.
Benefit: Whenever you fight defensively or use the total
defense action, allies gain a luck bonus to AC and CMD equal
to 1/2 the dodge bonus you gain from the action you are
taking. Allies only gain this bonus while they are adjacent to
you.
Bodyguard (Combat)
Your swift strikes ward off enemies attacking nearby allies.
Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes.
Benefit: When an adjacent ally is attacked, you may use an
attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to
improve your ally's AC. You may not use the aid another
action to improve your ally's attack roll with this attack.
Normal: Aid another is a standard action.
Body Shield (Combat)
With a sly maneuver, you force a grappled opponent into
the path of an incoming attack.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Improved Grapple, Improved
Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: As an immediate action while you are grappling an
adjacent creature, you can make a grapple combat maneuver
check against that creature to gain cover against a single
attack. If you are successful and the attack misses you, that
attack targets the creature you used as cover, using the same
attack roll. You cannot use this feat against a creature
grappling you, and the cover you gain ends after the attack
you gained cover against is resolved.
Bonebreaker (Combat)
When your opponent is unable to adequately defend
against them, your precise unarmed strikes break bone and
tear tissue.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Improved Grapple, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Jawbreaker, Stunning Fist, Heal 9 ranks.
Benefit: When you make a successful Stunning Fist attempt
against an opponent that is grappled, helpless, or stunned,
you can forgo any other Stunning Fist effect to deal 1d6
Strength or Dexterity damage to that opponent.
Blazing Aura (Combat)
An inferno rages inside you, causing your body to radiate
intense heat.
Prerequisites: Inner Flame, Scorching Weapons, character
level 13th, ifrit.
Benefit: When you use Scorching Weapons, on your turn as
a free action, you may create an aura of heat that lasts for 1
round. This aura deals 1d6 points of fire damage to any
creature that begins its turn adjacent to you.
Blind-Fight (Combat)
You are skilled at attacking opponents that you cannot
clearly perceive.
Benefit: In melee, every time you miss because of
concealment (see Combat), you can reroll your miss chance
percentile roll one time to see if you actually hit.
An invisible attacker gets no advantages related to hitting
you in melee. That is, you don't lose your Dexterity bonus to
Armor Class, and the attacker doesn't get the usual +2 bonus
for being invisible. The invisible attacker's bonuses do still
apply for ranged attacks, however.
You do not need to make Acrobatics skill checks to move at
full speed while blinded.
Normal: Regular attack roll modifiers for invisible attackers
trying to hit you apply, and you lose your Dexterity bonus to
AC. The speed reduction for darkness and poor visibility also
applies.
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 Special: The Blind-Fight feat is of no use against a character
who is the subject of a blink spell.
Blistering Feint (Combat)
Your foes flinch from the heat of your weapon, giving you
an opportunity to slip past their defenses.
Prerequisites: Combat Expertise, Improved Feint, ifrit.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on feint checks made while
wielding a weapon that deals fire damage. Anytime you
successfully feint a creature while using such a weapon, you
may deal its fire damage to the enemy.
Blood Spurt (Combat)
When cut in combat, you spray your blood into the faces of
your foes.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +2, susceptibility to bleed
damage.
Benefit: Whenever a creature adjacent to you hits you with
a melee attack that deals bleed damage, that creature must
succeed at a Fortitude save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your character
level + your Constitution modifier) or become blinded for
1d4 rounds as your blood sprays it in the face. Additionally,
if you have a special ability that deals bleed damage (such as
a rogue’s bleeding strike rogue talent), as a standard action,
you can deal 1 point of bleed damage to yourself to spray
blood in the face of an adjacent creature of your choice,
causing the same effect. The creature only needs to attempt
the saving throw for the first of its attacks that deals bleed
damage.
Break Guard (Combat)
You can use one of your two weapons to occupy your
opponent's defenses while attacking with the other.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved
Disarm, Two-Weapon Fighting.
Benefit: While wielding two weapons, whenever you
successfully use one weapon to disarm an opponent, you can
spend a swift action to attack the opponent you attempted to
disarm using your other weapon.
Brutal Coup de Grace (Combat)
Your killing blows are so brutal that they scare other foes.
Prerequisites: Dazzling Display, Weapon Focus, base attack
bonus +5, proficiency with the selected weapon.
Benefit: When you deliver a coup de grace with the selected
weapon and kill the target, enemies within 30 feet of you who
can see or hear you must succeed at a Will saving throw (DC
= 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Charisma bonus) or
become shaken. This is a mind-affecting fear effect.
Bull Rush Strike (Combat)
Your critical hits can push back your foes.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack,
base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee
attack, you can push your opponent back, in addition to the
normal damage dealt by the attack. If your confirmation roll
exceeds your opponent's CMD, you may push your opponent
back as if from the bull rush combat maneuver. You do not
need to move with the target if successful. This does not
provoke an attack of opportunity.
Normal: You must perform a bull rush combat maneuver to
bull rush an opponent.
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Special: You can only apply the effects of one of the
following feats to a given critical hit: Bull Rush Strike,
Disarming Strike, Repositioning Strike, Sundering Strike, or
Tripping Strike. You may choose to use this feat after you
make your confirmation roll.
Bullying Blow (Combat)
With a simple hit, you more easily intimidate an opponent.
Prerequisites: Intimidate 1 rank, orc.
Benefit: As a standard action, you may make a melee attack
with a –2 penalty on the attack roll. If the attack damages
your opponent, you may make an Intimidate check to
demoralize that opponent as a free action.
Normal: Intimidating an opponent is a standard action.
But a Scratch (Combat)
Your bravado convinces your enemies that their deadliest
attacks are mere trif les, making you seem nigh invulnerable.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Bluff 4 ranks.
Benefit: When an opponent confirms a critical hit against
you with a melee weapon, you can attempt a special Bluff
check against that opponent as an immediate action. The DC
of this check is the same as the DC to demoralize the
opponent with the Intimidate skill. If you are successful, the
attacking opponent is shaken for 1 round as if you had
successfully demoralized it with Intimidate. Exceeding the
DC by 5 or more does not add to the shaken condition’s
duration. If you fail the special Bluff check granted by this
feat, you can attempt it against opponents who saw you
attempt the earlier check and fail, but you take a –2
cumulative penalty on that Bluff check and any subsequent
Bluff checks attempted in conjunction with this feat against
those opponents for 24 hours.
Canny Tumble (Combat)
Your acrobatic prowess distracts your foes.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Mobility, Acrobatics 5 ranks.
Benefit: When you use Acrobatics to move through an
opponent's threatened area or space without provoking an
attack of opportunity from that opponent, you gain a +2
circumstance bonus on your next melee attack roll against
that opponent and that opponent is denied its Dexterity
bonus to AC, as long as you make that attack before the start
of your next turn.
Catch Off-Guard (Combat)
Foes are surprised by your skilled use of unorthodox and
improvised weapons.
Benefit: You do not suffer any penalties for using an
improvised melee weapon. Unarmed opponents are flat-
footed against any attacks you make with an improvised
melee weapon.
Normal: You take a –4 penalty on attack rolls made with an
improvised weapon.
Cat and Mouse (Combat)
You can forgo an obvious counterstrike against an opponent
to better spot breaches in its defenses.
Prerequisites: Bluff 5 ranks, Sense Motive 5 ranks,
opportune parry and riposte deed.
Benefit: When you use the opportune parry and riposte
deed to successfully parry an opponent’s attack, if you have
your immediate action available and choose not to attempt a
riposte, you gain a +1 dodge bonus to your AC and a +2
bonus on all combat maneuver checks against the opponent
you successfully parried for 1 round.
Cautious Fighter (Combat)
You care more about survival than victory.
Prerequisite: Halfling.
Benefit: When fighting defensively or using total defense,
your dodge bonus to AC increases by 2.
Channel Smite (Combat)
You can channel your divine energy through a melee
weapon you wield.
Prerequisite: Channel energy class feature.
Benefit: Before you make a melee attack roll, you can
choose to spend one use of your channel energy ability as a
swift action. If you channel positive energy and you hit an
undead creature, that creature takes an amount of additional
damage equal to the damage dealt by your channel positive
energy ability. If you channel negative energy and you hit a
living creature, that creature takes an amount of additional
damage equal to the damage dealt by your channel negative
energy ability. Your target can make a Will save, as normal,
to halve this additional damage. If your attack misses, the
channel energy ability is still expended with no effect.
Channeling Force (Combat)
You distill your channeled energy into a sheen of force that
surrounds your weapon for a limited time.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast at least one force spell, channel
energy class feature.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can expend one use of
channel energy to grant your weapon attacks a bonus on
damage rolls equal to the number of dice of your channel
energy. This extra damage is force damage. This benefit lasts
for your next three weapon attacks or until the end of the
combat encounter, whichever comes first.
Charge Through (Combat)
You can overrun enemies when charging.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Improved Overrun, Power Attack,
base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: When making a charge, you can attempt to overrun
one creature in the path of the charge as a free action. If you
successfully overrun that creature, you can complete the
charge. If the overrun is unsuccessful, the charge ends in the
space directly in front of that creature.
Normal: You must have a clear path toward the target of
your charge.
Charging Hurler (Combat)
You know how to use your momentum to enhance your
thrown weapon attacks.
Prerequisite: Point-Blank Shot.
Benefit: You can use the charge rules to make a thrown
weapon attack. All the parameters of a charge apply, except
that you must only move closer to your opponent, and you
must end your movement within 30 feet of that opponent. If
you do, you can make a single thrown weapon attack against
that opponent, gaining the +2 bonus on the attack roll and
taking a –2 penalty to your AC until the start of your next
turn.
Chokehold (Combat)
While grappling, you can cut off an opponent's air and
blood supply.
Prerequisites: Improved Grapple, Improved Unarmed
Strike, base attack bonus +6 or monk level 5th.
Benefit: While you have an opponent up to one size
category larger than you grappled, you can attempt a grapple
combat maneuver with a –5 penalty on the check. If you
succeed, you have pinned your opponent and hold the
opponent in a chokehold. When you maintain the grapple,
you also maintain the chokehold. A creature in a chokehold
cannot breathe or speak, and thus cannot cast spells that have
a verbal component. An opponent you have in a chokehold
has to hold his breath or begin suffocating. Any creature that
does not breathe, is immune to bleed damage, or is immune
to critical hits is immune to the effects of your chokehold.
When the grapple is ended, so is the chokehold.
Circuitous Shot (Combat)
You can bounce ranged attacks off objects to obscure their
point of origin and surprise foes.
Prerequisites: Dex 19, Blind-Fight, Improved Precise Shot,
Point-Blank Shot, Precise Shot, base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: You can choose to take a –2 penalty on a ranged
weapon attack to ricochet it off a stone or metal surface and
resolve the attack as if it originated from the chosen ricochet
point for the purpose of determining cover (but not for
determining concealment). Add the entire distance the
weapon or ammunition traveled to determine range penalties
for the attack. Bouncing a shot this way can potentially
enable you to make ranged attacks against foes who have
total cover against you by going around obstacles, but such a
foe still has total concealment against your attack.
Clambering Escape (Combat)
You can escape an area effect by throwing an enemy in its
path to shield yourself.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved
Reposition, evasion class feature.
Benefit: When you successfully use your evasion class
feature to avoid taking damage from an effect that allows a
Ref lex saving throw, you can attempt a special reposition
combat maneuver check against any one foe within reach as
an immediate action. If successful, you switch positions with
the target of your combat maneuver. If your foe was not
initially within range of the effect that you evaded, it must
save against the effect as if it had been within the area of
effect.
Claw Pounce (Combat)
You can charge and make an attack with your paws.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Dex 15, Nimble Striker, base attack
bonus +10, catfolk, cat's claws racial trait or Aspect of the
Beast (claws of the beast manifestation).
Benefit: When you make a charge, you can make a full
attack with your claws.
Normal: Charging is a special full-round action that limits
you to a single attack.
Cleave (Combat)
You can strike two adjacent foes with a single swing.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +1.
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 Benefit: As a standard action, you can make a single attack
at your full base attack bonus against a foe within reach. If
you hit, you deal damage normally and can make an
additional attack (using your full base attack bonus) against a
foe that is adjacent to the first and also within reach. You can
only make one additional attack per round with this feat.
When you use this feat, you take a –2 penalty to your Armor
Class until your next turn.
Cleave Through (Combat)
You are ferocious at hewing smaller opponents.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Cleave, Power Attack, base attack
bonus +11, dwarf.
Benefit: When using Cleave or Great Cleave, if your initial
attack hits, you may take a single 5-foot step as a free action
before making your additional attacks. If doing so places a
creature within your threatened area, that creature becomes a
legal target for your additional Cleave attack(s) as long as it
meets all the other prerequisites.
Normal: You may only make additional attacks with Cleave
against creatures you threaten when you make your initial
attack.
Cleaving Finish (Combat)
When you strike down an opponent, you can continue your
swing into another target.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Cleave, Power Attack.
Benefit: If you make a melee attack, and your target drops
to 0 or fewer hit points as a result of your attack, you can
make another melee attack using your highest base attack
bonus against another opponent within reach. You can make
only one extra attack per round with this feat.
Close-Quarters Thrower (Combat)
You are agile enough to avoid melee attacks while throwing
weapons or bombs.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge, Weapon Focus with selected
thrown weapon.
Benefit: Choose a type of thrown weapon. You do not
provoke attacks of opportunity for making ranged attacks
using the selected weapon. If you are an alchemist, and you
select this feat and choose alchemist bombs, you do not
provoke attacks of opportunity for the process of drawing
components of, creating, and throwing a bomb.
Normal: Making a ranged attack provokes attacks of
opportunity.
Cloven Helm (Combat)
Your helm turns aside lethal blows.
Prerequisites: Dented Helm, Hard-Headed, base attack
bonus +11, dwarf.
Benefit: When wearing a helmet, you add +1 to your AC
against critical hit confirmation rolls; this benefit stacks with
Dented Helm. When you use Dented Helm to deflect a
critical hit, you may apply all damage from the critical hit to
your helmet before applying any damage to yourself. If you
take no damage, any additional effects, such as critical feats
or poison, are negated.
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Clustered Shots (Combat)
You take a moment to carefully aim your shots, causing
them all to strike nearly the same spot.
Prerequisites: Point-Blank Shot, Precise Shot, base attack
bonus +6.
Benefit: When you use a full-attack action to make multiple
ranged weapon attacks against the same opponent, total the
damage from all hits before applying that opponent's damage
reduction.
Special: If the massive damage optional rule is being used,
that rule applies if the total damage you deal with this feat is
equal to or exceeds half the opponent's full normal hit points
(minimum 50 points of damage).
Cockatrice Strike (Combat)
With a single strike, you transmute flesh to stone.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Gorgon's Fist,
Medusa's Wrath, base attack bonus +14.
Benefit: As a full-round action, you can make a single
unarmed strike against a dazed, flat-footed, paralyzed,
staggered, stunned, or unconscious foe. If that attack is a
critical hit, the target is petrified unless it succeeds on a
Fortitude saving throw with a DC of 10 + 1/2 your character
level + your Wisdom modifier. This is a supernatural
polymorph effect.
Combat Expertise (Combat)
You can increase your defense at the expense of your
accuracy.
Prerequisite: Int 13.
Benefit: You can choose to take a –1 penalty on melee attack
rolls and combat maneuver checks to gain a +1 dodge bonus
to your Armor Class. When your base attack bonus reaches
+4, and every +4 thereafter, the penalty increases by –1 and
the dodge bonus increases by +1. You can only choose to use
this feat when you declare that you are making an attack or a
full-attack action with a melee weapon. The effects of this feat
last until your next turn.
Combat Patrol (Combat)
You range across the battlefield, dealing with threats
wherever they arise.
Prerequisites: Combat Reflexes, Mobility, base attack bonus
+5.
Benefit: As a full-round action, you may set up a combat
patrol, increasing your threatened area by 5 feet for every 5
points of your base attack bonus. Until the beginning of your
next turn, you may make attacks of opportunity against any
opponent in this threatened area that provokes attacks of
opportunity. You may move as part of these attacks,
provided your total movement before your next turn does
not exceed your speed. Any movement you make provokes
attacks of opportunity as normal.
Combat Reflexes (Combat)
You can make additional attacks of opportunity.
Benefit: You may make a number of additional attacks of
opportunity per round equal to your Dexterity bonus. With
this feat, you may also make attacks of opportunity while
flat-footed.
 Normal: A character without this feat can make only one
attack of opportunity per round and can't make attacks of
opportunity while flat-footed.
Special: The Combat Reflexes feat does not allow a rogue to
use her opportunist ability more than once per round.
Combat Style Master (Combat)
You shift between combat styles, combining them to
increased effect.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, two or more style
feats, base attack bonus +6 or monk level 5th.
Benefit: You can switch your style as a free action. At the
start of combat, pick one of your styles. You start the combat
in that style, even in the surprise round.
Normal: It takes a swift action to begin or switch your
styles.
Counter Reflexes (Combat)
Your opponent's advanced training in moving around you
is surpassed only by your readiness for it.
Prerequisites: Anticipate Dodge, Dodge, Mobility; base
attack bonus +9, brawler level 6th, or monk level 6th.
Benefit: Opponents with the Mobility feat do not gain the
dodge bonus granted by that feat when they provoke attacks
of opportunity by moving out of or within your threatened
area.
Counterpunch (Combat)
With deft reflexes, you capitalize on opponents' mistakes.
Prerequisites: Dex 18, Combat Reflexes, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Weapon Focus (unarmed strike); base attack
bonus +16 or brawler level 12th.
Benefit: Once per round, when you are fighting unarmed
with both hands free and an opponent misses you with a
melee attack, the opponent provokes an attack of opportunity
from you. You must use an unarmed strike for this attack of
opportunity.
Covering Defense (Combat)
You are skilled at protecting yourself and your allies with
your shield.
Prerequisites: Shield Focus, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you use the total defense action while using
a light, heavy, or tower shield, you can provide a cover bonus
to AC against all attacks to an adjacent ally your size or
smaller. This cover bonus is equal to your shield's shield
bonus and lasts until the beginning of your next turn. Your
shield does not provide a cover bonus to Reflex saves.
Crossbow Mastery (Combat)
You can load crossbows with blinding speed and even fire
them in melee with little fear of reprisal.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Point-Blank Shot, Rapid Reload,
Rapid Shot.
Benefit: The time required for you to reload any type of
crossbow is reduced to a free action, regardless of the type of
crossbow used. You can fire a crossbow as many times in a
full attack action as you could attack if you were using a bow.
Reloading a crossbow for the type of crossbow you chose
when you took Rapid Reload no longer provokes attacks of
opportunity.
Special: Starting at 6th level, a ranger with the archery
combat style may select Crossbow Mastery as a combat style
feat.
Crusader's Fist (Combat)
You pour divine energy into the enemy you strike.
Prerequisites: Lay on hands class feature or touch of
corruption class feature, Improved Unarmed Strike, base
attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you attack with an unarmed strike and hit a
creature that you can harm with your lay on hands or touch
of corruption feature, you can use a swift action to expend a
daily use of that feature to deal its normal damage as if you
had hit with the feature's normal touch attack. This extra
damage is not multiplied if you scored a critical hit.
Crushing Blow (Combat)
Your focus allows you to smash your enemy's defenses.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist.
Benefit: You can make a Stunning Fist attempt as a full-
round action. If successful, instead of stunning your target,
you reduce the target's AC by an amount equal to your
Wisdom modifier for 1 minute. This penalty does not stack
with other penalties applied due to Crushing Blow.
Cunning Intuition (Combat)
You can read your foe’s body language to gauge your foe
and gain an edge in combat.
Prerequisites: Alertness, Improved Initiative, Lightning
Reflexes, Quick Draw, Ready for Anything, base attack bonus
+13 or rogue level 13th, Sense Motive 13 ranks.
Benefit: When you ready an action, you do not need to
declare what action you will take, only the trigger for that
action and an action type (either standard, move, swift, or
free). If you choose the standard action type, you can take a
move action instead when your readied action triggers. When
the condition triggers, you can choose a specific action of the
appropriate type to take.
Dastardly Finish (Combat)
You can take advantage of an enemy's debilitated state to
attempt a coup de grace.
Prerequisite: Sneak attack +5d6.
Benefit: You can deliver a coup de grace to cowering or
stunned targets.
Normal: You can only coup de grace helpless targets.
Dazing Assault (Combat)
You can daze foes with wild attacks.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: You can choose to take a –5 penalty on all melee
attack rolls and combat maneuver checks to daze opponents
you hit with your melee attacks for 1 round, in addition to
the normal damage dealt by the attack. A successful Fortitude
save negates the effect. The DC of this save is 10 + your base
attack bonus. You must choose to use this feat before making
the attack roll, and its effects last until your next turn.
Dazing Fist (Combat)
You know just where to strike to daze your foe.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
base attack bonus +4.
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 Benefit: You must declare that you are using this feat before
you make your attack roll (thus, a failed attack roll ruins the
attempt). Dazing Fist forces a foe damaged by your unarmed
attack to attempt a Fortitude saving throw (DC = 10 + 1/2
your character level + your Wisdom modifier), in addition to
dealing damage normally. A foe who fails this saving throw
is dazed for 1 round, until just before your next turn. You can
attempt to use Dazing Fist once per day for every 4 character
levels you have, but no more than once per round.
Constructs, incorporeal creatures, plants, undead, and
creatures that are immune to critical hits cannot be affected
by this ability.
Dazzling Display (Combat)
Your skill with your favored weapon can frighten enemies.
Prerequisite: Weapon Focus, proficiency with the selected
weapon.
Benefit: While wielding the weapon in which you have
Weapon Focus, you can perform a bewildering show of
prowess as a full-round action. Make an Intimidate check to
demoralize all foes within 30 feet who can see your display.
Deadly Aim (Combat)
You can make exceptionally deadly ranged attacks by
pinpointing a foe's weak spot, at the expense of making the
attack less likely to succeed.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You can choose to take a –1 penalty on all ranged
attack rolls to gain a +2 bonus on all ranged damage rolls.
When your base attack bonus reaches +4, and every +4
thereafter, the penalty increases by –1 and the bonus to
damage increases by +2. You must choose to use this feat
before making an attack roll and its effects last until your next
turn. The bonus damage does not apply to touch attacks or
effects that do not deal hit point damage.
Deadly Finish (Combat)
Your attacks don't just fell your opponents—they kill them
outright.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: When you hit with a melee attack and reduce your
opponent to –1 or fewer hit points, you can force that
opponent to succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 15 + the damage
your attack dealt) or die.
Deadly Stroke (Combat)
With a well-placed strike, you can bring a swift and painful
end to most foes.
Prerequisites: Dazzling Display, Greater Weapon Focus,
Shatter Defenses, Weapon Focus, proficiency with the
selected weapon, base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: As a standard action, make a single attack with the
weapon for which you have Greater Weapon Focus against a
stunned or flat-footed opponent. If you hit, you deal double
the normal damage and the target takes 1 point of
Constitution bleed (see Conditions). The additional damage
and bleed is not multiplied on a critical hit.
Death from Above (Combat)
You allow gravity to add extra force to your charges.
Benefit: Whenever you charge an opponent from higher
ground, or from above while flying, you gain a +5 bonus on
attack rolls in place of the bonuses from charging and being
on higher ground.
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Death or Glory (Combat)
Even when facing a larger foe, you aren't afraid to take
great risks in order to finish the fight.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: Against a creature of size Large or larger, you can
make a single melee attack as a full-round action, gaining a
+4 bonus on the attack roll, damage roll, and critical
confirmation roll. You gain an additional +1 on this bonus at
base attack bonus +11, +16, and +20 (for a maximum of +7 at
base attack +20). After you resolve your attack, the opponent
you attack can spend an immediate action to make a single
melee attack against you with the same bonuses.
Special: You can combine the full-round action attack this
feat allows with the benefit of Vital Strike, Improved Vital
Strike, or Greater Vital Strike.
Deathless Initiate (Combat)
For you, impending death is a call to wrath.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Con 13, orc or half-orc, Diehard,
Endurance, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You are not staggered while using the Diehard feat,
but if you take a move and a standard action or a full-round
action while you are at 0 or fewer hit points you take 1 point
of damage. Further, while using the Diehard feat, you gain a
+2 bonus on melee attacks and damage rolls.
Deathless Master (Combat)
Even if you suffer a grievous wound, you can shrug off the
damage and continue your relentless assault.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Con 15, orc or half-orc, Deathless
Initiate, Diehard, Endurance, Ironhide**, base attack bonus
+9.
Benefit: When you are at 0 or fewer hit points, you do not
lose 1 hit point when you take an action.
Deathless Zealot (Combat)
Only the most serious wounds can stop you.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Con 17, orc or half-orc, Deathless
Initiate, Deathless Master, Diehard, Endurance, Ironhide**,
base attack bonus +12.
Benefit: Whenever a creature rolls to confirm a critical hit
against you, it must roll twice and take the lowest result.
Defensive Combat Training (Combat)
You excel at defending yourself from all manner of combat
maneuvers.
Benefit: You treat your total Hit Dice as your base attack
bonus when calculating your Combat Maneuver Defense (see
Combat).
Defensive Weapon Training (Combat)
You know how to defend yourself against a certain class of
weaponry.
Prerequisites: Int 13, base attack bonus +5.
Benefit: Choose a weapon group from the fighter's weapon
training class ability list (except natural weapons). You gain a
+2 dodge bonus on AC when an opponent attacks you using
a weapon from that group. If you also have the weapon
training class feature in the selected group, your dodge bonus
from this feat increases to +3.
 Special: You can select this feat more than once. Its effects
do not stack. Each time you select this feat, it applies to a
different weapon group.
Deflect Arrows (Combat)
You can knock arrows and other projectiles off course,
preventing them from hitting you.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: You must have at least one hand free (holding
nothing) to use this feat. Once per round when you would
normally be hit with an attack from a ranged weapon, you
may deflect it so that you take no damage from it. You must
be aware of the attack and not flat-footed. Attempting to
deflect a ranged attack doesn't count as an action. Unusually
massive ranged weapons (such as boulders or ballista bolts)
and ranged attacks generated by natural attacks or spell
effects can't be deflected.
Demoralizing Lash (Combat)
You cow your enemies with the lash of a whip.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, Intimidate 1 rank,
hobgoblin.
Benefit: To use this feat, you must use a whip (or another
weapon in the flails fighter weapon group) to attack a foe
demoralized by an Intimidate check. If the attack hits, you
extend the duration the creature is shaken by 1 round. This
feat has no effect on creatures whose shaken conditions are
from sources other than Intimidate checks.
Devastating Strike (Combat)
Pitting all of your strength and resolve against your enemy,
you deliver a strike that is impossible to ignore.
Prerequisites: Vital Strike, base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: Whenever you use Vital Strike, Improved Vital
Strike, or Greater Vital Strike, you gain a +2 bonus on each
extra weapon damage dice roll those feats grant (+6
maximum). This bonus damage is multiplied on a critical hit.
Disarming Strike (Combat)
Your critical hits can disarm your foes.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Disarm,
base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee
attack, you can disarm your opponent, in addition to the
normal damage dealt by the attack. If your confirmation roll
exceeds your opponent's CMD, you may disarm your
opponent as if from the disarm combat maneuver. This does
not provoke an attack of opportunity.
Normal: You must perform a disarm combat maneuver to
disarm an opponent.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one of the
following feats to a given critical hit: Bull Rush Strike,
Disarming Strike, Repositioning Strike, Sundering Strike, or
Tripping Strike. You may choose to use this feat after you
make your confirmation roll.

Dented Helm (Combat) Disengaging Feint (Combat)

You can feint to disengage from combat.
Your helm protects you from hard hits.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Feint.
Prerequisites: Hard-Headed, base attack bonus +6, dwarf.
Benefit: As a standard action, use Bluff to feint against an
Benefit: When wearing a helmet, you add +1 to your AC
opponent. Instead of denying that opponent his Dexterity
against critical hit confirmation rolls. When a critical hit is
bonus to AC, a successful feint allows you to move up to
confirmed against you, as an immediate action, you can
your speed without provoking an attack of opportunity from
apply half of the damage from the attack to your helmet
the opponent you feinted for leaving the square you start in.
rather than yourself, applying hardness as normal. If the
damage destroys your helmet, any leftover damage is applied Disengaging Flourish (Combat)
to you. After using this feat, you are staggered until the end
Distracting your opponents gives you the opportunity to
of your next turn. You may not use this feat if your helmet
make a swift retreat.
has the broken condition or the attack ignores armor bonuses
to AC. Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Disengaging Feint,
Improved Feint.
Desperate Swing (Combat)
You land your most telling blows in desperate situations. Benefit: As a standard action, make a Bluff check against
each opponent that currently threatens you. If you succeed
Prerequisites: Cautious Fighter, base attack bonus +1, against at least one opponent, you can move up to your
halfling. speed. This movement does not provoke attacks of
opportunity from any opponent you succeeded at feinting
Benefit: Once per day, you can make a single melee attack
against.
while taking the total defense action. You take a –4 penalty
on attack rolls when making this attack. You also gain a +4 Disengaging Shot (Combat)
bonus on critical confirmation rolls made while fighting
You make one last attack before beating a hasty retreat.
defensively or making an attack of opportunity using this
feat. Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Disengaging Feint,
Dodge, Improved Feint, Mobility.
Destroyer's Blessing (Combat)
Breaking things adds to your power. Benefit: Whenever you use Disengaging Feint or
Disengaging Flourish, you can make a single melee attack
Prerequisites: Half-orc or orc, rage class feature. against one opponent you succeeded at feinting against. That
opponent is denied his Dexterity bonus to AC against this
Benefit: When you are raging and you succeed at a sunder
attack.
combat maneuver, you regain 1 round of rage. If the sunder
attempt causes the object to gain the broken condition, you
heal 1 hit point. You can only gain these benefits once per
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Disheartening Display (Combat)
Your show of prowess further demoralizes others.
Prerequisites: Dazzling Display, Weapon Focus, base attack
bonus +6, proficiency with chosen weapon.
Benefit: When you successfully use Dazzling Display
against any shaken, frightened, or panicked opponents, their
fear increases by one step. An already panicked creature
demoralized by this feat cowers. Once affected by this feat, a
creature cannot be affected by it again (by you or anyone
else) for 24 hours.
Disrupting Fist (Combat)
Your powerful fists can reduce undead foes to dust.
Prerequisites: Channel Smite, Improved Unarmed Strike,
base attack bonus +9, channel positive energy 4d6.
Benefit: On a confirmed critical hit using an unarmed strike
against an undead creature, you can expend two uses of your
channel energy ability as a swift action to destroy that
undead creature. The undead creature can negate this effect
with a successful Will saving throw (DC = 10 + your base
attack bonus).
Disrupting Shot (Combat)
With a well-placed shot, you make it harder for a nearby
opponent to cast spells.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Point-Blank Shot, fighter level 6th.
Benefit: If you ready an action to shoot an opponent casting
a spell within 30 feet and successfully hit that opponent with
a ranged attack, the concentration DC to successfully cast the
spell is increased by +4.
Disruptive (Combat)
Your training makes it difficult for enemy spellcasters to
safely cast spells near you.
Prerequisites: 6th-level fighter.
Benefit: The DC to cast spells defensively increases by +4
for all enemies that are within your threatened area. This
increase to casting spells defensively only applies if you are
aware of the enemy's location and are capable of taking an
attack of opportunity. If you can only take one attack of
opportunity per round and have already used that attack, this
increase does not apply.
Distance Thrower (Combat)
You are accurate with thrown weapons at longer ranges
than normal.
Prerequisite: Str 13.
Benefit: With a thrown weapon, you reduce your penalty
on ranged attack rolls due to range by 2.
Dodge (Combat)
Your training and reflexes allow you to react swiftly to
avoid an opponents' attacks.
Prerequisite: Dex 13.
Benefit: You gain a +1 dodge bonus to your AC. A
condition that makes you lose your Dex bonus to AC also
makes you lose the benefits of this feat.
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Domain Strike (Combat)
You unleash a domain power upon your enemy as part of
your unarmed strike.
Prerequisites: Domain class feature, Improved Unarmed
Strike.
Benefit: When you gain this feat, choose one domain-
granted power that you can use to affect no more than one
opponent. If you make a successful unarmed strike against an
opponent, in addition to dealing your unarmed strike
damage, you can use a swift action to deliver the effects of
the chosen granted power to that opponent. Doing so
provokes no attacks of opportunity.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you take it, you apply it to a different qualifying domain
power.
Double Slice (Combat)
Your off-hand weapon while dual-wielding strikes with
greater power.
Prerequisite: Dex 15, Two-Weapon Fighting.
Benefit: Add your Strength bonus to damage rolls made
with your off-hand weapon.
Normal: You normally add only half of your Strength
modifier to damage rolls made with a weapon wielded in
your off-hand.
Drag Down (Combat)
When you are knocked prone, you are skilled at bringing
your opponent down with you.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Trip.
Benefit: Whenever an opponent successfully trips you, you
can attempt to trip that opponent as an immediate action.
Draining Strike (Combat)
With a well-aimed strike, you cause your target to become
fatigued or exhausted.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: You must declare that you are using this feat before
you make your attack roll (thus, a failed attack roll ruins the
attempt). Draining Strike forces a foe that was damaged by
your unarmed attack to attempt a Fortitude saving throw
(DC = 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Wisdom
modifier), in addition to dealing damage normally. An
opponent who fails this saving throw is fatigued for 1 minute
or until the foe is subject to any spell or effect that heals hit
point damage. If you have a base attack bonus of +14 or
higher, the target is exhausted for the same duration instead.
You can attempt to use Draining Strike once per day for
every 4 character levels you have, but you can use it no more
than once per round. Constructs, incorporeal creatures,
plants, undead, and creatures that are immune to critical hits
cannot be affected by this ability.
Dreadful Carnage (Combat)
Slaying an enemy demoralizes your other nearby foes.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Power Attack, Furious Focus, base
attack bonus +11.
Benefit: Whenever you reduce an enemy to 0 or fewer hit
points, you can make an Intimidate check to demoralize all
enemies within 30 feet as a free action. Enemies that cannot
see both you and the enemy you reduced to 0 or fewer hit
points are unaffected.
Eldritch Claws (Combat)
Who needs magic weapons? Eldritch tricks are no match for
your bestial ferocity.
Prerequisites: Str 15, natural weapons, base attack bonus
+6.
Benefit: You natural weapons are considered both magic
and silver for purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
Elemental Fist (Combat)
You empower your strike with elemental energy
Prerequisites: Con 13, Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: When you use Elemental Strike pick one of the
following energy types: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. On a
successful hit, the attack deals damage normally plus 1d6
points of damage of the chosen type. You must declare that
you are using this feat before you make your attack roll (thus
a failed attack roll ruins the attempt). You may attempt an
elemental fist attack once per day for every four levels you
have attained (see Special), and no more than once per round.
Special: A monk of the four winds receives Elemental Fist
as a bonus feat at 1st level, even if he does not meet the
prerequisites. A monk may attempt an Elemental Fist attack a
number of times per day equal to his monk level, plus one
more time per day for every four levels he has in classes other
than monk.
Elven Accuracy (Combat)
Your sharp eyesight makes difficult shots easier.
Prerequisite: Elf.
Benefit: If you miss due to concealment when making a
ranged attack with a longbow or shortbow (including
composite bows), you can reroll your miss chance roll one
time to see if you actually hit.
Elven Battle Training (Combat)
You have been specially trained to wield a variety of
traditional elven weapons.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, elf.
Benefit: You have received special training with traditional
elven weapons (longbows, composite longbows, longswords,
rapiers, shortbows, composite shortbows, and any weapon
with the word "elven" in its name). You receive a +2 bonus to
your CMD against disarm and sunder maneuvers directed at
one of these weapons you are wielding. In addition, if you
are wielding one of these melee weapons, you may make an
additional attack of opportunity each round (this bonus
stacks with Combat Reflexes).
Enforcer (Combat)
You are skilled at causing fear in those you brutalize.
Prerequisite: Intimidate 1 rank.
Benefit: Whenever you deal nonlethal damage with a melee
weapon, you can make an Intimidate check to demoralize
your target as a free action. If you are successful, the target is
shaken for a number of rounds equal to the damage dealt. If
your attack was a critical hit, your target is frightened for 1
round with a successful Intimidate check, as well as being
shaken for a number of rounds equal to the damage dealt.
Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Combat)
Choose one type of exotic weapon, such as the spiked chain
or whip. You understand how to use that type of exotic
weapon in combat, and can utilize any special tricks or
qualities that exotic weapon might allow.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You make attack rolls with the weapon normally.
Normal: A character who uses a weapon with which he is
not proficient takes a –4 penalty on attack rolls.
Special: You can gain Exotic Weapon Proficiency multiple
times. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new type of
exotic weapon.
Extreme Prejudice (Combat)
Your hatred of a particular type of creature has honed your
killer instinct.
Prerequisites: Seething Hatred, sneak attack +3d6, studied
target class feature.
Benefit: When you succeed at a sneak attack against a
creature you selected as the target of your Seething Hatred
feat, you use d8s to roll sneak attack damage instead of d6s.
Faerie's Strike (Combat)
Ephemeral wisps of nature spirits dance about those you
strike.
Prerequisites: Nature Magic or the ability to cast druid or
ranger spells; Vital Strike, Knowledge (nature) 5 ranks.
Benefit: When you use Vital Strike (or Improved Vital
Strike or Greater Vital Strike), the creature you hit with the
attack must succeed at a Will save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your
character level + your Wisdom modifier) or be illuminated as
if by faerie fire for 1 minute. You can use this benefit a number
of times per day equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum
1).
False Opening (Combat)
When you make a ranged attack while threatened, you can
fool your opponent into thinking he has an opening.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge, Close Quarters Thrower or
Point-Blank Master, Weapon Focus with selected ranged
weapon.
Benefit: Choose a ranged weapon or a thrown weapon.
When you make a ranged attack using that weapon, you can
choose to provoke an attack of opportunity from one or more
opponents who threaten you. You gain a +4 dodge bonus
against such attacks. An opponent that makes such an attack
and misses you loses his Dexterity bonus to AC against you
until the end of your turn.
Far Shot (Combat)
You are more accurate at longer ranges.
Prerequisites: Point-Blank Shot.
Benefit: You only suffer a –1 penalty per full range
increment between you and your target when using a ranged
weapon.
Normal: You suffer a –2 penalty per full range increment
between you and your target.
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Felling Escape (Combat)
Through the use of fluid contortions and manipulations of
leverage, you can throw your opponent to the ground after
escaping a grapple.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Trip.
Benefit: When you break an opponent's grapple with a
combat maneuver check or Escape Artist check, you can
spend a swift action to make a trip attempt against that
opponent.
Felling Smash (Combat)
You commit all your focus to a devastating blow, trying to
crush your opponent to the ground.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Str 13, Combat Expertise, Improved
Trip, Power Attack, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: If you use the attack action to make a single melee
attack at your highest base attack bonus while using Power
Attack and you hit an opponent, you can spend a swift action
to attempt a trip combat maneuver against that opponent.
Fencing Grace (Combat)
Your dashing style and f luid rapier forms allow you to use
agility rather than brute force to fell your foes.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus
(rapier).
Benefit: When wielding a rapier one-handed, you can add
your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to
that weapon’s damage. The rapier must be one appropriate
for your size. You do not gain this benefit while fighting with
two weapons or using f lurry of blows, or anytime another
hand is otherwise occupied.
In addition, if you have the panache class feature, you gain
a +2 bonus to your CMD against attempts to disarm you of
your rapier while you have at least 1 panache point.
Feral Combat Training (Combat)
You were taught a style of martial arts that relies on the
natural weapons from your racial ability or class feature.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Weapon Focus
with selected natural weapon.
Benefit: Choose one of your natural weapons. While using
the selected natural weapon, you can apply the effects of feats
that have Improved Unarmed Strike as a prerequisite.
Special: If you are a monk, you can use the selected natural
weapon with your flurry of blows class feature.
Ferocious Tenacity (Combat)
You spit in the face of death.
Prerequisites: Ferocity racial trait, half-orc or orc, rage class
feature.
Benefit: Once per day when raging, if you are hit by an
attack that would deal enough hit points of damage to kill
you (negative hit points equal to your Constitution score), as
an immediate action you may expend 1 or more rounds of
rage to negate some of this damage and keep yourself alive.
Each round of rage you spend reduces the attack's damage by
1 point, but cannot reduce the damage taken below 1 hit
point.
For example, if you are raging, have a raging Constitution
score of 18, are currently at 2 hit points, and take 20 hit points
of damage from a hit (which is enough to bring you to –18 hit
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points, thereby killing you), you may spend 1 round of rage
to reduce the damage by 1 hit point (leaving you perilously
close to death at –17 hit points); if you spend 17 rounds of
rage, you reduce the damage to 1 (the minimum), leaving
you with 1 hit point.
Note: If this damage still makes you fall unconscious, your
rage ends just like it normally would, lowering your
Constitution to its normal value and reducing your hit point
total as normal. Therefore, it is possible to use this feat to
prevent yourself from instantly dying, yet you still die
because your negative hit points exceed your normal
Constitution score—take your normal Constitution into
account when deciding how many rounds of rage to spend
with this feat.
Final Embrace (Combat)
Your coils are particularly deadly, allowing you to constrict
opponents of your size or smaller.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Int 3; naga, serpentfolk, or creature
that has the constrict special attack as a racial ability; base
attack bonus +3.
Benefit: You gain the constrict and grab special attacks.
Your constrict attack deals damage equal to your unarmed
strike or primary natural weapon melee attack. Further, you
can grab and constrict opponents up to your size.
Normal: You can grab and constrict creatures one size
smaller than you.
Final Embrace Horror (Combat)
Your constricting attack has become stronger and more
lethal.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Int 3; naga, serpentfolk, or creature
that has the constrict special attack; Final Embrace; base
attack bonus +6.
Benefit: A creature that takes damage from your constrict
attack is also shaken until the start of your next turn.
Final Embrace Master (Combat)
Few creatures can survive the crushing horror of your Final
Embrace.
Prerequisites: Str 17, Int 3; naga, serpentfolk, or creature
that has the constrict special attack; Final Embrace; Final
Embrace Horror; base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: Double the number of damage dice for your
constrict special attack.
Fire Hand (Combat)
Born with a torch in your hand, you have a gift with
anything that burns.
Prerequisite: Goblin.
Benefit: You can wield a torch as a weapon without taking
the nonproficient penalty and gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls
with melee weapons that deal fire damage.
Flanking Foil (Combat)
Fighting multiple foes is easy for you.
Benefit: Whenever you hit an adjacent opponent with a
melee attack, until the start of your next turn, that opponent
does not gain any flanking bonus on attack rolls while it is
flanking you and cannot deal sneak attack damage to you. It
can still provide a flank for its allies.
Focused Shot (Combat)
Your anatomical insight adds deadliness to your shots.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot.
Benefit: As a standard action, you may make an attack with
a bow or crossbow and add your Intelligence modifier on the
damage roll. You must be within 30 feet of your target to deal
this extra damage. Creatures immune to critical hits and
sneak attacks are immune to this extra damage.
Special: Starting at 2nd level, a ranger with the archery
combat style may select Focused Shot as a combat style feat.
Following Step (Combat)
You can repeatedly close the distance when foes try to move
away, without impeding your normal movement.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Step Up.
Benefit: When using the Step Up feat to follow an adjacent
foe, you may move up to 10 feet. You may still take a 5-foot
step during your next turn, and any movement you make
using this feat does not subtract any distance from your
movement during your next turn.
Normal: You can only take a 5-foot step to follow an
opponent using Step Up.
Fortified Armor Training (Combat)
You have learned to let your armor bear the brunt of the
worst attacks.
Prerequisite: Proficient with armor or shield.
Benefit: If an opponent scores a critical hit against you, you
can turn the critical hit into a normal hit. If you do, either
your armor or your shield gains the broken condition (your
choice).
Furious Focus (Combat)
Even in the midst of fierce and furious blows, you can find
focus in the carnage and your seemingly wild blows strike
home.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: When you are wielding a two-handed weapon or a
one-handed weapon with two hands, and using the Power
Attack feat, you do not suffer Power Attack's penalty on
melee attack rolls on the first attack you make each turn. You
still suffer the penalty on any additional attacks, including
attacks of opportunity.
Gang Up (Combat)
You are adept at using greater numbers against foes.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise.
Benefit: You are considered to be flanking an opponent if at
least two of your allies are threatening that opponent,
regardless of your actual positioning.
Normal: You must be positioned opposite an ally to flank
an opponent.
Giant Killer (Combat)
Your cleaving strokes menace giants and larger foes.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Cleave, Goblin Cleaver, Orc Hewer,
Power Attack, Strike Back, base attack bonus +11, dwarf.
Benefit: This functions as Goblin Cleaver, but your
additional attacks can be made against creatures one size
category larger than you or smaller. In addition, any such
attacks made against humanoids (giant) gain a +2
circumstance bonus on attack rolls.
Gloom Strike (Combat)
Few creatures are as accustomed to fighting in the shadows
as you.
Prerequisites: Blind-Fight, fetchling.
Benefit: When you are within an area of dim light or
darkness, you gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls against enemies
that are also within dim light or darkness.
Gnome Weapon Focus (Combat)
Your extensive training with traditional gnome weapons
gives you an advantage.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, gnome, proficient with
all martial weapons.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls with gnome
weapons (weapons with "gnome" in the title).
Goblin Cleaver (Combat)
You are ferocious at hewing smaller opponents.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Cleave, Power Attack, dwarf.
Benefit: When using Cleave or Great Cleave, if your initial
attack hits, you may take your additional attacks against any
creature smaller than you that you threaten; your targets
need not be adjacent to one another. Additional attacks you
make against humanoids (goblinoid) gain a +2 circumstance
bonus on attack rolls.
Goblin Gunslinger (Combat)
You have learned how to fire the big guns.
Prerequisite: Goblin.
Benefit: You can wield Medium firearms without taking the
penalty for an inappropriately sized weapon.
Normal: You take a –2 penalty when using an
inappropriately sized weapon.
Gorgon's Fist (Combat)
With one well-placed blow, you leave your target reeling.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Scorpion Style,
base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: As a standard action, make a single unarmed melee
attack against a foe whose speed is reduced (such as from
Scorpion Style). If the attack hits, you deal damage normally
and the target is staggered until the end of your next turn
unless it makes a Fortitude saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2 your
character level + your Wis modifier). This feat has no effect
on targets that are staggered.
Gory Finish (Combat)
By drawing upon wells of savagery, you can slay your foe
in creative and horrifyingly gruesome manners, intimidating
nearby foes.
Prerequisites: Dazzling Display, Weapon Focus.
Benefit: When you use the attack action, you can use a
weapon with which you have Weapon Focus to make a single
attack at your highest base attack bonus. If you reduce your
target to negative hit points, you can spend a swift action to
make an Intimidate check to demoralize all foes within 30
feet who could see your attack.
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Graceful Steal (Combat)
You can steal with surprising subtlety.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Agile Maneuvers, Improved Steal,
Sleight of Hand 3 ranks.
Benefit: When attempting Sleight of Hand checks to lift or
palm objects, you can use your Combat Maneuver Bonus for
a steal combat maneuver in place of your Sleight of Hand
modifier, though if you do so, you must use your Dexterity
modifier and not your Strength modifier. You can steal items
with the steal combat maneuver even if they are hidden in a
bag or pack (provided you can reach the item within), but the
opponent gains at least a +5 bonus to its CMD (as for a
fastened object) in this case.
Grasping Strike (Combat)
The surrounding foliage lurches forth at your enemies in
concert with your strikes.
Prerequisites: Nature Magic or the ability to cast druid or
ranger spells; Vital Strike, Knowledge (nature) 5 ranks.
Benefit: When you use Vital Strike (or Improved Vital
Strike or Greater Vital Strike), you cause the foliage in the
area to reach out and entangle your foe (as the condition) if it
fails a Reflex save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your character level + your
Wisdom modifier). The effect lasts for 1 minute or until the
enemy breaks free with a successful Strength check or an
Escape Artist check (DC = the effect's saving throw DC),
whichever comes first.
You can use this benefit a number of times per day equal to
your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). You can use this ability
as a free action after you hit an enemy with an attack. This is
a supernatural ability.
Great Cleave (Combat)
You can strike many adjacent foes with a single blow.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Cleave, Power Attack, base attack
bonus +4.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can make a single attack
at your full base attack bonus against a foe within reach. If
you hit, you deal damage normally and can make an
additional attack (using your full base attack bonus) against a
foe that is adjacent to the previous foe and also within reach.
If you hit, you can continue to make attacks against foes
adjacent to the previous foe, so long as they are within your
reach. You cannot attack an individual foe more than once
during this attack action. When you use this feat, you take a –
2 penalty to your Armor Class until your next turn.
Great Hatred (Combat)
Your rage burns with vast intensity.
Prerequisites: Gnome, hatred racial trait.
Benefit: You gain an additional +1 bonus on melee and
thrown weapon attacks against targets of your hatred racial
trait.
Greater Blind-Fight (Combat)
Your enemies cannot hide from you.
Prerequisites: Perception 15 ranks, Improved Blind-Fight.
Benefit: Your melee attacks ignore the miss chance for less
than total concealment, and you treat opponents with total
concealment as if they had normal concealment (20% miss
chance instead of 50%). You may still reroll a miss chance
percentile roll as normal.
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If you successfully pinpoint an invisible or hidden attacker,
that attacker gets no advantages related to hitting you with
ranged attacks, regardless of the range. That is, you don't lose
your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class, and the attacker
doesn't get the usual +2 bonus for being invisible.
Special: The Greater Blind-Fight feat is of no use against a
character who is the subject of a blink spell.
Greater Bull Rush (Combat)
Your bull rush attacks throw enemies off balance.
Prerequisites: Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack, base
attack bonus +6, Str 13.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to bull
rush a foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by
Improved Bull Rush. Whenever you bull rush an opponent,
his movement provokes attacks of opportunity from all of
your allies (but not you).
Normal: Creatures moved by bull rush do not provoke
attacks of opportunity.
Greater Dirty Trick (Combat)
When you pull a dirty trick, your foe is truly hindered.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Dirty
Trick, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to attempt
a dirty trick. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by
Improved Dirty Trick. Whenever you successfully perform a
dirty trick, the penalty lasts for 1d4 rounds, plus 1 round for
every 5 by which your attack exceeds the target's CMD. In
addition, removing the condition requires the target to spend
a standard action.
Normal: The condition imposed by a dirty trick lasts for 1
round plus 1 round for every 5 by which your attack exceeds
the target's CMD. Removing the condition requires the target
to spend a move action.
Greater Disarm (Combat)
You can knock weapons far from an enemy's grasp.
Prerequisites: Combat Expertise, Improved Disarm, base
attack bonus +6, Int 13.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to disarm a
foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by Improved
Disarm. Whenever you successfully disarm an opponent, the
weapon lands 15 feet away from its previous wielder, in a
random direction.
Normal: Disarmed weapons and gear land at the feet of the
disarmed creature.
Greater Drag (Combat)
Foes that you drag are thrown out of balance.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Improved Drag, Power Attack, base
attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to drag a
foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by Improved
Drag. Whenever you drag a foe, his movement provokes
attacks of opportunity from all of your allies (but not you).
Normal: Creatures moved by drag do not provoke attacks
of opportunity.
Greater Feint (Combat)
You are skilled at making foes overreact to your attacks.
Prerequisites: Combat Expertise, Improved Feint, base
attack bonus +6, Int 13.
Benefit: Whenever you use feint to cause an opponent to
lose his Dexterity bonus, he loses that bonus until the
beginning of your next turn, in addition to losing his
Dexterity bonus against your next attack.
Normal: A creature you feint loses its Dexterity bonus
against your next attack.
Greater Grapple (Combat)
Maintaining a grapple is second nature to you.
Prerequisites: Improved Grapple, Improved Unarmed
Strike, base attack bonus +6, Dex 13.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to grapple
a foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by Improved
Grapple. Once you have grappled a creature, maintaining the
grapple is a move action. This feat allows you to make two
grapple checks each round (to move, harm, or pin your
opponent), but you are not required to make two checks. You
only need to succeed at one of these checks to maintain the
grapple.
Normal: Maintaining a grapple is a standard action.
Greater Overrun (Combat)
Enemies must dive to avoid your dangerous move.
Prerequisites: Improved Overrun, Power Attack, base
attack bonus +6, Str 13.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to overrun
a foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by Improved
Overrun. Whenever you overrun opponents, they provoke
attacks of opportunity if they are knocked prone by your
overrun.
Normal: Creatures knocked prone by your overrun do not
provoke an attack of opportunity.
Greater Penetrating Strike (Combat)
Your attacks penetrate the defenses of most foes.
Prerequisites: Penetrating Strike, Weapon Focus, 16th-level
fighter.
Benefit: Your attacks with weapons selected with Weapon
Focus ignore up to 10 points of damage reduction. This
amount is reduced to 5 points for damage reduction without
a type (such as DR 10/—).
Greater Rending Fury (Combat)
When your claws latch on to an opponent, the effect is
bloody and horrific.
Prerequisites: Improved Rending Fury, Rending Fury, base
attack bonus +12, rend special attack.
Benefit: Whenever you rend an opponent, you deal 1d6
bleed damage to that opponent. This is an addition to the
effects of the rend.
Greater Reposition (Combat)
When you reposition foes, they are left vulnerable to the
attacks of your allies.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved
Reposition, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to
reposition a foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by
Improved Reposition. Whenever you reposition a foe, his
movement provokes attacks of opportunity from all of your
allies (but not you).
Normal: Creatures moved by reposition do not provoke
attacks of opportunity.
Greater Shield Focus (Combat)
You are skilled at deflecting blows with your shield.
Prerequisites: Shield Focus, Shield Proficiency, base attack
bonus +1, 8th-level fighter.
Benefit: Increase the AC bonus granted by any shield you
are using by 1. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by
Shield Focus.
Greater Shield Specialization (Combat)
Your masterful shieldwork provides even greater protection
to your vital areas.
Prerequisites: Proficiency with selected shield, Greater
Shield Focus, Shield Focus, Shield Specialization with
selected shield, fighter level 12th.
Benefit: Choose one type of shield (buckler, light, heavy, or
tower shield) for which you possess the Shield Specialization
feat. With the selected shield, you gain a +2 bonus to your
Armor Class against critical hit confirmation rolls (this bonus
stacks with that from Shield Specialization). In addition, once
per day you may negate a critical hit, and damage is instead
rolled normally.
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 shield.
Greater Snap Shot (Combat)
You can prey on any gap in your foe's guard with impunity,
and with even greater range.
Prerequisites: Dex 17, Improved Snap Shot, Point-Blank
Shot, Rapid Shot, Snap Shot, base attack bonus +12.
Benefit: Whenever you make an attack of opportunity
using a ranged weapon and hit, you gain a +2 bonus on the
damage roll and a +2 bonus on rolls to confirm a critical hit
with that attack. These bonuses increase to +4 when you have
base attack bonus +16, and to +6 when you have base attack
bonus +20.
Greater Steal (Combat)
You have a knack for snatching items from your opponents
in combat.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Steal,
base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to steal an
item from a foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by
Improved Steal. If you successfully steal an item from a foe
during combat, it does not notice the theft until after combat
is over or if it attempts to use the missing item.
Normal: Creatures automatically notice items taken from
them through the steal combat maneuver.
Greater Sunder (Combat)
Your devastating strikes cleave through weapons and
armor and into their wielders, damaging both item and
wielder alike in a single terrific strike.
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 Prerequisites: Improved Sunder, Power Attack, base attack
bonus +6, Str 13.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to sunder
an item. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by
Improved Sunder. Whenever you sunder to destroy a
weapon, shield, or suit of armor, any excess damage is
applied to the item's wielder. No damage is transferred if you
decide to leave the item with 1 hit point.
Greater Trip (Combat)
You can make free attacks on foes that you knock down.
Prerequisites: Combat Expertise, Improved Trip, base
attack bonus +6, Int 13.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to trip a
foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by Improved
Trip. Whenever you successfully trip an opponent, that
opponent provokes attacks of opportunity.
Normal: Creatures do not provoke attacks of opportunity
from being tripped.
Greater Two-Weapon Fighting (Combat)
You are incredibly skilled at fighting with two weapons at
the same time.
Prerequisites: Dex 19, Improved 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.
Greater Vital Strike (Combat)
You can make a single attack that deals incredible damage.
Prerequisites: Improved Vital Strike, Vital Strike, base
attack bonus +16.
Benefit: When you use the attack action, you can make one
attack at your highest base attack bonus that deals additional
damage. Roll the weapon's damage dice for the attack four
times and add the results together before adding bonuses
from Strength, weapon abilities (such as flaming), precision
based damage, and other damage bonuses. These extra
weapon damage dice are not multiplied on a critical hit, but
are added to the total.
Greater Weapon Focus (Combat)
Choose one type of weapon (including unarmed strike or
grapple) for which you have already selected Weapon Focus.
You are a master at your chosen weapon.
Prerequisites: Proficiency with selected weapon, Weapon
Focus with selected weapon, base attack bonus +1, 8th-level
fighter.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls you make using
the selected weapon. This bonus stacks with other bonuses on
attack rolls, including those from Weapon Focus.
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.
Greater Weapon of the Chosen (Combat)
Your deity guides your hand when you fight with her
favored weapon.
Prerequisites: Improved Weapon of the Chosen, Weapon
Focus with deity's favored weapon, Weapon of the Chosen,
must worship and receive spells from a deity.
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Benefit: When you use your deity's favored weapon to
attempt a single attack with the attack action, you roll two
dice for your attack roll and take the higher result. You do
not need to use your Weapon of the Chosen feat to gain this
feat's benefit. As usual, the reroll does not apply to any
confirmation rolls.
Greater Weapon Specialization (Combat)
Choose one type of weapon (including unarmed strike or
grapple) for which you possess the Weapon Specialization
feat. Your attacks with the chosen weapon are more
devastating than normal.
Prerequisites: Proficiency with selected weapon, Greater
Weapon Focus with selected weapon, Weapon Focus with
selected weapon, Weapon Specialization with selected
weapon, 12th-level fighter.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on all damage rolls you make
using the selected weapon. This bonus to damage stacks with
other damage roll bonuses, including any you gain from
Weapon Specialization.
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.
Greater Whip Mastery (Combat)
You can use a whip to make combat maneuvers with ease.
Prerequisites: Improved Whip Mastery, Weapon Focus
(whip), Whip Mastery, base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: You are so quick with your whip that you never
drop it due to a failed disarm or trip combat maneuver
attempt. Further, you gain the ability to grapple using your
whip. To do so, use the normal grapple rules with the
following changes.
Attack: You cannot use your whip to attack while you are
using it to grapple an opponent.
Damage: When dealing damage to your grappled opponent,
you deal your whip's weapon damage rather than your
unarmed strike damage.
Free Hands: You take no penalty on your combat maneuver
check for having fewer than two hands free when you use
your whip to grapple.
Reach: Rather than pulling your grappled opponent adjacent
to you when you successfully grapple and when you move
the grapple, you must keep him within your whip's reach
minus his own reach to maintain the grapple. If the difference
in reach is less than 0, such as is the case for a Medium whip
wielder and a Gargantuan creature, you cannot grapple that
opponent with your whip. If you have to pull a creature
adjacent to you to grapple it with your whip, you still
provoke an attack of opportunity from that opponent unless
you have the Improved Grapple feat.
Tie Up: While adjacent to your opponent, you can attempt to
use your whip to tie him up. If you do so to an opponent you
have grappled rather than pinned, you take only a –5 penalty
on the combat maneuver check rather than the normal –10.
Grudge Fighter (Combat)
You feel great anger at anyone who dares to attack you, and
this fury makes your own attacks that much stronger.
Prerequisite: Orc.
 Benefit: You gain a +1 morale bonus on attack and damage
rolls made against any creature that attacked you in the
current combat.
Gruesome Slaughter (Combat)
You can inspire extreme revulsion when you slaughter your
enemies.
Prerequisites: Intimidating Prowess, Killing Flourish,
Intimidate 11 ranks, slayer level 11th.
Benefit: Creatures you demoralize by using the Killing
Flourish feat must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC = 10 + 1/2
your character level + the higher of your Strength and
Dexterity modifiers) or become sickened for 1 minute.
Hammer the Gap (Combat)
You repeatedly strike the same location, causing increasing
amounts of damage.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you take a full-attack action, each
consecutive hit against the same opponent deals extra
damage equal to the number of previous consecutive hits you
have made against that opponent this turn. This damage is
multiplied on a critical hit.
Hard-Headed (Combat)
Your thick skull is almost a weapon unto itself.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, dwarf.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls and combat
maneuver checks made using a helmet. You receive a +2
bonus on saves against spells and special abilities that cause
you to become staggered or stunned.
Haunted Gnome (Combat)
You use your gnome magic to take on an eerie illusory
appearance.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, gnome magic racial trait, Knowledge
(arcana) 1 rank.
Benefit: You add haunted fey aspect to your list of gnome
magic spell-like abilities, and you can use this spell-like
ability twice per day.
Haunted Gnome Assault (Combat)
Discharging your disturbing glamer as you strike a telling
blow, you haunt a foe with lingering fear.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, gnome magic racial trait, Haunted
Gnome, Knowledge (arcana) 3 ranks.
Benefit: You gain one use of your gnome magic that is
independent of your gnome magic spell-like abilities. When
you wish to cast a gnome magic spell-like ability for which
you have no daily uses remaining, you can expend this
independent use to do so.
Further, while you are under the effect of haunted fey aspect,
you can discharge that spell as a free action after you hit an
opponent with a charge attack or score a critical hit against an
opponent. If you do, that opponent becomes shaken for 1
round.
Haunted Gnome Shroud (Combat)
Your disturbing glamer expands to make your exact
location hard to pinpoint.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, gnome magic racial trait, Haunted
Gnome, Haunted Gnome Assault, Knowledge (arcana) 6
ranks.
Benefit: You gain another independent use of your gnome
magic like that which Haunted Gnome Assault grants.
Further, while you are under the effect of haunted fey aspect,
you also have concealment (20% miss chance) against an
opponent until that opponent deals you damage.
Hex Strike (Combat)
Chanting and cursing, you put a hex on your enemy as part
of your unarmed strike.
Prerequisites: Hex class feature, Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: When you gain this feat, choose one hex that you
can use to affect no more than one opponent. If you make a
successful unarmed strike against an opponent, in addition to
dealing your unarmed strike damage, you can use a swift
action to deliver the effects of the chosen hex to that
opponent. Doing so does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you take it, you apply it to a different qualifying hex.
Horse Master (Combat)
You blend horsemanship skills from disparate traditions
into a seamless mounted combat technique.
Prerequisites: Expert trainer class feature, Ride 6 ranks.
Benefit: Use your character level to determine your
effective druid level for determining the powers and abilities
of your mount.
Normal: You use your cavalier level to determine your
effective druid level for determining the powers and abilities
of your mount.
Improved Awesome Blow (Combat)
You are skilled at sending your opponents flying.
Prerequisites: Str 13; Awesome Blow or awesome blow
class feature; Power Attack
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks to perform an
awesome blow combat maneuver. You also gain a +2 bonus
to your combat maneuver defense whenever an opponent
tries to perform an awesome blow combat maneuver against
you. Whenever you successfully perform an awesome blow
combat maneuver, your opponent's movement provokes
attacks of opportunity from all your allies (but not from you).
Normal: Creatures moved by awesome blow do not
provoke attacks of opportunity.
Improved Blind-Fight (Combat)
Your keen senses guide your hand against hidden foes.
Prerequisites: Perception 10 ranks, Blind-Fight.
Benefit: Your melee attacks ignore the miss chance for less
than total concealment. You may still reroll your miss chance
percentile roll for total concealment.
If you successfully pinpoint an invisible or hidden attacker
within 30 feet, that attacker gets no advantages related to
hitting you with ranged attacks. That is, you don't lose your
Dexterity bonus to Armor Class, and the attacker doesn't get
the usual +2 bonus for being invisible.
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 Special: The Improved Blind-Fight feat is of no use against
a character who is the subject of a blink spell.
Improved Bull Rush (Combat)
You are skilled at pushing your foes around.
Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a bull rush combat maneuver. In addition, you
receive a +2 bonus on checks made to bull rush a foe. You
also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense
whenever an opponent tries to bull rush you.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a bull rush combat maneuver.
Improved Bravery (Combat)
Your bravery protects you from more than just fear.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, bravery class feature.
Benefit: Add your bravery bonus against all mind-affecting
effects instead of just against fear.
Improved Charging Hurler (Combat)
Every muscle in your body adds its force to your thrown
weapons.
Prerequisites: Charging Hurler, Point-Blank Shot.
Benefit: When you use Charging Hurler, your target can be
at any range up to your weapon's maximum range. If your
target is within 30 feet, you gain a +2 bonus on damage rolls.
Normal: Using Charging Hurler requires you to end your
movement within 30 feet of your opponent.
Improved Cleaving Finish (Combat)
You can cut down many opponents in a single strike.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Cleave, Cleaving Finish, Great Cleave,
Power Attack, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You can use Cleaving Finish any number of times
per round.
Improved Critical (Combat)
Attacks made with your chosen weapon are quite deadly.
Prerequisite: 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.
Improved Devastating Strike (Combat)
The fury and power channeled through your attack is
enough to kill a lesser being outright.
Prerequisites: Devastating Strike, Vital Strike, base attack
bonus +13.
Benefit: Whenever you use Vital Strike, Improved Vital
Strike, or Greater Vital Strike, you gain a bonus on attack
rolls to confirm a critical hit equal to the bonus on damage
rolls you gain from Devastating Strike.
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Improved Dirty Trick (Combat)
You are skilled at pulling dirty tricks on your foes.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a dirty trick combat maneuver. In addition, you
receive a +2 bonus on checks made to attempt a dirty trick.
You also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver
Defense when an opponent tries a dirty trick on you.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a dirty trick combat maneuver.
Improved Disarm (Combat)
You are skilled at knocking weapons from a foe's grasp.
Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a disarm combat maneuver. In addition, you
receive a +2 bonus on checks made to disarm a foe. You also
receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense
whenever an opponent tries to disarm you.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a disarm combat maneuver.
Improved Drag (Combat)
You are skilled at dragging foes around the battlefield.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a drag combat maneuver. In addition, you
receive a +2 bonus on checks made to drag a foe. You also
receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense when
an opponent tries to drag you.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a drag combat maneuver.
Improved Feint (Combat)
You are skilled at fooling your opponents in combat.
Prerequisites: 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.
Improved Grapple (Combat)
You are skilled at grappling opponents.
Prerequisite: Dex 13, Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a grapple combat maneuver. In addition, you
receive a +2 bonus on checks made to grapple a foe. You also
receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense
whenever an opponent tries to grapple you.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a grapple combat maneuver.
Improved Initiative (Combat)
Your quick reflexes allow you to react rapidly to danger.
Benefit: You get a +4 bonus on initiative checks.
Improved Ki Throw (Combat)
Your enemies are living weapons in your hands.
Prerequisites: Improved Bull Rush, Ki Throw.
 Benefit: When using the Ki Throw feat, you may throw
your target into any square you threaten that is occupied by
another creature. Make a bull rush combat maneuver check
with a –4 penalty against the secondary target. If this check
succeeds, the thrown creature lands prone in the secondary
target's square, while the secondary target is pushed back
and knocked prone in an adjacent square. If the check fails,
the thrown creature lands prone in the nearest square you
threaten adjacent to the secondary target.
If you throw a Large or larger creature into an area
containing multiple secondary targets, you take an additional
penalty of –4 on your combat maneuver check for each target
after the first.
Special: A monk may take this as a bonus feat at 14th level.
Improved Low Blow (Combat)
You are adept at hitting larger opponents where it hurts.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +4, halfling, low-blow
racial trait.
Benefit: Your bonus to confirm critical hits against
opponents larger than yourself improves to +2. Furthermore,
once per day, after you fail to hit with a critical hit
confirmation roll, you can reroll the confirmation roll, but
must take the new result even if it is worse.
Improved Overrun (Combat)
You are skilled at running down your foes.
Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing an overrun combat maneuver. In addition, you
receive a +2 bonus on checks made to overrun a foe. You also
receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense
whenever an opponent tries to overrun you. Targets of your
overrun attempt may not chose to avoid you.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing an overrun combat maneuver.
Improved Precise Shot (Combat)
Your ranged attacks ignore anything but total concealment
and cover.
Prerequisites: Dex 19, Point-Blank 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.
Normal: See the normal rules on the effects of cover and
concealment in Combat.
Improved Rending Fury (Combat)
Honing the deadliness of your claws, you are a living
hurricane of rending fury.
Prerequisites: Rending Fury, base attack bonus +9, rend
special attack.
Benefit: Whenever you successfully rend an opponent, you
deal an extra 1d6 damage. This damage is not multiplied on a
critical hit.
Improved Reposition (Combat)
You have learned how to force your enemies to move
around the battlefield.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a reposition combat maneuver. In addition, you
receive a +2 bonus on checks made to reposition a foe. You
also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense
when an opponent tries to reposition you.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a reposition combat maneuver.
Improved Sabotaging Sunder (Combat)
You become further adept at sabotaging your foes’ items.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Improved Sunder, Power Attack,
Sabotaging Sunder, Disable Device 9 ranks.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing the special sunder combat maneuver from the
Sabotaging Sunder feat. In addition, you can attempt to use
that maneuver on items held by the target, but you still
cannot do so against items hidden in a bag, a pack, or another
container.
Improved Second Chance (Combat)
You can turn a missed strike into a second chance without
sacrificing later attacks.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Second Chance,
base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: When you reroll a missed attack using the Second
Chance feat, you can still make the rest of your attacks that
turn, albeit at a –5 penalty to each attack.
Normal: When using the Second Chance feat, you must
normally forgo the rest of your attacks that turn.
Improved Shield Bash (Combat)
You can protect yourself with your shield, even if you use it
to attack.
Prerequisite: 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 that performs a
shield bash loses the shield's shield bonus to AC until his
next turn (see Equipment).
Improved Sidestep (Combat)
You are adept at sidestepping your opponent's melee
attacks without compromising your mobility.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Dodge, Mobility, Sidestep.
Benefit: After sidestepping an opponent's missed attack
using the Sidestep feat, you may still take a 5-foot step during
your next turn, or you may move up to your full speed if you
take an action to move during your next turn.
Normal: If you use the Sidestep feat, you cannot take a 5-
foot step during your next turn.
Improved Snap Shot (Combat)
You can take advantage of your opponent's vulnerabilities
from a greater distance, and without exposing yourself.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Point-Blank Shot, Rapid Shot, Snap
Shot, Weapon Focus, base attack bonus +9.
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 Benefit: You threaten an additional 5 feet with Snap Shot.
Normal: Making a ranged attack provokes attacks of
opportunity.
Improved Steal (Combat)
You have a knack for snatching items from your opponents.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a steal combat maneuver. In addition, you receive
a +2 bonus on checks made to steal an item from a foe. You
also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense
when an opponent tries to steal an item from you.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a steal combat maneuver.
Improved Sunder (Combat)
You are skilled at damaging your foes' weapons and armor.
Prerequisite: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a sunder combat maneuver. In addition, you
receive a +2 bonus on checks made to sunder an item. You
also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense
whenever an opponent tries to sunder your gear.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a sunder combat maneuver.
Improved Surprise Follow-Through (Combat)
You follow up an attack with a surprising series of
sweeping blows.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Cleave, Great Cleave, Power Attack,
Surprise Follow Through, base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: When using Great Cleave, each opponent you
attack on your turn (other than the first) is denied his
Dexterity bonus against you.
Improved Trip (Combat)
You are skilled at sending your opponents to the ground.
Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a trip combat maneuver. In addition, you receive
a +2 bonus on checks made to trip a foe. You also receive a +2
bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense whenever an
opponent tries to trip you.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when
performing a trip combat maneuver.
Improved Two-Weapon Feint (Combat)
Your primary weapon keeps a foe off balance, allowing you
to slip your off-hand weapon past his defenses.
Prerequisites: Dex 17, Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved
Two-Weapon Fighting, Two-Weapon Feint, Two-Weapon
Fighting, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: While using Two-Weapon Fighting to make melee
attacks, you can forgo your first primary-hand melee attack
to make a Bluff check to feint an opponent. If you
successfully feint, that opponent is denied his Dexterity
bonus to AC until the end of your turn.
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Improved Two-Weapon Fighting (Combat)
You are skilled at fighting with two weapons.
Prerequisites: Dex 17, Two-Weapon Fighting, 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.
Improved Unarmed Strike (Combat)
You are skilled at fighting while unarmed.
Benefit: You are considered to be armed even when
unarmed—you do not provoke attacks of opportunity when
you attack foes while unarmed. Your unarmed strikes can
deal lethal or nonlethal damage, at your choice.
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.
Improved Vital Strike (Combat)
You can make a single attack that deals a large amount of
damage.
Prerequisites: Vital Strike, base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: When you use the attack action, you can make one
attack at your highest base attack bonus that deals additional
damage. Roll the weapon's damage dice for the attack three
times and add the results together before adding bonuses
from Strength, weapon special abilities (such as flaming),
precision based damage, and other damage bonuses. These
extra weapon damage dice are not multiplied on a critical hit,
but are added to the total.
Improved Weapon of the Chosen (Combat)
You gain even greater favor when you use your deity's
favored weapon.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus with your deity's favored
weapon, Weapon of the Chosen.
Benefit: This feat acts as Weapon of the Chosen, except you
gain the benefits on all attacks until the start of your next
turn. Your attacks gain a single alignment component of your
deity—either chaotic, evil, good, or lawful—for the purpose
of overcoming damage reduction. If your deity is neutral
with no other alignment components, your attacks instead
overcome damage reduction as though your weapon were
both cold iron and silver.
Improved Whip Mastery (Combat)
You are able to entangle opponents with the coils of your
whip.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus (whip), Whip Mastery, base
attack bonus +5.
Benefit: While wielding a whip, you threaten the area of
your natural reach plus 5 feet. You can also use a whip to
grasp an unattended Small or Tiny object within your whip's
reach and pull that object into your square. To do so, you
must hit AC 10 with a melee touch attack. Further, you can
use the whip to grasp onto an object within your whip's
reach, using 5 feet of your whip as if it were a grappling
hook, allowing you to use the rest of your whip to swing on
like a rope. As a free action, you can release the object your
whip is grasping, but you cannot use the whip to attack while
the whip is grasping an object.
Improvised Weapon Mastery (Combat)
You can turn nearly any object into a deadly weapon, from
a razor-sharp chair leg to a sack of flour.
Prerequisites: Catch Off-Guard or Throw Anything, base
attack bonus +8.
Benefit: You do not suffer any penalties for using an
improvised weapon. Increase the amount of damage dealt by
the improvised weapon by one step (for example, 1d4
becomes 1d6) to a maximum of 1d8 (2d6 if the improvised
weapon is two-handed). The improvised weapon has a
critical threat range of 19–20, with a critical multiplier of ×2.
In Harm's Way (Combat)
You put yourself in danger's path to save your allies.
Prerequisite: Bodyguard.
Benefit: While using the aid another action to improve an
adjacent ally's AC, you can intercept a successful attack
against that ally as an immediate action, taking full damage
from that attack and any associated effects (bleed, poison,
etc.). A creature cannot benefit from this feat more than once
per attack.
Incite Paranoia (Combat)
You can convince anyone of her allies’ ill intent.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Deceitful, Greater
Feint, Improved Feint, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you successfully feint in combat, if you
succeed by 5 or more, the target no longer provides f lanking
to its allies and no longer gains or grants the benefits of
teamwork feats until the beginning of your next turn. In
addition, when you attempt a Bluff check to lie and the lie
implies that one or more of the target’s allies have betrayed
her or are secretly against her, your lie is one step more
believable than normal, from far-fetched to unlikely and from
unlikely to believable (if the lie was already less believable
than far-fetched, this feat has no effect).
Inner Flame (Combat)
Your body generates so much heat that your mere touch
scorches your enemies.
Prerequisites: Scorching Weapons, character level 7th, ifrit.
Benefit: Your bonus on saves against fire attacks and spells
with the fire descriptor or light descriptor increases to +4.
When you use Scorching Weapons, the affected weapons deal
an additional 1d6 points of fire damage instead of 1, and
when you are grappling, you deal this damage to your
grappling opponent on your turn.
Inspiring Bravery (Combat)
Your bravery inspires bravery in others.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, bravery class feature.
Benefit: As long as you are conscious and not stunned,
dazed, or confused, allies within 30 feet who can see and hear
you gain your bravery bonus on saving throws against fear. If
you have Improved Bravery, they gain your bravery bonus
on saving throws against all mind-affecting effects. If you
have Social Bravery, your bravery bonus is added to the DC
of checks to demoralize them, feint against them, change their
attitude, or convince them to perform a request.
Intimidating Prowess (Combat)
Your physical might is intimidating to others.
Benefit: Add your Strength modifier to Intimidate skill
checks in addition to your Charisma modifier.
Jawbreaker (Combat)
You deliver a powerful strike to the mouth, breaking teeth
and bone.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist,
Heal 6 ranks.
Benefit: When you make a successful Stunning Fist attempt
against an opponent that is grappled, helpless, or stunned,
instead of imparting any other Stunning Fist effect, you can
cripple that opponent's mouth, dealing normal unarmed
strike damage and 1d4 points of bleed damage. Until the
bleed damage ends, the target is unable to use its mouth to
attack, speak clearly, and employ verbal spell components. A
creature that is immune to critical hits or that has no
discernible mouth is immune to the effects of this feat.
Ki Throw (Combat)
Your physical control and mastery of momentum allows
you to throw enemies.
Prerequisites: Improved Trip, Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: On a successful unarmed trip attack against a
target your size or smaller, you may throw the target prone in
any square you threaten rather than its own square. This
movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity, and you
cannot throw the creature into a space occupied by other
creatures.
Special: A monk may gain Ki Throw as a bonus feat at 10th
level. A monk with this feat can affect creatures larger than
his own size by spending 1 ki point per size category
difference.
Kick Up (Combat)
You have learned how to kick items on the ground up to a
ready hand.
Prerequisites: Dex 12, Acrobatic, Acrobatics 1 rank; slayer
level 1st or swashbuckler level 1st.
Benefit: As long as you have at least one hand free, you can
use a swift action to retrieve a single unattended item or
weapon that weighs 10 pounds or less from the ground,
either in your square or in any adjacent square not occupied
or threatened by an enemy. Additionally, when you kick up a
weapon and attempt a feint before the end of your turn, you
receive a +2 circumstance bonus on the feint attempt.
Killing Flourish (Combat)
You inspire dread in other foes when you slay an enemy.
Prerequisites: Intimidating Prowess, Intimidate 4 ranks,
slayer level 4th.
Benefit: When you reduce your target to fewer than 0 hit
points with a melee attack, as a swift action you can attempt
an Intimidate check to demoralize all foes within 30 feet who
can see your attack.
Kobold Ambusher (Combat)
You are adept at moving fast and staying hidden.
Prerequisites: Stealth 4 ranks, kobold.
Benefit: You take no penalty on Stealth checks when you
move up to your full speed. You can use the run or charge
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action and remain hidden, taking a –10 penalty on the check
to do so.
Normal: When moving greater than half speed up to your
full speed, you take a –5 penalty on Stealth checks. When you
are able to run or charge while using Stealth, you take a –20
penalty on the Stealth check.
Kobold Sniper (Combat)
You snipe quickly, making it harder for others to find the
location of your attack.
Prerequisites: Stealth 1 rank, kobold.
Benefit: When you are sniping, you only take a –10 penalty
on your Stealth checks to stay hidden.
Normal: You take a –20 penalty on your Stealth check to
maintain your obscured location while sniping.
Landing Roll (Combat)
You have learned the technique of rolling safely away when
an enemy trips you.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility.
Benefit: If you are tripped, you can spend an immediate
action to move 5 feet without provoking an attack of
opportunity. This does not count as taking a 5-foot step. You
fall prone after this movement.
Lightning Stance (Combat)
The speed at which you move makes it nearly impossible
for opponents to strike you.
Prerequisites: Dex 17, Dodge, Wind Stance, base attack
bonus +11.
Benefit: If you take two actions to move or a withdraw
action in a turn, you gain 50% concealment for 1 round.
Low Profile (Combat)
Yours small stature helps you avoid ranged attacks.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Small size or smaller.
Benefit: You gain a +1 dodge bonus to AC against ranged
attacks. In addition, you do not provide soft cover to
creatures when ranged attacks pass through your square.
Lucky Strike (Combat)
Your luck increases the potency of your weapon attacks.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +5, adaptive luck racial
trait, halfling.
Benefit: Spend a use of your adaptive luck racial trait to
reroll the damage from a single weapon attack. You deal
damage equal to the new damage roll, or the original roll,
whichever is greater.
Lunge (Combat)
You can strike foes that would normally be out of reach.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You can increase the reach of your melee attacks by
5 feet until the end of your turn by taking a –2 penalty to
your AC until your next turn. You must decide to use this
ability before any attacks are made.
Manyshot (Combat)
You can fire multiple arrows at a single target.
Prerequisites: Dex 17, Point-Blank Shot, Rapid Shot, base
attack bonus +6.
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Benefit: When making a full-attack action with a bow, your
first attack fires two arrows. If the attack hits, both arrows hit.
Apply precision-based damage (such as sneak attack) and
critical hit damage only once for this attack. Damage bonuses
from using a composite bow with a high Strength bonus
apply to each arrow, as do other damage bonuses, such as a
ranger's favored enemy bonus. Damage reduction and
resistances apply separately to each arrow.
Martial Weapon Proficiency (Combat)
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 (without the non-proficient penalty).
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.
Master Combat Performer (Combat)
You are a master of the techniques and weapons of the
arena and the stage.
Prerequisites: Performing Combatant or at least three
performance feats, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You can make performance combat checks as a free
action. You are proficient in all weapons with the
performance special quality.
Master Siege Engineer (Combat)
You are significantly faster at loading a siege engine, as well
as a better shot.
Prerequisites: Siege Weapon Engineer, Knowledge
(engineering) 10 ranks.
Benefit: If you are the crew lead on a siege engine, your
crew can use move actions to load a siege engine. When you
spend actions to aim a siege engine, you and your crew can
use move actions instead of full-round actions to aim the
siege engine.
Normal: Full-round actions are required to load and aim
siege engines.
Medusa's Wrath (Combat)
You can take advantage of your opponent's confusion,
delivering multiple blows.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Gorgon's Fist,
Scorpion Style, base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: Whenever you use the full-attack action and make
at least one unarmed strike, you can make two additional
unarmed strikes at your highest base attack bonus. These
bonus attacks must be made against a dazed, flat-footed,
paralyzed, staggered, stunned, or unconscious foe.
Merciless Butchery (Combat)
Your talent for slaughter lets you dispatch helpless
opponents before they can recover.
Prerequisites: Dastardly Finish, sneak attack +5d6, studied
target class feature.
 Benefit: As a standard action that does not provoke attacks
of opportunity, you can attempt a coup de grace against a
cowering, helpless, or stunned opponent that you have
designated as your studied target.
Missile Shield (Combat)
You are skilled at deflecting ranged attacks with your
shield.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Shield Focus.
Benefit: You must be using a light, heavy, or tower shield to
use this feat. Once per round when you would normally be
hit with an attack from a ranged weapon (not including spell
effects, natural attacks, or massive ranged weapons), you
may deflect it so that you take no damage, as if you had the
Deflect Arrows feat. You must be aware of the attack and not
flat-footed.
Martial Dominance (Combat)
Your skill at arms intimidates your foes.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +5, Intimidate 1 rank.
Benefit: You can use your base attack bonus in place of
your ranks in Intimidate to determine your Intimidate skill
bonus. When you confirm a critical hit against a creature, you
can attempt an Intimidate check to demoralize that creature
as an immediate action.
Martial Mastery (Combat)
You broaden your study of weapons to encompass multiple
similar weapons.
Prerequisites: Martial Versatility, fighter level 16th, human.
Benefit: Each combat feat you have that applies to a specific
weapon (e.g., Weapon Focus) can be used with all weapons
in the same weapon group.
Martial Versatility (Combat)
You further broaden your study of weapons to encompass
multiple similar weapons.
Prerequisites: Fighter level 4th, human.
Benefit: Choose one combat feat you know that applies to a
specific weapon (e.g., Weapon Focus). You can use that feat
with any weapon within the same weapon group.
Special: You may take this feat more than once. Each time it
applies to a different feat.
Measure Foe (Combat)
You can read a foe’s martial skill from its body language.
Prerequisite: Street Smarts, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You can attempt a Sense Motive check as a free
action to deduce a foe’s martial training after observing the
foe’s movements for at least 1 minute or observing the foe’s
attacks for at least 2 rounds. You take a –10 penalty on your
check if you are observing movements, rather than attacks.
The DC equals 20 + the creature’s base attack bonus or 10 +
the creature’s Bluff or Disguise modifier, whichever is higher.
If you succeed, you learn the foe’s base attack bonus and
one combat feat it has, and you learn an additional combat
feat it has for every 5 points by which you exceed the DC.
You also gain a +1 insight bonus on attack rolls against that
foe and to your AC against that foe until the foe gains a level
or otherwise improves its abilities. If you fail this check
against a particular foe, you can’t try again against that foe
until you gain more ranks in Sense Motive.
Misdirection Attack (Combat)
After misdirecting your opponent’s weapon attack, you
leave your opponent open to further violence.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Deceitful,
Misdirection Redirection, Misdirection Tactics, Bluff 10 ranks.
Benefit: When you successfully use the Misdirection Tactics
feat to negate a melee weapon attack, the opponent whose
attack you negated provokes an attack of opportunity from
you, even though you normally can’t take attacks of
opportunity while using the total defense action. This effect is
in addition to the effect gained from Misdirection
Redirection.
Misdirection Redirection (Combat)
After misdirecting your opponent’s weapon attack, you
trick it into striking someone else.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Misdirection
Tactics, Deceitful, Bluff 10 ranks.
Benefit: When you successfully use the Misdirection Tactics
feat to negate a melee weapon attack, you redirect your foe’s
attack and trick your foe into striking another creature of
your choice within the foe’s melee reach. To resolve this
attack, your foe must make a new attack roll against the new
target.
Misdirection Tactics (Combat)
You have learned to use deception and trickery to misdirect
your opponent’s weapon attack.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Deceitful, Bluff 4
ranks.
Benefit: While you are using the total defense action, if a
melee attack would still hit your AC, you can attempt a Bluff
check with a DC equal to the foe’s attack roll as an immediate
action. If you succeed at the check, you negate the attack
(treat it as a miss). If the attack still hits, you cannot use this
feat against the same opponent for 24 hours.
Mobility (Combat)
You can easily move through a dangerous melee.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge.
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.
Monastic Legacy (Combat)
Your formal unarmed training continues to bolster your
training in other areas.
Prerequisites: Still mind class feature, Improved Unarmed
Strike.
Benefit: Add half the levels you have in classes other than
monk to your monk level to determine your effective monk
level for your base unarmed strike damage. This feat does not
make levels in classes other than monk count toward any
other monk class features.
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Moonlight Stalker (Combat)
You are adept at using shadows to conceal your attacks.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Blind-Fight, Combat Expertise, Bluff 3
ranks, darkvision or low-light vision racial trait.
Benefit: While you have concealment from an opponent,
you gain a +2 bonus on attack and damage rolls against that
opponent.
Moonlight Stalker Feint (Combat)
You strike through the shadows so quickly that your
opponent can barely react to your attacks.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Blind-Fight, Combat Expertise,
Improved Feint, Moonlight Stalker, Bluff 6 ranks, darkvision
or low-light vision racial trait.
Benefit: Once per round, against an opponent from whom
you have concealment, you can spend a swift action to make
a Bluff check to feint.
Normal: Feinting is a standard action.
Moonlight Stalker Master (Combat)
You leave your opponents swinging at shadows while you
slide elusively through the darkness.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Blind-Fight, Combat Expertise,
Improved Feint, Moonlight Stalker, Moonlight Stalker Feint,
Bluff 9 ranks, darkvision or low-light vision racial trait.
Benefit: While you have concealment, your opponents' miss
chance against you increases by 10%. If an opponent misses
you due to your concealment, you can spend an immediate
action to move 5 feet, this movement does not provoke
attacks of opportunity and does not count as a 5-foot step.
Mounted Archery (Combat)
You are skilled at making ranged attacks while mounted.
Prerequisites: Ride 1 rank, Mounted Combat.
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.
Mounted Combat (Combat)
You are adept at guiding your mount through combat.
Prerequisite: Ride 1 rank.
Benefit: Once per round when your mount is hit in combat,
you may attempt a Ride check (as an immediate action) to
negate the hit. The hit is negated if your Ride check result is
greater than the opponent's attack roll.
Mounted Shield (Combat)
Your defensive tactics defend both you and your mount.
Prerequisites: Mounted Combat, Shield Focus.
Benefit: You may add your base shield bonus (including
the bonus from Shield Focus but not including enhancement
bonuses) to your mount's AC. In addition, you may add this
bonus when making a Ride check to negate a hit against your
mount using the Mounted Combat feat.
Mounted Skirmisher (Combat)
You are adept at attacking from upon a swift moving steed.
Prerequisites: Ride rank 14, Mounted Combat, Trick
Riding.
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Benefit: If your mount moves its speed or less, you can still
take a full-attack action.
Normal: If your mount moves more than 5 feet, you can
only take an attack action.
Neckbreaker (Combat)
With a quick jerk, you snap an enemy's neck.
Prerequisites: Bonebreaker, Greater Grapple, Improved
Grapple, Improved Unarmed Strike, Jawbreaker, Stunning
Fist, Heal 12 ranks.
Benefit: If you have an opponent your size or smaller
helpless or pinned, after you initiate or maintain a grapple,
you can make a Stunning Fist attempt at a –5 penalty on the
attack roll. If you succeed, you wrench that opponent's neck,
dealing 2d6 Strength or Dexterity damage. If the targeted
ability score is reduced to 0, any remaining damage is dealt to
that opponent's Constitution score. A creature that is immune
to critical hits or that has no discernible head and neck is
immune to the effects of this feat.
Net Adept (Combat)
You have trained to use the net as a melee weapon.
Prerequisites: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (net), base attack
bonus +1.
Benefit: You can treat a net as a one-handed melee reach
weapon with a 10-foot reach. Further, you take no penalty on
melee attack rolls for using an unfolded net, and you can use
one full-round action or two move actions to fold a net.
Normal: A net is a ranged weapon that imposes a –4
penalty on ranged attack rolls if it is unfolded. Folding a net
takes a proficient user 2 rounds.
Net and Trident (Combat)
Your skill with lighter weapons allows you to wield one
alongside your net.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Exotic Weapon Proficiency (net), Net
Adept, Two-Weapon Fighting.
Benefit: You can treat a net as a one-handed ranged
weapon, allowing you to wield a light or one-handed melee
weapon and still make ranged attacks with your net. When
you use your light or one-handed melee weapon to attack an
entangled opponent, you gain a +2 bonus on damage rolls
and on attack rolls to confirm a critical hit.
Normal: A net is a two-handed ranged weapon.
Net Maneuvering (Combat)
With sweeping movements and brute force, you can use
your net to put foes at a disadvantage.
Prerequisites: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (net), Net Adept,
base attack bonus +3.
Benefit: In melee, you can use a net to trip or disarm
opponents instead of entangling them. You gain a +2 bonus
on disarm checks made to use a net in this way. Further, if
you have an opponent entangled in your net, you can
attempt to drag or reposition that opponent as long as he is
within your net's reach or you control the trailing rope on
your net.
Net Trickery (Combat)
You have become very proficient at using your net to hinder
your enemies.
Prerequisites: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (net), Net Adept,
Net Maneuvering, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: In place of one of your melee attacks, you can use
your net to attempt a dirty trick combat maneuver to blind an
opponent. If you have an opponent entangled in your net,
you can attempt to trip that opponent as long as he is within
your net's reach or you control the trailing rope on your net.
You also gain a +2 bonus on drag and reposition combat
maneuver checks you make using your net.
Nightmare Fist (Combat)
You are even more deadly in magical darkness.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Intimidate 1 rank,
ability to create magical darkness.
Benefit: While fighting within an area of magical darkness,
you gain a +2 bonus on damage rolls with unarmed strikes,
or a +4 bonus against opponents that are shaken, frightened,
or panicked. You also gain a +2 morale bonus on Acrobatics
and Intimidate checks.
Nightmare Striker (Combat)
Your faerie fire not only illuminates your foes, but it also
shows you their weaknesses.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Nightmare Fist,
Nightmare Weaver, Stunning Fist, Heal 5 ranks, ability to cast
faerie fire.
Benefit: While a faerie fire you have cast (not one cast from a
spell completion or spell trigger item) outlines an opponent,
the DC for that opponent to resist your Stunning Fist
attempts increases by +2. If you hit an opponent with a
Stunning Fist attempt, and that opponent fails her saving
throw, you can render the target shaken for 1d2 rounds plus
1 round for every 5 by which the opponent failed her save.
Nightmare Weaver (Combat)
You can use your ability to create magical darkness to
terrorize enemies.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Nightmare Fist,
Intimidate 2 ranks, ability to cast darkness.
Benefit: By spending a full-round action to cast darkness,
you can also make Intimidate checks to demoralize all foes in
the spell's initial area.
Special: This feat counts as Dazzling Display for purposes
of qualifying for Deadly Stroke and Shatter Defenses.
Nimble Striker (Combat)
You were born to charge your enemies and nobody does it
better.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, base attack bonus +1, catfolk, sprinter
racial trait.
Benefit: You do not take a –2 penalty to AC when you use
the Cleave feat, Lunge feat, or when you charge.
Notorious Vigilante (Combat)
You are widely known as dangerous and fearsome.
Prerequisites: Dazzling Display, Weapon Focus, any
nongood alignment, great renown social talent, proficiency
with chosen weapon.
Benefit: Your presence can act as a fast and effective
Dazzling Display. As a standard action, you use the benefit of
Dazzling Display even when you are not wielding a weapon
in which you have Weapon Focus. If you are wielding such a
weapon, you gain a +2 bonus on the Intimidate check.
Opening Volley (Combat)
Your ranged assault leaves your foe disoriented and
vulnerable to your melee attack.
Benefit: Whenever you deal damage with a ranged attack,
you gain a +4 circumstance bonus on the next melee attack
roll you make against the opponent. This attack must occur
before the end of your next turn.
Orc Hewer (Combat)
You are ferocious at hewing your enemies, especially orcs.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Cleave, Goblin Cleaver, Power Attack,
dwarf.
Benefit: This feat functions as Goblin Cleaver, but your
additional attacks can be made against creatures your size or
smaller. In addition, any such attacks that you make against
humanoids (orc) gain a +2 circumstance bonus on attack rolls.
Orc Weapon Expertise (Combat)
You can do more with the weapons orcs favor the most.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, orc.
Benefit: When you take this feat, choose one of the benefits
below. Whenever you wield a weapon that has "orc" in its
name, you gain the benefit you chose so long as you are
actually proficient with that weapon.
Bully: Gain a +1 bonus on damage rolls against creatures at
least one size smaller than you.
Defender: Gain a +1 shield bonus to your AC (or +2 if
wielding a two-handed weapon).
Disrupter: Add 3 to the DC of opponents’ concentration
checks. This only applies if you are aware of the enemy's
location and are capable of taking an attack of opportunity. If
you have already used all of your available attacks of
opportunity for the round, this increase does not apply.
Killer: Gain a +2 competence bonus on attack rolls made to
confirm critical hits.
Thug: Deal +1 point of nonlethal damage with the weapon.
Trickster: Gain a +2 bonus on a single type of combat
maneuver check that you can perform with that weapon.
This feat has no effect if you are not proficient with the
weapon you're using.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time
you take this feat, you must choose a different benefit. You
may only apply one of these benefits per round (chosen as a
free action at the start of your turn).
Ostentatious Rager (Combat)
You can enthrall onlookers with a show of ferocious might
or compel enemies to regard you as a crucial threat.
Prerequisites: Intimidate 5 ranks, rage class feature.
Benefit: You can earn money with Intimidate by
performing feats of strength and intimidation, exactly as if
you were doing so with the Perform skill.
Additionally, while you’re raging, if a foe would be
demoralized by your Intimidate skill and the foe is not
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currently shaken by your intimidation, you can instead
distract that foe until the beginning of your next turn. During
that time, the foe takes a –5 penalty on Perception checks that
don’t involve you and takes a –2 penalty to its AC against
any creature other than you. These effects end early if a
creature other than you attacks the foe or if you demoralize
the foe and apply the shaken condition.
Paralyzing Strike (Combat)
Finding just the right pressure point, you paralyze your foe
with a single hit.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
base attack bonus +14.
Benefit: You must declare that you are using this feat before
you make your attack roll (thus, a failed attack roll ruins the
attempt). Paralyzing Strike forces a foe damaged by your
unarmed attack to attempt a Fortitude saving throw (DC = 10
+ 1/2 your character level + your Wisdom modifier), in
addition to dealing damage normally. An opponent who fails
this saving throw is paralyzed for 1 round, until just before
your next turn. You can attempt to use Paralyzing Strike once
per day for every 4 character levels you have, but no more
than once per round. Constructs, incorporeal creatures,
plants, undead, and creatures that are immune to critical hits
cannot be affected by this ability.
Parting Shot (Combat)
You are an expert skirmisher, able to rain missiles upon
your enemies whether advancing or retreating.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility, Point Blank Shot,
Shot on the Run, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: Once per encounter, when using the withdraw
action, you can make a single ranged attack at any point
during your movement.
Normal: You cannot attack when using the withdraw
action.
Special: Starting at 6th level, a ranger with the archery
combat style may select Parting Shot as a combat style feat.
Passing Trick (Combat)
Slipping past a foe gives you the chance to feint.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Dodge, Improved
Feint, Mobility, size Small or smaller.
Benefit: Whenever you make a successful Acrobatics check
to move through an opponent's space, you can spend a swift
action to make a Bluff check against that opponent to feint in
combat.
Special: If you have the Underfoot feat and the opponent is
larger than you, you gain a +2 bonus on the Bluff check this
feat allows.
Penetrating Strike (Combat)
Your attacks are capable of penetrating the defenses of some
creatures.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus, base attack bonus +1, 12th-
level fighter, proficiency with weapon.
Benefit: Your attacks with weapons selected with Weapon
Focus ignore up to 5 points of damage reduction. This feat
does not apply to damage reduction without a type (such as
DR 10/—).
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Perfect Strike (Combat)
When wielding a monk weapon, your attacks can be
extremely precise.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: You must declare that you are using this feat before
you make your attack roll (thus a failed attack roll ruins the
attempt). You must use one of the following weapons to
make the attack: kama, nunchaku, quarterstaff, sai, and
siangham. You can roll your attack roll twice and take the
higher result. If one of these rolls is a critical threat, the other
roll is used as your confirmation roll (your choice if they are
both critical threats). You may attempt a perfect attack once
per day for every four levels you have attained (but see
Special), and no more than once per round.
Special: A weapon master monk or zen archer monk
receives Perfect Strike as a bonus feat at 1st level, even if he
does not meet the prerequisites. A monk may attempt an
perfect strike attack a number of times per day equal to his
monk level, plus one more time per day for every four levels
he has in classes other than monk.
Performance Weapon Mastery (Combat)
You wield all your weapons with the flair of a performer.
Benefit: You treat all weapons you are proficient in as if
they had the performance weapon quality.
Performing Combatant (Combat)
You treat every combat as a performance, bringing flare and
showmanship.
Prerequisites: Dazzling Display, any one performance feat.
Benefit: You can make performance combat checks in any
combat. When making a performance check outside of
performance combat, you can pick a single performance feat
to use. You automatically gain any bonus on the performance
combat check the feat grants, and then you make a DC 20
performance combat check. On a success, you gain the full
effect of the performance feat you chose.
Piercing Grapple (Combat)
You can use small but deadly weapons to restrain a foe,
forcing it to choose between pain and capitulation.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Improved Grapple, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Quick Draw, Intimidate 7 ranks.
Benefit: You can draw a light or one-handed piercing
weapon and stab your opponent with it when you initiate a
grapple. You take a –2 penalty on your combat maneuver
check to initiate the grapple, but since you pull the weapon
out as part of the grapple, you don’t take the usual –4
penalty. If you succeed, you grapple your opponent as
normal, and the weapon doesn’t count as being in your hand
either for the purposes of the –4 penalty or for dealing
damage while maintaining a grapple. If your opponent
successfully breaks the grapple, it takes an amount of
damage equal to the base weapon damage of the weapon you
used to initiate the grapple plus an additional 1d4 points of
bleed damage. A successful DC 15 Heal check or any magical
healing ends the bleed effect. If you choose to end the
grapple, you can opt to not deal the bleed damage, but either
way, your opponent still takes the base weapon damage.
While maintaining this grapple, you gain a +2 circumstance
bonus on all Intimidate checks made against your opponent.
Pin Down (Combat)
You easily block enemy escapes.
Prerequisites: Combat Reflexes, fighter level 11th.
Benefit: Whenever an opponent you threaten takes a 5-foot
step or uses the withdraw action, that opponent provokes an
attack of opportunity from you. If the attack hits, you deal no
damage, but the targeted creature is prevented from making
the move action that granted a 5-foot step or the withdraw
action and does not move.
Pinning Knockout (Combat)
An opponent you have pinned is easy for you to knock out.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Greater Grapple, Improved Grapple,
Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +9 or monk
level 9th.
Benefit: While you have an opponent pinned, when you
succeed at a grapple combat maneuver check to deal an
opponent nonlethal damage using an unarmed strike or a
light or one-handed weapon, double your damage result.
Any creature that is immune to critical hits is immune to the
effects of this feat.
Pinning Rend (Combat)
You tear flesh when you damage an opponent that you
have pinned.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Greater Grapple, Improved Grapple,
Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +9 or monk
level 9th.
Benefit: While you have an opponent pinned, when you
succeed at a grapple combat maneuver check to deal an
opponent damage using an unarmed strike or a light or one-
handed weapon, that opponent also takes bleed damage
equal to your unarmed strike or weapon damage dice. Any
creature that is immune to critical hits is immune to the
effects of this feat.
Pinpoint Poisoner (Combat)
You deftly use specially prepared needles to apply poison
for maximum effect.
Prerequisites: Poison use class feature, Craft (alchemy) 6
ranks, Adder Strike, Improved Unarmed Strike, Two-
Weapon Fighting or flurry of blows class feature.
Benefit: When you use Adder Strike, you can instead
poison up to two blowgun darts that you can then use to
strike your opponent in melee. (Drawing such darts is a free
action.) While holding these darts, you can spend a standard
action to attack with one or a full-attack action to attack with
both. Such attacks are considered melee touch attacks that
deal 1d2 damage plus any bonuses you gain on your normal
unarmed strike damage, and they deliver the poison. You can
instead throw such darts as if they were shuriken, making
your ranged attack rolls against the target's AC.
Normal: Applying poison to a weapon or single piece of
ammunition is a standard action.
Pinpoint Targeting (Combat)
You can target the weak points in your opponent's armor.
Prerequisites: Dex 19, Improved Precise Shot, Point-Blank
Shot, Precise Shot, base attack bonus +16.
Benefit: As a standard action, make a single ranged attack.
The target does not gain any armor, natural armor, or shield
bonuses to its Armor Class. You do not gain the benefit of
this feat if you move this round.
Point Blank Master (Combat)
You are adept at firing ranged weapons in close quarters.
Prerequisite: Weapon Specialization with selected ranged
weapon.
Benefit: Choose one type of ranged weapon. You do not
provoke attacks of opportunity when firing the selected
weapon while threatened.
Normal: Using a ranged weapon while you are threatened
provokes attacks of opportunity.
Special: Starting at 6th level, a ranger with the archery
combat style may select Point Blank Master as a combat style
feat, but he must have Weapon Focus instead of Weapon
Specialization in the selected weapon.
Point-Blank Shot (Combat)
You are especially accurate when making ranged attacks
against close targets.
Benefit: You get a +1 bonus on attack and damage rolls
with ranged weapons at ranges of up to 30 feet.
Power Attack (Combat)
You can make exceptionally deadly melee attacks by
sacrificing accuracy for strength.
Prerequisites: Str 13, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You can choose to take a –1 penalty on all melee
attack rolls and combat maneuver checks to gain a +2 bonus
on all melee damage rolls. This bonus to damage is increased
by half (+50%) if you are making an attack with a two-
handed weapon, a one handed weapon using two hands, or a
primary natural weapon that adds 1-1/2 times your Strength
modifier on damage rolls. This bonus to damage is halved (–
50%) if you are making an attack with an off-hand weapon or
secondary natural weapon. When your base attack bonus
reaches +4, and every 4 points thereafter, the penalty
increases by –1 and the bonus to damage increases by +2.
You must choose to use this feat before making an attack roll,
and its effects last until your next turn. The bonus damage
does not apply to touch attacks or effects that do not deal hit
point damage.
Precise Shot (Combat)
You are adept at firing ranged attacks into melee.
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.
Prone Shooter (Combat)
While prone, you use the ground to stabilize your aim while
using a crossbow or firearm.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: If you have been prone since the end of your last
turn, the penalty to your Armor Class against melee attacks
made against you is reduced to -2. In addition, the bonus to
your Armor Class against ranged attacks made against you is
increased to +6.
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Prone Slinger (Combat)
Your sideways sling release allows you to launch bullets
and stones even while prone.
Benefit: While prone, you can use a sling to make ranged
attacks.
Normal: Crossbows and firearms are the only ranged
weapons that can be used while prone.
Punishing Kick (Combat)
Your kicks are so powerful you use them to push or knock
back your foes.
Prerequisites: Con 13, Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: You must declare that you are using this feat before
you make your attack roll (thus a failed attack roll ruins the
attempt). On a successful hit, the attack deals damage
normally and you can choose to push your target 5 feet or
attempt to knock them prone. If you decide to push the
target, it is moved 5 feet directly away from you. This
movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity, and the
target must end this move in a safe space it can stand in. If
you decide to attempt to knock the target prone, the target
receives a Fortitude saving throw with a DC of 10 + 1/2 your
character level + your Wisdom modifier to avoid the effect.
You may attempt a punishing kick attack once per day for
every four levels you have attained (but see Special), and no
more than once per round.
Special: A hungry ghost monk receives Punishing Kick as a
bonus feat at 1st level, even if he does not meet the
prerequisites. A monk may attempt a punishing kick attack a
number of times per day equal to his monk level, plus one
more time per day for every four levels he has in classes other
than monk.
Pushing Assault (Combat)
A strike made with a two-handed weapon can push a
similar sized opponent backward.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Power Attack, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: When you hit a creature your size or smaller with a
two-handed weapon attack modified by the Power Attack
feat, you can choose to push the target 5 feet directly away
from you instead of dealing the extra damage from Power
Attack. If you score a critical hit, you can instead push the
target 10 feet directly away from you. This movement does
not provoke attacks of opportunities, and the target must end
this move in a safe space it can stand in. You choose which
effect to apply after the attack roll has been made, but before
the damage is rolled.
Quarterstaff Master (Combat)
You can wield a quarterstaff as either a two-handed or one-
handed weapon.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus (quarterstaff), base attack
bonus +5.
Benefit: By employing a number of different stances and
techniques, you can wield a quarterstaff as a one-handed
weapon. At the start of your turn, you decide whether or not
you are going to wield the quarterstaff as a one-handed or
two-handed weapon. When you wield it as a one-handed
weapon, your other hand is free, and you cannot use the staff
as a double weapon. You can take the feat Weapon
Specialization in the quarterstaff even if you have no levels in
fighter.
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Quick Bull Rush (Combat)
You can barrel into your opponent and follow this with an
attack.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack,
base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: On your turn, you can perform a single bull rush
combat maneuver in place of one of your melee attacks. You
must choose the melee attack with the highest base attack
bonus to make the bull rush.
Normal: A bull rush combat maneuver is a standard action.
Quick Dirty Trick (Combat)
You can perpetrate a dirty trick and deliver an attack before
your opponent is the wiser.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Dirty
Trick, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: On your turn, you can perform a single dirty trick
combat maneuver in place of one of your melee attacks. You
must choose the melee attack with the highest base attack
bonus to make the dirty trick combat maneuver.
Normal: A dirty trick combat maneuver is a standard
action.
Quick Drag (Combat)
You drag your enemy and deliver a punishing blow.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Improved Drag, Power Attack, base
attack bonus +6.
Benefit: On your turn, you can perform a single drag
combat maneuver in place of one of your melee attacks. You
must choose the melee attack with the highest base attack
bonus to make the drag.
Normal: A drag combat maneuver is a standard action.
Quick Draw (Combat)
You can draw weapons faster than most.
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).
Alchemical items, potions, scrolls, and wands cannot be
drawn quickly using this feat.
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.
Quick Reposition (Combat)
Your opponent becomes an unwitting dance partner,
following your lead while you fight.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved
Reposition, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: On your turn, you can perform a single reposition
combat maneuver in place of one of your melee attacks. You
must choose the melee attack with the highest base attack
bonus to make the reposition.
 Normal: A reposition combat maneuver is a standard
action.
Quick Steal (Combat)
You are adept at relieving foes of their belongings even
while you strike.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Steal,
base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: On your turn, you can perform a single steal
combat maneuver in place of one of your melee attacks. You
must choose the melee attack with the highest base attack
bonus to make the steal.
Normal: A steal combat maneuver is a standard action.
Quick Study (Combat)
You can learn quickly, although you do not always retain
what you learn long.
Prerequisites: Int 13, bravery +3 class feature, fighter level
10th.
Benefit: Once per day, you can train with someone who has
a combat feat you do not possess to gain that feat. You must
train with that person for 8 hours and must meet the feat’s
prerequisites to gain it this way. You gain this feat until you
learn another one using this feat.
Quiet Death (Combat)
You have learned to dispatch your enemies with the silence
and grace of an accomplished assassin.
Prerequisites: Dex 19, Stealth 10 ranks, rogue level 10th.
Benefit: When you ambush an enemy or enemies that are
unaware of your presence, you can roll a Stealth check with a
–5 penalty. The result indicates the Perception DC to hear
your attacks (rather than the normal DC of –10 to hear
pitched combat) until an opponent’s first action, when the DC
returns to –10. Other enemies present can still see the attack;
Quiet Death only prevents the sounds of battle from alerting
further enemies.
Ranged Feint (Combat)
You can mislead foes about your aim with ranged attacks.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +2, Bluff 3 ranks.
Benefit: You can feint with a ranged weapon by throwing a
thrown weapon or firing one arrow, bolt, bullet, or other
piece of ammunition; this feint takes the same action as
normal to feint, but depending on your weapon, you might
have to reload or draw another weapon afterward. When you
successfully use a ranged feint, you deny that enemy its
Dexterity bonus to AC against your ranged attacks as well as
your melee attacks for the same duration as normal. If your
feints normally deny a foe its Dexterity bonus to AC against
attacks other than your own, this applies only against others’
melee attacks.
Normal: You can feint only with a melee weapon, and only
against a creature you threaten with that weapon.
Rapid Grappler (Combat)
You are a quick hand at grappling.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Greater Grapple, Improved Grapple,
Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +9 or monk
level 9th.
Benefit: Whenever you use Greater Grapple to successfully
maintain a grapple as a move action, you can then spend a
swift action to make a grapple combat maneuver check at a –
5 penalty.
Rapid Reload (Combat)
Choose a type of crossbow (hand, light, heavy) or a single
type of one-handed or two-handed firearm that you are
proficient with. You can reload such a weapon quickly.
Prerequisites: Weapon Proficiency (crossbow type chosen)
or Exotic Weapon Proficiency (firearm).
Benefit: The time required for you to reload your chosen
type of weapon is reduced to a free action (for a hand or light
crossbow), a move action (for heavy crossbow or one-handed
firearm), or a standard action (two-handed firearm).
Reloading a crossbow or firearm still provokes attacks of
opportunity.
If you have selected this feat for a 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, a standard action to
reload a one-handed firearm, or a full-round action to load a
heavy crossbow or a two-handed firearm.
Special: You can gain Rapid Reload multiple times. Each
time you take the feat, it applies to a new type of crossbow or
a new type of firearm.
Rapid Shot (Combat)
You can make an additional ranged attack.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Point-Blank Shot.
Benefit: When making a full-attack action with a ranged
weapon, you can fire one additional time this round at your
highest bonus. All of your attack rolls take a –2 penalty when
using Rapid Shot.
Ray Shield (Combat)
You can even deflect rays with your shield.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Missile Shield, Spellbreaker.
Benefit: You must be using a light, heavy, or tower shield to
use this feat. Once per round when you would normally be
hit with a ranged touch attack (including rays and similar
magical effects), you may deflect it so that you take no
damage from it. Your shield suffers the full effects of the spell
or effect, if applicable.
Ready for Anything (Combat)
You never let down your guard.
Prerequisites: Alertness, Improved Initiative, Lightning Ref
lexes, Quick Draw, base attack bonus +6 or uncanny dodge
class feature.
Benefit: You can always act in the surprise round even if
you fail a Perception check to notice foes, but you are still
considered f lat-footed until you take an action.
Rebounding Leap (Combat)
Your riding and lancing expertise allows you to enter and
leave the saddle with great speed.
Prerequisites: Leaping lance class feature, Acrobatics 5
ranks, Ride 11 ranks.
Benefit: When you succeed at the Acrobatics check to jump
as part of your leaping lance class feature, you can remount
your steed as a swift action.
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Rebuffing Reduction (Combat)
Your damage reduction can turn the force of blows back on
your enemies.
Prerequisites: Str 13, damage reduction, Improved Bull
Rush, Power Attack, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: Whenever an opponent that is adjacent to you fails
to penetrate your DR with a melee attack, you can spend an
immediate action to attempt a bull rush combat maneuver
against that opponent. If you succeed, you cannot move with
the opponent.
Normal: A bull rush combat maneuver is a standard action.
Rending Claws (Combat)
Your claw attacks do greater harm to your enemy.
Prerequisites: Str 13, two claw natural weapon attacks, base
attack bonus +6.
Benefit: If you hit a creature with two claw attacks in the
same turn, the second claw attack deals an additional 1d6
points of damage. This damage is precision damage and is
not multiplied on a critical hit. You can use this feat once per
round.
Rending Fury (Combat)
You easily tear your enemies limb from limb with your
natural attacks.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +6, rend special attack.
Benefit: You deal rend damage if you hit with half the
normal natural attacks your rend requires. For example, a
troll that has this feat can rend when it hits with one claw
attack, while a girallon that has this feat must hit one target
with two claw attacks to rend. You can only make this rend
attack once per round.
Repositioning Strike (Combat)
Your critical hits can move your foes where you wish.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved
Reposition, base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee
attack, you can move your opponent, in addition to the
normal damage dealt by the attack. If your confirmation roll
exceeds your opponent's CMD, you may move your
opponent as if from the reposition combat maneuver. This
does not provoke an attack of opportunity.
Normal: You must perform a reposition combat maneuver
to reposition an opponent.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one of the
following feats to a given critical hit: Bull Rush Strike,
Disarming Strike, Repositioning Strike, Sundering Strike, or
Tripping Strike. You may choose to use this feat after you
make your confirmation roll.
Revelation Strike (Combat)
Your unarmed strike brings a revelation down upon your
foe.
Prerequisites: Revelation class feature, Improved Unarmed
Strike.
Benefit: When you gain this feat, choose one revelation that
you can use to affect no more than one opponent. If you make
a successful unarmed strike against an opponent, in addition
to dealing your unarmed strike damage, you can use a swift
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action to deliver the effects of the chosen revelation to that
opponent. Doing so provokes no attacks of opportunity.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you take it, you apply it to a different qualifying revelation.
Reverse-Feint (Combat)
You can goad an opponent into attacking you in order to
make your counter attack all the more powerful.
Prerequisites: Toughness, base attack bonus +1, orc.
Benefit: As a move action, you can leave a gap in your
defenses for one adjacent opponent to use. If the opponent
attacks you on its next turn, it gains a +4 bonus on its attack
roll. Whether or not the opponent successfully hits, you may
attack it as an immediate action with a single melee attack,
gaining a +2 bonus on your attack roll.
Ride-By Attack (Combat)
While mounted and charging, you can move, strike at a foe,
and then continue moving.
Prerequisites: Ride 1 rank, Mounted Combat.
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.
Risky Striker (Combat)
You can make yourself a little more vulnerable to larger
creatures in order to land a devastating blow.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, halfling.
Benefit: You can choose to take a –1 penalty to AC to gain a
+2 bonus on melee damage rolls against creatures two or
more size categories larger than you. When your base attack
bonus reaches +4 and every 4 levels thereafter, the penalty
increases by –1 and the damage bonus increases by 2. The
bonus damage is multiplied in the case of a critical hit. You
can only choose to use this feat when you declare that you are
making an attack action or a full-attack action with a melee
weapon. The effects last until your next turn.
Riving Strike (Combat)
When you infuse your weapon with arcane might, your
attacks make foes more susceptible to magic.
Prerequisites: Arcane Strike, ability to cast arcane spells.
Benefit: If you have a weapon that is augmented by your
Arcane Strike feat, when you damage a creature with an
attack made with that weapon, that creature takes a –2
penalty on saving throws against spells and spell-like
abilities. This effect lasts for 1 round.
Sabotaging Sunder (Combat)
Your can quickly sabotage a foe’s worn or carried
equipment.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Improved Sunder, Power Attack,
Disable Device 7 ranks.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can sabotage an item
worn by a foe with a special sunder combat maneuver. You
use this maneuver in melee to sabotage an item that is neither
held nor hidden in a bag, pack, or other container. You must
have at least one hand free to perform this combat maneuver,
and doing so provokes an attack of opportunity from the
creature against whom you are performing the maneuver,
even though you have the Improved Sunder feat.
When attempting the combat maneuver check, use your
ranks in Disable Device in place of your base attack bonus
and your Dexterity modifier in place of your Strength
modifier. Any bonuses on combat maneuver checks
specifically to sunder (such as the bonus granted by
Improved Sunder) also apply to this maneuver, and any
bonuses your target gains to CMD against sundering
attempts also protect her from this maneuver. If you succeed
at the check, instead of dealing damage, you sabotage the
chosen item, causing it to gain the broken condition. If the
item was already broken, you instead destroy the item or
cause it to fall off. Items immune to sunder are also immune
to this special combat maneuver, and this still can’t destroy or
remove an item such as an artifact that can normally be
destroyed or removed only by specific means.
Normal: A successful sunder attempt deals weapon damage
to the sundered item.
Saving Shield (Combat)
You deflect attacks that could mean your ally's death.
Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency.
Benefits: Whenever an adjacent ally is the target of an
attack, you can, as an immediate action, grant that adjacent
ally a +2 shield bonus to AC. You must be wielding a light
shield, heavy shield, or tower shield to use this feat.
Sap Adept (Combat)
You know just where to hit to knock the sense out of your
foe.
Prerequisite: Sneak attack +1d6.
Benefit: Whenever you use a bludgeoning weapon to deal
nonlethal sneak attack damage, you gain a bonus on your
damage roll equal to the number of sneak attack damage dice
you rolled.
Sap Master (Combat)
You knock the sense out of foes with a well-timed surprise
attack.
Prerequisites: Sneak attack +3d6, Sap Adept.
Benefit: Whenever you use a bludgeoning weapon to deal
nonlethal sneak attack damage to a flat-footed opponent, roll
your sneak attack dice twice, totaling the results as your
nonlethal sneak attack damage for that attack.
School Strike (Combat)
You focus the secrets of your school of wizardry into your
unarmed strike.
Prerequisites: Wizard school class feature, Improved
Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: When you gain this feat, choose one arcane school
power that you can use to affect no more than one opponent.
If you make a successful unarmed strike against an opponent,
in addition to dealing your unarmed strike damage, you can
use a swift action to deliver the effects of the chosen school
power to that opponent. Doing so provokes no attacks of
opportunity.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you take it, you apply it to a different qualifying arcane
school power.
Scorching Weapons (Combat)
Elemental fire stirs within your body, boiling your blood
and rendering you resistant to flame.
Prerequisite: Ifrit.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against fire
attacks and spells with the fire descriptor or light descriptor.
As a swift action, you can make up to two held manufactured
metallic weapons become red-hot for 1 round, dealing 1
additional point of fire damage with a successful hit. This
does not stack with other effects that add fire damage to
weapons, such as the flaming weapon special ability.
Scorpion Style (Combat)
You can perform an unarmed strike that greatly hampers
your target's movement.
Prerequisite: Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: To use this feat, you must make a single unarmed
attack as a standard action. If this unarmed attack hits, you
deal damage normally, and the target's base land speed is
reduced to 5 feet for a number of rounds equal to your
Wisdom modifier unless it makes a Fortitude saving throw
(DC 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Wis modifier).
Sea Hunter (Combat)
Your blows knock swimming opponents off balance.
Prerequisites: Combat Expertise, merfolk.
Benefit: When you make a successful melee attack against a
swimming target, as a free action you can attempt to knock
the target off balance. Treat this as a trip combat maneuver. If
you succeed, the target is considered off balance until it
recovers its balance, usually by making a Swim check on its
turn. This feat has no effect on creatures with a swim speed,
those using magic such as freedom of movement, and creatures
that can't be tripped.
Second Chance (Combat)
Quick reflexes turn missed strikes into second chances.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, base attack bonus
+6.
Benefit: When making a full attack, if you miss on your first
attack, you can forgo making any other attacks for the rest of
your turn to reroll that attack at your highest base attack
bonus.
Seething Hatred (Combat)
You've learned to channel your hatred of a particular type
of creature into a devastating strike.
Prerequisite: Studied target class feature.
Benefit: Select a creature type from the Ranger Favored
Enemies table. When you designate a creature of this type as
your studied target and hit it with a melee or ranged weapon
attack, your favored target bonus on damage rolls against it is
doubled.
Seize Advantage (Combat)
You can take advantage of your foes when they overcommit
on their attacks.
Prerequisite: Opportune parry and riposte deed.
Benefit: When your foe is using Power Attack and you
successfully use the opportune parry and riposte deed to
parry its attack and then respond with a riposte, you add
your foe's current bonus on damage rolls from Power Attack
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to your own damage roll, but you do not take the penalty to
hit from your foe's Power Attack.
Shadow Strike (Combat)
You accurately strike even those you cannot clearly see.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You can deal precision damage, such as sneak
attack damage, against targets with concealment (but not
total concealment).
Shadows of Fear (Combat)
Your enemies’ fear causes them to jump at shadows,
diverting their attention.
Prerequisite: Hidden strike +2d8 or sneak attack +2d6.
Benefit: The first time each round that you hit a creature
suffering from a fear effect, you can deal hidden strike or
sneak attack damage as if you were f lanking that creature
(improved uncanny dodge and other effects that prevent f
lanking also prevent a hidden strike or sneak attack from this
feat).
Shatter Defenses (Combat)
Your skill with your chosen weapon leaves opponents
unable to defend themselves if you strike them when their
defenses are already compromised.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus, Dazzling Display, base attack
bonus +6, proficiency with weapon.
Benefit: Any shaken, frightened, or panicked opponent hit
by you this round is flat-footed to your attacks until the end
of your next turn. This includes any additional attacks you
make this round.
Sharpclaw (Combat)
Your nails are large and strong.
Prerequisite: Ratfolk.
Benefit: You gain two claw attacks. These are primary
natural attacks that deal 1d4 points of damage.
Shatter Control (Combat)
You can infuse your attacks with divine power capable of
harming the undead and shattering the bond between the
undead and its controller.
Prerequisite: Channel positive energy 4d6.
Benefit: As a special full-round action, you can make a
single melee attack against an undead creature or a single
ranged attack against an undead creature within 30 feet. If
the attack is successful, you deal your normal damage with
the melee or ranged attack to your undead target. If the target
undead creature is being controlled by another, by way of
spell, because the target undead creature is an unintelligent
undead controlled by that creature, or is under command of
another undead creature, and if the controlling creature is
within 120 feet of you when you make the attack, the
controlling creature must succeed at a Will save (DC = 10 +
1/2 your level + your Cha modifier) or immediately lose
control of the targeted undead for 10 minutes. While under
this effect, the targeted undead is immediately compelled to
seek out and attack its former controller until the control is
regained.
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Shatterspell (Combat)
Your mighty blows shatter your enemy's magic.
Prerequisites: Disruptive, Spellbreaker, dwarf, 10th-level
fighter.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can attempt to sunder an
ongoing spell effect as if you had the spell sunder rage
power. You may use this feat once per day, plus one
additional time per day for every 5 points by which your base
attack bonus exceeds +10.
Shield Focus (Combat)
You are skilled at deflecting blows with your shield.
Prerequisites: Shield Proficiency, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: Increase the AC bonus granted by any shield you
are using by 1.
Shield Master (Combat)
Your mastery of the shield allows you to fight with it
without hindrance.
Prerequisites: Improved Shield Bash, Shield Proficiency,
Shield Slam, Two-Weapon Fighting, base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: You do not suffer any penalties on attack rolls
made with a shield while you are wielding another weapon.
Add your shield's enhancement bonus to attacks and damage
rolls made with the shield as if it was a weapon enhancement
bonus.
Shield of Swings (Combat)
A wild frenzy of attacks serves to bolster your defenses.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: When you take a full-attack action while wielding a
two-handed weapon, you can choose to reduce the damage
by 1/2 to gain a +4 shield bonus to AC and CMD until the
beginning of your next turn. The reduction in damage applies
until the beginning of your next turn.
Shield Proficiency (Combat)
You are trained in how to properly use a shield.
Benefit: When you use a shield (except a tower shield), the
shield's armor check penalty only applies to Strength- and
Dexterity-based skills.
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.
Special: Barbarians, bards, clerics, druids, fighters,
paladins, and rangers all automatically have Shield
Proficiency as a bonus feat. They need not select it.
Shield Slam (Combat)
In the right position, your shield can be used to send
opponents flying.
Prerequisites: Improved Shield Bash, Shield Proficiency,
Two-Weapon Fighting, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: Any opponents hit by your shield bash are also hit
with a free bull rush attack, substituting your attack roll for
the combat maneuver check (see Combat). This bull rush
does not provoke an attack of opportunity. Opponents who
cannot move back due to a wall or other surface are knocked
prone after moving the maximum possible distance. You may
choose to move with your target if you are able to take a 5-
foot step or to spend an action to move this turn.
Shield Specialization (Combat)
You have mastered the use of one type of shield.
Prerequisites: Proficiency with selected shield, Shield
Focus, fighter level 4th.
Benefit: Choose one type of shield (buckler, light, heavy, or
tower shield). With the selected shield, you gain a +2 bonus
to your Armor Class against critical hit confirmation rolls. In
addition, you may add your base shield bonus (including the
bonus from Shield Focus but not including enhancement
bonuses) to your CMD.
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 shield.
Shot on the Run (Combat)
You can move, fire a ranged weapon, and move again
before your foes can react.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility, Point-Blank Shot,
base attack bonus +4.
Benefit: As a full-round action, you can move up to your
speed and make a single ranged attack at any point during
your movement.
Normal: You cannot move before and after an attack with a
ranged weapon.
Sidestep (Combat)
You can reposition yourself after a foe's missed swing.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility.
Benefit: Whenever an opponent misses you with a melee
attack, you may move 5 feet as an immediate action so long
as you remain within that opponent's threatened area. This
movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity. If you
take this step, you cannot take a 5-foot step during your next
turn. If you take an action to move during your next turn,
subtract 5 feet from your total movement.
Siege Commander (Combat)
Under your leadership, the time required to assemble and
move a siege engine is greatly reduced.
Prerequisites: Craft (siege weapon) 5 ranks, Knowledge
(engineering) 5 ranks or Profession (siege engineer) 1 rank.
Benefit: When you lead a siege engine assembly crew, you
grant all of its members a +4 competence bonus on checks to
assemble or move the weapon. You also halve the time
required to assemble a siege engine.
Siege Engineer (Combat)
You are proficient with all siege weaponry.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (engineering) 5 ranks or
Profession (siege engineer) 5 ranks, proficiency with one
siege engine.
Benefit: You are considered to be proficient with all siege
weapons. Also, when you are crew lead for a siege engine,
you do not generate mishaps on the roll of a natural 1.
Normal: Each siege engine is an exotic weapon.
Siege Gunner (Combat)
Aiming outsized siege weapons poses little difficulty for
you.
Prerequisites: Siege Engineer, Profession (siege engineer) 5
ranks.
Benefit: You take no size penalty for aiming a direct-fire
siege weapon larger than yourself. If you operate an indirect-
fire siege weapon and miss, you misdirect fire by 1 square
per range increment.
Normal: Direct-fire weapons impose a –2 attack roll penalty
per size category by which the weapon is larger than the
creature aiming it. An indirect-fire weapon that misses
misdirects fire by 1d4 squares per range increment.
Silent Kill (Combat)
You are quite adept at killing your prey without making
noise or alerting others.
Prerequisites: Stealth 12 ranks; assassinate advanced slayer
talent or ninja master trick.
Benefit: When you kill a creature during a surprise round,
you can attempt a Stealth check, opposed by the Perception
checks of potential observers, to prevent them from noticing
your action and subsequently identifying you as the
assailant.
Simple Weapon Proficiency (Combat)
You are trained in the use of basic weapons.
Benefit: You make attack rolls with simple weapons
without penalty.
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.
Slashing Grace (Combat)
You can stab your enemies with slashing weapons.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus with
chosen weapon.
Benefit: When you take this feat, choose one kind of light or
one-handed slashing weapon (such as the longsword). When
wielding your chosen weapon one-handed, you can treat it as
a one-handed piercing melee weapon for all feats and class
abilities that require such a weapon (such as a swashbuckler's
or a duelist's precise strike), and you can add your Dexterity
modifier instead of your Strength modifier to that weapon's
damage. The weapon must be one appropriate for your size.
You do not gain this benefit while fighting with two weapons
or using flurry of blows, or any time another hand is
otherwise occupied.
Slayer's Feint (Combat)
You rely on your deceptive speed and agility instead of
trickery to catch your opponents unprepared.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Acrobatic or slayer level 1st, Combat
Expertise, Acrobatics 1 rank.
Benefit: You can use Acrobatics instead of Bluff to feint in
combat.
Sliding Dash (Combat)
Your seemingly reckless advance becomes an agile strike at
the last moment.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Acrobatics 10 ranks or acrobatic
charge class feature, Bluff 3 ranks.
Benefit: When charging, instead of moving to the closest
space from which you can attack your target, you can move
to the space adjacent to your target and on the other side of it,
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as long as you move through the closest space from which
you can attack the target and through the target’s space to get
there. When you move through the target’s space, you must
attempt an Acrobatics check with a DC equal to 10 + your
opponent’s CMD. Success allows you to move through the
target’s space without provoking an attack of opportunity
from that target, and when you arrive in the destination
space and make your attack, the target is considered f lanked
for that attack (or the first attack if you have more than one
attack on a charge). On a failed check, you instead provoke
an attack of opportunity and complete the charge as normal.
Whether or not you succeed at the Acrobatics check, you take
a –4 penalty to your AC until the start of your turn, instead of
the normal –2 penalty.
Normal: When charging, you must end the movement part
of a charge in the closest space in which you can attack your
target.
Sling Flail (Combat)
You can use your loaded sling to effectively strike at nearby
foes.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus (sling), base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You can make melee attacks using your loaded
sling, using that weapon's normal statistics but treating it as a
flail. Using a sling in this way does not expend mundane
ammunition, but magical or masterwork ammunition loses
its special properties after a single hit.
Special: Any feats you have that apply when you use a flail
also apply when you use a loaded sling as a melee weapon.
Smash (Combat)
You overcome obstacles by breaking them.
Prerequisites: Power Attack, half-orc.
Benefit: When you attack an inanimate, unattended object,
you ignore the first 5 points of its hardness. You also receive a
+5 bonus on Strength checks made to knock down or break
open doors.
Special: The benefits of this feat do not apply to sunder
attempts or attacks against constructs, only attacks on
inanimate, unattended objects.
Snap Shot (Combat)
With a ranged weapon, you can take advantage of any
opening in your opponent's defenses.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Point-Blank Shot, Rapid Shot,
Weapon Focus, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: While wielding a ranged weapon with which you
have Weapon Focus, you threaten squares within 5 feet of
you. You can make attacks of opportunity with that ranged
weapon. You do not provoke attacks of opportunity when
making a ranged attack as an attack of opportunity.
Normal: While wielding a ranged weapon, you threaten no
squares and can make no attacks of opportunity with that
weapon.
Snatch Arrows (Combat)
Instead of knocking an arrow or ranged attack aside, you
can catch it in mid-flight.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Deflect Arrows, Improved Unarmed
Strike.
Benefit: When using the Deflect Arrows feat you may
choose to catch the weapon instead of just deflecting it.
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Thrown weapons can immediately be thrown back as an
attack against 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.
Social Bravery (Combat)
Even the most stressful social situations don’t daunt you,
and you weather them as easily as a battle with a dragon.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, bravery class feature.
Benefit: In social situations, your bravado protects you and
makes you harder to read. Add your bravery bonus to the
DCs of checks to demoralize you, feint against you, change
your attitude, or convince you to perform a request (this also
applies against Cutting Humiliation and Intoxicating
Flattery). Additionally, add a morale bonus equal to your
bravery bonus on Bluff and Intimidate checks.
Sorcerous Strike (Combat)
The power flowing through your veins also flows through
your unarmed strike.
Prerequisites: Sorcerer bloodline class feature, Improved
Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: When you gain this feat, you choose one bloodline
power that you can use to affect a single opponent. If you
make a successful unarmed strike against an opponent, in
addition to dealing your unarmed strike damage, you can
spend a swift action to deliver the effects of the chosen
bloodline power to that opponent. Doing so provokes no
attacks of opportunity.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you take it, you apply it to a different qualifying bloodline
power.
Spellbreaker (Combat)
You can strike at enemy spellcasters who fail to cast
defensively when you threaten them.
Prerequisites: Disruptive, 10th-level fighter.
Benefit: Enemies in your threatened area that fail their
checks to cast spells defensively provoke attacks of
opportunity from you.
Normal: Enemies that fail to cast spells defensively do not
provoke attacks of opportunity.
Spinning Throw (Combat)
You whirl your foe around and then let go.
Prerequisites: Combat Expertise, Improved Bull Rush,
Improved Trip, Improved Unarmed Strike, Ki Throw.
Benefit: On a successful unarmed trip combat maneuver
against an opponent your size or smaller, you can spend a
swift action to attempt a bull rush combat maneuver against
that opponent. If your bull rush succeeds, you can move that
opponent to any unoccupied square you threaten, then push
that opponent the number of 5-foot increments your
successful bull rush allows. The target is then knocked prone.
If the bull rush fails, you can use the Ki Throw feat as normal.
If you also have the Improved Ki Throw feat, a successful
bull rush allows you to push the opponent into a space
secondary targets occupy. You resolve this effect as if you
used the Improved Ki Throw feat to throw the opponent into
that space.
 Special: Per the Ki Throw feat, a monk can use ki to affect
creatures larger than himself with this feat.
Spirited Charge (Combat)
Your mounted charge attacks deal a tremendous amount of
damage.
Prerequisites: Ride 1 rank, Mounted Combat, Ride-By
Attack.
Benefit: When mounted and using the charge action, you
deal double damage with a melee weapon (or triple damage
with a lance).
Spit Venom (Combat)
You have mastered the nagaji warrior technique of spitting
venom into your opponent's eyes.
Prerequisite: Nagaji.
Benefit: As a full-round action, you can spit poison up to 10
feet as a ranged touch attack. If you hit, the target must make
a successful Fortitude save or be blinded for 1d6 rounds. The
DC of this save is equal to 10 + 1/2 your total Hit Dice + your
Constitution modifier. You can use this ability once per day
plus one additional time per day for every three Hit Dice you
have.
Spring Attack (Combat)
You can deftly move up to a foe, strike, and withdraw
before he can react.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility, base attack bonus
+4.
Benefit: As a full-round action, you can move up to your
speed and make a single melee attack without provoking any
attacks of opportunity from the target of your attack. You can
move both before and after the attack, but you must move at
least 10 feet before the attack and the total distance that you
move cannot be greater than your speed. You cannot use this
ability to attack a foe that is adjacent to you at the start of
your turn.
Normal: You cannot move before and after an attack.
Stabbing Shot (Combat)
You can clear the way to continue using your bow.
Prerequisites: Rapid Shot, elf.
Benefit: When adjacent to an opponent and making a full-
attack action with a longbow or shortbow (including
composite bows), you may choose to make a melee attack
against that opponent with a drawn arrow rather than firing
it. If the attack hits—whether or not it does damage—your
target is pushed back 5 feet away from you. You can then fire
arrows from your bow normally, at the original target, or at
another target within range. This melee attack replaces the
extra attack from Rapid Shot, and all of your attack rolls for
the round (the melee attack and the ranged attacks) take a –2
penalty. If your initial attack leaves you with no enemies
threatening you, you can make the subsequent ranged attack
or attacks without provoking attacks of opportunity.
Stage Combatant (Combat)
You are a master of stage and nonlethal combats.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus, base attack bonus +5
Benefit: When you make an attack with a weapon that you
have Weapon Focus in, you take no penalty on the attack roll
when you are attempting to make an attack that deals no
damage or nonlethal damage.
Normal: When making attacks that deal no damage or
nonlethal damage, you take a –4 penalty on attack rolls.
Staggering Fist (Combat)
You know just where to strike to stagger your foe.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
base attack bonus +2.
Benefit: When you damage a foe with your unarmed attack,
you can also cause it to be staggered for 1 round (until just
before your next turn). The target can avoid this with a
successful Fortitude saving throw (DC = 10 + 1/2 your
character level + your Wisdom modifier). You must declare
that you are using this feat before you make your attack roll;
thus, a failed attack roll ruins the attempt. You can attempt to
use this feat once per day for every 4 character levels you
have, but no more than once per round. Constructs,
incorporeal creatures, plants, undead, and creatures that are
immune to critical hits cannot be affected by this ability.
Stand Still (Combat)
You can stop foes that try to move past you.
Prerequisites: Combat Reflexes.
Benefit: When a foe provokes an attack of opportunity due
to moving through your adjacent squares, you can make a
combat maneuver check as your attack of opportunity. If
successful, the enemy cannot move for the rest of his turn. An
enemy can still take the rest of his action, but cannot move.
This feat also applies to any creature that attempts to move
from a square that is adjacent to you if such movement
provokes an attack of opportunity.
Starry Grace (Combat)
Your quick and free starknife motions allow you to make
deadly dexterous attacks.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus
(starknife).
Benefit: When wielding a starknife, you can add your
Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to that
weapon’s damage. The starknife must be one appropriate for
your size. You do not gain this benefit while fighting with
two weapons or using f lurry of blows, or any time another
hand is otherwise occupied. In addition, if you have the
panache class feature, as long as you have at least 1 panache
point, you gain a +5 bonus to your movement speed on your
move action after taking an attack action with a starknife or
on your Spring Attack or charge with a starknife.
Startling Getaway (Combat)
You strike with surprise and then run circles around your
foe.
Prerequisite: Startling appearance class feature.
Benefit: During a surprise round, after taking an attack
action to attack a creature unaware of your presence, you can
take a move action to move. If you are already capable of
taking both a standard and a move action in the surprise
round, this feat does not grant you any additional actions.
Normal: You can take only a single standard or move action
during a surprise round.
Step Up (Combat)
You can close the distance when a foe tries to move away.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1.
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 Benefit: Whenever an adjacent foe attempts to take a 5-foot
step away from you, you may also make a 5-foot step as an
immediate action so long as you end up adjacent to the foe
that triggered this ability. If you take this step, you cannot
take a 5-foot step during your next turn. If you take an action
to move during your next turn, subtract 5 feet from your total
movement.
Step Up and Strike (Combat)
When a foe tries to move away, you can follow and make an
attack.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Following Step, Step Up, base attack
bonus +6.
Benefit: When using the Step Up or Following Step feats to
follow an adjacent foe, you may also make a single melee
attack against that foe at your highest base attack bonus. This
attack counts as one of your attacks of opportunity for the
round. Using this feat does not count toward the number of
actions you can usually take each round.
Normal: You can usually only take one standard action and
one 5-foot step each round.
Strangler (Combat)
Throttling the life out of enemies is second nature to you.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, sneak attack +1d6, Improved
Grapple, Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: Whenever you successfully maintain a grapple and
choose to deal damage, you can spend a swift action to deal
your sneak attack damage to the creature you are grappling.
Strike Back (Combat)
You can strike at foes that attack you using their superior
reach, by targeting their limbs or weapons as they come at
you.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: You can ready an action to make a melee attack
against any foe that attacks you in melee, even if the foe is
outside of your reach.
Stunning Assault (Combat)
You powerful but imprecise attacks can stun your enemies.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Power Attack, base attack bonus +16.
Benefit: You can choose to take a –5 penalty on all melee
attack rolls and combat maneuver checks to stun targets you
hit with your melee attacks for 1 round. A successful
Fortitude save negates the effect. The DC of this save is 10 +
your base attack bonus. You must choose to use this feat
before making the attack roll, and its effects last until your
next turn.
Stunning Fist (Combat)
You know just where to strike to temporarily stun a foe.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
base attack bonus +8.
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
turn). A stunned character drops everything held, can't take
actions, loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, and takes a –2
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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 receives Stunning Fist as a bonus feat at
1st level, even if he does not meet the prerequisites. A monk
may attempt a stunning attack a number of times per day
equal to his monk level, plus one more time per day for every
four levels he has in classes other than monk.
Stunning Pin (Combat)
You can render a pinned foe temporarily incapacitated.
Prerequisites: Improved Grapple, Improved Unarmed
Strike, Stunning Fist.
Benefit: Whenever you pin an opponent, you can spend a
swift action to make a Stunning Fist attempt against that
opponent.
Sundering Strike (Combat)
Your critical hits can sunder your foes' weapons.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Improved Sunder, Power Attack, base
attack bonus +9.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee
attack, you can sunder your opponent's weapon, in addition
to the normal damage dealt by the attack. If your
confirmation roll exceeds your opponent's CMD, you may
deal damage to your opponent's weapon as if from the
sunder combat maneuver (roll normal damage to the weapon
separately). This does not provoke an attack of opportunity.
Normal: You must perform a sunder combat maneuver to
sunder an opponent's weapon.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one of the
following feats to a given critical hit: Bull Rush Strike,
Disarming Strike, Repositioning Strike, Sundering Strike, or
Tripping Strike. You may choose to use this feat after you
make your confirmation roll.
Surprise Follow-Through (Combat)
When striking one opponent, you catch its ally off guard.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Cleave, Power Attack, base attack
bonus +1.
Benefit: When using Cleave or Great Cleave, the second foe
you attack on your turn is denied its Dexterity bonus against
you.
Surprise Strike (Combat)
You actually seem to do more damage when frantically
trying to avoid your enemies.
Prerequisites: Cautious Fighter, Desperate Swing, base
attack bonus +6, halfling.
Benefit: Once per day, when fighting defensively or making
an attack of opportunity while taking the total defense action
with the Desperate Swing feat, you take no penalty on the
attack roll.
Swift Aid (Combat)
With a quick but harmless swipe, you can aid an ally's
assault.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, base attack bonus
+6.
 Benefit: As a swift action, you can attempt the aid another
action, granting your ally either a +1 bonus on his next attack
roll or a +1 bonus to his AC.
Normal: Aid another is a standard action.
Swipe and Stash (Combat)
Your fast fingers allow you to deftly deposit an item on
someone else.
Prerequisite: Sleight of Hand 5 ranks.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can attempt a DC 20
Sleight of Hand check to plant a small object on a creature.
The target is entitled to a Perception check opposed by your
Sleight of Hand check to notice you planting the item. This
does not force the creature to wear, wield, or otherwise use
the item; you simply plant it on the creature’s person. The DC
increases to 30 if the target is not wearing clothing, armor,
tack and harness (if an animal or similar creature), or some
other equivalent accoutrements in which you can hide the
item.
In combat, you must succeed at a steal combat maneuver in
order to plant an item on a creature while attempting a
Sleight of Hand check opposed by the target’s Perception
check to do so without the target noticing. You are
automatically unnoticed if you succeed and have the Greater
Steal feat.
If you steal an object with a successful Sleight of Hand
check or steal combat maneuver check, you can use this feat
as a swift action to plant it on another creature within reach
before the end of your turn.
Special: If you have Walking Sleight, you can take either or
both of your actions with Swipe and Stash at any point
during your movement in the same round, moving both
before and after both snatching and planting the object if you
wish to do so and have enough movement.
Sword and Pistol (Combat)
You effortlessly pair melee and ranged weaponry.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Point-Blank Shot, Rapid Shot, Snap
Shot, Two-Weapon Fighting, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you use the Two-Weapon Fighting feat
while wielding a melee weapon and a crossbow or firearm,
your attacks with the crossbow or firearm provoke no attacks
of opportunity from foes that you threaten with your melee
weapon.
Normal: Making a ranged attack provokes attacks of
opportunity.
Sympathetic Rage (Combat)
Seeing an ally rage fills you with your own fury.
Prerequisites: Half-orc or orc, nonlawful.
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who is
raging, you may choose to enter a similar but less powerful
rage as a free action on your turn. This weaker rage gives you
all the benefits and penalties of a barbarian's rage, except
your morale bonus to Strength and Constitution is only +2.
There is no limit to how long you can rage, as long as you
remain adjacent to a raging ally (for example, you could take
a 5-foot step away from one raging ally toward another
raging ally and maintain your rage). As with a barbarian's
rage, when this weaker rage ends, you are fatigued. You
cannot use this feat if you are fatigued.
Tail Terror (Combat)
You have strengthened your tail enough to make slap
attacks with it.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, kobold.
Benefit: You can make a tail slap attack with your tail. This
is a secondary natural attack that deals 1d4 points of
bludgeoning damage. Furthermore, you can augment your
tail slap attack with a kobold tail attachment. For the purpose
of weapon feats, you are considered proficient with all
kobold tail attachments.
Taskmaster (Combat)
You intimidate weaker allies into reckless ferocity.
Prerequisites: Demoralizing Lash, Intimidate 5 ranks,
hobgoblin.
Benefit: As a standard action, you spur an ally, who must
have fewer Hit Dice than yourself, to reckless effort. For 1
minute, the ally gains a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls,
weapon damage rolls, and Will saves against mind-affecting
effects. However, the ally also takes a –2 penalty to AC and
on skill checks. To affect an unwilling ally, you must succeed
at an Intimidate check with the same DC used to demoralize
your ally.
Special: If you have 10 or more ranks in Intimidate, the
morale bonus increases to +2.
Team Up (Combat)
When you are ganging up against an enemy, you can aid an
ally with a quick feint.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Gang Up, base
attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you and at least two of your allies are
adjacent to an opponent, you can attempt the aid another
action as a move action.
Normal: Aid another is a standard action.
Teleport Tactician (Combat)
You are highly alert for enemies using teleportation to
approach you or flee from you.
Prerequisites: Combat Reflexes, Disruptive, Spellbreaker.
Benefit: Any creature using a teleportation effect to enter or
leave a square threatened by you provokes an attack of
opportunity, even if casting defensively or using a
supernatural ability.
Terrorizing Display (Combat)
Your battle prowess frightens friend and foe alike.
Prerequisites: Dazzling Display, Demoralizing Lash,
Taskmaster, Weapon Focus, Intimidate 10 ranks, hobgoblin,
proficiency with selected weapon.
Benefits: When you use Dazzling Display, in addition to its
normal effects, you can use it to spur allies within 30 feet as if
you had used the Taskmaster feat. Use the same Intimidate
check to determine the effects of Dazzling Display and this
feat.
Throw Anything (Combat)
You are used to throwing things you have on hand.
Benefit: You do not suffer any penalties for using an
improvised ranged weapon. You receive a +1 circumstance
bonus on attack rolls made with thrown splash weapons.
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 Normal: You take a –4 penalty on attack rolls made with an
improvised weapon.
Touch of Serenity (Combat)
With a single touch you can reduce the threat of even the
most savage of foes.
Prerequisites: Wis 18, Improved Unarmed Strike, base
attack bonus +8.
Benefit: You must declare that you are using this feat before
you make your attack roll (thus a failed attack roll ruins the
attempt). On a successful hit, the attack deals no damage and
bestows no other effect or condition, but the target cannot
cast spells or attack (including attacks of opportunity and
attacks as immediate actions) for 1 round unless it succeeds
on a Will saving throw with a DC of 10 + 1/2 your character
level + your Wisdom modifier. You may attempt a touch of
serenity once per day for every four levels you have attained
(but see Special), and no more than once per round.
Special: A monk of the lotus receives Touch of Serenity as a
bonus feat at 1st level, even if he does not meet the
prerequisites. A monk may attempt a touch of serenity a
number of times per day equal to his monk level, plus one
more time per day for every four levels he has in classes other
than monk.
Tower Shield Proficiency (Combat)
You are trained in how to properly use a tower shield.
Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency.
Benefit: When you use a tower shield, the shield's armor
check penalty only applies to Strength and Dexterity-based
skills.
Normal: A character using a shield with which he 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.
Tangle Feet (Combat)
Creatures who cross your path find themselves tripping
over their own feet.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Mobility, Underfoot , goblin, Small
size or smaller.
Benefit: When you successfully make an Acrobatics check
to avoid provoking an attack of opportunity from a larger
opponent when you move through its threatened area or its
space, you can make that opponent lose its balance until the
end of its next turn as a free action. While that creature's
balance is lost, if it attempts to move, it must make a
successful DC 15 Acrobatics check or fall prone, wasting the
move action. You can only affect one creature with this effect
each round.
Trample (Combat)
While mounted, you can ride down opponents and trample
them under your mount.
Prerequisites: Ride 1 rank, Mounted Combat.
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.
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Tree Hanger (Combat)
You can use your tail to defend against trip attacks and to
hang from nearby protrusions.
Prerequisites: Acrobatics 1 rank, vanara.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to your CMD against all trip
attacks. If your square has a branch or other sturdy large
object that you could hang from, as a swift action you may
make a DC 15 Acrobatics check to jump upward and use
your tail to hang from that object. While hanging, you can't
be tripped, you ignore the effects of difficult terrain in your
square, and you gain a +2 bonus to your CMD against bull
rush, drag, and reposition attacks. If you leave that square
(including if you are moved against your will), you lose your
grip on the object and are no longer hanging. While hanging,
you cannot use your tail for anything else.
Trick Riding (Combat)
You are not only skilled at controlling a horse in combat;
you can make it look like art.
Prerequisites: Ride 9 ranks, Mounted Combat.
Benefit: While wearing light or no armor, you do not need
to make Ride skill checks for any task listed in the Ride skill
with a DC of 15 or lower. You do not take a –5 penalty for
riding a mount bareback. You can make a check using
Mounted Combat to negate a hit on your mount twice per
round instead of just once.
Tripping Staff (Combat)
You can make a trip attack with your quarterstaff.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Trip,
Weapon Focus (quarterstaff), base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: You treat quarterstaves as if they had the trip
special feature.
Special: If you are a magus with the staff magus archetype,
you can use spellstrike on any trip combat maneuver you
make with the staff.
Tripping Strike (Combat)
The force intrinsic to your critical hits can knock your foes
down.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Trip,
base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee
attack, you can trip your opponent, in addition to the normal
damage dealt by the attack. If your confirmation roll exceeds
your opponent's CMD, you may knock your opponent prone
as if from the trip combat maneuver. This does not provoke
an attack of opportunity. If you are tripped during your own
trip attempt, you can drop your weapon to avoid being
tripped.
Normal: You must perform a trip combat maneuver to trip
an opponent.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one of the
following feats to a given critical hit: Bull Rush Strike,
Disarming Strike, Repositioning Strike, Sundering Strike, or
Tripping Strike. You may choose to use this feat after you
make your confirmation roll.
Tripping Twirl (Combat)
You can make a trip attack with a quarterstaff on all
adjacent enemies.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Trip,
Tripping Staff, Weapon Focus (quarterstaff), Weapon
Specialization (quarterstaff), base attack bonus +12.
Benefit: As a full-round action, while wielding a
quarterstaff two-handed, you can attempt a trip combat
maneuver against each enemy adjacent to you.
Special: If you are a magus with the staff magus archetype,
you can use spellstrike on any one trip combat maneuver you
make with the staff.
Twin Thunders (Combat)
When you fight giants, your powerful blows combine with
skills learned from generations of your people to quickly
even the odds.
Prerequisites: Dwarf or gnome, defensive training racial
trait, Two-Weapon Fighting or flurry of blows class feature,
Weapon Focus with both wielded weapons.
Benefit: Once per round, when wielding a bludgeoning
weapon in each hand against a creature with the giant
subtype, if you hit the creature with your off-hand weapon
after you hit with your primary weapon, roll the damage dice
for your off-hand weapon twice and add the results together
before adding any bonuses. Such extra weapon damage dice
are not multiplied on a critical hit.
Twin Thunders Flurry (Combat)
Your dual bludgeoning strikes are especially deadly when
you are fighting giants.
Prerequisites: Dwarf or gnome; defensive training racial
trait; Improved Two-Weapon Fighting and Two-Weapon
Fighting, or flurry of blows class feature; Twin Thunders;
Weapon Focus with both wielded weapons; base attack
bonus +6.
Benefit: You can trip a creature with the giant subtype of
up to Huge size, and you gain a +2 bonus on damage rolls
against creatures of the giant subtype. Further, each time you
hit a creature of the giant subtype with your off-hand
weapon after you hit that creature with your primary
weapon, you can deal the extra off-hand weapon damage
Twin Thunders grants you.
Twin Thunders Master (Combat)
With thunderous simultaneous strikes, you can batter a
mighty giant into submission.
Prerequisites: Dwarf or gnome; defensive training racial
trait; Improved Two-Weapon Fighting and Two-Weapon
Fighting, or flurry of blows class feature; Twin Thunders;
Twin Thunders Flurry; Weapon Focus with both wielded
weapons; base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: Whenever you deal an opponent extra damage
with the Twin Thunders feat, that opponent is shaken for 1
round. You also force that opponent to succeed at a Fortitude
saving throw (DC 10 + half your level + your Str modifier) or
become staggered for 1 round. If you use this feat to render
staggered an opponent that is already staggered, you daze
that opponent instead. In a similar way, you can stun an
opponent that is already dazed.
Twinned Feint (Combat)
You can fool two opponents with a single feint.
Prerequisite: Cha 13.
Benefit: As a standard action, you can attempt to feint
against a foe within your reach. If you succeed at the feint,
you can make an additional feint attempt against a foe that is
adjacent to the first one and also within reach. You can
attempt only one additional feint per action with this feat.
When you use this feat, you take a –2 penalty to your AC
until your next turn.
Special: If you have the Improved Feint feat, you can use
this feat as a move action instead.
Two-Handed Thrower (Combat)
You hurl weapons with both hands and with great force,
sometimes using a whirling technique to send your weapon
flying through the air at tremendous speeds.
Prerequisite: Str 15.
Benefit: Whenever you use two hands to throw a one-
handed or two-handed weapon, you gain a bonus on damage
rolls equal to 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus. Using two
hands to throw any weapon requires only a standard action
for you. If you also have the Quick Draw feat, you can throw
two-handed weapons at your full normal rate of attacks.
Normal: You add your Strength bonus on thrown weapon
damage, regardless of available hands. Throwing a two-
handed weapon is a full-round action.
Two-Weapon Defense (Combat)
You are skilled at defending yourself while dual-wielding.
Prerequisites: 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.
Two-Weapon Feint (Combat)
You use one weapon to distract your enemy while slipping
another past his defenses.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Int 13, Combat Expertise, Two-
Weapon Fighting.
Benefit: While using Two-Weapon Fighting to make melee
attacks, you can forgo your first primary-hand melee attack
to make a Bluff check to feint an opponent.
Two-Weapon Fighting (Combat)
You can fight with a weapon wielded in each of your hands.
You can make one extra attack each round with the
secondary weapon.
Prerequisite: Dex 15.
Benefit: Your penalties on attack rolls for fighting with two
weapons are reduced. The penalty for your primary hand
lessens by 2 and the one for your off hand lessens by 6. See
Two-Weapon Fighting in Combat.
Normal: If you wield a second weapon in your off hand,
you can get one extra attack per round with that weapon.
When fighting in this way you suffer a –6 penalty with your
regular attack or attacks with your primary hand and a –10
penalty to the attack with your off hand. If your off-hand
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weapon is light, the penalties are reduced by 2 each. An
unarmed strike is always considered light.
Two-Weapon Rend (Combat)
Striking with both of your weapons simultaneously, you
can use them to deliver devastating wounds.
Prerequisites: Dex 17, Double Slice, Improved Two-
Weapon Fighting, Two-Weapon Fighting, base attack bonus
+11.
Benefit: If you hit an opponent with both your primary
hand and your off-hand weapon, you deal an additional 1d10
points of damage plus 1-1/2 times your Strength modifier.
You can only deal this additional damage once each round.
Uncanny Defense (Combat)
Your instinct for self-preservation gives you many
advantages.
Prerequisites: Cautious Fighter, base attack bonus +3,
halfling.
Benefit: While fighting defensively or taking the total
defense action, you gain a bonus on your Reflex saving
throws and to your CMD equal to 1/2 of the dodge bonus to
AC you gained from taking that action.
Under and Over (Combat)
You can slip under a foe trying to grab you, knocking him
off balance.
Prerequisites: Agile Maneuvers, Small size or smaller.
Benefit: If an opponent larger than you attempts to grapple
you and fails, you may make a trip attack as an immediate
action against that opponent with a +2 bonus. This does not
provoke an attack of opportunity.
Underfoot (Combat)
You slip under and around your larger foes.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Mobility, Small size or smaller.
Benefit: You receive a +4 dodge bonus on Acrobatics checks
to move past opponents without provoking attacks of
opportunity, so long as they are larger than you. In addition,
you gain a +2 dodge bonus to Armor Class against attacks of
opportunity caused when you move out of or within a larger
opponent's threatened area (this stacks with the +4 bonus
provided by Mobility, for a total bonus of +6).
Undersized Mount (Combat)
You've learned to ride beasts of smaller sizes than normal.
Prerequisite: Ride 1 rank.
Benefit: You can ride creatures of your size category,
although encumbrance or other factors might limit how you
can use this ability.
Normal: Typically a mount suited for you is at least one size
category larger than you.
Unseat (Combat)
You are skilled at unseating your mounted opponents.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Ride 1 rank, Mounted Combat, Power
Attack, Improved Bull Rush, base attack bonus +1.
Benefits: When charging an opponent while mounted and
wielding a lance, resolve the attack as normal. If it hits, you
may immediately make a free bull rush attempt in addition to
the normal damage. If successful, the target is knocked off his
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horse and lands prone in a space adjacent to his mount that is
directly away from you.
Unyielding Ferocity (Combat)
When near the brink of death, you fight ferociously until the
bitter end.
Prerequisites: Con 19, ferocity.
Benefit: When you are reduced to 0 or fewer hit points, if
you remain conscious from your ferocity monster ability, you
can make a full attack on your next turn (or your current turn
if you are reduced to 0 hit points on your own turn). If you
do, you push your body to the point that your mind becomes
more primitive, and you can no longer use any Charisma-,
Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills except Acrobatics, Fly,
Intimidate, or Ride, or any ability that requires patience or
concentration (such as spellcasting) until your hit points are
raised above 0.
Normal: When using the ferocity ability, you are staggered
while you have fewer than 0 hit points and thus can’t make a
full attack.
Vast Hatred (Combat)
Your rage stretches beyond normal bounds.
Prerequisites: Gnome, hatred racial trait.
Benefit: Select two creature types (and subtypes where
appropriate) from the list of potential favored enemies from
the ranger class ability. Your +1 attack bonus from the hatred
racial trait applies to creatures of the selected types (and
subtypes).
Special: You may take this feat more than once. Its benefits
do not stack. Each time you select this feat, you select two
additional creature types to which your hatred racial trait
applies.
Vicious Stomp (Combat)
You take advantage of the moment to brutally kick an
enemy when he is down.
Prerequisites: Combat Reflexes, Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: Whenever an opponent falls prone adjacent to you,
that opponent provokes an attack of opportunity from you.
This attack must be an unarmed strike.
Vital Strike (Combat)
You make a single attack that deals significantly more
damage than normal.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you use the attack action, you can make one
attack at your highest base attack bonus that deals additional
damage. Roll the weapon's damage dice for the attack twice
and add the results together before adding bonuses from
Strength, weapon abilities (such as flaming), precision based
damage, and other damage bonuses. These extra weapon
damage dice are not multiplied on a critical hit, but are added
to the total.
Wave Strike (Combat)
You present a serene facade until you unsheathe your
weapon and strike in one fluid motion.
Prerequisites: Weapon expertise class feature or Quick
Draw, Bluff 1 rank.
Benefit: If on your first turn of combat you draw a melee
weapon to attack an opponent within your reach, you can
spend a swift action to make a Bluff check to feint against that no damage to a creature that has an armor bonus of +1 or
opponent. natural armor bonus of +3.

Weapon Finesse (Combat) Whirlwind Attack (Combat)

You are trained in using your agility in melee combat, as
opposed to brute strength.
Benefit: With a light weapon, rapier, whip, or spiked chain
made for a creature of your size category, you may use your
Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on
attack rolls. If you carry a shield, its armor check penalty
applies to your attack rolls.
Special: Natural weapons are considered light weapons.
You can strike out at every foe within reach.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Int 13, Combat Expertise, Dodge,
Mobility, Spring Attack, base attack bonus +4.
Benefit: When you use the full-attack action, you can give
up your regular attacks and instead make one melee attack at
your highest base attack bonus against each opponent within
reach. You must make a separate attack roll against each
opponent.

Weapon Focus (Combat) When you use the Whirlwind Attack feat, you also forfeit
Choose one type of weapon. You can also choose unarmed any bonus or extra attacks granted by other feats, spells, or
strike or grapple (or ray, if you are a spellcaster) as your abilities.
weapon for the purposes of this feat.
Wind Stance (Combat)
Prerequisites: Proficiency with selected weapon, base attack Your erratic movements make it difficult for enemies to
bonus +1. pinpoint your location.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on all attack rolls you make Prerequisites: Dex 15, Dodge, base attack bonus +6.
using the selected weapon.
Benefit: If you move more than 5 feet this turn, you gain
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do 20% concealment for 1 round against ranged attacks.
not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new type
of weapon. Winter's Strike (Combat)
Your attacks afflict your foes with the relentless fatigue of a
Weapon of the Chosen (Combat) winter storm.
The influence of your deity guides your favored weapon.
Prerequisites: Nature Magic or the ability to cast druid or
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus with deity's favored weapon, ranger spells; Vital Strike, Knowledge (nature) 5 ranks.
must worship and receive spells from a deity.
Benefit: A number of times per day equal to your Wisdom
Benefit: As a swift action, you can call upon your deity to modifier (minimum 1), when you use Vital Strike (or
guide an attack you make with your deity's favored weapon. Improved Vital Strike or Greater Vital Strike), your strike
On your next attack in that round with that weapon, your saps the strength of your opponent. The creature hit must
weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming succeed at a Fortitude save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your character
damage reduction or striking an incorporeal creature. If your level + your Wisdom modifier) or become fatigued for a
attack misses because of concealment, you can reroll your number of rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum
miss chance one time to see whether you actually hit. 1). You can choose to use this ability as a free action after you
hit the target with the attack. This is a supernatural ability.
Weapon Specialization (Combat)
You are skilled at dealing damage with one weapon.
Choose one type of weapon (including unarmed strike or
grapple) for which you have already selected the Weapon
Focus feat. You deal extra damage when using this weapon.
Prerequisites: Proficiency with selected weapon, Weapon
Focus with selected weapon, fighter level 4th.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on all damage rolls you make
using the selected weapon.
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.

Whip Mastery (Combat)

Your superior expertise with this weapon does not provoke
attacks of opportunity from your enemies.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus (whip), base attack bonus +2.
Benefit: You no longer provoke attacks of opportunity
when attacking with a whip. You can deal lethal damage
with a whip, although you can still deal nonlethal damage
when you want. Further, you can deal damage with a whip
despite a creature's armor bonus or natural armor bonus.
Normal: Attacking with a whip provokes attacks of
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CRITICAL FEATS
Critical feats modify the effects of a critical hit by inflicting
an additional condition on the victim of the critical hit.
Characters without the Critical Mastery feat can only apply
the effects of one critical feat to an individual critical hit.
Characters with multiple critical feats can decide which feat
to apply after the critical hit has been confirmed.
Accursed Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your spells carry an embedded curse that manifests when
they strike true.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, ability to cast bestow curse or
major curse, caster level 9th.
Benefit: When you confirm a critical hit with a spell or
spell-like ability, you may cast bestow curse or major curse on
that target as an immediate action. This works even with
ranged spells. You must have bestow curse or major curse
prepared or otherwise available to cast, and using this ability
casts the corresponding spell.
Bleeding Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hits cause opponents to bleed profusely.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a slashing or
piercing weapon, your opponent takes 2d6 points of bleed
damage (see Conditions) each round on his turn, in addition
to the damage dealt by the critical hit. Bleed damage can be
stopped by a DC 15 Heal skill check or through any magical
healing. The effects of this feat stack.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.
Blighted Critical (Combat, Critical)
With a critical hit from a spell or spell-like ability, you give
the target a minor spellblight.
Prerequisites: Caster level 5th.
Benefit: Whenever you confirm a critical hit with a touch
spell, ranged touch spell, or spell-like ability against an
opponent, the victim gains a random minor spellblight.
Special: You can apply the effects of only one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.
Blinding Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hits blind your opponents.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, base attack bonus +15.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit, your opponent is
permanently blinded. A successful Fortitude save reduces
this to dazzled for 1d4 rounds. The DC of this Fortitude save
is equal to 10 + your base attack bonus. This feat has no effect
on creatures that do not rely on eyes for sight or creatures
with more than two eyes (although multiple critical hits
might cause blindness, at the GM's discretion). Blindness can
be cured by heal, regeneration, remove blindness, or similar
abilities.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.
Crippling Critical (Combat, Critical)
You are able to maim a target and hinder its movement.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, base attack bonus +13.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit against an
opponent, its speed is halved for 1 minute. A successful
Fortitude save reduces this duration to 1d4 rounds. The DC
of this save is equal to 10 + your base attack bonus. Against
creatures with multiple types of movement, you must choose
which movement type to affect. A flying creature hit by this
attack must make a DC 10 Fly check to remain airborne, and
has its maneuverability reduced by one step.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.
Critical Focus (Combat, Critical)
You are trained in the art of causing pain.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: You receive a +4 circumstance bonus on attack rolls
made to confirm critical hits.
Critical Mastery (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hits cause two additional effects.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, any two critical feats, 14th-
level fighter.
Benefit: When you score a critical hit, you can apply the
effects of two critical feats in addition to the damage dealt.
Normal: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit in addition to the damage dealt.
Critical Versatility (Combat, Critical)
An open mind and combat training grant versatility to your
critical hits.
Prerequisites: Fighter level 11th, human.
Benefit: Once per day, you can spend 1 hour practicing
maneuvers to gain one single critical feat that you meet the
prerequisites for. You gain the benefits of the chosen critical
feat until you choose to practice a different critical feat.
Deafening Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hits cause enemies to lose their hearing.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, base attack bonus +13.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit against an
opponent, the victim is permanently deafened. A successful
Fortitude save reduces the deafness to 1 round. The DC of
this Fortitude save is equal to 10 + your base attack bonus.
This feat has no effect on deaf creatures. This deafness can be
cured by heal, regeneration, remove deafness, or a similar ability.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.
Dispelling Critical (Critical)
Your blows attack the physical and arcane forms of your
enemies at the same time.
Prerequisites: Arcane Strike, base attack bonus +11, ability
to cast dispel magic.
Benefit: If you have dispel magic prepared or can cast it
spontaneously, when you score a critical hit against an
opponent, you may use a swift action to cast dispel magic to
make a targeted dispel against that opponent.
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Entreating Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hit allows you a chance to make your foes brief
ly see reason.
Prerequisites: Cha 15, Call Truce, Critical Focus, Persuasive,
base attack bonus +11, Diplomacy 5 ranks.
Benefit: Whenever you confirm a critical hit, the shock of
the attack momentarily opens an opportunity to end
hostilities with a quick entreaty. As an immediate action
immediately after confirming the critical hit, you can attempt
a Diplomacy check to improve the target’s attitude as though
you had spent 1 full round using the Call Truce feat. All other
conditions and limitations of the Call Truce feat apply.
Exhausting Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hits cause opponents to become exhausted.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, Tiring Critical, base attack
bonus +15.
Benefit: When you score a critical hit on a foe, your target
immediately becomes exhausted. This feat has no effect on
exhausted creatures.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess the Critical Mastery
feat.
Greater Blighted Critical (Critical)
Your critical hit from a spell or spell-like ability afflicts the
target with a major spellblight.
Prerequisites: Blighted Critical, caster level 12th.
Benefit: Whenever you confirm a critical hit with a touch
spell, ranged touch spell, or spell-like ability against an
opponent, the victim gains a random major spellblight.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.
Impact Critical Shot (Combat, Critical)
With a series of ranged attacks, you bring your foes to their
knees or force them to move.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Point-Blank Shot, base attack bonus
+9.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a ranged
attack, in addition to the normal damage your attack deals, if
your confirmation roll exceeds your opponent's CMD, you
can push your opponent back as if from the bull rush combat
maneuver or knock that target prone as if from a trip combat
maneuver. If you choose to bull rush, you cannot move with
the target. Your maneuver does not provoke an attack of
opportunity.
Normal: You must perform a bull rush combat maneuver to
bull rush an opponent, and you must perform a trip combat
maneuver to trip an opponent.
Impaling Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hits can skewer your foes.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, Weapon Specialization with
selected piercing melee weapon, base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with the selected
piercing melee weapon, you can impale your opponent on
your weapon. While your opponent is impaled in this way,
each time he starts his turn, you deal damage equal to your
weapon's damage dice plus the extra damage dice from your
weapon's properties. As an immediate action, you can pull
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your weapon out of your opponent. If your opponent is ever
outside your reach, you must spend a free action to let go of
your weapon or pull it out of him. Your opponent can also
spend a move action to pull your weapon out. When the
weapon comes out, your opponent takes damage as if
starting his turn impaled. While you impale your opponent
with your weapon, you cannot use it to attack, and you must
hold on to it.
Improved Impaling Critical (Combat, Critical)
When you impale a target, you hinder its movement and
can cause severe bleeding.
Prerequisites: Impaling Critical, Critical Focus, Weapon
Specialization with selected piercing melee weapon, base
attack bonus +13.
Benefit: While you are using Impaling Critical to impale an
opponent, and you are still holding onto that weapon, that
opponent must succeed at a grapple combat maneuver check
against you to pull your weapon out. If you have let go of
your weapon, the impaled opponent must spend a standard
action to remove the weapon. Until the opponent pulls the
weapon out, his speed in all modes is halved and his
maneuverability, if any, is reduced by one step. When the
weapon comes out, instead of dealing the damage normal for
Impaling Critical, you can deal bleed damage equal to your
weapon's damage dice result once per round at the start of
that opponent's turn.
Sickening Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hits cause opponents to become sickened.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, base attack bonus +11.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit, your opponent
becomes sickened for 1 minute. The effects of this feat do not
stack. Additional hits instead add to the effect's duration.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.
Staggering Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hits cause opponents to slow down.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, base attack bonus +13.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit, your opponent
becomes staggered for 1d4+1 rounds. A successful Fortitude
save reduces the duration to 1 round. The DC of this
Fortitude save is equal to 10 + your base attack bonus. The
effects of this feat do not stack. Additional hits instead add to
the duration.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.
Stunning Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hits cause opponents to become stunned.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, Staggering Critical, base attack
bonus +17.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit, your opponent
becomes stunned for 1d4 rounds. A successful Fortitude save
reduces this to staggered for 1d4 rounds. The DC of this
Fortitude save is equal to 10 + your base attack bonus. The
effects of this feat do not stack. Additional hits instead add to
the duration.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.
Tiring Critical (Combat, Critical)
Your critical hits cause opponents to become fatigued.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus, base attack bonus +13.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit, your opponent
becomes fatigued. This feat has no additional effect on a
fatigued or exhausted creature.
Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to
a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.

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GRIT FEATS
Grit feats interact with the gunslinger's grit class ability or
the grit granted by the Amateur Gunslinger feat, usually by
adding to her set of deeds. Sometimes these feats increase the
number of grit points a character has or how that character
regains grit points. Gunslingers can take grit feats as bonus
feats.
Deft Shootist Deed (Grit)
You keep an eye out while focusing on your weapon,
allowing you to avoid attacks while shooting and reloading
firearms.
Prerequisites: Grit class feature or Amateur Gunslinger
feat, Dodge, Mobility.
Benefit: As long as you have at least 1 grit point, you do not
provoke attacks of opportunity when shooting or reloading a
firearm.
Extra Grit (Grit)
You have more grit than the ordinary gunslinger.
Prerequisites: Grit class feature or the Amateur Gunslinger
feat.
Benefit: You gain 2 extra grit points at the start of each day,
and your maximum grit increases by 2.
Normal: If you are a gunslinger, you gain your Wisdom
modifier in grit points at the start of each day, which is also
your maximum grit. If you have the Amateur Gunslinger
feat, you gain 1 grit point at the start of each day, and your
maximum grit is equal to your Wisdom modifier.
Special: If you possess levels in the gunslinger class, you
can take this feat multiple times.
Leaping Shot Deed (Grit)
You leap through the air, guns blazing.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, grit class feature or Amateur
Gunslinger feat, Dodge, Mobility, base attack bonus +4.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Acrobatics checks made to
jump. As a full-round action, you can move up to your speed
and make firearm attacks at your highest base attack bonus
with each loaded firearm you are wielding. You can make
these attacks at any point during your movement, and if you
are wielding two firearms, you can make the attacks at
different points during the movement. At the end of this
movement, you fall prone. This deed costs 1 grit point to
perform.
No Name (Grit)
You don't need an elaborate disguise to keep your identity
under wraps.
Prerequisites: Grit class feature or Amateur Gunslinger
feat, Bluff 4 ranks.
Benefit: You often rely on surprise and misdirection in your
social dealings. You gain a +2 bonus on Bluff checks, and you
can spend 1 grit point to gain a +10 bonus on Disguise checks
for 10 minutes per your gunslinger level (minimum 10
minutes). This deed does not actually change your
appearance, but rather allows you to hide your identity in
other ways.
Ricochet Shot Deed (Grit)
You can ricochet a firearm shot off the wall and still hit your
target.
Prerequisites: Grit class feature or Amateur Gunslinger
feat, Blind-Fight.
Benefit: You can fire a shot at a wall or piece of solid
terrain, and have it ricochet off. When you do, use the square
immediately in front of the wall or piece of solid terrain to
determine line of sight to a target, and this square is
considered the new origin square of the attack. Use that
square to determine the effects of cover, and your own square
to determine the effects of concealment. You can make this
shot as long as you have at least 1 grit point. When making
this shot, you can spend 1 grit point to ignore the effects of all
cover or concealment. You must choose to spend the grit
point before you make the attack roll.
Secret Stash Deed (Grit)
You are so skilled at stashing small packets of firearm
ammunition and black powder on your person that you
sometimes surprise yourself when you find them.
Prerequisites: Grit class feature or Amateur Gunslinger
feat, Sleight of Hand 1 rank.
Benefit: Spend 1 grit point while in combat to recover either
1 bullet and 1 dose of black powder or 1 alchemical cartridge
from a hidden stash on your person that you had, until now,
forgotten about. If the bullet and black powder or the
alchemical cartridges are normal shot, you do not need to pay
for the ammunition. If you want to recover any other kind of
ammunition, you must pay for it with gold pieces from your
character's wealth. The grit cost of this deed cannot be
decreased by the Signature Deed feat, the true grit class
feature, or any other similar effect that reduces the number of
grit points you spend to use a deed. You also gain a +4 bonus
on any Sleight of Hand checks made while gambling.
Signature Deed (Grit)
You are known for performing a particular deed, and can
perform it with greater ease.
Prerequisites: Grit class feature, gunslinger level 11th.
Benefit: Pick a deed that you have access to and that you
must spend grit to perform. Once per round, you can
perform this deed for 1 fewer grit point (minimum 0). You
can reduce the cost of a deed in this way only if you have at
least 1 grit point.
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HERO POINT FEATS
The hero point feats enhance a character ability to store and
gain hero points.

Blood of Heroes
You have a sense of destiny about you and always seem to
succeed, even when the odds are against you.
Prerequisite: Hero's Fortune.
Benefit: Whenever you gain a level, you gain 2 hero points
instead of 1.
Normal: Whenever you gain a level, you gain 1 hero point.

Hero's Fortune
Even at the start of your career, it was clear that you had a
chance at greatness, and your legend continues to grow with
every adventure.
Benefit: You gain a hero point. The maximum number of
hero points you can have at any one time is increased to 5.
Normal: You can have no more than 3 hero points at one
time.
Special: NPCs who take this feat receive 1 hero point and
can have up to 3 (not 5).

Luck of Heroes
To others, it seems that you always have a bit of luck
around you.
Prerequisite: Hero's Fortune.
Benefit: Whenever you spend a hero point to reroll a die
roll or to grant yourself a bonus before a die roll is made,
there is a chance that the hero point is not spent. Whenever
you spend a hero point, roll a d20. If the result is greater than
15, the hero point is not spent. You cannot use this feat when
you cheat death.

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ITEM CREATION FEATS
An item creation feat lets a character create a magic item of
a certain type. Regardless of the type of item each involves,
the various item creation feats all have certain features in
common.
Raw Materials Cost: The cost of creating a magic item
equals half the base price of the item.
Using an item creation feat also requires access to a
laboratory or magical workshop, special tools, and so on. A
character generally has access to what he needs unless
unusual circumstances apply.
Time: The time to create a magic item depends on the feat
and the cost of the item.
Item Cost: Brew Potion, Craft Staff, Craft Wand, and Scribe
Scroll create items that directly reproduce spell effects, and
the power of these items depends on their caster level—that
is, a spell from such an item has the power it would have if
cast by a spellcaster of that level. The price of these items
(and thus the cost of the raw materials) also depends on the
caster level. The caster level must be low enough that the
spellcaster creating the item can cast the spell at that level. To
find the final price in each case, multiply the caster level by
the spell level, then multiply the result by a constant, as
shown below:
Scrolls: Base price = spell level × caster level × 25 gp.
Potions: Base price = spell level × caster level × 50 gp.
Wands: Base price = spell level × caster level × 750 gp.
Staves: The price for staves is calculated using more
complex formulas (see Magic Items).
A 0-level spell is considered to have a spell level of 1/2 for
the purpose of this calculation.
Extra Costs: Any potion, scroll, or wand that stores a spell
with a costly material component also carries a
commensurate cost. For potions and scrolls, the creator must
expend the material component cost when creating the item.
For a wand, the creator must expend 50 units of the material
component. Some magic items similarly incur extra costs in
material components, as noted in their descriptions.
Skill Check: Successfully creating a magic item requires a
Spellcraft check with a DC equal to 5 + the item's caster level.
Alternatively, you can use an associated Craft or Profession
skill to attempt this check instead, depending upon the item
being crafted. See Magic Item Creation for more details on
which Craft and Profession checks may be substituted in this
manner. The DC of this check can increase if the crafter is
rushed or does not meet all of the prerequisites. A failed
check ruins the materials used, while a check that fails by 5 or
more results in a cursed item. See Magic Items for more
details.
Brew Potion (Item Creation)
You can create magic potions.
Prerequisite: Caster level 3rd.
Benefit: You can create a potion of any 3rd-level or lower
spell that you know and that targets one or more creatures or
objects. Brewing a potion takes 2 hours if its base price is 250
gp or less, otherwise brewing a potion takes 1 day for each
1,000 gp in its base price. When you create a potion, you set
the caster level, which must be sufficient to cast the spell in
question and no higher than your own level. To brew a
potion, you must use up raw materials costing one half this
base price. See the magic item creation rules in Magic Items
for more information.
When you create a potion, you make any choices that you
would normally make when casting the spell. Whoever
drinks the potion is the target of the spell.
Craft Magic Arms and Armor (Item Creation)
You can create magic armor, shields, and weapons.
Prerequisite: Caster level 5th.
Benefit: You can create magic weapons, armor, or shields.
Enhancing a weapon, suit of armor, or shield takes 1 day for
each 1,000 gp in the price of its magical features. To enhance a
weapon, suit of armor, or shield, you must use up raw
materials costing half of this total price. See the magic item
creation rules in Magic Items for more information.
The weapon, armor, or shield to be enhanced must be a
masterwork item that you provide. Its cost is not included in
the above cost.
You can also mend a broken magic weapon, suit of armor,
or shield if it is one that you could make. Doing so costs half
the raw materials and half the time it would take to craft that
item in the first place.
Craft Rod (Item Creation)
You can create magic rods.
Prerequisite: Caster level 9th.
Benefit: You can create magic rods. Crafting a rod takes 1
day for each 1,000 gp in its base price. To craft a rod, you
must use up raw materials costing half of its base price. See
the magic item creation rules in Magic Items for more
information.
Craft Staff (Item Creation)
You can create magic staves.
Prerequisite: Caster level 11th.
Benefit: You can create any staff whose prerequisites you
meet. Crafting a staff takes 1 day for each 1,000 gp in its base
price. To craft a staff, you must use up raw materials costing
half of its base price. A newly created staff has 10 charges. See
the magic item creation rules in Magic Items for more
information.
Craft Wand (Item Creation)
You can create magic wands.
Prerequisite: Caster level 5th.
Benefit: You can create a wand of any 4th-level or lower
spell that you know. Crafting a wand takes 1 day for each
1,000 gp in its base price. To craft a wand, you must use up
raw materials costing half of this base price. A newly created
wand has 50 charges. See the magic item creation rules in
Magic Items for more information.
You can also mend a broken ring if it is one that you could
make. Doing so costs half the raw materials and half the time
it would take to forge that ring in the first place.
Craft Wondrous Item (Item Creation)
You can create wondrous items, a type of magic item.
Prerequisite: Caster level 3rd.
Benefit: You can create a wide variety of magic wondrous
items. Crafting a wondrous item takes 1 day for each 1,000 gp
in its price. To create a wondrous item, you must use up raw
materials costing half of its base price. See the magic item
creation rules in Magic Items for more information.
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 You can also mend a broken wondrous item if it is one that
you could make. Doing so costs half the raw materials and
half the time it would take to craft that item.

Fleshwarper (Item Creation)

You can create creatures through an abominable alchemical
process.
Prerequisites: Craft (alchemy) 5 ranks, Heal 5 ranks, evil
alignment.
Benefit: You can create fleshwarped creatures and fleshcraft
grafts. A newly created fleshwarped creature has average hit
points for its Hit Dice.

Forge Ring (Item Creation)

You can create magic rings.
Prerequisite: Caster level 7th.
Benefit: You can create magic rings. Crafting a ring takes 1
day for each 1,000 gp in its base price. To craft a ring, you
must use up raw materials costing half of the base price. See
the magic item creation rules in Magic Items for more
information.

Scribe Scroll (Item Creation)

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 2 hours if its base price is 250 gp or
less, otherwise scribing a scroll takes 1 day for each 1,000 gp
in its base price. To scribe a scroll, you must use up raw
materials costing half of this base price. See the magic item
creation rules in Magic Items for more information.

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METAMAGIC FEATS
As a spellcaster's knowledge of magic grows, he can learn to
cast spells in ways slightly different from the norm.
Preparing and casting a spell in such a way is harder than
normal but, thanks to metamagic feats, is at least possible.
Spells modified by a metamagic feat use a spell slot higher
than normal. This does not change the level of the spell, so
the DC for saving throws against it does not go up.
Metamagic feats do not affect spell-like abilities.
Wizards and Divine Spellcasters: Wizards and divine
spellcasters must prepare their spells in advance. During
preparation, the character chooses which spells to prepare
with metamagic feats (and thus which ones take up higher-
level spell slots than normal).
Sorcerers and Bards: Sorcerers and bards choose spells as
they cast them. They can choose when they cast their spells
whether to apply their metamagic feats to improve them. As
with other spellcasters, the improved spell uses up a higher-
level spell slot. Because the sorcerer or bard has not prepared
the spell in a metamagic form in advance, he must apply the
metamagic feat on the spot. Therefore, such a character must
also take more time to cast a metamagic spell (one enhanced
by a metamagic feat) than he does to cast a regular spell. If
the spell's normal casting time is a standard action, casting a
metamagic version is a full-round action for a sorcerer or
bard. (This isn't the same as a 1-round casting time.) The only
exception is for spells modified by the Quicken Spell
metamagic feat, which can be cast as normal using the feat.
For a spell with a longer casting time, it takes an extra full-
round action to cast the spell.
Spontaneous Casting and Metamagic Feats: A cleric
spontaneously casting a cure or inflict spell, or a druid
spontaneously casting a summon nature's ally spell, can cast a
metamagic version of it instead. Extra time is also required in
this case. Casting a standard action metamagic spell
spontaneously is a full-round action, and a spell with a longer
casting time takes an extra full-round action to cast. The only
exception is for spells modified by the Quicken Spell feat,
which can be cast as a swift action.
Effects of Metamagic Feats on a Spell: In all ways, a
metamagic spell operates at its original spell level, even
though it is prepared and cast using a higher-level spell slot.
Saving throw modifications are not changed unless stated
otherwise in the feat description.
The modifications made by these feats only apply to spells
cast directly by the feat user. A spellcaster can't use a
metamagic feat to alter a spell being cast from a wand, scroll,
or other device.
Metamagic feats that eliminate components of a spell don't
eliminate the attack of opportunity provoked by casting a
spell while threatened. Casting a spell modified by Quicken
Spell does not provoke an attack of opportunity.
Metamagic feats cannot be used with all spells. See the
specific feat descriptions for the spells that a particular feat
can't modify.
Multiple Metamagic Feats on a Spell: A spellcaster can
apply multiple metamagic feats to a single spell. Changes to
its level are cumulative. You can't apply the same metamagic
feat more than once to a single spell.
Magic Items and Metamagic Spells: With the right item
creation feat, you can store a metamagic version of a spell in a
scroll, potion, or wand. Level limits for potions and wands
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apply to the spell's higher spell level (after the application of
the metamagic feat). A character doesn't need the metamagic
feat to activate an item storing a metamagic version of a spell.
Counterspelling Metamagic Spells: Whether or not a spell
has been enhanced by a metamagic feat does not affect its
vulnerability to counterspelling or its ability to counterspell
another spell (see Magic).
Bouncing Spell (Metamagic)
You can direct a failed spell against a different target.
Benefit: Whenever a bouncing spell targeting a single
creature has no effect on its intended target (whether due to
spell resistance or a successful saving throw) you may, as a
swift action, redirect it to target another eligible creature
within range. The redirected spell behaves in all ways as if its
new target were the original target for the spell. Spells that
affect a target in any way (including a lesser effect from a
successful saving throw) may not be redirected in this
manner. A bouncing spell uses up a spell slot one level higher
than the spell's actual level.
Burning Spell (Metamagic)
You cause creatures to take extra damage when you affect
them with a spell that has the acid or fire descriptor.
Benefit: The acid or fire effects of the affected spell adhere
to the creature, causing more damage the next round. When a
creature takes acid or fire damage from the affected spell, that
creature takes damage equal to 2× the spell's actual level at
the start of its next turn. The damage is acid or fire, as
determined by the spell's descriptor. If a burning spell has
both the fire and acid descriptor, the caster chooses what
kind of damage is dealt by the burning spell effect. A burning
spell uses up a slot two levels higher than the spell's actual
level.
Concussive Spell (Metamagic)
You cause creatures to be disoriented when you affect them
with a spell that has the sonic descriptor.
Benefit: With sonic damage comes a concussive wave of
energy that rattles creatures affected by the spell. A
concussive spell causes creatures that take damage from a
spell that has the sonic descriptor to take a –2 penalty on
attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks for
a number of rounds equal to the actual spell level of the spell.
A concussive spell only affects spells with the sonic
descriptor. A concussive spell uses up a spell slot two levels
higher than the spell's actual level.
Contagious Spell (Metamagic)
Your spells are dangerous to dispel and likely to backfire
upon those who try.
Benefit: A caster level check to dispel or remove a
contagious spell that fails by 5 or more causes it to spread
from the original target to the creature that attempted to
remove it. The spell spreads to the new target regardless of
its normal range or any special targeting requirement like a
melee or ranged touch attack. The spell is treated as if you
had just cast it on the new target. The new target receives a
saving throw or the benefit of spell resistance (if applicable) if
the spell normally allows it.
You can apply Contagious Spell only to targeted spells that
are harmful to their target and don’t have a range of personal;
a contagious spell never spreads to someone who would
benefit from being the target of the spell. A contagious spell
uses up a spell slot 2 levels higher than the spell’s actual
level.
 Special: A contagious spell can be identified normally as it
is being cast with a successful Spellcraft check. Identifying
whether a spell is contagious by its effect, however, requires
the use of the analyze dweomer spell or a similar effect.
Dazing Spell (Metamagic)
You can daze creatures with the power of your spells.
Benefit: You can modify a spell to daze a creature damaged
by the spell. When a creature takes damage from this spell,
they become dazed for a number of rounds equal to the
original level of the spell. If the spell allows a saving throw, a
successful save negates the daze effect. If the spell does not
allow a save, the target can make a Will save to negate the
daze effect. If the spell effect also causes the creature to
become dazed, the duration of this metamagic effect is added
to the duration of the spell. A dazing spell uses up a spell slot
three levels higher than the spell's actual level. Spells that do
not inflict damage do not benefit from this feat.
Disruptive Spell (Metamagic)
Your magical energies cling to enemies, interfering with
their spellcasting.
Benefit: Targets affected by a disruptive spell must make
concentration checks when using spells or spell-like abilities
(DC equals the save DC of the disruptive spell plus the level
of the spell being cast) for 1 round. Targets that avoid the
spell's effects avoid this feat's effect as well. A disruptive spell
uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual
level.
Echoing Spell (Metamagic)
You have learned how to release most, but not all, of a
spell's potential when you cast it.
Benefit: When you cast an echoing spell, it does not
disappear entirely from memory, and you can cast it one
additional time during that day. No effect that allows you to
reprepare or recast a spell can affect the echoed spell. If you
prepare spells, this second casting does not require you to
prepare it in another spell slot. If you spontaneously cast
spells, this second casting does not expend another available
spell slot. An echoing spell uses up a spell slot three levels
higher than the spell's actual level.
Ectoplasmic Spell (Metamagic)
Your spells breach the gulf between dimensions, sending
ghostly emanations into the ether.
Benefit: An ectoplasmic spell has full effect against
incorporeal or ethereal creatures. An ectoplasmic spell uses
up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.
Elemental Spell (Metamagic)
You can manipulate the elemental nature of your spells.
Benefit: Choose one energy type: acid, cold, electricity, or
fire. You may replace a spell's normal damage with that
energy type or split the spell's damage, so that half is of that
energy type and half is of its normal type. An elemental spell
uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual
level.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time
you must choose a different energy type.
Empower Spell (Metamagic)
You can increase the power of your spells, causing them to
deal more damage.
Benefit: All variable, numeric effects of an empowered spell
are increased by half, including bonuses to those dice rolls.
Saving throws and opposed rolls are not affected, nor are
spells without random variables. An empowered spell uses
up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell's actual level.
Enlarge Spell (Metamagic)
You can increase the range of your spells.
Benefit: You can alter a spell with a range of close, medium,
or long to increase its range by 100%. An enlarged spell with
a range of close now has a range of 50 ft. + 5 ft./level, while
medium-range spells have a range of 200 ft. + 20 ft./level and
long-range spells have a range of 800 ft. + 80 ft./level. An
enlarged spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the
spell's actual level.
Spells whose ranges are not defined by distance, as well as
spells whose ranges are not close, medium, or long, do not
benefit from this feat.
Extend Spell (Metamagic)
You can make your spells last twice as long.
Benefit: An extended spell lasts twice as long as normal. A
spell with a duration of concentration, instantaneous, or
permanent is not affected by this feat. An extended spell uses
up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.
Flaring Spell (Metamagic)
You dazzle creatures when you affect them with a spell that
has the fire, light, or electricity descriptor.
Benefit: The electricity, fire, or light effects of the affected
spell create a flaring that dazzles creatures that take damage
from the spell. A flare spell causes a creature that takes fire or
electricity damage from the affected spell to become dazzled
for a number of rounds equal to the actual level of the spell.
A flaring spell only affects spells with a fire, light, or
electricity descriptor. A flaring spell uses up a spell slot one
level higher than the spell's actual level.
Fleeting Spell (Metamagic)
Your spells vanish with unusual speed.
Benefit: A fleeting spell’s duration becomes dismissible, if it
is not already. You can dismiss your own f leeting spell as a
swift action. When you dismiss a f leeting spell, its lingering
aura cannot be detected by magic unless the caster succeeds
at a caster level check against a DC equal to 11 + your caster
level. The DC of dispel checks to counter a f leeting spell is
reduced by 2, and once active, dispel magic removes a f leeting
spell without a caster level check. A f leeting spell has half its
normal duration (with an extended f leeting spell, these
duration adjustments cancel out). Only spells with a duration
of at least 2 rounds can be made f leeting, and instantaneous
or permanent spells cannot be f leeting spells. A f leeting spell
does not use up a higher-level spell slot than the spell’s actual
level.
Normal: It is a standard action to dismiss a dismissible
spell, and only spells whose Duration entry is marked with a
D are dismissible.
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Focused Spell (Metamagic)
When you cast a spell that affects more than one creature,
one opponent finds it more difficult to resist.
Benefit: When casting a spell that affects or targets more
than one creature, you can choose one target or creature
within the spell effect. That creature's saving throw DC to
resist the spell is increased by +2. You must choose which
target to focus the spell on before casting the spell. A focused
spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's
actual level.
Spells that do not require a saving throw to resist or lessen
the spell's effect do not benefit from this feat.
Heighten Spell (Metamagic)
You can cast spells as if 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.
Intensified Spell (Metamagic)
Your spells can go beyond several normal limitations.
Benefit: An intensified spell increases the maximum
number of damage dice by 5 levels. You must actually have
sufficient caster levels to surpass the maximum in order to
benefit from this feat. No other variables of the spell are
affected, and spells that inflict damage that is not modified by
caster level are not affected by this feat. An intensified spell
uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual
level.
Lingering Spell (Metamagic)
You spell clings to existence, slowly fading from the world.
Benefit: You may cause an instantaneous spell that affects
an area to persist until the beginning of your next turn. Those
already in the area suffer no additional harm, but other
creatures or objects entering the area are subject to its effects.
A lingering spell with a visual manifestation obscures vision,
providing concealment (20% miss chance) beyond 5 feet and
total concealment (50% miss chance) beyond 20 feet.
A lingering spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than
the spell's actual level.
Maximize Spell (Metamagic)
Your spells have the maximum possible effect.
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 half the normally
rolled result.
Merciful Spell (Metamagic)
Your damaging spells subdue rather than kill.
Benefit: You can alter spells that inflict damage to inflict
nonlethal damage instead. Spells that inflict damage of a
particular type (such as fire) inflict nonlethal damage of that
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same type. A merciful spell does not use up a higher-level
spell slot than the spell's actual level.
Persistent Spell (Metamagic)
You can modify a spell to become more tenacious when its
targets resist its effect.
Benefit: Whenever a creature targeted by a persistent spell
or within its area succeeds on its saving throw against the
spell, it must make another saving throw against the effect. If
a creature fails this second saving throw, it suffers the full
effects of the spell, as if it had failed its first saving throw. A
persistent spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the
spell's actual level.
Spells that do not require a saving throw to resist or lessen
the spell's effect do not benefit from this feat.
Piercing Spell (Metamagic)
Your studies have helped you develop methods to
overcome spell resistance.
Benefit: When you cast a piercing spell against a target with
spell resistance, it treats the spell resistance of the target as 5
lower than its actual SR. A piercing spell uses up a spell slot
one level higher than the spell's actual level.
Quicken Spell (Metamagic)
You can cast spells in a fraction of the normal time.
Benefit: Casting a quickened spell is a swift action. You can
perform another action, even casting another spell, in the
same round as you cast a quickened spell. A spell whose
casting time is more than 1 round or 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: You can apply the effects of this feat to a spell cast
spontaneously, so long as it has a casting time that is not
more than 1 full-round action, without increasing the spell's
casting time.
Reach Spell (Metamagic)
Your spells go farther than normal.
Benefit: You can alter a spell with a range of touch, close, or
medium to increase its range to a higher range category,
using the following order: touch, close, medium, and long. A
reach spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the
spell's actual level for each increase in range category. For
example, a spell with a range of touch increased to long range
uses up a spell slot three levels higher. Spells modified by
this feat that require melee touch attacks instead require
ranged touch attacks.
Spells that do not have a range of touch, close, or medium
do not benefit from this feat.
Rime Spell (Metamagic)
Creatures damaged by your spells with the cold descriptor
become entangled.
Benefit: The frost of your cold spell clings to the target,
impeding it for a short time. A rime spell causes creatures
that takes cold damage from the spell to become entangled
for a number of rounds equal to the original level of the spell.
This feat only affects spells with the cold descriptor. A rime
spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's
actual level.
Selective Spell (Metamagic)
Your allies need not fear friendly fire.
Prerequisite: Spellcraft 10 ranks.
Benefit: When casting a selective spell with an area effect
and a duration of instantaneous, you can choose a number of
targets in the area equal to the ability score modifier used to
determine bonus spells of the same type (Charisma for bards,
oracles, paladins, sorcerers, and summoners; Intelligence for
witches and wizards; Wisdom for clerics, druids, inquisitors,
and rangers). These targets are excluded from the effects of
your spell. A selective spell uses up a spell slot one level
higher than the spell's actual level.
Spells that do not have an area of effect or a duration of
instantaneous do not benefit from this feat.
Sickening Spell (Metamagic)
You can sicken creatures with your spells.
Benefit: You can modify a spell to sicken a creature
damaged by the spell. When a creature takes damage from
this spell, they become sickened for a number of rounds
equal to the original level of the spell. If the spell allows a
saving throw, a successful save negates the sickening effect. If
the spell does not allow a save, the target can make a
Fortitude save to negate the sickening effect. If the spell effect
also causes the creature to become sickened, the duration of
this metamagic effect is added on to the duration of the spell.
A sickening spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than
the spell's actual level.
Spells that do not inflict damage do not benefit from this
feat.
Silent Spell (Metamagic)
You can cast your spells without making any sound.
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 feat.
Still Spell (Metamagic)
You can cast spells without moving.
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.
Studied Spell (Metamagic)
You use your knowledge about the target to bypass its
resistances and damage reduction.
Benefit: When casting a studied spell, designate one target
affected by the spell. Attempt an appropriate Knowledge
check based on that target’s creature type as you cast the
spell. The DC for this check is equal to 20 + the creature’s CR
based on its race and not including any class levels or
template (a creature that is defined by class levels has an
effective CR of 0 for this ability). If you succeed, your studied
spell ignores any energy resistance or damage reduction the
target has because of its race as well as any bonuses on saving
throws against the spell granted by the target’s race (such as
the bonus from a dwarf ’s hardy ability or a half ling’s half
ling luck ability). Your studied spell doesn’t ignore energy
resistance, damage reduction, or saving throw bonuses
granted by other spells and effects. If you fail the Knowledge
check, the spell still has its normal effects. A studied spell
uses up a spell slot 2 levels higher than the spell’s actual
level.
Stylized Spell (Metamagic)
You cast a spell in a distinctive manner.
Prerequisites: Bluff 5 ranks, Spellcraft 5 ranks.
Benefit: A stylized spell has slightly different verbal and
somatic components than normal, and the spell effect appears
noticeably different. The Spellcraft DC to identify a stylized
spell as it is being cast is 10 higher than normal. The
Knowledge (arcana) DC to identify a stylized spell, its effects,
or the materials it creates is 10 higher than normal, as is the
DC to recognize your magical signature with greater detect
magic.
When you apply this feat to a spell, you can attempt to
disguise your stylized spell as another spell of the same
school and subschool with the same descriptors. The other
spell must be either the same spell level as the stylized spell
(before applying the metamagic adjustment) or 1 spell level
higher. If you do so, the stylized spell gains the ruse
descriptor and takes on some superficial aspects of the other
spell. As usual for a spell with the ruse descriptor,
identification attempts that fail by 10 or less mistakenly
identify it as the chosen spell (those that fail by more can’t
identify it at all). A stylized spell uses up a spell slot 1 level
higher than the spell’s actual level.
Tenacious Spell (Metamagic)
Your magic is difficult to unravel.
Benefit: Increase the DC of caster level checks to counter or
dispel a tenacious spell by 2. If a tenacious spell is dispelled
or dismissed, it lasts for 1d4 further rounds (to a maximum of
the spell’s normal duration) before ending (this does not
occur if antimagic field or a similar spell or effect suppresses or
ends the spell’s effect without dispelling or dismissing it).
The lingering auras of tenacious spells detectable with detect
magic last for twice as long as usual after the spells end. A
tenacious spell uses up a spell slot 1 level higher than the
spell’s actual level.
Thanatopic Spell (Metamagic)
Your spells can pierce wards against negative energy and
even affect undead targets.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (religion) 6 ranks, Spell Focus
(necromancy).
Benefit: A thanatopic spell pierces defenses and immunities
that protect against death effects, negative levels, and energy
drain, affecting the target as if the protective barrier did not
exist.
For example, you could cast a thanatopic vampiric touch or
enervation spell on a target under the effects of death ward, and
the target would suffer the normal effect of the spell. Saving
throws and SR (if any) still apply.
Undead are susceptible to spells augmented by this feat, as
it retunes the negative energy to be harmful to them. A
thanatopic spell that would kill a living creature (such as by
giving it negative levels equal to its Hit Dice) destroys an
undead (though undead such as ghosts, liches, and vampires
may reform as normal). Undead affected by thanatopic spells
that give negative levels automatically make their saving
throws to remove negative levels after 24 hours.
A thanatopic spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher
than the spell's actual level.
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 Normal: Defenses such as death ward negate death effects,
negative levels, and energy drain. Undead are immune to
these attacks.

Threnodic Spell (Metamagic)

You can convert mind-affecting magic to necromantic
power capable of controlling undead.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (religion) 6 ranks, Spell Focus
(necromancy).
Benefit: This feat only works on mind-affecting spells. A
threnodic spell affects undead creatures (even mindless
undead) as if they weren't immune to mind-affecting effects,
but has no effect on living creatures. A threnodic spell uses
up a spell slot two level higher than the spell's actual level.
Normal: Undead are immune to mind-affecting effects.

Thundering Spell (Metamagic)

You can conjure your spells into existence with blaring
thunder or fearful shrieks, deafening creatures damaged by
their effects.
Benefit: You can modify a spell to deafen a creature
damaged by the spell. When a creature takes damage from
this spell, it becomes deafened for a number of rounds equal
to the original level of the spell. If the spell allows a saving
throw, a successful save negates the deafening effect. If the
spell does not allow a save, the target can make a Fortitude
save to negate the deafening effect. If the spell effect also
causes the creature to become deafened, the duration of this
metamagic effect is added to the duration of the spell. A
thundering spell uses up a spell slot two levels higher than
the spell's actual level.
Spells that do not inflict damage do not benefit from this
feat.

Toppling Spell (Metamagic)

Your spells with the force descriptor knock the affected
creatures prone.
Benefit: The impact of your force spell is strong enough to
knock the target prone. If the target takes damage, fails its
saving throw, or is moved by your force spell, make a trip
check against the target, using your caster level plus your
casting ability score bonus (Wisdom for clerics, Intelligence
for wizards, and so on). This does not provoke an attack of
opportunity. If the check fails, the target cannot attempt to
trip you or the force effect in response.
A toppling spell only affects spells with the force descriptor.
A toppling spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the
spell's actual level.

Widen Spell (Metamagic)

You can cast your spells so that they occupy a larger space.
Benefit: You can alter a burst, emanation, or spread-shaped
spell to increase its area. Any numeric measurements of the
spell's area increase by 100%. A widened spell uses up a spell
slot three levels higher than the spell's actual level.
Spells that do not have an area of one of these four sorts are
not affected by this feat.

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MYTHIC FEATS
Mythic characters and monsters gain mythic feats as they
gain tiers or ranks. These feats can be selected only as part of
mythic advancement, not as part of a character's normal
advancement or in place of any other bonus feat.
Most mythic feats require a non-mythic feat as a
prerequisite. These mythic feats enhance the benefits of their
prerequisite feats, making them truly awe-inspiring. If a
character doesn't possess any of the necessary prerequisite
feats when she gains a mythic feat, she can wait to select a
mythic feat until the next time she gains a tier or level.
A value in a mythic feat based on a fraction of your tier
(such as a +1 bonus for every 3 tiers you possess) always has
a minimum of 1.
This section includes some non-mythic feats. These grant a
character who hasn't had a moment of ascension a measure of
mythic might, and remain relevant if that character later
becomes mythic.
Only characters with mythic tiers or creatures with mythic
ranks can take these feats. If a creature becomes non-mythic,
it no longer gains the benefit of these feats, but it doesn't lose
them permanently. If the creature becomes mythic again, it
regains the use of all the mythic feats it once had.
Many mythic feats enhance non-mythic feats with the same
name. When a creature has a mythic version of a feat, that
feat is denoted with a superscript "M" in the feat line of its
stat block.
Accursed Hex (Mythic)
Your hexes flare with persistent potency.
Prerequisite: Accursed Hex.
Benefit: When you use Accursed Hex to target a creature
with one of your hexes a second time, that creature must roll
its saving throw twice and take the lower result.
Acrobatic (Mythic)
Your grace and fluidity are beyond compare.
Prerequisite: Acrobatic.
Benefit: The bonus on Acrobatics and Fly skill checks from
Acrobatic increases by 2. In addition, you can expend one use
of mythic power to treat an Acrobatics or Fly check as if you
had rolled a natural 20. You must decide to use this ability
before making the roll.
Alertness (Mythic)
Your powers of perception surpass everyone's, whether
used to observe your surroundings or the intentions of
others.
Prerequisite: Alertness.
Benefit: The bonus on Perception and Sense Motive skill
checks from Alertness increases by 2. In addition, you can
expend one use of mythic power to treat a Perception or
Sense Motive check as if you had rolled a natural 20. You
must decide to use this ability before making the roll.
Alignment Channel (Mythic)
The power of your faith harms all creatures that follow the
alignment you abhor.
Prerequisite: Alignment Channel.
Benefit: Your channeled energy affects any creatures with
the alignment chosen when you took Alignment Channel
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(not just outsiders, and not just those with the alignment
subtype), but grants only half healing or deals only half
damage to these targets. Alternatively, you can expend two
uses of mythic power when using Alignment Channel to
affect all targets of the chosen alignment as if they had that
alignment subtype.
Animal Affinity (Mythic)
You have a greater affinity with wild animals, and can
speak with them.
Prerequisite: Animal Affinity.
Benefit: The bonus on Handle Animal and Ride skill checks
from Animal Affinity increases by 2. In addition, you can
expend one use of mythic power to speak with animals as the
spell. Your caster level for this effect is equal to twice your
tier.
Arcane Armor Training (Mythic)
You've adapted your spellcasting to overcome limitations of
wearing armor.
Prerequisite: Arcane Armor Training.
Benefit: You don't have to spend a swift action to gain the
reduction to arcane spell failure chance from Arcane Armor
Training. Furthermore, if you're wearing light armor, reduce
your arcane spell failure chance by 20%.
Arcane Blast (Mythic)
You can manipulate raw eldritch energies to do more than
just deal damage.
Prerequisite: Arcane Blast.
Benefit: When you use Arcane Blast, you may halve the
damage dice to also perform your choice of either a trip or
bull rush combat maneuver against the target of the blast.
You can't move with an opponent you bull rush with this
feat. You gain a bonus on your combat maneuver check for
this attempt equal to half the spell level of the spell you
sacrificed when using Arcane Blast, and you can substitute
your Intelligence or Charisma modifier in place of your
Strength modifier when determining your combat maneuver
bonus.
In addition, you can expend one use of mythic power to
change the damage dice of your Arcane Blast to d8s instead
of d6s.
Arcane Shield (Mythic)
You sculpt spells into a powerful, enduring arcane barriers.
Prerequisite: Arcane Shield.
Benefit: You add half your tier to the deflection bonus
granted to your AC when you use your Arcane Shield. You
can expend one use of mythic power when using this feat to
extend the duration to a number of rounds equal to your tier.
Arcane Strike (Mythic)
Using your amazing arcane talents, you can deliver
devastating blows infused with magical energy.
Prerequisite: Arcane Strike.
Benefit: Whenever you use Arcane Strike to enhance your
weapons, the effect lasts for 1 minute instead of 1 round. If
you expend one use of mythic power when using Arcane
Strike, you can also add any one magic weapon special ability
with a base price modifier of +1 to your weapons. This base
price modifier increases to +2 at 4th tier, +3 at 7th tier, and +4
at 10th tier.
Ascendant Spell (Metamagic)
You have learned how to emulate mythic spells using non-
mythic forces.
Benefit: You can modify a spell to imitate the mythic
version of that spell. An ascendant spell uses the mythic
version of the spell, but doesn't count as a mythic spell for the
purposes of effects that interact with the spell, unless you are
a mythic creature. You can't use the augmented version of the
mythic spell, or use spells effects that require you to expend
uses of mythic power (even if you have uses of mythic power
available).
An ascendant spell uses up a spell slot 5 levels higher than
the spell's actual level.
Aspect of the Beast (Mythic)
Your blood burns with savage fury, giving you bestial
powers and abilities.
Prerequisite: Aspect of the Beast.
Benefit: Your bestial nature manifests itself in one of the
following ways. You choose the manifestation when you
choose the feat, and you can't change it.
Mythic Senses (Ex): If you have normal vision, you gain
darkvision 30 feet. If you have low-light vision, you gain
darkvision 60 feet. If you have darkvision, the range of your
darkvision increases by 30 feet plus 10 feet per tier.
Mythic Claws (Ex): You grow a pair of powerful claws.
These claws are primary attacks that deal 1d4 points of
damage (1d3 if you're Small). If you already have claws, the
damage they deal increases by one die type (d4s become d6s,
d3s become d4s, and so on). You can expend one use of
mythic power when you hit with both claws during the same
round to rend with those claws, dealing extra damage equal
to one claw's damage plus 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus.
Mythic Leap (Ex): You can make a running jump without
needing to run 10 feet beforehand. In addition, you gain a +5
bonus on your Acrobatics checks to determine the success of
that jump and the distance covered. If you already have the
predator's leap manifestation of Aspect of the Beast, the
bonus on your Acrobatics checks increases to +10.
Mythic Instinct (Ex): You gain a +2 bonus on initiative
checks and a +2 bonus on Survival checks. These bonuses
stack with those gained from the wild instinct manifestation
of Aspect of the Beast.
Athletic (Mythic)
You excel far beyond others at acts of physical prowess.
Prerequisite: Athletic.
Benefit: The bonus on Climb and Swim skill checks from
Athletic increases by 2. In addition, you can expend one use
of mythic power to treat a Climb or Swim check as if you had
rolled a natural 20. You must decide to use this ability before
making the roll.
Augment Summoning (Mythic)
Your summoning spells bring not mere ordinary beasts, but
instead mythic creatures.
Prerequisite: Augment Summoning.
Benefit: Any creature you summon using a summon spell is
considered mythic for the purpose of interacting with other
mythic creatures. It doesn't gain any mythic abilities or
power, but is affected by mythic spells and abilities as if it
were a 1st-tier mythic creature. Additionally, if the creature
summoned has damage reduction, its damage reduction
becomes DR/epic.
Bleeding Critical (Mythic)
Your deadliest blows unleash rivers of blood.
Prerequisite: Bleeding Critical, Critical Focus (Mythic).
Benefit: The bleed damage dealt with Bleeding Critical
increases by your tier. Stopping this bleed damage requires a
Heal check with a DC equal to 15 + 1/2 your tier. Any
magical healing ends the bleed damage normally.
You can expend one use of mythic power to deal 1 Con
bleed, in addition to the hit point bleed damage you deal
with this feat. This effect increases by 1 for each additional
use of mythic power you expend.
Blind-Fight (Mythic)
No creature can avoid your preternatural senses.
Prerequisite: Blind-Fight.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can expend one use of
mythic power to ignore all miss chances due to concealment
or total concealment for a number of rounds equal to your
tier.
Catch Off-Guard (Mythic)
In your hands, anything is a deadly weapon.
Prerequisite: Catch Off-Guard.
Benefit: The damage dealt when you use improvised
weapons increases by your tier. You also gain a bonus to
CMD equal to your tier when an opponent attempts to
sunder or disarm an improvised weapon you're wielding.
Channel Smite (Mythic)
Your weapon a conduit of divine energy.
Prerequisite: Channel Smite.
Benefit: When using Channel Smite, you gain a bonus on
your attack roll equal to the number of d6s granted by your
channel energy class feature. This is either a sacred bonus (if
channeling positive energy) or a profane bonus (if channeling
negative energy). If your attack misses the target, you can
expend one use of mythic power as a free action to release the
channeled energy, producing the normal effects of your
channel energy class feature centered on the creature you
were attempting to smite.
Charge Through (Mythic)
You can plow through those who stand between you and
the target of your charge.
Prerequisite: Charge Through.
Benefit: When charging, you can ignore allies in your path
when determining whether or not you can charge your
target. Furthermore, after you have attempted at least one
overrun with Charge Through, you can expend one use of
mythic power as a free action to attempt another overrun
against a different opponent in the path of the same charge.
Cleave (Mythic)
You can cleave any foe within your reach.
Prerequisite: Cleave.
Benefit: Whenever you use Cleave or Great Cleave, one of
your attacks can be made against a foe that is within your
reach, but not adjacent to the foe you attacked. You can
expend one use of mythic power when you use Cleave or
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Great Cleave to continue making attacks against foes within
your reach, regardless of their position, as long as you
continue to hit each foe. You can't use this ability to attack a
foe more than once per round.
Combat Expertise (Mythic)
You can dart out of the way of attacks with skill and
defiance.
Prerequisite: Combat Expertise.
Benefit: Whenever you use Combat Expertise, you gain an
additional +2 dodge bonus to your Armor Class. You can
expend one use of mythic power to negate the penalties on
melee attack rolls and combat maneuver checks caused by
using Combat Expertise for 1 minute.
Combat Reflexes (Mythic)
You strike viciously whenever your foe gives you an
opening.
Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes.
Benefit: You can make any number of additional attacks of
opportunity per round. As a swift action, you can expend one
use of mythic power to, until the start of your next turn, make
attacks of opportunity against foes you've already made
attacks of opportunity against this round if they provoke
attacks of opportunity from you by moving.
Command Undead (Mythic)
Your control of the undead is nearly absolute.
Prerequisite: Command Undead.
Benefit: When you command undead, the DC of the Will
save increases by half your tier, and intelligent undead get no
additional saves beyond their first to resist your commands.
Any attempts by non-mythic creatures to control undead you
command automatically fail, and you gain a +4 bonus on
Charisma checks to prevent mythic creatures from stealing
control of your undead.
Critical Focus (Mythic)
Your blows unerringly find your target's vital spots.
Prerequisite: Critical Focus.
Benefit: You automatically confirm critical threats against
non-mythic opponents. In addition, when you threaten a
critical hit against a creature wearing armor with the
fortification special ability or similar effect, that creature must
roll twice and take the worse result when determining critical
hit negation.
Critical Mastery (Mythic)
Your critical hits are versatile and devastating.
Prerequisites: Critical Focus (Mythic), Critical Mastery.
Benefit: When using Critical Mastery, increase the number
of critical feats you may apply by every 3 tiers that you
possess.
Dastardly Finish (Mythic)
You strike downed, dazed, and staggered opponents with
deadly efficiency.
Prerequisite: Dastardly Finish.
Benefit: You can deliver a coup de grace to dazed and
staggered non-mythic opponents. In addition, when any
creature makes a Fortitude saving throw to survive one of
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your coup de grace attempts, it takes a penalty to that saving
throw equal to your tier.
Dazzling Display (Mythic)
You can quickly deter others with your martial mastery.
Prerequisite: Dazzling Display.
Benefit: While wielding the weapon with which you have
Weapon Focus, you can use Dazzling Display as a standard
action with a –5 penalty on your Intimidate check, as a move
action with a –10 penalty, or as a swift action with a –20
penalty. You can expend one use of mythic power when you
make a Dazzling Display to make those affected by the
display frightened rather than shaken.
Deadly Aim (Mythic)
Your aim is truly devastating.
Prerequisite: Deadly Aim.
Benefit: When you use Deadly Aim, you gain a +3 bonus on
ranged damage rolls instead of +2. When your base attack
bonus reaches +4, and every +4 thereafter, the bonus on
ranged damage rolls increases by +3 rather than +2.
Deadly Stroke (Mythic)
You can kill with a single stroke.
Prerequisite: Deadly Stroke.
Benefit: When making a Deadly Stroke attack, you can
expend one use of mythic power to instantly kill a non-
mythic living creature. A Fortitude save (DC 10 + your base
attack bonus + your tier) negates this effect, though the attack
still deals double damage and Con bleed as Deadly Stroke.
Constructs, oozes, and creatures immune to critical hits or
precision-based damage can't be killed with this feat.
Death From Above (Mythic)
When attacking from the air or higher ground, you bear
down on your enemy to deadly effect.
Prerequisite: Death from Above.
Benefit: Whenever you charge an opponent from higher
ground, or from above while flying, the critical multiplier of
your weapon increases by 2 (to a maximum of ×6). This
doesn't stack with other abilities that increase a weapon's
critical multiplier. If your charge attack hits, you can perform
a trip combat maneuver against the attack's target as a free
action without provoking attacks of opportunity.
Deceitful (Mythic)
Your power to mislead is beyond compare.
Prerequisite: Deceitful.
Benefit: The bonus on Bluff and Disguise skill checks from
Deceitful increases by 2. In addition, you can expend one use
of mythic power to treat a Bluff or Disguise check as if you
had rolled a natural 20. You must decide to use this ability
before making the roll.
Deepsight (Mythic)
Your sharp eyes can penetrate deeper into the darkness,
revealing more to you.
Prerequisite: Deepsight.
Benefit: The range of your darkvision increases by 10 feet
per tier.
Defesive Combat Training (Mythic)
Your defensive capabilities in combat are unmatched.
Prerequisite: Defensive Combat Training, 4th mythic tier.
Benefit: Add half your tier to your CMD.
Deflect Arrows (Mythic)
You deflect projectiles and ray spells with uncanny skill.
Prerequisite: Deflect Arrows.
Benefit: When using Deflect Arrows, you can deflect an
additional number of ranged attacks per round equal to half
your tier. You can expend one use of mythic power as an
immediate action to deflect a single ray from a ray spell or
effect targeting you.
Deft Hands (Mythic)
Your hands are astonishingly nimble.
Prerequisite: Deft Hands.
Benefit: The bonus on Disable Device and Sleight of Hand
skill checks from Deft Hands increases by 2. In addition, you
can expend one use of mythic power to treat a Disable Device
or Sleight of Hand check as if you had rolled a natural 20.
You must decide to use this ability before making the roll.
Detect Expertise (Mythic)
You can sense a creature's magical abilities with just a mere
glance.
Prerequisite: Detect Expertise.
Benefit: You gain the benefit of Detect Expertise
immediately (without needing to observe a creature for 3
rounds) when using the divinations listed in Detect Expertise.
Non-mythic creatures cannot attempt a Will save to resist this
effect.
Disruptive (Mythic)
You're a master at disrupting nearby spellcasters.
Prerequisite: Disruptive.
Benefit: The DC to cast spells defensively within your
threatened area increases by half your tier. This stacks with
the increase granted by Disruptive. In addition, even if you
can't make attacks of opportunity, non-mythic spellcasters
are still wary of you and continue to suffer from the effects of
Disruptive.
Distance Thrower (Mythic)
There's virtually no limit to your powerful throwing arm.
Prerequisites: Str 17, Distance Thrower.
Benefit: Thrown weapons wielded by you have twice their
normal range.
Divine Interference (Mythic)
Your divine power thwarts enemies of your faith.
Prerequisite: Divine Interference.
Benefit: When you use Divine Interference, the penalty on
your opponent's attack roll is equal to twice the level of the
spell sacrificed. You can expend one use of mythic power
when you sacrifice the spell to increase the penalty to triple
the level of the spell sacrificed.
Dodge (Mythic)
When focused, you become nearly impossible to strike.
Prerequisite: Dodge.
Benefit: The bonus to AC from Dodge increases by 1. As an
immediate action, you can expend one use of mythic power
to grant yourself an additional +10 dodge bonus to AC
against one attack.
Dreadful Carnage (Mythic)
Your kills are truly frightening to behold.
Prerequisite: Dreadful Carnage.
Benefit: When you use Dreadful Carnage, you affect non-
mythic enemies within 60 feet in addition to all enemies
within 30 feet. You can expend one use of mythic power
before making the Intimidate check to cause enemies
demoralized by Dreadful Carnage to become frightened
instead of shaken, for the same duration as the normal
shaken effect. While frightened by this ability, an enemy
takes a penalty equal to your tier on attack rolls, saving
throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
Drink is Life (Mythic)
Strong drink fuels the mythic fires within you.
Prerequisites: Con 19, 3rd mythic tier.
Benefit: You never take penalties for consuming
nonmagical alcohol, and you can consume an alcoholic
beverage as a swift action instead of a move action. Each time
you consume an alcoholic beverage, you may gain one of the
benefits of polypurpose panacea. You can have only one of
these benefits active at a time. If you expend one use of
mythic power while drinking an alcoholic beverage, you can
heal 2 points of ability damage, negate a temporary penalty
to one ability score, or remove one of the following
conditions: confused, diseased, exhausted, fatigued,
frightened, nauseated, poisoned, shaken, sickened, or
staggered.
Dual Path (Mythic)
You follow two mythic paths.
Prerequisite: 1st mythic tier.
Benefit: Select a mythic path other than the path you
selected at your moment of ascension. You gain that path's
1st-tier ability (either archmage arcana, champion's strike,
divine surge, guardian's call, marshal's order, or trickster
attack). Each time you gain a path ability, you can select that
path ability from either path's list or the list of universal path
abilities.
Eagle Eyes (Mythic)
You eyesight rivals that of the most far-seeing raptors.
Prerequisites: Eagle Eyes.
Benefit: You ignore up to –10 in penalties due to distance
on visual Perception checks, instead of the normal –5. As a
swift action, you can expend one use of mythic power to
ignore all penalties due to distance on visual Perception
checks for 1 round.
Eldritch Heritage (Mythic)
The blood of your sorcerous ancestor mingles with your
mythic power to great effect.
Prerequisites: Eldritch Heritage.
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 Benefit: You gain sorcerer bloodline powers of the
bloodline tied to Eldritch Heritage as if your sorcerer level
were your character level – 2. For that bloodline's 1st-level
bloodline power, use your full character level to determine its
effect; for all other bloodline powers, treat your sorcerer level
as your character level – 2.
Elemental Channel (Mythic)
Your power over elemental beings is nearly absolute.
Prerequisite: Elemental Channel.
Benefit: Your Elemental Channel can affect any elemental
subtype, not just the one you chose when you took Elemental
Channel. Each time you use Elemental Channel, you must
pick one elemental subtype before using the feat. You can
expend one use of mythic power when you use Elemental
Channel to choose a second elemental subtype to affect.
Elemental Fist (Mythic)
Your ability to channel elemental power through your
unarmed attacks is ferociously potent.
Prerequisite: Elemental Fist.
Benefit: The extra energy damage dealt by Elemental Fist
increases to 1d8 points, and you gain additional uses of
Elemental Fist per day equal to your tier. You can expend one
use of mythic power as an immediate action to add the extra
damage from your Elemental Fist to all of the unarmed
strikes you make until the beginning of your next turn. This
counts as only one use of Elemental Fist, regardless of the
number of attacks that you make in this fashion.
Elemental Focus (Mythic)
Your elemental spells are potent and effective.
Prerequisite: Elemental Focus.
Benefit: Choose an energy type in which you already have
Elemental Focus. The increase to save DC provided by
Elemental Focus and Greater Elemental Focus for spells of the
selected energy type is 1 higher. When casting a spell with
this energy type's descriptor, you can expend one use of
mythic power as part of the casting to force the spell's targets
to roll their saving throws twice, taking the lower result.
Elven Accuracy (Mythic)
Your elven eyesight cuts though concealment.
Prerequisite: Elven Accuracy.
Benefit: When you make an attack with a longbow or short
bow (including composite bows), you can ignore
concealment, but not total concealment. You still suffer a miss
chance for total concealment, but if you miss due to total
concealment, you may reroll your miss chance as per Elven
Accuracy.
Endurance (Mythic)
Your endurance is truly beyond the pale.
Prerequisite: Endurance.
Benefit: The bonus on checks and saves from Endurance
increases by half your tier. You take half the damage when
you fail a check to avoid nonlethal damage from a forced
march, starvation and thirst, hot or cold environments, or
slow suffocation.
You can sleep in heavy armor without becoming fatigued.
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Eschew Materials (Mythic)
You can cast even the most powerful spells without using
material components.
Prerequisite: Eschew Materials.
Benefit: You can cast any spell with a material component
costing 10 gp per tier or less without providing that
component. If you expend one use of mythic power while
casting a spell that requires a material component costing 50
gp per tier or less, you can cast it without providing that
component. Expending two uses of mythic power instead
allows you to cast a spell that requires a material component
costing 100 gp per tier or less without providing that
component.
Extra Mythic Power (Mythic)
You can store more mythic power than your tier would
normally allow.
Benefit: You gain two extra uses of mythic power each day.
Extra Path Ability (Mythic)
You can call upon mythic powers beyond those already
invested in you.
Prerequisite: 3rd mythic tier.
Benefit: Choose one mythic ability from your path or from
the universal path abilities that you meet the prerequisites
for. You gain that path ability.
Fabulous Figments (Mythic)
Your illusions are astonishingly realistic.
Prerequisite: Spell Focus (illusion).
Benefit: Non-mythic creatures can't identify your illusion
spells with Spellcraft, including checks attempted as part of
arcane sight, detect magic, or similar effects. When mythic
creatures attempt to identify your illusions, add your tier to
the DC of those Spellcraft checks. Mythic creatures informed
by their allies that one of your illusions isn't real gain only a
+2 bonus on their Will saves to disbelieve. Non-mythic
creatures gain no bonus to disbelieve.
Far Shot (Mythic)
You make long-ranged attacks with remarkable accuracy.
Prerequisite: Far Shot.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can expend one use of
mythic power to ignore all range increment penalties for your
ranged attacks until the end of your turn.
Fast Empathy (Mythic)
You can soothe the emotions of wild beasts with nearly
supernatural quickness.
Prerequisite: Fast Empathy.
Benefit: You can use wild empathy as a swift action.
Fire Music (Mythic)
You masterfully weave the ancient melodies of fire into
your spells.
Prerequisite: Fire Music.
Benefit: When you use Fire Music to change any of the
damage dealt by a bard spell to fire damage, that damage
ignores fire resistance up to your tier.
If you cast summon monster as a bard spell and choose to
give the summoned creature a fiery appearance, increase its
fire resistance by 5 (adding to the resistance already granted
by Fire Music) and add 1d4 points of fire damage to all of its
natural attacks instead of the +1 fire damage normally
granted by Fire Music. Creatures with the fire subtype also
gain these benefits.
Fleet (Mythic)
You're fantastically light on your feet.
Prerequisite: Fleet.
Benefit: Your base land speed increases by 5 feet, regardless
of what armor you wear or whether you're encumbered. This
bonus stacks with the bonus gained from Fleet.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times, but no more
than the number of times you've taken non-mythic Fleet. The
effects stack.
Furious Focus (Mythic)
Your attacks create a rhythmic barrage that doesn't sacrifice
precision for force.
Prerequisite: Furious Focus.
Benefit: When you are using Furious Focus, you don't take
Power Attack's penalty on attack rolls that are made as
attacks of opportunity. As a free action, you can expend one
use of mythic power to negate Power Attack's penalty on all
melee attacks you make for 1 round while using this feat.
Gnome Trickster (Mythic)
Thanks to your mythic power, the magic in your blood has
grown more potent and diverse.
Prerequisite: Gnome Trickster.
Benefit: You gain the following spell-like abilities: 1/day—
blur and vanish.
You can use your gnome spell-like abilities an additional
number of times per day equal to half your tier. You can
spend these additional uses to use any of your gnome spell-
like abilities you wish. Your caster level for your gnome
spell-like abilities becomes your character level plus your tier.
Gorgon’s Fist (Mythic)
Your strikes debilitate and disorient your foes.
Prerequisite: Gorgon's Fist.
Benefit: When you hit a creature while using Gorgon's Fist,
if the target fails its Fortitude saving throw, it is dazed for 1
round instead of staggered. You can expend one use of
mythic power when you hit with a Gorgon's Fist attack, but
before the saving throw is attempted, to increase its DC by
half your tier.
Great Fortitude (Mythic)
Your fortitude is unmatched.
Prerequisite: Great Fortitude.
Benefit: Whenever you roll a Fortitude saving throw
against a spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability from
a non-mythic source, roll twice and take the higher result.
Guided Hand (Mythic)
Attacks made with your deity's favored weapon are
divinely inspired.
Prerequisite: Guided Hand.
Benefit: When making attacks with your deity's favored
weapon, you can add your Wisdom modifier instead of your
Strength or Dexterity modifier on damage rolls.
Heroid Defiance (Mythic)
You ignore harmful effects that would bring others down.
Prerequisites: Heroic Defiance.
Benefit: Once per day as an immediate action, you can
attempt to negate the onset of one harmful condition or
affliction (such as panicked, paralyzed, stunned, and so on)
that allowed a saving throw for its onset, not including
permanent and instantaneous conditions. When you do so,
attempt a Will saving throw with a bonus equal to your tier
against the original DC of the effect. If you succeed, the
condition is negated. If you fail, the onset is delayed until the
end of your next turn, after which it takes its normal effect.
This feat has no effect on hit point damage or ability damage.
This effect is separate from the use of non-mythic Heroic
Defiance.
Heroic Recovery (Mythic)
You can shrug off the effects of harmful conditions after
they've taken effect.
Prerequisites: Heroic Recovery.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can expend one use of
mythic power to use Heroic Recovery additional times.
Whenever you do, add your tier to the result of the Fortitude
save.
Improved Bull Rush (Mythic)
You push foes around with amazing ease.
Prerequisite: Improved Bull Rush.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier on checks
to bull rush, and to your CMD when an opponent bull rushes
you. These bonuses stack with those granted by non-mythic
Improved Bull Rush.
Furthermore, you can make an attack of opportunity
against any creature that attempts to bull rush you, unless it
also has this feat.
Improved Channel (Mythic)
As a divine conduit for energy, you're unmatched.
Prerequisite: Improved Channel.
Benefit: Non-mythic creatures that take damage from your
channel energy must roll their saving throws twice and take
the lower result.
Improved Counterspell (Mythic)
Your innate understanding of magical mechanics allows
you to unravel spells with pure magical energy.
Prerequisite: Improved Counterspell.
Benefit: When counterspelling, you can use a spell of the
same school that is the same or higher spell level as the target
spell.
Improved Critical (Mythic)
Your critical strikes with your chosen weapon are deadlier
than most.
Prerequisite: Improved Critical, base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: Your critical multiplier with your chosen weapon is
increased by 1 (to a maximum of ×6).
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 Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. The effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a different
non-mythic Improved Critical feat.
Improved Dirty Trick (Mythic)
You're a paragon of down-and-dirty fighting.
Prerequisite: Improved Dirty Trick.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier on checks
to attempt a dirty trick, and to your CMD when an opponent
attempts to perform a dirty trick on you. These bonuses stack
with those granted by Improved Dirty Trick.
Furthermore, you can make an attack of opportunity
against any creature that attempts a dirty trick maneuver
against you, unless it also has this feat.
Improved Disarm (Mythic)
You're expert at knocking your enemies' weapons away.
Prerequisite: Improved Disarm.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier on checks
to disarm, and to your CMD when an opponent tries to
disarm you. These bonuses stack with those granted by
Improved Disarm.
Furthermore, you can make an attack of opportunity
against any creature that attempts to disarm you, unless it
also has this feat.
Improved Drag (Mythic)
You pull your enemies around the battlefield with great
ease.
Prerequisite: Improved Drag.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier on checks
to attempt a drag combat maneuver, and to your CMD when
an opponent attempts a drag combat maneuver against you.
These bonuses stack with those granted by Improved Drag.
Furthermore, you can make an attack of opportunity
against any creature that attempts a drag maneuver against
you, unless it also has this feat.
Improved Familiar (Mythic)
Your familiar gains some of your incredible resiliency and
insight.
Prerequisite: Improved Familiar.
Benefit: For every 3 tiers you possess, your familiar gains a
+2 bonus to an ability score of your choice. These bonuses
stack. Your familiar adds your tier to its natural armor bonus
and to its spell resistance (if it has spell resistance).
Improved Grapple (Mythic)
Your wrestling moves are difficult to counter.
Prerequisite: Improved Grapple.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier on checks
to grapple, and to your CMD when an opponent tries to
grapple you. These bonuses stack with those granted by
Improved Grapple.
Furthermore, you can make an attack of opportunity
against any creature that attempts to grapple you, unless it
also has this feat.
Improved Initiative (Mythic)
You leap into the fray with speed and confidence.
Prerequisite: Improved Initiative.
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Benefit: The bonus on initiative checks granted by
Improved Initiative increases by an amount equal to your
tier. This bonus stacks with the bonus from Improved
Initiative. In addition, instead of rolling initiative, you can
expend one use of mythic power to treat your roll as a natural
20.
Improved Overrun (Mythic)
You're an unstoppable force on the battlefield, able to run
down lesser foes with ease.
Prerequisite: Improved Overrun.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier on checks
to overrun, and to your CMD when an opponent tries to
overrun you. These bonuses stack with those granted by
Improved Overrun.
Furthermore, you can make an attack of opportunity
against any creature that attempts to overrun you, unless it
also has this feat.
Improved Reposition (Mythic)
You put your foes right where you want them.
Prerequisite: Improved Reposition.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier on checks
to attempt a reposition combat maneuver, and to your CMD
when an opponent attempts to perform a reposition combat
maneuver against you. These bonuses stack with those
granted by Improved Reposition.
Furthermore, you can make an attack of opportunity
against any creature that attempts to reposition you, unless it
also has this feat.
Improved Steal (Mythic)
Your light fingers can lift even the most closely held item off
an enemy.
Prerequisite: Improved Steal.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier on checks
to attempt a steal combat maneuver, and to your CMD when
an opponent attempts a steal combat maneuver on you.
These bonuses stack with those granted by Improved Steal.
Furthermore, you can make an attack of opportunity
against any creature that attempts a steal maneuver against,
you unless it also has this feat.
Improved Stonecunning (Mythic)
If you listen close, you can hear the secrets of stone.
Prerequisite: Improved Stonecunning.
Benefit: You gain stone tell as a spell-like ability usable once
per day with a caster level equal to twice your tier.
Improved Sunder (Mythic)
Your mighty smashing blows demolish objects.
Prerequisite: Improved Sunder.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier on checks
to sunder, and to your CMD when an opponent tries to
sunder an object used by you. These bonuses stack with those
granted by Improved Sunder.
Furthermore, you can make an attack of opportunity
against any creature that attempts to sunder an object used
by you, unless it also has this feat.
Improved Trip (Mythic)
You're expert at knocking your foes down.
Prerequisite: Improved Trip.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier on checks
to trip, and to your CMD when an opponent tries to trip you.
These bonuses stack with those granted by Improved Trip.
Furthermore, you can make an attack of opportunity
against any creature that attempts to trip you, unless it also
has this feat.
Improved Unarmed Strike (Mythic)
Your unarmed strikes are more powerful than others.
Prerequisite: Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: You can add half your tier to your damage with
unarmed strikes. As a swift action, you can expend one use of
mythic power to overcome the hardness of objects with your
unarmed strikes. This effect last for a number of rounds equal
to your tier. If an object's hardness is greater than 15, you
don't ignore any of its hardness.
Intimidating Prowess (Mythic)
Your mythic stature makes others uneasy.
Prerequisite: Intimidating Prowess.
Benefit: You gain a bonus on Intimidate checks equal to
your tier against non-mythic creatures, or half your tier
against mythic creatures. If you also have the Persuasive
(Mythic) feat, you can expend one use of mythic power to
treat the Intimidate check as if you had rolled a natural 20.
You must decide to use this ability before the roll is made.
Iron Will (Mythic)
Your will is incorruptible.
Prerequisite: Iron Will.
Benefit: Whenever you roll a Will saving throw against a
spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability from a non-
mythic source, roll twice and take the higher result.
Knockout Artist (Mythic)
Your knockout punches are truly mighty.
Prerequisite: Knockout Artist.
Benefit: When you use your unarmed strike to deal
nonlethal damage and sneak attack damage to an opponent,
roll d8s for each sneak attack die instead of d6s.
Legendary Teamwork (Mythic)
You and your allies fight with great coordination.
Prerequisites: Any two teamwork feats.
Benefit: Any fixed numeric bonuses you gain from
teamwork feats are increased by 1. This doesn't apply to
variable numeric bonuses or to effects that are not numeric
bonuses, such as additional attacks of opportunity,
movement, or other extra actions.
Lightning Reflexes (Mythic)
Your reflexes are superhuman.
Prerequisite: Lightning Reflexes.
Benefit: Whenever you roll a Reflex saving throw against a
spell, spell-like ability, or supernatural ability from a non-
mythic source, roll twice and take the higher result.
Lucky Halfling (Mythic)
You share your mythic luck with those around you.
Prerequisite: Lucky Halfling.
Benefit: When you use Lucky Halfling, add your tier as a
bonus on the saving throw. You can expend one use of
mythic power when an ally uses your save but still suffers an
effect on a successful saving throw. If you do, that ally suffers
no effect on the successful saving throw.
Lucky Surge (Mythic)
Your surges defy the odds.
Prerequisites: Potent Surge, 3rd mythic tier.
Benefit: Whenever you use your surge ability, you can roll
your surge dice twice and take the higher result. If you can
already roll your surge dice twice and take the higher result,
you roll your surge dice three times and take the highest
result.
Lunge (Mythic)
Your reaching strikes aid your defenses against those you
hit.
Prerequisite: Lunge.
Benefit: Whenever you use Lunge and hit a creature with
the melee attack, you no longer take a –2 penalty to AC
against that creature. You can expend one use of mythic
power when you use Lunge to negate the –2 penalty to AC
whether you hit or miss, and gain a +2 bonus on attacks of
opportunity you make while Lunge is in effect.
Magical Aptitude (Mythic)
Your understanding of the principles and intricacies of
magic goes far beyond your training.
Prerequisite: Magical Aptitude.
Benefit: The bonus on Spellcraft and Use Magic Device skill
checks from Magical Aptitude increases by 2. In addition,
you can expend one use of mythic power to treat a Spellcraft
or Use Magic Device check as if you had rolled a natural 20.
You must decide to use this ability before making the roll.
Manyshot (Mythic)
You can fire a barrage of arrows at your target with very
little effort.
Prerequisite: Manyshot.
Benefit: When making a full-attack action with a bow and
using Manyshot, you fire two arrows with both your first and
second attacks, instead of just your first attack.
Marked For Glory
You're destined for glory beyond the ken of ordinary
adventurers and mere mortals.
Prerequisites: Great Fortitude, Iron Will, or Lightning
Reflexes.
Benefit: You can use the surge ability once per day (adding
1d6). If you are or become mythic, you can use your surge
one additional time per day.
Maximize Surge (Mythic)
In times of dire need, you can burn your mythic power to
ensure success.
Prerequisite: 6th mythic tier.
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 Benefit: Once per day when you surge, you can expend two
uses of mythic power to treat your surge die as though it
rolled the maximum result.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time
you do, you gain an extra use of this feat per day.
Medusa’s Wrath (Mythic)
Your barrage of unarmed attacks builds to a single,
staggering strike.
Prerequisite: Medusa's Wrath.
Benefit: You may forgo the two additional unarmed strikes
of Medusa's Wrath to instead make a single unarmed strike at
your highest base attack bonus. If you successfully hit your
opponent, it must succeed at a Fortitude saving throw (DC 10
+ 1/2 your character level + your Wisdom modifier) or be
staggered for 1 round. You can expend one use of mythic
power when you stagger a target with Medusa's Wrath to
extend the duration of the staggered condition by a number
of rounds equal to half your tier.
Missile Shield (Mythic)
Your remarkable awareness allows you to deflect multiple
ranged attacks and even ray spells.
Prerequisites: Missile Shield.
Benefit: When using Missile Shield, you can deflect an
additional number of ranged attacks per round equal to half
your tier. You can expend one use of mythic power as an
immediate action to deflect a single ray from a ray spell or
effect targeting you.
Mobility (Mythic)
You have perfected your ability to weave through the
battlefield, using your momentum to propel yourself far.
Prerequisite: Mobility.
Benefit: Whenever you use Mobility, you gain a +6 dodge
bonus to AC instead of the normal +4. In addition, once per
round when an attack of opportunity provoked by your
movement misses you, you may move 5 feet as a free action.
This movement doesn't count against your total overall
movement for the round, but it does provoke attacks of
opportunity.
Monastic Legacy (Mythic)
Every new experience carries you another step further
along your path to enlightenment.
Prerequisite: Monastic Legacy.
Benefit: Add half the levels you have in classes other than
monk to your monk level to determine your effective monk
level for your AC bonus. As a free action, you can expend one
use of mythic power to add half your tier to your effective
monk level to determine your base unarmed strike damage
and AC bonus until the start of your next turn.
Mounted Archery (Mythic)
Your skill as a rider allows you to take cover and shoot with
amazing accuracy.
Prerequisite: Mounted Archery.
Benefit: When using the Ride skill to use your mount as
cover, you can still make a single ranged weapon attack as a
standard action. While your mount is moving, you can
expend one use of mythic power to negate the penalties for
making ranged weapon attacks while mounted until the
beginning of your next turn.
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Mounted Combat (Mythic)
Your ability to maneuver a mount through the rigors of
combat is nearly unparalleled.
Prerequisite: Mounted Combat.
Benefit: You can negate an additional number of hits
against your mount per round equal to your tier. Once per
round as an immediate action, you can expend one use of
mythic power to substitute a Ride check for a single Reflex
saving throw your mount must make.
Mythic Companion
Despite your non-mythic nature, you're a vital part of the
greater mythic world.
Prerequisite: You must be non-mythic.
Benefit: You're considered a mythic creature for the
purposes of determining how mythic spells and effects affect
you. If you ever become mythic, you gain a +1 bonus on all
saves against mythic spells and effects.
Mythic Crafter (Mythic)
You can craft mythic magic items.
Prerequisite: Any item creation feat.
Benefit: You can create any mythic magic item for which
you have the appropriate item creation feat. In addition, you
gain a +5 bonus on skill checks when creating non-mythic
magic items.
Mythic Paragon (Mythic)
Your mythic power is even more potent than that of most
other mythic beings.
Benefit: Your tier is considered 2 higher for determining the
potency of mythic abilities, feats, and spells. This doesn't
grant you access to mythic abilities or greater versions of
mythic spells at a lower tier than you would normally need to
be to get them, nor does it grant you additional uses of
mythic power or adjust the dice you roll for your surge.
Mythic Spell Lore (Mythic)
You have learned how to unlock the power of your spells,
combining them with your mythic power.
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells.
Benefit: You can learn a number of mythic spells equal to
your tier and can expend mythic power when casting them to
enhance the results. To select a mythic spell, you must be able
to cast the non-mythic version or have it on your list of spells
known. Every time you gain a new tier, you can select an
additional mythic spell.
Special: You can select this feat multiple times. Each time
you select this feat, you must select different spells.
Natural Spell (Mythic)
You can speak and use some magic items when you use
wild shape.
Prerequisite: Natural Spell.
Benefit: When you're using wild shape, you can use spell
completion and spell trigger magic items that were on your
person when you changed form. You don't need to physically
manipulate the items when you use them while using wild
shape. Furthermore, you can speak normally when using
wild shape.
Nimble Moves (Mythic)
You dance across obstacles with ease, as though they
weren't even there.
Prerequisite: Nimble Moves.
 Powerful Shape (Mythic)
Benefit: For every 2 tiers you possess, you can move
through up to 5 feet of difficult terrain each round as if it
were normal terrain (minimum 5 feet). This effect stacks with
those provided by Nimble Moves and Acrobatic Steps.
Penetrating Strike (Mythic)
You know just how to strike to bypass even the most
heavily armored foe's defenses.
Prerequisite: Penetrating Strike.
Benefit: When using Penetrating Strike or Greater
Penetrating Strike, you can ignore an additional point of
damage reduction for every 3 tiers you posses. Additionally,
the effects apply to damage reduction without a type (such as
DR 10/—).
Persuasive (Mythic)
You're a master of persuasion, be it with soothing words or
harsh barking commands.
Prerequisite: Persuasive.
Benefit: The bonus on Diplomacy and Intimidate skill
checks granted by Persuasive increases by 2. In addition, you
can expend one use of mythic power to treat a Diplomacy or
Intimidate check as if you had rolled a natural 20. You must
decide to use this ability before making the roll.
Pinpoint Targeting (Mythic)
Your attacks can home in on your opponent's weak spot
and ignore many defenses.
Prerequisites: Pinpoint Targeting.
Benefit: You can use this feat even if you move this round,
but only if the distance you move is equal to or less than 5
feet per tier.
Point-Blank Shot (Mythic)
Your accuracy with ranged attacks is unmatched at point-
blank range.
Prerequisite: Point-Blank Shot.
Benefit: The bonus on attack and damage rolls granted by
Point-Blank Shot increases to +2. As a swift action, you can
expend one use of mythic power to gain an additional bonus
on these rolls equal to half your tier.
Potent Surge (Mythic)
Your surge is more potent.
Benefit: Whenever you use your surge ability, add 1 to your
surge result.
Power Attack (Mythic)
Your attacks are truly devastating.
Prerequisite: Power Attack.
Benefit: When you use Power Attack, you gain a +3 bonus
on melee damage rolls instead of +2. When your base attack
bonus reaches +4 and every 4 points thereafter, the amount of
bonus damage increases by +3 instead of +2. In addition, the
bonus damage from this feat is doubled on a critical hit,
before it's multiplied by the weapon's critical multiplier.
You can expend one use of mythic power when you activate
Power Attack to ignore the penalties on melee attack rolls
and combat maneuver checks for 1 minute.
The forms you take in wild shape tower over their natural
counterparts.
Prerequisite: Powerful Shape.
Benefit: You can apply the giant simple template (quick
rules version) to any form you take with wild shape. This
replaces the benefit from Powerful Shape.
As a free action, you can expend one use of mythic power to
combine the benefit from this feat with the benefit from non-
mythic Powerful Shape for a number of rounds equal to your
tier.
Prophetic Visionary (Mythic)
Your precognitive powers aid you further.
Prerequisite: Prophetic Visionary.
Benefit: You can use Prophetic Visionary's augury ability at
will, spending 10 minutes in a deep trance each time. Your
chance of a successful augury increases by 1% per tier. A
successful augury made by using this feat also grants you the
benefits of guidance, but the bonus is equal to your tier and is
an insight bonus instead of a competence bonus.
Quick Draw (Mythic)
You can retrieve any item quickly, not just weapons.
Prerequisite: Quick Draw.
Benefit: You can use Quick Draw to draw items of any
kind, not just weapons, provided they are stored or concealed
on your person. As a move action, you can expend one use of
mythic power to retrieve up to two hidden items. You must
have two hands free to do so.
Racial Heritage (Mythic)
Your racial heritage mingles with your mythic power to
become more pronounced.
Prerequisite: Racial Heritage.
Benefit: You gain a single racial trait of your choice from
the race you picked when you took non-mythic Racial
Heritage. That racial trait can't modify your size or ability
scores. You also gain the racial language of the race (if any) if
you don't already know it. For races with multiple racial
languages, you gain all of them.
Rapid Reload (Mythic)
You can reload any type of weapon with astounding speed.
Prerequisite: Rapid Reload.
Benefit: You gain the benefits of Rapid Reload with all
crossbows and firearms, not just the one you originally chose
when you gained that feat. As a swift action, you can expend
one use of mythic power to gain the ability to reload
crossbows and firearms without provoking attacks of
opportunity for 1 minute.
Rapid Shot (Mythic)
You can fire many times each round with amazing
precision.
Prerequisite: Rapid Shot.
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 Benefit: When using Rapid Shot, you can either ignore the
feat's –2 penalty on attack rolls or make two additional
attacks instead of one.
Rhetorical Flourish (Mythic)
You're supremely skilled at using verbal misdirection and
finesse to influence others.
Prerequisites: Rhetorical Flourish.
Benefit: When you successfully use Rhetorical Flourish
against a non-mythic creature, the bonus on your Diplomacy
check increases by your tier. If the target is a mythic creature,
you instead increase the bonus by half your tier.
You can expend one use of mythic power to reroll a single
failed Bluff check. You must take the new result even if it is
lower.
Ride-By Attack (Mythic)
You can make multiple attacks as you ride past your
enemies.
Prerequisite: Ride-By Attack.
Benefit: When you successfully strike an opponent as part
of a Ride-By Attack, you can continue to make attacks against
successive targets. You can make one additional attack per 3
tiers you possess, but you can't make more attacks than you
could if you were making a full attack. Successive attacks use
the lower bonus for multiple attacks, as when making a full
attack. You must move at least 10 feet between each attack.
Run (Mythic)
You run with preternatural speed and endurance.
Prerequisites: Run.
Benefit: When running, you move seven times your normal
speed if wearing medium, light, or no armor and carrying no
more than a medium load, or six times your speed if wearing
heavy armor or carrying a heavy load. When making a jump
after a running start, you gain an additional bonus equal to
your tier + 4 on your Acrobatics check.
You can run normally for a number of rounds equal to your
Constitution score plus your tier, but after that you must
succeed at Constitution checks to continue running.
Saving Shield (Mythic)
Shielding a comrade from harm gives you a chance to strike
back.
Prerequisite: Saving Shield.
Benefit: The shield bonus you grant an ally with Saving
Shield increases to +3. If you use Saving Shield to
successfully negate an attack against an adjacent ally, you can
immediately make an attack of opportunity against the
attacker so long as it is within your melee reach.
Scorpion Style (Mythic)
Your unarmed strikes can induce a near-crippling lethargy
in your enemies.
Prerequisite: Scorpion Style.
Benefit: Whenever you are using Scorpion Style, you add
your tier to the number of rounds the target's base land speed
is reduced. You can expend one use of mythic power when
making your attack to slow your target, as the spell slow,
unless it succeeds at a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 your
character level + your Wisdom modifier). The slowing effect
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supersedes the normal speed penalty of your Scorpion Strike,
but lasts for an equal number of rounds.
Selective Channeling (Mythic)
When you exclude creatures from your channel, you
empower those you do affect.
Prerequisite: Selective Channeling.
Benefit: When you channel energy, the damage you heal or
deal increases by a number of points equal to twice the
number of targets you excluded from your channeled energy.
You can expend one use of mythic power to increase the
number of targets you exclude from your channeled energy
by half your tier.
Self-Sufficient (Mythic)

Independence comes naturally to you, and you have
mastered taking care of yourself.
Prerequisite: Self-Sufficient.
Benefit: The bonus on Heal and Survival skill checks from
Self-Sufficient increases by 2. In addition, you can expend one
use of mythic power to treat a Heal or Survival check as if
you had rolled a natural 20. You must decide to use this
ability before making the roll.
Shatter Defenses (Mythic)
Your dazzling attacks leave your opponents flummoxed
and bewildered, unable to attack you or to defend themselves
effectively.
Prerequisite: Shatter Defenses.
Benefit: An opponent you affect with Shatter Defenses is
flat-footed to all attacks, not just yours.
Shield Focus (Mythic)
You're a master of using your shield for protection.
Prerequisite: Shield Focus.
Benefit: Add your shield bonus and your shield's
enhancement bonus to your touch AC. As an immediate
action, you can expend one use of mythic power to add your
shield bonus and your shield's enhancement bonus on a
Fortitude or Reflex save just before you roll it.
Shield Slam (Mythic)
Your shield bash produces a powerful kick.
Prerequisite: Shield Slam.
Benefit: When using Shield Slam to bull rush, an opponent
knocked prone because of an intervening wall or other
surface also takes damage from the collision. The damage
dealt is equal to 1d6 points per 2 tiers you possess. As an
immediate action, you can expend one use of mythic power
to add your tier to your combat maneuver checks when
resolving a bull rush made due to Shield Slam.
Shot On The Run (Mythic)
With ease, you can snap off two shots while dashing across
the battlefield.
Prerequisites: Shot on the Run, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: Whenever you use Shot on the Run, you can make
two ranged attacks at your highest base attack bonus at any
point during your movement, instead of just one.
Skill Focus (Mythic)
You mastery with this skill is unmatched, even in difficult
situations.
Prerequisite: Skill Focus.
Benefit: You can always take 10 or 20 on checks with your
choice of skill for Skill Focus, even when you are rushed or
threatened.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. The effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a different
non-mythic Skill Focus feat.
Snatch Arrows (Mythic)
You can use the weapons you pluck from the air to
immediately make melee attacks.
Prerequisite: Snatch Arrows.
Benefit: When you use Snatch Arrows to catch a thrown
weapon that can also be used as a melee weapon, you can
make a melee attack with it as an immediate action against a
foe within the weapon's melee reach. You can expend one use
of mythic power to make this attack without spending an
immediate action.
Sociable (Mythic)
Your easy nature flows from you without effort, putting
others at ease.
Prerequisite: Sociable.
Benefit: You grant and benefit from the +2 bonus on
Diplomacy checks from Sociable constantly without having
to spend a move action. You can spend a move action to
increase the bonus to +4 for a number of rounds equal to
your tier.
Spell Focus (Mythic)
Your magical specialties are particularly effective.
Prerequisite: Spell Focus.
Benefit: Choose a school of magic you already have Spell
Focus in. The bonus to save DCs provided by Spell Focus and
Greater Spell Focus for that school increases by 1. You can
expend one use of mythic power as part of casting a spell
from your chosen school to force any of the spell's targets to
roll their saving throws twice, taking the lower result.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. The effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a different
non-mythic Spell Focus feat.
Spell Mastery (Mythic)
You're so familiar with certain spells you can prepare them
with the greatest of ease.
Prerequisite: Spell Mastery.
Benefit: You can prepare spells you have selected with
Spell Mastery as a full-round action. You must spend the
appropriate amount of time preparing other spells you have
not mastered. As a full-round action, you can expend one use
of mythic power to prepare all your spells that you have
selected with Spell Mastery.
Spell Penetration (Mythic)
Your mythic power breaches your enemies' defenses.
Prerequisite: Spell Penetration.
Benefit: Add half your tier to caster level checks to
overcome spell resistance. If you have Greater Spell
Penetration, add your full tier instead.
Spellbreaker (Mythic)
You're a spellcaster's worst nightmare.
Prerequisite: Spellbreaker.
Benefit: Any non-mythic creature you threaten provokes an
attack of opportunity from you whenever it uses a spell or
spell-like ability, even when casting defensively or casting a
quickened spell.
If a non-mythic creature within 30 feet of you uses a spell or
spell-like ability, you can expend one use of mythic power to
make a ranged attack against that creature as an attack of
opportunity (even if the creature wouldn't normally provoke
attacks of opportunity). You must have a ranged weapon in
hand or have a free hand and the non-mythic Quick Draw
feat to use this ability. You can use this ability against a
mythic creature by expending two uses of mythic power.
Spirited Charge (Mythic)
Your mounted charge knocks the wind and wits from those
foolish enough to stand against you.
Prerequisite: Spirited Charge.
Benefit: When you hit an opponent with a mounted charge,
that opponent must succeed at a Fortitude saving throw (DC
10 + 1/2 your character level + your Str modifier) or be
staggered for a number of rounds equal to your tier. If you
use a lance with this attack, increase the saving throw DC by
2. As a free action before you make the attack, you can
expend one use of mythic power to daze your opponent on a
failed saving throw instead of staggering it.
Spontaneous Metafocus (Mythic)
You apply metamagic to your spells with greater ease than
do other spontaneous casters.
Prerequisite: Spontaneous Metafocus.
Benefit: You can change which spell your Spontaneous
Metafocus feat applies to each morning when you restore
your expended spell slots. The spell it applies to can be of any
level, but it must be a legal selection for the Spontaneous
Metafocus feat.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. The effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a different
non-mythic Spontaneous Metafocus feat.
Spring Attack (Mythic)
You move across the battlefield in a blur of whirling blades.
Prerequisites: Spring Attack, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you use Spring Attack, you don't need to
move at least 10 feet before making the first attack. If you
expend one use of mythic power when you start a Spring
Attack, the movement you make during the Spring Attack
doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity.
Stealthy (Mythic)
Your grace and fluidity are beyond compare.
Prerequisite: Stealthy.
Benefit: The bonus on Escape Artist and Stealth skill checks
from Stealthy increases by 2. In addition, you can expend one
use of mythic power to treat an Escape Artist or Stealth check
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as if you had rolled a natural 20. You must decide to use this
ability before making the roll.
Strike Back (Mythic)
Your precise counterattacks degrade your foes' advantages
in combat.
Prerequisite: Strike Back.
Benefit: When you make a melee attack as a readied action
against a foe outside your melee reach, you can take a 5-foot
step toward that foe. If you expend one use of mythic power,
you can move your speed toward the foe instead. Neither of
these counts toward the movement made during your turn.
Strong Comeback (Mythic)
You never make the same mistake twice.
Prerequisite: Strong Comeback.
Benefit: Whenever you're allowed to reroll an ability check,
a skill check, or a saving throw, roll two dice and take the
higher result, before adding the bonus from Strong
Comeback.
Stunning Fist (Mythic)
With greater potency and frequency, your fists stun those
who stand against you.
Prerequisite: Stunning Fist.
Benefit: The DC of your Stunning Fist increases by half
your tier, and you can use Stunning Fist multiple times
during the same round. As a free action, you can expend one
use of your mythic power to use Stunning Fist without
spending one of your daily uses of the feat.
Throw Anything (Mythic)
You're so skilled at throwing weapons that it hardly matters
what you throw.
Prerequisite: Throw Anything.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and damage
rolls made using an improvised thrown weapon or splash
weapon. This bonus stacks with the bonus from the non-
mythic Throw Anything feat. If you miss with a thrown
splash weapon, it always lands adjacent to its target
regardless of how many range increments it was thrown.
Titan Strike (Mythic)
Your fists can fell titanic foes.
Prerequisite: Improved Unarmed Strike (Mythic).
Benefit: Your unarmed strike deals damage as if you were
one size category larger. You also gain a +1 bonus for each
size category that your target is larger than you on the
following: bull rush, drag, grapple, overrun, sunder, and trip
combat maneuver checks and the DC of your Stunning Fist.
Toughness (Mythic)
You have legendary resilience and durability.
Prerequisite: Toughness.
Benefit: Toughness provides you twice as many hit points.
In addition, when you're below 0 hit points, you gain DR
10/epic. This DR stacks with any other DR/epic you might
possess.
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Trample (Mythic)
Your rearing mount can stomp foes into the ground, barely
breaking stride.
Prerequisite: Trample.
Benefit: Your mount can make two hoof attacks against an
opponent you knock down with an overrun, instead of one.
You can expend one use of mythic power when you score a
critical hit with one or more of those hoof attacks. When you
do, the critical is automatically confirmed. If both scored
critical hits, expending one use of mythic power
automatically confirms both.
Tripping Staff (Mythic)
Your staff is valuable for attack and defensive balance.
Prerequisite: Tripping Staff.
Benefit: You add half your tier to CMD against trip
maneuvers and on combat maneuver checks to trip with a
quarterstaff. When you're wielding a quarterstaff and an
opponent you threaten attempts to trip you and fails, it
provokes an attack of opportunity from you. You must use
your staff for this attack of opportunity.
Turn Undead (Mythic)
The power of your divine energy can not only cause undead
to flee but also destroy them where they stand.
Prerequisites: Turn Undead.
Benefit: When you use Turn Undead, the range increases
by 10 feet per tier, and non-mythic undead take a penalty on
their saving throws equal to your tier.
You can expend one use of mythic power when using Turn
Undead to destroy undead. Instead of fleeing, undead that
fail their saves might be destroyed. You destroy 2d4 Hit Dice
worth of undead per tier. Undead with the fewest HD are
affected first; among undead with equal HD, those that are
closest to the burst's point of origin are affected first. No
undead of 9 or more HD can be affected, and HD that aren't
sufficient to affect an undead are wasted.
Two-Fisted Drinker (Mythic)
You can pound down drinks with amazing verve.
Prerequisite: Quick Draw.
Benefit: You can draw two potions or other beverages—
mundane or magical—from a pouch, bandolier, or similar
holder (but not from a backpack) as a move action. As a
standard action, you can drink two potions or other
beverages. You must have two free hands to use this feat.
Two-Weapon Defense (Mythic)
Your graceful flow between attack and defense makes you
difficult to hit.
Prerequisite: Two-Weapon Defense.
Benefit: When using Two-Weapon Defense, you apply the
highest enhancement bonus from your two weapons to the
shield bonus granted by that feat.
Two-Weapon Fighting (Mythic)
With deft strikes, you gain an advantage over your foes
beyond mere damage.
Prerequisite: Two-Weapon Fighting.
 Benefit: As an immediate action, you can expend one use of
mythic power to negate the penalties on attack rolls for two-
weapon fighting for a number of rounds equal to your tier.
Two-Weapon Rend (Mythic)
Your synchronized dual attacks are even more dangerous,
and can leave lasting wounds.
Prerequisite: Two-Weapon Rend.
Benefit: The damage of your Two-Weapon Rend increases
to 2d8 points plus twice your Strength modifier. You can
expend one use of mythic power to gain a bonus on this
damage equal to twice your tier.
Undead Master (Mythic)
Through your fearsome mythic nature, you have matchless
power over the undead.
Prerequisite: Undead Master.
Benefit: When you cast animate dead or use the Command
Undead feat, add your tier to your caster level when
determining the number of Hit Dice of undead you animate.
This stacks with the increased caster level of Undead Master.
When you cast command undead, your duration is tripled
rather than doubled.
Unseat (Mythic)
You knock your opponents down from their mounts with
frightening concussive force.
Prerequisite: Unseat.
Benefit: When you successfully bull rush an opponent off
his mount with Unseat, your opponent takes 1d6 points of
falling damage per 2 tiers you possess. Items or abilities that
reduce falling damage, such as a successful Acrobatics check,
can reduce the damage dealt by the impact.
Valiant Vault (Mythic)
Your mount can make heroic leaps.
Prerequisites: Mounted Combat, Ride-By Attack, Ride 5
ranks.
Benefit: Your mount is always considered to have a
running start when using Acrobatics to jump. You can
expend one use of mythic power to grant your mount a +10
bonus on an Acrobatics check, or a +20 bonus if the check is
made to jump.
When making a mounted charge, you can guide your
mount to leap over a foe between your starting position and
the target of your charge. You make a Ride check or your
mount makes an Acrobatics check (whichever is lower)
during the charge, using the rules for the leap task under the
Ride skill. If the height you clear with that check exceeds the
creature's height, you jump over it and continue your charge
on the opposite side. This movement provokes attacks of
opportunity. Alternatively, you can vault over your target
while making a Ride-By Attack, allowing you to move over
or through its space and continue moving on the opposite
side of it. If your jump exceeds the target's height, you gain a
+1 bonus on the attack roll for higher ground, and if any of
your allies threatens the target, you treat the target as flanked
for purposes of your Ride-By Attack.
Vital Strike (Mythic)
You can strike your foes with incredible force.
Prerequisite: Vital Strike.
Benefit: Whenever you use Vital Strike, Improved Vital
Strike, or Greater Vital Strike, multiply the Strength bonus,
magic bonus, and other bonuses that would normally be
multiplied on a critical hit by the number of weapon damage
dice you roll for that feat.
Extra damage from sources that wouldn't normally be
multiplied on a critical hit isn't multiplied by this feat.
Voice Of The Sibyl (Mythic)
You overpower weaker and more vulnerable minds with
your voice alone.
Prerequisite: Voice of the Sibyl.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on all Bluff, Diplomacy, and
Perform (oratory) skill checks for every 3 tiers you possess.
This bonus stacks with the bonus from Voice of the Sibyl. If
you have 10 or more ranks in at least two of these skills, gain
a +2 bonus to the DC of any language-dependent spell you
cast.
Warrior Priest (Mythic)
Your faith speeds you in battle and further strengthens your
mind and confidence.
Prerequisite: Warrior Priest.
Benefit: You gain a bonus equal to half your tier both on
initiative checks and on concentration checks to cast a spell or
use a spell-like ability when casting defensively or while
grappled. These bonuses stack with the bonuses from
Warrior Priest.
Weapon Finesse (Mythic)
You're an expert with weapons that rely on your agility.
Prerequisite: Weapon Finesse.
Benefit: When using Weapon Finesse, you may also use
your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on
your damage rolls. If you carry a shield, its armor check
penalty doesn't apply to either the attack rolls or the damage
rolls.
Weapon Focus (Mythic)
You're a master of one type of weapon.
Prerequisite: Weapon Focus.
Benefit: Double the bonuses on your attack rolls from
Weapon Focus and Greater Weapon Focus. As a swift action,
you can expend one use of mythic power to gain a bonus on
attack rolls with your selected weapon equal to half your tier
until the end of your turn.
Special: If you have taken non-mythic Weapon Focus
multiple times, you must choose which of those feats this
enhances. You can take this feat multiple times. The effects do
not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a different
non-mythic Weapon Focus feat you have.
Weapon Specialization (Mythic)
The damage you deal with your chosen weapon is truly
awesome to behold.
Prerequisite: Weapon Specialization.
Benefit: When using your chosen weapon, you gain a
bonus equal to half your tier on damage rolls. This stacks
with the bonus from Weapon Specialization and Greater
Weapon Specialization.
Special: If you have taken non-mythic Weapon
Specialization multiple times, you must choose which of
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those feats this enhances. You can take this feat multiple
times. The effects do not stack. Each time you take this feat, it
applies to a different non-mythic Weapon Specialization feat
you have.

Witch Knife (Mythic)

Your witch knife is as much an extension of your body as it
is an extension of your power.
Prerequisite: Witch Knife.
Benefit: You can use your witch knife as an additional focus
component for all your witch spells, not just your patron
spells, adding 1 to their DC. This bonus stacks with the bonus
to patron spells granted by Witch Knife, granting your patron
spells a total +2 bonus to their DC. Additionally, the hand
holding the witch knife is still considered free for the purpose
of casting spells and delivering touch attacks.

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MONSTER FEATS
Most of the following feats apply specifically to monsters,
although some player characters might qualify for them (as
Craft Construct).
Ability Focus (Monster)
One of this creature's special attacks is particularly difficult
to resist.
Prerequisite: Special attack.
Benefit: Choose one of the creature's special attacks. Add
+2 to the DC for all saving throws against the special attack
on which the creature focuses.
Special: A creature can gain this feat multiple times. Its
effects do not stack. Each time the creature takes the feat, it
applies to a different special attack.
Awesome Blow (Combat, Monster)
This creature can send opponents flying.
Prerequisites: Str 25, Power Attack, Improved Bull Rush,
size Large or larger.
Benefit: As a standard action, the creature may perform an
awesome blow combat maneuver. If the creature's maneuver
succeeds against a corporeal opponent smaller than itself, its
opponent takes damage (typically slam damage plus Strength
bonus) and is knocked flying 10 feet in a direction of the
attacking creature's choice and falls prone. The attacking
creature can only push the opponent in a straight line, and
the opponent can't move closer to the attacking creature than
the square it started in. If an obstacle prevents the completion
of the opponent's move, the opponent and the obstacle each
take 1d6 points of damage, and the opponent is knocked
prone in the space adjacent to the obstacle.
Blood Feast (Combat, Monster)
You become more aggressive and vicious when you taste
living flesh and blood.
Prerequisite: Bite attack.
Benefit: When you damage a living creature with your bite
attack, you gain a +1 morale bonus on attack and damage
rolls with your bite attack until the end of your next turn.
Bouncing Spell-Like Ability (Monster)
You can retarget one of your spell-like abilities when it fails
to affect its original target.
Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 4th or higher.
Benefit: Choose one of your spell-like abilities, subject to
the restrictions described in this feat. You can use the chosen
spell-like ability as a bouncing spell-like ability three times
per day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or
twice per day).
Whenever you use a bouncing spell-like ability against a
single target and the ability has no effect on it (whether due
to spell resistance or a successful saving throw), as a swift
action, you can redirect the spell-like ability to target another
eligible creature within range. The redirected spell-like ability
behaves as if its new target were the original target for the
spell-like ability. Spell-like abilities that affect a target in any
way (including a lesser effect from a successful saving throw)
can’t be redirected in this manner.
You can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a spell
with a level less than or equal to 1/2 your caster level (round
down) – 1.
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Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it
is taken, you can apply it to a different spell-like ability.
Consume Essence (Combat, Monster)
Creatures that you swallow are quickly absorbed and soon
utterly annihilated.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +6; evil alignment;
swallow whole universal monster ability; must be of the
magical beast, outsider, or undead type.
Benefit: When you start your turn having swallowed at
least one creature, each swallowed creature must succeed at a
Fortitude save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your Hit Dice + your Charisma
modifier) or gain a temporary negative level. Swallowed
creatures that die from these negative levels are consumed as
per disintegrate. This is a death effect.
Special: If you are of the undead type, each time a
swallowed creature gains a temporary negative level from
this ability, you add 5 temporary hit points to the number of
hit points that swallowed creatures must deal to escape, up to
a maximum of 15 temporary hit points. These temporary hit
points last for 10 minutes.
Craft Construct (Item Creation)
You can create construct creatures like golems.
Prerequisites: Caster level 5th, Craft Magic Arms and
Armor, Craft Wondrous Item.
Benefit: You can create any construct whose prerequisites
you meet. The act of animating a construct takes one day for
each 1,000 gp in its market price. To create a construct, you
must use up raw materials costing half of its base price, plus
the full cost of the basic body created for the construct. Each
construct has a special section that summarizes its costs and
other prerequisites. A newly created construct has average hit
points for its Hit Dice.
Disruptive Spell-Like Ability (Monster)
Your spell-like ability clings to affected targets and
interferes with their spellcasting.
Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 4th or higher.
Benefit: Choose one of your spell-like abilities, subject to
the restrictions described in this feat. You can use the chosen
spell-like ability as a disruptive spell-like ability up to three
times per day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only
once or twice per day).
For 1 round after you use a disruptive spell-like ability,
affected targets attempting to cast as spell must attempt
concentration checks when casting spells or use spell-like
abilities (DC = the disruptive spell-like ability’s DC + the
level of the spell the target is casting or spell-like ability it’s
using). Targets that avoid the spell-like ability’s effects also
avoid this feat’s effect.
You can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a spell
with a level less than or equal to 1/2 your caster level (round
down) – 1.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time
you do, you can apply it to a different spell-like ability.
Empower Spell-Like Ability (Monster)
One of this creature's spell-like abilities is particularly
potent and powerful.
Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 6th or higher.
 Benefit: Choose one of the creature's spell-like abilities,
subject to the restrictions below. The creature can use that
ability as an empowered spell-like ability three times per day
(or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or twice
per day).
When a creature uses an empowered spell-like ability, all
variable, numeric effects of the spell-like ability are increased
by half (+50%). Saving throws and opposed rolls are not
affected. Spell-like abilities without random variables are not
affected.
The creature can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a
spell with a level less than or equal to 1/2 its caster level
(round down) – 2. For a summary, see the table in the
description of the Quicken Spell-Like Ability.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it
is taken, the creature can apply it to a different spell-like
ability.
Engulf Horror (Combat, Monster)
The repulsive horror of your smothering attack nearly
incapacitates most foes.
Prerequisites: Engulf Revulsion; engulf or smother
universal monster ability.
Benefit: When you successfully engulf or smother an
opponent, successfully maintain a grapple combat maneuver
on a smothered opponent, the opponent must succeed at a
Will save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your Hit Dice + your Strength
modifier) or become staggered for 1 round. This is a mind-
affecting fear effect.
Engulf Revulsion (Combat, Monster)
The stomach-churning terror of your smothering attack
leaves creatures sick and weakened.
Prerequisite: Engulf or smother universal monster ability.
Benefit: When you successfully engulf or smother an
opponent, or successfully maintain a grapple combat
maneuver on an engulfed or smothered opponent, that
opponent must succeed at a Will save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your
Hit Dice + your Strength modifier) or become shaken for 1
round. This is a mind-affecting fear effect.
Exsanguinate (Combat, Monster)
You drink blood from the living at a furious rate, often
draining creatures dry in a matter of seconds.
Prerequisites: Blood drain universal monster ability, grab
universal monster ability.
Benefit: Once per round, when you successfully pin an
opponent, that opponent takes double the normal damage
from your blood drain.
Fearsome Spell-Like Ability (Monster)
Your spell-like ability induces fear in affected targets.
Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 6th or higher.
Benefit: Choose one of your spell-like abilities, subject to
the restrictions described in this feat. You can use the chosen
spell-like ability as a fearsome spell-like ability three times
per day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or
twice per day).
When a target takes damage from a fearsome spell-like
ability and fails its saving throw against the spell-like ability,
it becomes shaken for a number of rounds equal to the spell-
like ability’s equivalent spell level. If the spell-like ability
doesn’t allow a saving throw, creatures harmed by it can
attempt a Will save (against the DC that the spell-like ability
would have if it allowed a saving throw) to negate the shaken
effect. If the effect of the spell-like ability also causes targets
to become shaken and a target fails its saving throw, the
duration of the shaken condition caused by this effect stacks
with the spell-like ability’s. A fearsome spell-like ability can’t
cause a creature to become frightened, even if that creature is
already shaken.
You can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a spell
with a level less than or equal to 1/2 your caster level (round
down) – 2.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it
is taken, you can apply it to a different spell-like ability.
Flyby Attack (Monster)
This creature can make an attack before and after it moves
while flying.
Prerequisite: Fly speed.
Benefit: When flying, the creature can take a move action
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.
Gruesome Shapechanger (Monster)
When you change shape, it is a violent and bloody affair.
Prerequisite: Shapechanger subtype.
Benefit: When you change shape, your previous form
sloughs off your body in a spray of blood and viscera that
congeals into a thick, disgusting slime that dissolves within
24 hours. Until the slime dissolves or is cleaned in some way,
the space where you stood when you changed (or the space
below if you changed in mid-air) becomes slippery, counting
as difficult terrain and increasing the DC of Acrobatics checks
made in that area by 5. Any foe witnessing this gruesome
shape change must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC = 10 +
1/2 your Hit Dice + your Constitution modifier) or be
sickened for 1 minute.
Special: The gruesome way you change shape is tiring.
Once you’ve used your change shape ability, you must wait
1d4 rounds before you can use it again. If you take this feat, it
changes the way your shapechanging ability works; you
cannot choose to avoid this feat’s effects.
Horrific Gorging (Combat, Monster)
In the space of a few horrific seconds, you can chew up and
gulp down an entire humanoid body.
Prerequisites: Bite attack, Large or larger, swallow whole
universal monster ability.
Benefit: As a full-round action, you can completely
consume a dead, unconscious, paralyzed, or otherwise
helpless humanoid creature that you could normally swallow
with your swallow whole ability. When you do, you deal bite
damage as a critical hit and swallow the humanoid as your
swallow whole special ability.
Allies of the swallowed creature within 30 feet that can see
you indulge in this horrific feast must succeed at a Will save
(DC = 10 + 1/2 your Hit Dice + your Charisma modifier) to
avoid being shaken for 1d4 rounds. This part of the ability is
a mind-affecting fear effect.
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Hover (Monster)
This creature can hover in place with ease and can kick up
clouds of dust and debris.
Prerequisite: Fly speed.
Benefit: A creature with this feat can halt its movement
while flying, allowing it to hover without needing to make a
Fly skill check.
If a creature of size Large or larger with this feat 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 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).
Normal: Without this feat, a creature must make a Fly skill
check to hover and the creature does not create a cloud of
debris while hovering.
Improved Natural Armor (Monster)
This creature's hide is tougher than most.
Prerequisites: 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.
Improved Natural Attack (Monster)
Attacks made by one of this creature's natural attacks leave
vicious wounds.
Prerequisite: Natural weapon, base attack bonus +4.
Benefit: Choose one of the creature's natural attack forms
(not an unarmed strike). The damage for this natural attack
increases by one step on the following list, as if the creature's
size had increased by one category. Damage dice increase as
follows: 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.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it
is taken, it applies to a different natural attack.
Intensified Spell-Like Ability (Monster)
Your spell-like ability deals more damage.
Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 4th or higher.
Benefit: Choose one of your spell-like abilities, subject to
the restrictions described in this feat. You can use the chosen
spell-like ability as an intensified spell-like ability three times
per day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or
twice per day).
When you use an intensified spell-like ability, the maximum
number of the ability’s damage dice increases by 5 levels. You
must have sufficient caster levels to surpass the normal
maximum in order to benefit from this feat. No other
variables of the spell-like ability are affected, and spell-like
abilities that inflict damage that is not modified by caster
level are not affected by this feat.
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You can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a spell
with a level less than or equal to 1/2 your caster level (round
down) – 1.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it
is taken, you can apply it to a different spell-like ability.
Latching Horror (Combat, Monster)
You induce fear and loathing when you latch onto another
living creature.
Prerequisite: Attach universal monster ability.
Benefit: When you use your attach ability, your opponent
must succeed at a Will save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your Hit Dice +
your Constitution modifier) to avoid becoming shaken while
you remain attached. This is a mind-affecting fear effect.
Lingering Spell-Like Ability (Monster)
Your spell-like ability clings to existence, slowly fading
from the world.
Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 4th or higher.
Benefit: Choose one of your spell-like abilities, subject to
the restrictions described in this feat. You can use the chosen
spell-like ability as a lingering spell-like ability three times
per day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or
twice per day).
A lingering spell-like ability causes an instantaneous spell-
like ability that affects an area to persist until the beginning of
its next turn. Targets already in the area suffer no additional
harm, but other creatures or objects entering the area are
subject to its effects. A lingering spell-like ability with a
visual manifestation obscures vision, providing concealment
(20% miss chance) beyond 5 feet and total concealment (50%
miss chance) beyond 20 feet.
You can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a spell
with a level less than or equal to 1/2 your caster level (round
down) – 1.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it
is taken, you can apply it to a different spell-like ability.
Multiattack (Combat, Monster)
This creature is particularly skilled at making attacks with
its natural weapons.
Prerequisite: Three or more 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.
Multiweapon Fighting (Combat, Monster)
This multi-armed creature is skilled at making attacks with
multiple weapons.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, three or more hands.
Benefit: Penalties for fighting with multiple weapons are
reduced by –2 with the primary hand and 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 all of its off hands. (It has one primary
hand, and all the others are off hands.) See Two-Weapon
Fighting in the basic rules.
 Special: This feat replaces the Two-Weapon Fighting feat abilities that normally require melee touch attacks instead
for creatures with more than two arms. require ranged touch attacks.

Quicken Spell-Like Ability (Monster) Spell-like abilities that do not have a range of touch, close,
This creature can use one of its spell-like abilities with next or medium do not benefit from this feat.
to no effort. Table: Reach Spell-Like Ability
Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at CL 10th or higher.
Range Increase (by Spell Level)
Caster
Benefit: Choose one of the creature's spell-like abilities,
Level 0 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
subject to the restrictions described in this feat. The creature
can use the chosen spell-like ability as a quickened spell-like 2nd +1 — — — — — — — — —
ability three times per day (or less, if the ability is normally
4th +2 +1 — — — — — — — —
usable only once or twice per day).
6th +3 +2 +1 — — — — — — —
Using a quickened spell-like ability is a swift action that
does not provoke an attack of opportunity. The creature can 8th +3 +3 +2 +1 — — — — — —
perform another action—including the use of another spell-
like ability (but not another swift action)—in the same round 10th +3 +3 +3 +2 +1 — — — — —
that it uses a quickened spell-like ability. The creature may 12th +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +1 — — — —
use only one quickened spell-like ability per round.
14th +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +1 — — —
The creature can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a
spell with a level less than or equal to 1/2 its caster level 16th +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +1 — —
(round down) – 4. For a summary, see the table below.
18th +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +1 —
A spell-like ability that duplicates a spell with a casting time
20th +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +1
greater than 1 full round cannot be quickened.
Normal: The use of a spell-like ability normally requires a
standard action (at the very least) and provokes an attack of Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it
opportunity. is taken, you can apply it to a different spell-like ability.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it Scarring Spell-Like Ability (Monster)
is taken, the creature can apply it to a different one of its Your spell-like ability leaves mental scars.
spell-like abilities.
Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 4th or higher.
Empowered and Quickened Spell-Like Abilities
Spell Caster Level to Caster Level to Benefit: Choose one of your spell-like abilities, subject to
Level Empower Quicken the restrictions described in this feat. You can use the chosen
0 4th 8th spell-like ability as a scarring spell-like ability three times per
1st 6th 10th day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or
2nd 8th 12th twice per day).
3rd 10th 14th
When you use a scarring spell-like ability, a target that fails
4th 12th 16th
its saving throw against the spell-like ability takes a –2
5th 14th 18th
penalty on saving throws against emotion and fear effects
6th 16th 20th
you create, and a –1 penalty on saving throws against other
7th 18th —
emotion and fear effects, for the next 24 hours. If the spell-like
8th 20th —
ability doesn’t allow a saving throw, you can’t choose to
9th — —
enhance it with this feat. Penalties from multiple scarring
spell-like abilities don’t stack. This feat can be applied only to
spell-like abilities with the emotionUM or fear descriptor.
Reach Spell-Like Ability (Monster)
You can use a spell-like ability at a greater range. You can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a spell
with a level less than or equal to 1/2 your caster level (round
Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 4th or higher.
down) – 1.
Benefit: Choose one of your spell-like abilities, subject to
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it
the restrictions described in this feat. You can use the chosen
is taken, you can apply it to a different spell-like ability.
spell-like ability as a reach spell-like ability three times per
day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or Sickening Spell-Like Ability (Monster)
twice per day). Your spell-like ability sickens affected targets.
When you use a reach spell-like ability, it can alter a spell- Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 6th or higher.
like ability with a range of touch, close, or medium to
increase its range to a higher range category, using the Benefit: Choose one of your spell-like abilities, subject to
following order: touch, close, medium, and long. You can the restrictions described in this feat. You can use the chosen
select a spell-like ability that duplicates a spell only if its level spell-like ability as a sickening spell-like ability three times
is less than or equal to 1/2 its caster level (round down) – 1 per day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or
per increase in range category. For example, a spell-like twice per day).
ability with a range of touch can be increased to long range
When you use a sickening spell-like ability, a target that
only if it duplicates a spell with a level less than or equal to
takes damage from the spell-like ability becomes sickened for
1/2 your caster level (round down) – 3. Reach spell-like
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spell level. If the spell-like ability allows a saving throw, a
successful save negates the sickening effect. If the spell does
not allow a saving throw, the target can attempt a Fortitude
save (against the DC that the spell-like ability would have if it
allowed a saving throw) to negate the sickening effect. If the
effect of the spell-like ability also causes targets to become
sickened and targets fail their save, add the duration of the
sickened condition caused by this effect to the duration of the
sickened condition imposed by the spell-like ability.
Spell-like abilities that do not inflict damage do not benefit
from this feat.
You can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a spell
with a level less than or equal to 1/2 your caster level (round
down) – 2.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it
is taken, you can apply it to a different spell-like ability.
Skin Suit (Monster)
During the daylight hours, you can cloak your unnatural
form beneath a veil of flesh and blood.
Prerequisites: Int 7, undead creature that was originally
humanoid.
Benefit: Once per day as a full-round action, you can cloak
your body in a thin, fleshy suit that gives you the appearance
of yourself as a young adult humanoid. Your appearance
changes as per alter self, but this feat doesn’t adjust your
ability scores or grant any new abilities. When so disguised,
you cannot use slashing or piercing natural attacks, such as
bite or claw attacks, without unraveling and destroying your
skin suit, nor can you deliver energy drain or ability damage
with your undead special attacks (such as a wight or
vampire’s slam attacks) without destroying the suit. While
wearing a skin suit, your alignment is masked as though by a
constant undetectable alignment spell, and you have the aura of
a living creature instead of an undead creature for the
purposes of detect undead and similar effects. The skin suit
dissolves into a puddle of bloody slurry at sundown, though
you can remove it at any time as a standard action. The skin
suit does not protect you from the effects of being exposed to
direct sunlight. Finally, if you take lethal damage while
wearing your skin suit, you must succeed at a Reflex save
with a DC equal to the amount of lethal damage or the skin
suit is destroyed.
Snatch (Monster)
This creature can grab other creatures with ease.
Prerequisite: Size Huge or larger.
Benefits: The creature can start a grapple when it hits with
a claw or bite attack, as though it had the grab ability. If it
grapples a creature three or more sizes smaller, it squeezes
each round for automatic bite or claw damage with a
successful grapple check. 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 × 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.
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Spawnlink (Monster)
You can see through the eyes of your spawned minions.
Prerequisites: Int 13, create spawn monster ability.
Benefit: As a full-round action, you can create a link with
one of your spawn that you control on the same plane. When
you do so, your spawn’s eyes glow bright red. When linked
in this way, you can see through your spawn’s eyes with
either the spawn’s vision or yours, whichever is more
beneficial. While looking through your spawn’s eyes, your
body is blinded. You can also speak though your spawn (if it
can speak), using your own voice. You can maintain this link
each round as a standard action as if concentrating to
maintain a 3rd-level spell. If your spawn is reduced to 0 or
fewer hit points while you use this ability, you become
blinded and dazed for 1d6 rounds with no saving throw.
Traumatic Spell-Like Ability (Monster)
Your spell-like ability causes affected targets to relive their
torments in nightly terrors.
Prerequisite: Spell-like ability at caster level 6th or higher.
Benefit: Choose one of your spell-like abilities, subject to
the restrictions described in this feat. You can use the chosen
spell-like ability as a traumatic spell-like ability three times
per day (or less, if the ability is normally usable only once or
twice per day).
When you use a traumatic spell-like ability, affected targets
must succeed at an additional Will saving throw the next
time that they sleep (DC = the spell-like ability’s DC) or be
affected as per nightmare. Each time the target fails its save, it
must save again the following night or be affected by another
nightmare, though the save DC decreases by 2 each night after
the first. This feat can be applied only to spell-like abilities
with the emotion or fear descriptor. Targets that avoid the
spell-like ability’s effects avoid this feat’s effect as well.
You can only select a spell-like ability duplicating a spell
with a level less than or equal to 1/2 your caster level (round
down) – 2.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it
is taken, you are able to apply it to a different spell-like
ability.
Wingover (Monster)
This creature can make turns with ease while flying.
Prerequisite: Fly speed.
Benefits: Once each round, a creature with this feat can turn
up to 180 degrees as a free action without making a Fly skill
check. This free turn does not consume any additional
movement from the creature.
Normal: A flying creature can turn up to 90 degrees by
making a DC 15 Fly skill check and expending 5 feet of
movement. A flying creature can turn up to 180 degrees by
making a DC 20 Fly skill check and expending 10 feet of
movement.
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PANACHE FEATS
Panache feats interact with the swashbuckler's panache
class ability or the panache granted by the Amateur
Swashbuckler feat. Swashbucklers can take panache feats as
bonus feats.
Confounding Tumble Deed (Panache)
You can befuddle a foe by striking a blow after tumbling.
Prerequisites: Amateur Swashbuckler feat or panache class
feature, Canny Tumble, Acrobatics 7 ranks.
Benefit: When you use Acrobatics to move through an
opponent's threatened area or space without provoking an
attack of opportunity from that opponent and then hit that
foe with a melee attack in the same round, as a free action
you can spend 1 panache point to deny that foe its Dexterity
bonus to its Armor Class until the end of your next turn.
Disarming Threat Deed (Panache)
Even your threats are curiously charming.
Prerequisites: Amateur Swashbuckler or panache class
feature; Diplomacy 2 ranks, Intimidate 2 ranks.
Benefit: When you succeed at an Intimidate check to force
an opponent to act friendly toward you, you can spend 1
panache point to cause the target to regard you with
indifference when the duration of the effect expires. A target
influenced in this manner is unlikely to report you to
authorities.
Normal: An opponent forced to act friendly toward you by
Intimidate becomes unfriendly when the duration expires,
and is likely to report you to the authorities.
Dueling Cape Deed (Combat, Panache)
You can use a simple cape to guard yourself and confound
your foes.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Sleight of Hand 1 rank.
Benefit: As a move action, you can wrap a cape that you're
wearing around your arm (removing it if necessary), and
treat it as a buckler. If you are using the cape in this way, and
an opponent misses you with a melee attack, as an immediate
action you can spend 1 panache point to release your cape
from your arm and entangle your foe with it. The foe can free
itself by using a full-round action to escape or by destroying
the cape; a typical cape has hardness 1 and 3 hit points. You
can use this feat with items similar in shape and weight to a
cape, such as a cloak or a curtain.
Enrage Opponent (Combat, Panache)
With a quip or a suggestive gesture, you send your enemy
into a tizzy.
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Amateur Swashbuckler or panache
class feature, Persuasive.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can spend 1 panache point to
enrage a creature with an Intelligence of 4 or more within 60
feet that can see or hear you. Attempt an Intimidate check as
if to demoralize the creature. If you succeed, the creature
takes a –2 penalty to its AC until it has made at least one
attack against you (including area effects that include you) or
until it can no longer see or hear you. You can have only one
opponent enraged at you with this feat at a time, and once
you’ve enraged a creature, you can’t enrage it again for 24
hours.
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Extra Panache (Panache)
You have more panache than the ordinary swashbuckler.
Prerequisite: Amateur Swashbuckler or panache class
feature.
Benefit: You gain 2 more panache points at the start of each
day, and your maximum panache increases by 2.
Special: If you have levels in the swashbuckler class, you
can take this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.
Lightning Draw (Combat, Panache)
You can draw your weapon with startling speed.
Prerequisites: Quick Draw, swashbuckler initiative deed,
swashbuckler level 7th.
Benefit: You can spend 1 panache point to draw one or
more light or one-handed piercing weapons, whether hidden
or not, when you roll initiative, even at the start of a surprise
round in which you can’t act. Drawing these weapons does
not take an action. If you have the instant unveil deed, it
doesn’t cost any panache to use the ability described in the
previous paragraph as long as you have at least 1 point of
panache, and you can spend 1 panache point to draw a single
light or one-handed piercing weapon, hidden or not, as an
immediate action whenever a creature attacks you.
Pommel Strike Deed (Panache)
With a surprise swipe with your pommel, you can topple a
foe.
Prerequisites: Amateur Swashbuckler or panache class
feature; base attack bonus +3.
Benefit: You can spend 1 panache point to make a melee
attack with the pommel of a light or one-handed piercing
melee weapon as a standard action. You make this attack as if
you were using the weapon normally (including any bonuses
gained from the swashbuckler's finesse class feature, Weapon
Finesse, or other similar feats and effects), but you deal 1d6
points of bludgeoning damage (or 1d4 if you are Small)
instead of the weapon's normal damage. Regardless of your
size, the critical threat range and critical multiplier of this
attack are 20/×2, and they are not affected by Improved
Critical, the keen weapon special ability, or similar effects. If
the attack hits, you can attempt a combat maneuver check to
knock the target prone as a free action.
Structural Strike (Combat, Panache)
You use your knowledge of how things fit together to find
ways to punch through the defenses of any foe.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (engineering) 5 ranks, precise
strike class feature or precise strike deed.
Benefit: When using the duelist’s or swashbuckler’s precise
strike, you can make a single strike as a standard action
against an opponent that would be otherwise immune to
your precise strike damage. If you hit, you deal your precise
strike damage as normal against this enemy. When using the
swashbuckler’s precise strike deed, you can spend 1 panache
point as a swift action to deal your regular precise strike
damage on a single attack against an opponent that would
typically be immune. If you have both class features, you can
use either option in order to apply the full damage from both
versions of precise strike.
Additionally, against opponents with a chance of immunity
to your precise strike (such as an opponent wearing armor
with the fortification special ability), this feat reduces their
chance of negating your precise strikes by 10%.
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Performance feats are used when you make a performance
combat check, typically granting a special action that occurs
when you make that check. Unless you have the Masterful
Display feat, you can only apply the effect of one
performance feat to each performance combat check you
make.
Dramatic Display (Combat, Performance)
Your skill with your weapon is obvious to enemies and
onlookers alike.
Prerequisite: Dazzling Display.
Benefit: When you spend a swift action to make a
performance check, you exude an aura of awe-inspiring skill.
You gain a +2 bonus on your performance check, and gain a
+2 bonus on all attack rolls and combat maneuver checks
until the end of your next turn.
provoking attacks of opportunity. You must have a clear path
to that space and the ability to reach it by spending a move
action. If you end this move in any space other than the one
where you started, you gain a +2 bonus on the performance
combat check.
Savage Display (Combat, Performance)
With your victory and a roar, you push yourself on with
increased savagery.
Prerequisite: Dazzling Display.
Benefit: When you spend a swift action to make a
performance combat check, you gain a +2 bonus on your
performance combat check and gain a +1d6 bonus on damage
rolls until the end of your next turn. This extra damage is not
precision damage.

Hero's Display (Combat, Performance)

With a dramatic flourish you display your weapons to the
crowd. Onlookers are elated, and your enemies are
demoralized.
Prerequisites: Dazzling Display, Weapon Focus, and
proficiency with the selected weapon.
Benefit: When you spend a swift action to make a
performance combat check, you present the weapon in which
you have Weapon Focus in a triumphant display. You gain a
+2 bonus on the performance combat check and make an
Intimidate check to demoralize all foes within 30 feet who can
see your display.

Masterful Display (Combat, Performance)

You craft a special victory performance that causes the
crowd to go wild.
Prerequisites: Dazzling Display, any two performance
feats.
Benefit: Choose the effects of any two performance feats
you have. When you make a performance combat check, you
gain the benefits of those two feats, but you only gain a +2
bonus on the performance combat check.

Mocking Dance (Combat, Performance)

You do a little dance that mocks your foe and entertains the
crowd.
Prerequisites: Acrobatics 4 ranks or Perform (dance) 4
ranks.
Benefit: When you spend a swift action to make a
performance combat check, before making that check you can
either move 5 feet without provoking attacks of opportunity,
or you can move your speed and provoke attacks of
opportunity. You cannot end this move in a space where you
threaten an enemy. If you do move at least 5 feet, you gain a
+2 bonus on the performance combat check.

Murderer's Circle (Combat, Performance)

After savaging your foe, you circle like a hunter ready for
the kill.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Acrobatics 4 ranks.
Benefit: When you spend a swift action to make a
performance combat check after scoring a critical hit or
performing a combat maneuver, and you are adjacent to the
target of the critical hit or combat maneuver, you can move to
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A story feat reflects a goal—often an all-consuming one—
that shapes your life. Each story feat incorporates a trigger
event (which comes from either a campaign occurrence or
your background), an immediate benefit, a goal, and a further
benefit for achieving that goal.
Story feats are marked with the story keyword. Each feat
has at least two possible prerequisites, representing
conditions most likely met during play or a background that
fits the feat. You need to meet only one of these prerequisites.
Anytime you gain a new feat, you may take a story feat, but
you can have only one uncompleted story feat at a time. Story
feats are designed for PCs, but can be taken by NPCs and
monsters as well.
Unlike typical feats, story feats have nebulous prerequisites,
and you should chose one only after talking with the GM.
The GM should weave a story feat into the greater story of
the campaign and even adjust it as needed to fit the
campaign's long-term goals and the specifics of your
background. Story feats should work organically within the
story of the campaign, rather than be chosen purely for their
mechanical benefits.
Like the prerequisites, the completion conditions for a story
feat might require GM adjudication. If the events of the
campaign are not likely to resolve the story implied by the
story feat, the GM should consider shifting the goal to
something you can achieve. Establishing a meaningful story
arc is more important than adhering to the letter of the feat.
Because a story feat represents both your motivation and
character development, the GM should make an effort to
incorporate elements related to the feat into the ongoing
campaign. These can be direct elements, like the appearance
of a villain or hated creature, or indirect elements, such as
rumors of the fate of a lost relative or NPCs who are
impressed by a PC's artistic endeavors. A good rule of thumb
is to work in a reference to each PC's story feat once every
three to five sessions.
In most cases, allies can assist in completing a story feat. At
the GM's discretion, if you do not take a leadership role in
tasks or conflicts related to your own story feat, you might
need to complete additional goals to resolve the story feat, or
might even be denied completion altogether.
Common Rules
Many story feats share similar terminology in their
prerequisites and completion conditions. The following terms
have special meanings when used in story feats.
Appropriate Number: These are either creatures whose
individual CRs add up to 20, or creatures whose individual
CRs add up to 5 times your character level, whichever is
greater. For example, if you're at 6th level, an appropriate
number of creatures have CRs that add up to 30. This
calculation is based on your current character level, not the
level at which you selected the story feat. Overly easy
challenges (encounters with CRs of 3 or more below your
character level) don't count unless circumstances make them
much more difficult to handle.
Challenging Foe: This is a foe or group of foes with a total
CR of 10 or a CR of 3 plus your character level, whichever is
higher. If this refers to a distinct individual, the foe's CR is set
when the feat is taken, but the foe advances in power as you
do. Otherwise, it refers to your current level. A typical
recurring foe advances in CR by 1 for every 1—2 levels you
gain.
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Character's Level: Normally, this is your actual character
level. If you're a creature best represented by CR rather than
character level (such as most monsters with more than 1 HD),
use your calculated CR instead of your character level.
Decisively Defeat: You overcome a foe in some way, such
as by killing the creature, knocking it unconscious, or causing
it to be taken prisoner. You must be a significant participant
in the conflict to defeat the opponent, even if another strikes
the final blow. Whether or not merely causing the enemy to
flee qualifies is up to the GM. Generally, driving off an
enemy while causing little actual harm does not qualify as a
decisive defeat.
Slay: Slaying a foe includes killing it, destroying it, turning
it to stone, banishing it to the Abyss, or otherwise eliminating
it in a fashion reversible only by powerful magic. Unless
otherwise noted, you must deal the final blow yourself to slay
a creature.
Thwart: Distinct from defeating a foe, thwarting a foe
involves disrupting its plans in a substantial and essentially
permanent fashion. Deposing a lord, bringing down a priest's
temple, or banishing a sorcerer to the depths of Hell all
qualify as thwarting. You keep any benefits gained by
thwarting a foe even if it survives defeat and returns more
powerful than before. You must be a significant participant in
the events that lead to your foe being thwarted for your
actions to count toward fulfilling a story requirement.
Story Feats and Stacking
Most story feat bonuses are untyped, and stack with almost
any other bonus. However, if you have multiple story feats,
their untyped bonuses do not stack with each other. For
example, if two story feats gave you a bonus on saving
throws, you would add only the higher bonus.
Accursed (Story)
Your curse weighs down your soul like a millstone around
your neck.
Prerequisite: You must carry a curse that can be lifted only
by a quest or similar great undertaking, or have the Cursed
Birth background.
Benefit: You gain spell resistance equal to 5 + your
character level, as the curse interferes with all magic. Unlike
most spell resistance, it can't voluntarily be lowered, though
your own spells and magic items still automatically affect
you.
Goal: Your curse is lifted or you are able to purge the
corruption of your fiendish blood (the circumstances of either
vary widely based on the nature of the curse, and are up to
the GM).
Completion Benefit: You lose the spell resistance described
above. You gain spell resistance equal to 11 + your character
level, but only against harmful enchantment, necromancy,
and transmutation spells and spell-like abilities—your aura
resists further attempts to curse you. Harmless spells
automatically bypass this spell resistance whether you desire
it or not. This spell resistance can be voluntarily lowered.
Arisen (Story)
Escaping death strengthened your bond to life, but fills you
with a need for answers.
Prerequisite: You must have been slain and brought back
from the dead, or have the Left to Die or Cursed Birth
background.
 Benefit: You don't die until your negative hit point total is
equal to or greater than 4 + your Constitution score. Once per
day as a standard action, you can force yourself to carry on
by strength of will alone, gaining 1 temporary hit point per
hit die. These temporary hit points last for 10 minutes.
Normal: You die when your negative hit point total is equal
to or greater than your Constitution score.
Goal: You meet in person and hear the words of your deity
or your deity's chosen herald. If you worship a pantheon of
deities, you must meet and hear a member of that
pantheon—a herald does not suffice in this case. If you
worship no specific deity, you must hear the words of an
appropriate entity of the GM's choice.
Completion Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on saving throws
against death effects and fear effects. In addition, the caster
level of any conjuration (healing) spell that is cast on you
increases by 1 for the purposes of its effects on you alone.
Battlefiled Healer (Story)
In even the fiercest battles, you risk life and limb to save
your allies.
Prerequisite: You must successfully cast a conjuration
(healing) spell on an ally after being hit by an attack of
opportunity, or have the Battle, Chaplain, or Healed
background.
Benefit: When attempting a concentration check caused by
receiving damage (including ongoing damage), you reduce
the damage taken by 50% for the purposes of determining the
concentration check DC.
Goal: Over time, provoke at least 20 attacks of opportunity
for casting conjuration (healing) spells on allies. These spells
don't have to succeed to count.
Completion Benefit: You automatically succeed at
concentration checks for conjuration (healing) spells caused
by taking damage.
Champion (Story)
You must prove yourself through single combat.
Prerequisite: You must have defeated a single challenging
foe without any aid from another, or have the Champion of a
God, Champion of the People, Competition Champion, or
Gladiator background.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can declare a single combat
challenge to one foe within 50 feet and in line of sight. Upon
doing so, you gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1 dodge
bonus to AC against that foe as long as no one else threatens
that opponent or until the single combat challenge ends. If
another combatant attacks you or your foe, the challenge
ends and you take a —2 penalty on attack rolls and to AC for
1 round. Though you can declare a single combat challenge at
will, once you declare it on a foe you can't declare it on the
same foe for another 24 hours.
Goal: Defeat an appropriate number of challenging foes in
single combat. These combats must not be interrupted by
other creatures, and the foes must not have already been
substantially injured or impaired prior to combat with you.
Completion Benefit: Your bonuses for single combat
increase to +2. In addition, any confirmed critical hits you
make against such a foe deal an additional 1d6 points of
damage.
Damned (Story)
From your earliest days, you were destined to sacrifice
everything in your quest for power.
Prerequisite: You must have had friendly contact with an
evil-aligned outsider that would qualify as a challenging foe,
have a fiend-related sorcerous bloodline such as abyssal or
infernal, have direct fiendish ancestry (such as being a tiefling
or half-fiend), or have the Fiend Raised or The Fiend
background.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Charisma-based checks
involving evil-aligned outsiders and +1 bonus to the DC of
spells and spell-like abilities you use against such creatures.
You take a —2 penalty on Charisma-based checks involving
good-aligned outsiders.
Goal: Successfully trade your soul to an evil outsider.
Completion Benefit: You gain a +2 enhancement bonus to
an ability score of your choice. This enhancement bonus can't
be dispelled or removed save by the direct intervention of a
deity, and counts as a supernatural ability. In addition, you
gain a +2 bonus on caster level checks (including dispel
checks and checks to bypass spell resistance) against good-
aligned outsiders. If you die while under the effects of this
agreement, you can't be brought back from the dead unless
the evil outsider permits it. You lose your completion benefits
immediately and permanently if you renege on the
arrangement by which you traded your soul, though you
keep the feat's basic benefits.
Deny the Reaper (Story)
The lives you could not save stay with you to your final
breath.
Prerequisite: You must have witnessed the death of a close
companion in battle—a death that could have been
prevented, such as from bleeding, failure to stabilize, or
ongoing poison damage—or have the Death in the Family or
The War background.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Heal checks. If you have 10
or more ranks in Heal, this bonus increases to +4. You can
apply first aid as a move action and don't take a penalty
when treating deadly wounds without a healing kit.
Goal: Bring an ally back from the dead, including by using
breath of life or reincarnate.
Completion Benefit: You and each ally within 10 feet of
you gain a +2 bonus on saves against death effects. In
addition, once per day you can spontaneously convert any
5th-level or higher conjuration (healing) spell into breath of
life.
Eldritch Researcher (Story)
You seek new applications for magical energy.
Prerequisite: You must have created a new spell, or have
The Way Things Work background.
Benefit: When casting a spell you've created, add 1 to your
caster level. In addition, you gain a +2 bonus on Spellcraft
checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in Spellcraft, this bonus
increases to +4.
Goal: Create a new spell of at least 6th level.
Completion Benefit: The save DCs for any spells you create
increase by 1 when you cast them. In addition, when
applying metamagic feats to self-created spells, reduce the
total level adjustment by 1. You can't reduce metamagic costs
to lower than the spell's original level in this manner.
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 Special: For a self-created spell to benefit from this feat, it
must be a truly novel spell. Spells slightly altered from the
original (for example, delayed blast fireball as compared to
fireball) gain no benefit. Alchemists can benefit from this feat
as though their formulae and extracts were spells.
Enemy Cult (Story)
You have crossed paths with a cult opposed to everything
in which you believe.
Prerequisite: You must have encountered a cult whose
general alignment is opposite to yours on at least one axis or
who threatened your beliefs or way of life, or you must have
the Angelic Encounter, the False Witness, The Omen, or the
Terrible Secret background.
Benefit: Choose an appropriate detect chaos/evil/good/law
spell that would aid you in opposing your chosen enemy
cult. You can cast this spell twice per day as a spell-like
ability with a caster level equal to your character level.
Goal: Thwart the enemy cult, whose leader must be a
challenging foe. You must deal that cult leader a decisive
defeat, and additionally eradicate the cult or drive the cult
from the area.
Completion Benefit: You gain a +2 resistance bonus on
saving throws against evil creatures and a +2 deflection
bonus to AC against evil creatures’ attacks. These bonuses
double against evil summoned creatures.
Fearless Zeal (Story)
You're willing to lay down your life for your faith.
Prerequisite: You must be ordained as a sacred (or profane)
champion of your faith by a high-ranking member of its
clergy, or have the Devoted, Faith-Bringer, or Moral Debt
background. Such an honor goes above and beyond the
normal oaths required of a cleric or paladin.
Benefit: Once per day, you can add a +2 bonus on any
single attack roll, caster level check, saving throw, or skill
check. You must choose to add this bonus after the die has
been rolled and success or failure determined, but before any
results (such as damage) are rolled and applied. If you have
10 or more levels or hit dice, this bonus increases to +4.
Goal: Die in pursuit of your faith's goals and be brought
back to life. If you die in circumstances that don't involve
your faith, you gain no benefit. If your GM permits, you can
instead remain dead and create a new PC inspired by your
heroic sacrifice.
Completion Benefit: If you died and came back, you
become a living symbol of faith. Once per day as a standard
action, you can inspire those who share your faith to great
effort, granting them a +2 morale bonus on attack rolls and
saving throws for 1 minute. This is a mind-affecting,
language-dependent effect. If you create a new character
inspired by your previous character, the new PC receives a +2
bonus to a single ability score. This ability score can't be one
that already has a racial bonus. The new PC can later take this
feat if he meets the prerequisite.
Feral Heart (Story)
In your chest beasts the heart of a wild beast.
Prerequisite: You must have reverted to savage behavior
through a traumatic event or extended period in the
wilderness, or have the Raised by Beasts background.
Benefit: Whenever you receive a morale bonus on Strength
or attack rolls (such as from heroism or the barbarian rage
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class feature), you receive a +2 bonus on Dexterity- and
Strength-based ability and skill checks and a +1 bonus on
Reflex saves until the morale bonus effect ends.
Goal: Woo and then marry or otherwise enter into a
committed relationship with a person from a civilized
culture. This relationship must be forged in love, not bought
or coerced.
Completion Benefit: Delay the penalties for the exhausted,
fatigued, shaken, and sickened conditions for 1 round after
first receiving them. If you already have the condition in
question and it is applied again, this feat provides no benefit.
Despite ignoring the penalties you do still have the condition.
For example, if you become shaken again while benefiting
from this feat, you become frightened as normal.
Foeslayer (Story)
Your bitter feud with your enemies can be quenched only
with blood.
Prerequisite: You must have been defeated and robbed of at
least half your possessions by a particular group of
humanoids or monstrous humanoids, or have the An Eye for
an Eye, Hated Foe, Raiders, or Vengeance background. You
may choose a specific race, such as duergar, or a broader
group, such as goblinoids. At the GM's option, you may
instead choose residents of a particular country, settlement,
or tribe.
Benefit: The save DCs for your spells or abilities increase by
1 when you use them against the chosen group, and you gain
a +1 dodge bonus to AC against their attacks.
Goal: Slay an appropriate number of challenging foes.
Completion Benefit: You gain the benefits of the Improved
Critical feat on attacks made against members of your chosen
race. Your dodge bonus to AC against such foes increases to
+2.
Forgotten Past (Story)
A pivotal event from your past eludes your memory.
Prerequisite: You must have suffered permanent memory
loss or have the Reincarnated background.
Benefit: The duration of mind-affecting spells (even
beneficial ones) is halved for you, to a minimum of 1 round.
Your inquisitive nature gives you a +2 bonus on Perception
checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in Perception, this bonus
increases to +4.
Goal: Regain a major portion of your lost memories. The
exact means varies, possibly requiring a wish, assistance from
a divine being, reliving a past life, or confronting the
situation that led to your memory loss. This process must
involve encountering a challenging foe, though possibly in
ways other than direct confrontation.
Completion Benefit: You roll twice whenever you attempt
a saving throw against a mind-affecting effect, keeping the
better result.
Special: Restoration of memories by means less significant
than miracle or wish does not qualify for the prerequisite.
Ghost Guide (Story)
You have made it your life’s work to put the dead to rest.
Prerequisites: You have encountered a ghost or haunt, or
have the Bones, the Died, the Raised Among the Dead, or The
Dead One background.
 Benefit: Whenever you communicate with a ghost or haunt,
whether while adventuring or through use of spells such as
call spirit, speak with haunt, and speak with dead, or seances and
talking boards, you gain a +2 bonus on Diplomacy and Sense
Motive checks. The GM can also extend this benefit to any
intelligent undead creature that has an interest in being laid
to rest. If you have more than 10 ranks in either these skills,
you instead gain a +4 bonus on the appropriate skill.
Goal: Lay an appropriate number of ghosts, haunts, and
other undead creatures to rest. Laying to rest means fulfilling
the actions described on a haunt’s destruction line or doing
what is required to prevent a ghost’s rejuvenation. If the GM
includes other types of undead, the GM decides what
constitutes their final business.
Completion Benefits: You retain the normal benefit.
Additionally, you increase your effective caster level by 2
when determining the effects of call spirit, speak with haunt,
speak with dead. Finally, when a spirit lies to you, you can
confront the spirit about the lie and force it to roll another
saving throw against the spell’s DC. If the spirit fails the
saving throw, you receive an additional question to replace
the one where the spirit gave a false answer.
Glimpse Beyond (Story)
You have glimpsed the madness at the edges of reality.
Prerequisite: You must have faced an undead, evil outsider,
or aberration with a CR greater than your level +4, or have
the Raised Among the Dead or The Dead One background.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Knowledge
(dungeoneering) checks to identify the vulnerabilities and
powers of aberrations, Knowledge (planes) checks to identify
the vulnerabilities and powers of evil outsiders, and
Knowledge (religion) checks to identify the vulnerabilities
and powers of undead, and you can make such checks
untrained. If you have 10 or more ranks in any of these
Knowledge skills, the bonus increases to +4 for the
appropriate skill. In addition, you gain a +2 bonus on saves
against fear effects.
Goal: Be killed or driven insane (as determined by the GM)
by an aberration, evil outsider, or undead. This leaves your
mind permanently marked.
Completion Benefit: Any sane creature that attempts to
read your thoughts takes 1d6 points of Wisdom damage (Will
DC 10 + 1/2 your level + your Charisma modified negates).
In addition, the effect of any ability damage, ability drain, or
penalty to your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is halved
(minimum 1). You take a —2 penalty on Will saving throws.
Whenever you roll a save against a mind-affecting effect, roll
twice and keep the better result.
Innocent Blood (Story)
With their deaths, the pitiful wretches that inhabit this
world open your path to greatness.
Prerequisite: You must slay at least 50 intelligent
noncombatants for either your own personal gain or for no
cause at all, or have the Bloodthirsty, First Kill, or The Kill
background.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Intimidate checks. If you
have 10 or more ranks in Intimidate, this bonus increases to
+4. Each time you slay an intelligent creature, you gain a +1
bonus on attack rolls and caster level checks for 1 minute
(this bonus does not stack with itself).
Goal: Slay at least 200 more intelligent noncombatants, then
slay a challenging foe that seeks to either bring you to justice
for your crimes or usurp your position.
Completion Benefit: Any shaken creature takes double the
normal penalties when attacking you, making saves against
your abilities, or resolving skill checks with you as a target.
Liberator (Story)
Your time in shackles has forever marked your soul.
Prerequisite: You must have been enslaved for at least 6
months, or have the Imprisoned or Kidnapped background.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls, weapon
damage rolls, and skill checks when your actions would
directly lead to freeing prisoners or slaves.
Goal: Free at least 200 slaves through perilous rescues (not
merely buying them at market).
Completion Benefit: You gain the ability to inspire others
through your dedication to your cause. Allies within 20 feet
receive your Liberator feat bonuses when working with you
to free prisoners or slaves. In addition, as a standard action
you can inspire slaves and former slaves within 120 feet,
giving them temporary hit points equal to 1/2 your character
level and a +1 bonus on saving throws. These benefits last for
1 hour, and a given creature can receive this benefit only once
per day. These are mind-affecting effects, and the inspiring
bonus is language-dependent.
Lost Legacy (Story)
What once belonged to your family shall be yours again.
Prerequisite: Your family must have claim to an inherited
title or position that no longer belongs to them, or have the
Dishonored Family background. You can take this feat even if
you have no knowledge of this lost family title.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on Charisma-based ability
checks and skill checks.
Goal: Regain your family's lost claim, either for yourself or
another in your family. In the process of completing this
claim, you must decisively defeat a challenging foe that seeks
to deny your birthright.
Completion Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on Wisdom
ability checks, Wisdom-based skill checks, and Will saving
throws.
Special: If you manage to regain your position without
defeating a challenging foe, you may still complete this story
feat at a later date if a suitable challenging foe attempts to
steal your birthright again.
Magnum Opus (Story)
You seek to create a true masterpiece.
Prerequisite: You must either have sold five or more self-
created works of art worth a total of at least 5,000 gp, have
performed at least five performances for audiences of 50 or
more while achieving a great performance result or better on
your Perform check, or have the Virtuoso background.
Benefit: Choose a single Craft or Perform skill. Whenever
you take 10 with this skill, treat your die result as a 15
instead.
Goal: Either sell a single self-created work of art for at least
25,000 gp, perform at least 10 performances for audiences of
100 or more while achieving an extraordinary result or better,
or win the artistic patronage of the ruler of a country or city
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of at least 100,000 people. In each case, you must achieve this
using the skill chosen above.
Completion Benefit: You gain a +5 bonus on skill checks
made with your chosen skill, and a +2 bonus on all other
Craft and Perform checks for which you have at least 1 rank.
Monument Builder (Story)
Your inspired architecture shall make your name immortal.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (engineering) 1 rank, and you
must have built a structure worth at least 5,000 gp.
Benefit: When you supervise a construction project or do
the construction yourself, reduce your raw material costs by
10%. You gain a +2 bonus on Knowledge (engineering)
checks. If you have 10 or more ranks in Knowledge
(engineering), this bonus increases to +4.
Goal: Design and construct a building worth at least 100,000
gp with great personal significance to you. For example, you
might construct a new temple for your god on the site where
an old temple was destroyed, or an academy for students to
unlock the secrets of the universe.
Completion Benefit: The value of any past and future
buildings you construct (including the building constructed
to achieve your goal) increases by 10% as your reputation
spreads. In addition, you and your workers complete double
the normal amount of work in a given time interval when
you supervise a construction project.
Nation Builder (Story)
The land calls to you to conquer it and forge a realm all
your own.
Prerequisite: You must have explored and claimed an area
of at least 100 square miles.
Benefit: When in either unclaimed wilderness or land
under your own control, you receive a +2 bonus on
Perception checks, Stealth checks, and Survival checks. If you
have 10 or more ranks in one of these skills, the bonus on that
skill increases to +4.
Goal: Explore and conquer an area of at least 1,000 square
miles, in the process decisively defeating a challenging foe.
You must also lay claim to the land either in your own name
or in the name of a leader you directly report to, and establish
a stronghold or other fortification to defend it.
Completion Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on initiative
checks, attack rolls, and saving throws while in the area you
have claimed.
Nemesis (Story)
A past enemy seeks your ruin.
Prerequisite: You must have at least one enemy who wishes
to cause you great harm. If you have multiple enemies, the
GM may keep the specific nemesis secret, or have many of
your enemies work together against you. If your nemesis is
not already a challenging foe, it either advances in strength to
become a challenging foe or allies with others to achieve a
higher challenge rating.
Benefit: Having a nemesis drives you to excel in training.
For each new level you gain in a favored class, including the
level you gained when you chose this feat, you can choose
two benefits instead of one. One of these benefits must be
either a bonus hit point or a bonus skill point, even if other
options are available.
Goal: Slay your nemesis. Causing your nemesis's death
through your direct actions qualifies even if you do not strike
the fatal blow, but another killing your nemesis without your
involvement doesn't count.
Completion Benefit: You gain a +2 inherent bonus to an
ability score of your choice. In addition, you may
retroactively apply your extra favored class benefit to the
favored class levels you gained before taking this feat.
Special: Thwarting your plans becomes an all-consuming
goal for your nemesis. Your nemesis gains a +2 bonus on
attack rolls and damage rolls against you. Whatever you try
to achieve, your nemesis seeks to tear down.
Prophet (Story)
The truth has been revealed, and you have been chosen to
deliver it.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast divine spells, and you must
either have received a vision from your god (or another
appropriate supernatural entity) or have the Marked by the
Gods background.
Benefit: If you are nonevil and worship a nonevil deity,
whenever you cast a beneficial spell on an ally you gain a +1
sacred bonus to AC for 1 round per spell level. If you are evil
or worship an evil deity, whenever you cast a harmful spell
on an enemy you gain a +1 profane bonus to AC for 1 round
per spell level. Casting a spell on yourself does not count
unless it also affects an ally.
Goal: Convert an appropriate number of creatures to the
worship of your deity.
Completion Benefit: Your bonus to AC for casting
beneficial or harmful spells on allies increases to +2, and the
bonus also applies on saving throws for the same duration.
Protector of the People (Story)
You have vowed to construct a defender for your
community.
Prerequisite: Your community has come under persecution
and requires considerable defense, or you have the Raiders,
the Righting a Wrong, The War, or The Way Things Work
background.
Benefit: You temporarily gain the Craft Construct feat for
the purposes of building one golem to satisfy the goal of this
story feat. You do not need to meet Craft Construct’s
prerequisites, and it can’t be used as a prerequisite for any
other crafting endeavor.
your community for its defense against persecution. You
and your allies must fund the construction, not the
community. You must be significantly involved in the
golem’s construction. After completion, this golem cannot be
used as a personal adventuring companion; it is the property
of the community to which it was dedicated. The donated
creature must be a golem and not another type of construct,
such as an animated object.
Completion Benefits: You gain Craft Construct as a bonus
feat without meeting its prerequisites and can use it for any
purpose. The cost to build any construct that normally costs
less than the cost of your donated golem is permanently
reduced by 10%; the cost of the base materials is not reduced,
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Redemption (Story)
Your past failure haunts you and drives you on.
Prerequisite: You must have lost class features by violating
the code of conduct of a class that possesses such a code, or
have the Dishonored Family background.
Benefit: As an immediate action, you can add a +1 bonus to
the result of an ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill
check you have just rolled by becoming shaken for 1 minute.
You must choose before the result is revealed.
Goal: Regain any lost class features and complete a quest to
prove your worth. In the course of completing this quest, you
must decisively defeat a challenging foe. The quest should
relate in some fashion to the transgression that removed your
class abilities or led to you being disgraced.
Completion Benefit: You gain the ability to reroll a failed
saving throw once per day. You must keep the result of the
second roll, even if it is lower.
Shamed (Story)
A past humiliation haunts you to this day.
Prerequisite: You must have been publicly embarrassed, or
must have the Bastard Born background. If the
embarrassment didn't cause significant harm to your
personal honor or social standing, it does not qualify for the
feat prerequisites. The humiliation doesn't need to have been
unjustified.
Benefit: Being observed drives you to excel. When you're in
a conflict that is being observed by others not involved in the
conflict, you gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls and skill checks.
Goal: You can complete this goal in one of two fashions.
First, thwart a chosen foe in a fashion that clearly establishes
your superiority to the general public. Second, prove your
worth another way, like gaining a title or becoming the
chosen hero of a region.
Completion Benefit: Your newfound confidence gives you
temporary hit points equal to your character level. These
temporary hit points last until lost and refresh any time you
rest long enough for natural healing to occur, whether or not
any healing actually occurs.
Stronghold (Story)
You seek to build a bastion against which your enemies
shall break like water against the rocks.
Prerequisites: You must have the Leadership feat and must
lead at least 10 combat-capable followers (such as fighters or
rangers).
Benefit: You can spend a move action to give battle orders
to your troops, granting creatures under your command
within 60 feet your choice of a +1 morale bonus on attack
rolls, a +1 dodge bonus to AC, or a +1 bonus on a single type
of saving throw. All creatures must receive the same benefit.
You can't use this benefit on allies not under your command.
This is a language-dependent, mind-affecting effect.
Goal: Build or capture a stronghold capable of housing a
force of at least 200 troops, and staff it with at least 100
combat-capable soldiers (or the equivalent) under your
command. You must also provide food and water sufficient
to survive at least a 6-month siege and a gold reserve
sufficient for at least 6 months of wages if your troops require
pay.
Completion Benefit: Your battle order bonuses improve to
+2, and the range of your orders increases to 120 feet. In
addition, you can give two different orders to your troops.
For example, you could grant your archers +2 on attack rolls
while your front line gains a +2 bonus to AC.
Thief of Legend (Story)
More than just a burglar, you aspire to commit crimes of
legendary stature.
Prerequisites: You must have stolen at least 1,000 gp worth
of treasure without being caught and kept mementos of these
thefts worth at least 500 gp, or have the Greed background.
Benefit: Once per day when you attempt a Disable Device
check to open a lock or Sleight of Hand check to pick a
pocket, you can roll twice and take the better result.
Goal: Steal a famous and well-guarded treasure worth at
least 50,000 gp while leaving no evidence of your
involvement behind. The treasure must be protected by a mix
of at least 8 traps or challenging foes. Any guardians need not
be defeated, merely bypassed. You don't need to keep the
treasure, and you can boast of the theft afterward.
Completion Benefit: You gain the ability to reactively
disarm a trap. When you trigger a trap, you can attempt a
Disable Device check with a —5 penalty to interrupt the
trap's function, leaving it still armed but effectively
preventing it from activating. You can use this ability a
number of times per day equal to 3 + your Intelligence
modifier. Since the trap is still armed, it might activate again
if you don't immediately back away or otherwise avoid
repeating the act that set it off the first time.
Town Tamer (Story)
This town needs cleaning up, and you're just the one to do
it.
Prerequisites: You must have 5 ranks in Intimidate and a
personal motivation to clean up a particular town (such as an
old friend calling in a favor, or seeking a place to settle
down), or you must have the Bounty Hunter or Champion of
the People background.
Benefit: Choose a particular settlement. When you're in
your chosen settlement, the DC of Intimidate checks made
against you increases by 10. You gain a +1 bonus on attack
rolls and a +1 dodge bonus to AC against undesirable
elements like criminals or ruffians in your chosen settlement.
This bonus increases to +2 for combat maneuver checks.
Goal: Defeat 10 more troublemakers in your chosen
settlement with a CR equal to your character level or higher,
and in the process eliminate a serious criminal threat or
otherwise clean up the streets.
Completion Benefit: You gain the ability to designate a
new chosen settlement as often as you wish. You must first
live in a settlement for 1 week to make it your chosen
settlement. In addition, you gain a +2 bonus on initiative
checks and a +1 bonus on saving throws when in your chosen
settlement.
True Love (Story)
You found love, only to have it denied by the cruelty of fate.
Prerequisite: You must have found love with a person you
can't be with, have a current lover, or have the Current Lover,
For Love, or The Lover background. Possible complications
include distance, your love being with another, your feelings
being unrequited, or your relationship being forbidden.
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 Benefit: You add 1 to the save DC and caster level of your journey, was captured, or otherwise vanished with little
spells and spell-like abilities with the emotion descriptor. In trace, or you have the Major Disaster background.
addition, you gain a +2 bonus on Sense Motive checks. If you
Benefit: Your dogged determination reduces any nonlethal
have 10 or more ranks in Sense Motive, this bonus increases
damage you take by 1 point, to a minimum of 1 point of
to +4.
nonlethal damage. You also gain a +1 bonus on Will saves.
Goal: Find a way to be with your true love (even if you
Goal: Find your lost loved one alive, and in the process,
can't formally wed).
decisively defeat a challenging foe who kept you apart.
Completion Benefit: The inspiration of knowing your love
Completion Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on all saving
waits for your return gives you a +2 bonus on attack rolls,
throws, replacing the +1 bonus on Will saves. If you find
saving throws, and skill checks whenever you are below a
your loved one dead, you lose all benefits from this feat until
quarter of your total hit points (not counting any temporary
you put the body and possibly soul to proper rest. Putting the
hit points). You lose this completion benefit if your
body to rest restores the completion benefit, but you don't
relationship with your true love comes to an end for any
regain the ability to reduce nonlethal damage.
reason, including death.
Special: At the GM's discretion, you can find true love with Vengeance (Story)
a person other than the one you designated when you chose The need to avenge those you loved drives you to great
this feat. In this case, the love you initially chose was wrong deeds.
for you, but this became obvious only when you found the
Prerequisite: You must have a close family member or
one truly meant for you.
other loved one slain by a specific challenging foe or that foe's
Twisted Love (Story) minions, or have the Raiders or Vengeance background.
An evil person or entity has become obsessed with your Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on saving throws, attack rolls,
resemblance to a lost loved one. and weapon damage rolls against your chosen foe and
known minions of that foe.
Prerequisites: You resemble a lost loved one of an evil
creature who would otherwise be a challenging foe. The Goal: Thwart your chosen foe.
likeness is close enough for you to be mistaken as the former
loved one’s reincarnation, or you might be that loved one Completion Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on all saving
reborn in a new life. Alternately, the creature might be a throws. This bonus stacks with this feats's bonus against your
former lover who has become evil and wishes to resume the foe and its minions, should they survive.
relationship. This unwanted relationship must be contrary to
your alignment or long-term goals. Thematically appropriate
backgrounds include Born out of Time, Current Lover,
Reincarnated, The Lover, and Troubled First Love.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against
enchantment effects and a +2 bonus on Bluff and Diplomacy
checks to influence your would-be love or her minions and
servants.
Goal: You must break the heart of your pursuer in a
dramatic and significant manner. This requires you to
interact closely and frequently enough with the entity to
cause her to become emotionally compromised or vulnerable.
A simple rebuff or refusal of her affections is insufficient to
satisfy this goal and might only further drive the obsessed
creature to capture you, cast charm spells upon you, corrupt
you, or transform you in a way that would make you more
sympathetic to her.
Completion Benefit: You retain your +2 bonus on saving
throws against enchantment effects. If you succeed at a Will
save against such an effect, the caster does not learn that you
succeeded at your saving throw (effects such as detect magic
and analyze dweomer still work normally). However, this
benefit doesn’t inform you of the nature of the effect cast
upon you. The spurned entity might later seek revenge for
the humiliation but is no longer obsessed with you. You also
receive the completion benefit even if the formerly obsessed
entity is slain, though you never receive the benefit if the
entity perishes before you can achieve your goal.

Unforgotten (Story)
You search for a person dear to you—lost, but you pray not
dead.
Prerequisite: You must have a close relative, spouse, or
other person dear to your heart who never returned from a

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STYLE FEATS
For centuries, great warriors have looked to nature and the
multiverse to find inspiration in battle. Countless monastic
and contemplative orders have crafted intricate unarmed
fighting styles based on the deadliness and grace of natural
and supernatural creatures. Although many such fighting
techniques were created by secretive orders, they have since
spread to practitioners the world over.
As a swift action, you can enter the stance employed by the
fighting style a style feat embodies. Although you cannot use
a style feat before combat begins, the style you are in persists
until you spend a swift action to switch to a different combat
style. You can use a feat that has a style feat as a prerequisite
only while in the stance of the associated style. For example,
if you have feats associated with Mantis Style and Tiger Style,
you can use a swift action to adopt Tiger Style at the start of
one turn, and then can use other feats that have Tiger Style as
a prerequisite. By using another swift action at the start of
your next turn, you could adopt Mantis Style and use other
feats that have Mantis Style as a prerequisite.
The styles presented in this book follow, along with specific
feat paths—feats that complement each style.
Boar Style: A tribe of orcs who disdained the use of
weapons originally developed this savage unarmed fighting
style. They preferred to slaughter their enemies with their
bare hands and teeth. Over the centuries, a variety of races
have adopted the Boar Style, most notably goblinoids, ogres,
and trolls. The objective of the Boar Style is to attack with as
much viciousness and cruelty as possible in order to break
enemy morale. Fanatical followers of the style use herbal and
alchemical reagents to harden their nails and teeth,
sometimes performing self-mutilating procedures that result
in clawlike nails and sharpened teeth.
Feat Path: Boar Style, Boar Ferocity, Boar Shred.
Brute Style: Adherents to this style emulate the destructive
and overwhelming power of brutish creatures. This forceful
style focuses on knocking opponents prone and then
crushing them by treading heavily upon them.
Feat Path: Brute Style, Brute Stomp, Brute Assault.
Crane Style: Crane style focuses on defense and agile
counterattacks. Practitioners are known for graceful, one-
legged stances and folding arm techniques that mimic a
crane's enormous wings.
Feat Path: Crane Style, Crane Wing, Crane Riposte.
Deadhand Style: Adherents to this style call to the restless
and malevolent spirits of the dead to sow fear and bolster
their own courage. Masters of this style learn to drain the life
essence of their enemies, reducing them to desiccated husks.
Feat Path: Deadhand Style, Deadhand Initiate, Deadhand
Master.
Djinni Style: Adherents to this style call on the spirits of
storms to outmaneuver and outwit their opponents. Masters
of the style can absorb and deflect electrical attacks while
summoning peals of thunder to pummel their enemies.
Feat Path: Djinni Style, Djinni Spirit, Djinni Spin.
Dragon Style: Dragon style captures the overwhelming
power, grace, and ferocity of dragons. Practitioners use
acrobatic footwork and strong attacks to overwhelm foes. The
deepest secrets of the style require imbibing alchemical tonics
and deep meditations similar to the long sleeps of dragons.
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Feats Path: Dragon Style, Dragon Ferocity, Dragon Roar.
Earth Child Style: A warrior cadre of dwarves and gnomes
dedicated to fighting and slaying giants developed this style.
Students of the style learn how to enhance their defensive
training to become even more elusive when facing giants.
They also spend long hours studying the anatomy of the
various giant races to increase the effectiveness of their
unarmed strikes. Eventually, masters of this fighting style
learn how to bring down even the mightiest creatures by
targeting feet, ankles, and knees.
Feat Path: Earth Child Style, Earth Child Topple, Earth Child
Binder.
Efreeti Style: The efreeti style focuses on aggression and
speed, taking inspiration from beings of living fire. Masters of
the style can deflect and control fire, immolate their enemies,
and summon forth gouts of elemental flame.
Feats Path: Efreeti Style, Efreeti Stance, Efreeti Touch.
Fox Style: This crafty style improves its practitioners’
chances to feint and to avoid sneaky tactics employed by
their foes, and also expands their ability to deploy other
devious and dirty tricks.
Feat Path: Fox Style, Fox Insight, Fox Trickery.
Grabbing Style: This discipline is a wrestling and
grappling style that favors powerful one-handed grabs, fast
repositioning of those grabbed, and the ability to move and
damage one or two opponents.
Feat Path: Grabbing Style, Grabbing Drag, Grabbing Master.
Jabbing Style: This style favors rapid punches and kicks,
typically while the fighter circles her foe. Many of these land
in the same area, delivering more pain with each successive
hit, or in debilitating areas of the body.
Feat Path: Jabbing Style, Jabbing Dancer, Jabbing Master.
Janni Style: This style, originating humbly from the folk
traditions of disparate peoples, represents several similar
unarmed fighting arts practiced around the world.
Regardless of variations in technique, all practitioners have a
fluid fighting stance that emphasizes rapid, powerful kicks.
The style's constant motion and graceful footwork lead many
to mistakenly view practitioners as highly skilled dancers, a
misconception that has allowed the technique to be taught in
secret, the hidden weapon of the downtrodden and the
oppressed. Openly martial versions of this style lose some of
the dancelike qualities but retain the style's extraordinary
kicking techniques and agility.
Feat Path: Janni Style, Janni Tempest, Janni Rush.
Kirin Style: The school of the kirin employs critical
observations as weapons against opponents. Practitioners
catalogue a foe's weaknesses and seek the perfect moment to
strike, ensuring that no movement or effort is ever wasted.
Popular among those rare orders that blend monastic training
with arcane study, kirin style is sometimes practiced by
wizards who seek to hone their bodies along with their
minds.
Feat Path: Kirin Style, Kirin Strike, Kirin Path.
Kyton Style: Adherents to this style model themselves after
kytons, and focus pain (and its inherent pleasures) into a
strict, orderly discipline through which to channel their ki.
They use a spiked chain as an instrument of control and
defense.
 Feat Path: Kyton Style, Kyton Shield, Kyton Cut.
Maddening Style: Adherents to this style channel the
sanity-consuming power of the incomprehensible beings that
dwell in the dark places between stars, and use these forces to
defend against mental attacks and corrupt their opponents’
bodies and minds.
Feat Path: Maddening Style, Maddening Strike, Maddening
Obliteration.
Mantis Style: Based on the hunting techniques of the
praying mantis, practitioners of this style fight with their
hands turned down to emulate the insect's sharp grasping
forelimbs. Mantis style uses precise, accurate strikes to
pinpoint an opponent's vital areas, such as eyes, throat, and
pressure points.
Feat Path: Mantis Style, Mantis Wisdom, Mantis Torment.
Marid Style: Marid style emulates the fluid strength of
flowing rivers and the cold of the ocean depths. Masters of
the style can withstand severe cold, manipulate water to lash
at enemies from afar, and freeze their foes in place.
Feat Path: Marid Style, Marid Spirit, Marid Coldsnap.
Monkey Style: Renowned for its speed and agility, monkey
style blends jumping strikes, rolling blows, and ground
fighting into a continuous onslaught aimed at disorienting
and damaging an opponent through superior mobility.
Feat Path: Monkey Style, Monkey Moves, Monkey Shine.
Owl Style: This style takes advantage of basic training in
skills that affect movement to enhance those skills through
combat ability.
Feat Path: Owl Style, Owl Swoop, Owl Dive.
Panther Style: Students of the panther throw caution to the
wind as they weave recklessly among their foes. Those who
master the style turn their unrivaled mobility into a weapon,
striking their enemies with a series of swift retaliatory strikes.
Feat Path: Panther Style, Panther Claws, Panther Parry.
Pummeling Style: Powerful and seemingly wild haymaker
punches and extended kicks are the hallmark of this style.
Deeply rooted in its martial philosophy is the concept that
landing one mighty strike in the right area will send an
opponent sprawling.
Feat Path: Pummeling Style, Pummeling Bully, Pummeling
Charge.
Shaitan Style: Practitioners of this style imbue their fists
with the mineral acids of the deep earth. Their forceful blows
conjure forth caustic elements to dissolve and disable their
enemies.
Feat Path: Shaitan Style, Shaitan Skin, Shaitan Earthblast.
Snake Style: Snake style emphasizes quick, shifting
movements. Its practitioners normally hold their hands flat
with the fingers together to mimic the head of a snake. Able
to strike when least expected, snake stylists are known for
opportunism and blinding speed.
Feat Path: Snake Style, Snake Sidewinder, Snake Fang.
Snapping Turtle Style: The snapping turtle style
emphasizes active defense with one hand. Students of the
style utilize a variety of locks, grabs, and circular blocks to
protect themselves, as well as employing a debilitating clutch.
Feat Path: Snapping Turtle Style, Snapping Turtle Clutch,
Snapping Turtle Shell.
Street Style: A practitioner of this creative unarmed combat
style takes advantage of urban environments to bash foes
against brick walls, drag them over rough cobblestones, and
impale them on fence posts and other sharp-edged objects.
Feat Path: Street Style, Street Sweep, Street Carnage.
Tiger Style: This style seeks to emulate the power and fury
of the great tiger. Practitioners use their hands like claws,
perfecting overpowering double hand strikes and driving
attack chains.
Feat Path: Tiger Style, Tiger Claws, Tiger Pounce.
Boar Ferocity (Combat)
Your flesh-ripping unarmed strikes terrify your victims.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Boar Style,
Intimidate 6 ranks.
Benefit: You add piercing damage to the damage types you
can deal with your unarmed strikes. Further, you gain a +2
bonus on Intimidate checks to demoralize opponents. While
using Boar Style, whenever you tear an opponent's flesh, you
can spend a free action to make an Intimidate check to
demoralize that opponent.
Boar Shred (Combat)
The wounds you inflict with your unarmed strikes bleed,
giving you renewed vigor.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Boar Ferocity,
Boar Style, Intimidate 9 ranks.
Benefit: You can make an Intimidate check to demoralize
an opponent as a move action. While using Boar Style,
whenever you tear an opponent's flesh, once per round at the
start of that opponent's turn he takes 1d6 bleed damage. The
bleed damage dealt while using Boar Style persist even if you
later switch to a different style.
Boar Style (Combat, Style)
Your sharp teeth and nails rip your foes open.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Intimidate 3
ranks.
Benefit: You can deal bludgeoning damage or slashing
damage with your unarmed strikes—changing damage type
is a free action. While using this style, once per round when
you hit a single foe with two or more unarmed strikes, you
can tear flesh. When you do, you deal 2d6 extra points of
damage with the attack.
Brute Assault (Combat)
With brute force, you can bowl over and cripple opponents
by treading on them.
Prerequisites: Str 23, Int 13, Brute Stomp, Brute Style,
Combat Reflexes, Improved Overrun, Improved Trip,
Improved Unarmed Strike, Vicious StompUC, base attack
bonus +10.
Benefit: While using Brute Style, when you successfully
perform an overrun or trip combat maneuver against an
opponent that causes that opponent to fall prone, your
opponent takes 1d6 points of Strength damage, and its base
speed is halved until the Strength damage is healed. A
successful Fortitude save (DC = 10 + your base attack bonus)
reduces the Strength damage to 1 point and negates the
movement speed reduction.
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Brute Stomp (Combat)
Few can avoid the brutal violence of your bone-crushing
kicks and stomps.
Prerequisites: Str 19, Int 13, Brute Style, Combat Reflexes,
Improved Overrun, Improved Trip, Improved Unarmed
Strike, Vicious StompUC, base attack bonus +8.
Benefit: While using Brute Style, when you make a full
attack with a prone opponent adjacent to you that includes at
least one unarmed strike, you can make an additional
unarmed strike at your highest base attack bonus against that
prone creature. These additional attacks don’t stack with
those granted by Medusa’s Wrath, and this does not allow
you to make an additional attack against a creature you
tripped during your full attack. Additionally, you can use
your Vicious Stomp feat against any opponent within your
natural reach regardless of whether it falls prone adjacent to
you.
Brute Style (Combat, Style)
Through strength, study, and intense inner reflection, you
have become an expert at battering fallen opponents.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Int 13, Combat Reflexes, Improved
Overrun, Improved Trip, Improved Unarmed Strike, Vicious
StompUC, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: While using this style, you can use your Vicious
Stomp feat against any opponent within 10 feet of you, as
long as it is within your natural reach. If you don’t have the
Vicious Stomp feat, you gain no benefit from this feat.
Normal: The Vicious Stomp feat only works against an
opponent that falls prone adjacent to you.
Crane Riposte (Combat)
You use your defensive abilities to make overpowering
counterattacks.
Prerequisites: Crane Style, Crane Wing, Dodge, Improved
Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +8 or monk level 7th.
Benefit: You take only a �1 penalty on attack rolls for
fighting defensively. Whenever you deflect an opponent's
attack using Crane Wing or lose the dodge bonus from Crane
Wing because an attack missed you by 4 or less, you can
make an attack of opportunity against the attacker after the
attack misses.
Crane Style (Combat, Style)
Your unarmed fighting techniques blend poise with
graceful defense.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Improved Unarmed Strike, base
attack bonus +2 or monk level 1st.
Benefit: You take only a –2 penalty on attack rolls for
fighting defensively. While using this style and fighting
defensively or using the total defense action, you gain an
additional +1 dodge bonus to your Armor Class.
Crane Wing (Combat)
You move with the speed and finesse of an avian hunter,
your sweeping blocks and graceful motions allowing you to
def lect melee attacks with ease.
Prerequisites: Crane Style, Dodge, Improved Unarmed
Strike, base attack bonus +5 or monk level 5th.
Benefit: When fighting defensively with at least one hand
free, you gain a +4 dodge bonus to AC against melee attacks.
If you using the total defense action instead, you can deflect
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one melee attack that would normally hit you. An attack so
deflected deals no damage and has no other effect (instead
treat it as a miss). You do not expend an action when using
this feat, but you must be aware of the attack and not flat-
footed.
Deadhand Initiate (Combat)
Your adulation of death not only shields you from your
fears, it allows you to feed on them.
Prerequisites: Wis 19, Deadhand Style, Improved Unarmed
Strike, Knowledge (religion) 6 ranks, ki pool class feature,
nongood alignment.
Benefit: While using Deadhand Style, as long as you have
at least 1 point in your ki pool, your bonus on saving throws
against fear effects increases to +4, and the DC of Intimidate
checks attempted against you increases by 8. Additionally, if
an enemy targets you with a fear effect, you can spend 1
point from your ki pool as an immediate action to gain a
number of temporary hit points equal to twice your Hit Dice.
Deadhand Master (Combat)
Your death-infused punch drains life force from your foes.
Prerequisites: Wis 23, Deadhand Initiate, Deadhand Style,
Improved Unarmed Strike, Knowledge (religion) 14 ranks, ki
pool class feature, nongood alignment.
Benefit: While using Deadhand Style, when you damage a
living creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 2
points from your ki pool as a swift action to inflict 2
temporary negative levels on your enemy with no saving
throw. Effects that reduce the ki cost also reduce the number
of negative levels you inflict on your foe, but effects that
increase the ki cost do not increase the number of negative
levels you inflict. As long as the foe is affected by the
temporary negative levels, you can’t recover the ki points you
spent, effectively reducing the size of your ki pool. The
Fortitude save DC to remove the negative levels and prevent
them from becoming permanent is equal to 10 + 1/2 your Hit
Dice + your Wisdom modifier. Once the negative levels
become permanent or the foe removes them, you can recover
your spent ki points. If the foe dies before either happens,
you can recover the spent ki after 24 hours.
Deadhand Style (Combat, Style)
Your study of death allow you to exploit your foes’ fears.
Prerequisites: Wis 15, Improved Unarmed Strike,
Knowledge (religion) 4 ranks, ki pool class feature, nongood
alignment.
Benefit: While using this style, if you have at least 1 point in
your ki pool, you gain a +2 bonus on saves against fear
effects, and the DC of Intimidate checks against you increases
by 4. As a swift action, you can spend 1 point from your ki
pool to empower your unarmed strikes. Creatures hit with
your unarmed strikes must succeed at a Will save (DC = 10 +
1/2 your character level + your Wisdom modifier) or become
shaken for a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom
modifier. This is a mind-affecting fear effect.
Djinni Spin (Combat)
You can surround yourself with the power of the storm,
spinning like a hurricane to unleash a violent blast of
electrical energy.
Prerequisites: Con 15, Wis 17, Djinni Style, Djinni Spirit,
Elemental Fist**, Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack
bonus +13 or monk level 11th.
 Benefit: While using Djinni Style, as a standard action you
can spend two Elemental Fist attempts to surround yourself
with a whirlwind of electrified air. Creatures adjacent to you
take your unarmed strike damage plus the electricity damage
from your Elemental Fist and are deafened for 1d4 rounds. A
successful Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 your character level +
your Wis modifier) reduces the damage by half and prevents
a target from being deafened.
Djinni Spirit (Combat)
By calling upon the spirits of storms, you can manipulate
lightning to protect yourself and buffet your enemies with
peals of thunder.
Prerequisites: Con 15, Wis 15, Djinni Style, Elemental Fist**,
Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +11 or monk
level 9th.
Benefit: You gain one additional Elemental Fist attempt per
day. While using Djinni Style, you gain electricity resistance
equal to your base attack bonus or monk level, whichever is
higher. While denied your Dexterity bonus to AC you are
also denied this resistance. Creatures that take electricity
damage from your Elemental Fist attack must succeed at a
Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Wis
modifier) or be deafened for 1d4 rounds. Those who take
damage from your Djinni Spin are deafened, even on a
successful saving throw.
Djinni Style (Combat, Style)
Your hands sheathed in an auras of lightning, you move
like the wind.
Prerequisites: Con 13, Wis 15, Elemental Fist**, Improved
Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +9 or monk level 5th.
Benefit: You gain one additional Elemental Fist attempt per
day. While you are in this style you must use Elemental Fist
to deal electricity damage and you gain a bonus on electricity
damage rolls equal to your Wisdom bonus. Further, while
you are using this style and have remaining Elemental Fist
attempts, you also gain a +2 dodge bonus to Armor Class
against attacks of opportunity. A condition that makes you
lose your Dexterity bonus to AC also makes you lose this
dodge bonus.
Dragon Ferocity (Combat)
You attack with the strength of a dragon, your telling blows
striking fear into your enemies.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Improved Unarmed Strike, Dragon
Style, Stunning Fist, Acrobatics 5 ranks.
Benefit: While using Dragon Style, increase your Strength
bonus on unarmed strike damage rolls by an additional one-
half your Strength bonus, to a total of double your Strength
bonus on the first attack and 1–½ times your Strength bonus
on other attacks. When you score a critical hit or a successful
Stunning Fist attempt against an opponent while using this
style, that opponent is also shaken for a number of rounds
equal to 1d4 + your Strength bonus.
Special: Taking this feat allows you to qualify for the
Elemental Fist feat even if you do not meet that feat's
prerequisites. If you do not meet that feat's prerequisites, you
must choose one of the damage types that feat offers, and you
can use only that damage type with your Elemental Fist
attacks until you meet the feat's normal prerequisites. A
monk with this feat can use Elemental Fist as if he were a
monk of the four winds.
Dragon Roar (Combat)
The spirit of the dragon wells up inside you and bursts
forth in a mighty roar.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Improved Unarmed Strike, Dragon
Style, Stunning Fist, Acrobatics 8 ranks.
Benefit: You gain one additional Stunning Fist attempt per
day. While using Dragon Style, as a standard action you can
expend two Stunning Fist attempts to unleash a concussive
roar in a 15-foot cone. Creatures caught in the cone take your
unarmed strike damage and become shaken for 1d4 rounds.
A successful Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 your character level +
your Wis modifier) reduces the damage by half and prevents
a target from being shaken.
Special: If you have the Elemental Fist feat, you can expend
a daily use of that feat to deal your Elemental Fist damage to
those caught in the cone. This damage is not halved even on a
save.
Dragon Style (Combat, Style)
You call upon the spirit of dragonkind, gaining greater
resilience, mobility, and fierceness from the blessing of these
great beings.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Improved Unarmed Strike, Acrobatics
3 ranks.
Benefit: While using this style, you gain a +2 bonus on
saving throws against sleep effects, paralysis effects, and
stunning effects. You ignore difficult terrain when you
charge, run, or withdraw. You can also charge through
squares that contain allies. Further, you can add 1-1/2 times
your Strength bonus on the damage roll for your first
unarmed strike on a given round.
Normal: You cannot charge or run through difficult terrain,
and you cannot charge through a square that contains an ally.
With an unarmed strike, you usually add your Strength
bonus on damage rolls.
Earth Child Binder (Combat)
Even the greatest giants fear your technique.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, dwarf or gnome, defensive training
racial trait, Earth Child Style, Earth Child Topple, Greater
Trip, Improved Trip, Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning
Fist, Acrobatics 9 ranks.
Benefit: You can trip a creature of the giant subtype no
matter its size. While you are using Earth Child Style, when a
prone creature of the giant subtype stands up and provokes
an attack of opportunity from you, if you make an unarmed
strike, you can declare you are making a Stunning Fist
attempt after the attack hits. You gain a +4 bonus to the DC of
any Stunning Fist effect you deliver in this way.
Normal: You can only trip opponents who are one size
category larger than you.
Earth Child Style (Combat, Style)
Your martial training makes you a dangerous and elusive
target for giants.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, dwarf or gnome, defensive training
racial trait, Improved Unarmed Strike, Acrobatics 3 ranks.
Benefit: While using this style, your defensive training
dodge bonus to AC increases to +6. Further, against creatures
of the giant subtype, you can add your Wisdom bonus on
your unarmed strike damage rolls.
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Earth Child Topple (Combat)
Your mastery of balance and momentum allows you to
bring down giants with your bare hands.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, dwarf or gnome, defensive training
racial trait, Earth Child Style, Improved Trip, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Acrobatics 6 ranks.
Benefit: You can trip a creature of the giant subtype of up to
Huge size. While using Earth Child Style, you add your
Wisdom bonus on combat maneuver checks made to trip a
creature of the giant subtype, as well as on attack rolls to
confirm a critical hit against such a creature.
Normal: You can trip only those opponents that are one size
category larger than you.
Efreeti Stance (Combat)
Calling upon the burning spirits of incarnate flame, you can
manipulate fire to protect yourself and immolate your foes.
Prerequisites: Con 15, Wis 15, Efreeti Style, Elemental
Fist**, Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +11 or
monk level 9th.
Benefit: You gain one additional Elemental Fist attempt per
day. While using Efreeti Style, you gain fire resistance equal
to your base attack bonus or your monk level plus any base
attack bonus gained from levels in classes other than monk,
whichever is higher. While denied your Dexterity bonus to
AC you are also denied this resistance. Creatures that take
fire damage from your Elemental Fist attack must succeed at
a Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Wis
modifier) or catch on fire.
Efreeti Style (Combat, Style)
Your mastery of the unpredictable power of flames allows
you to unleash scorching strikes that burn your enemies even
when you fail to make contact.
Prerequisites: Con 13, Wis 15, Elemental Fist**, Improved
Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +9 or monk level 5th.
Benefit: You gain one additional Elemental Fist attempt per
day. While using this style and Elemental Fist to deal fire
damage, you gain a bonus on fire damage rolls equal to your
Wisdom bonus. Further, if your Elemental Fist melee attack
misses while you are using it to deal fire damage, you still
deal 1d6 points of fire damage to your target.
Efreeti Touch (Combat)
Your knowledge of the secrets of the burning wind and
blazing sun allows you to collect flames into your hands and
unleash them in a gout of elemental fire.
Prerequisites: Con 15, Wis 17, Efreeti Style, Efreeti Stance,
Elemental Fist**, Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack
bonus +13 or monk level 11th.
Benefit: While using Efreeti Style, as a standard action, you
can spend two Elemental Fist attempts to unleash a 15-foot
cone-shaped burst of flame. Creatures caught in the cone take
your unarmed strike damage plus the fire damage from your
Elemental Fist and catch on fire. A successful Reflex save (DC
10 + 1/2 your character level + your Wis modifier) reduces
the damage by half and prevents a target from catching on
fire.
Fox Insight (Combat)
Your foxlike movements protect you from your opponents’
attempts to manipulate you.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Fox Style.
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Benefit: While using Fox Style, you can use your base attack
bonus in place of your ranks in Sense Motive to determine
your Sense Motive skill bonus when foes attempt to feint
against you, and creatures attempting to demoralize you
don’t gain a bonus for being bigger than you (though they
still take a penalty for being smaller). If your Intelligence
score is at least 19, the DC to demoralize or feint you
increases by 4.
Fox Style (Combat, Style)
Your martial training helps you manipulate foes.
Prerequisite: Int 13.
Benefit: While using this style, you can use your base attack
bonus in place of your ranks in Bluff on Bluff checks to feint
in combat and to create a distraction to hide. If your
Intelligence is at least 19, you gain a +4 bonus on such Bluff
checks when adding your Charisma modifier.
Fox Trickery (Combat)
Whenever a foes drops his guard, you can make him suffer
with a dirty trick.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Fox Insight, Fox
Style, Improved Dirty Trick.
Benefit: While using Fox Style, you can perform dirty trick
combat maneuvers as attacks of opportunity. If your
Intelligence is at least 19, you gain a +4 bonus on dirty trick
combat maneuver checks.
Grabbing Drag (Combat)
You can move easily with a grappled enemy in tow.
Prerequisites: Grabbing Style, Improved Grapple; base
attack bonus +8, brawler level 4th, or monk level 4th.
Benefit: When you are using Grabbing Style, if you use the
move grapple action, you can move both yourself and a
single target that you're grappling your full speed instead of
half your speed. After you have done so, you can use a move
action to move yourself and the target of your grapple half
your speed without needing to attempt an additional combat
maneuver check. You cannot use this feat if you are
grappling two targets.
Grabbing Master (Combat)
You can grapple two foes as easily as one.
Prerequisites: Grabbing Drag, Grabbing Style, Improved
Grapple; base attack bonus +12, brawler level 8th, or monk
level 8th.
Benefit: When you are grabbing two opponents while using
Grabbing Style, you can use your grapple to move or damage
both opponents you are grappling, instead of just one.
Grabbing Style (Combat, Style)
You are adept at the one-handed grab.
Prerequisites: Improved Grapple; base attack bonus +6,
brawler's flurry class feature, or flurry of blows class feature.
Benefit: When you use this style, you do not take a –4
penalty on combat maneuver checks to grapple a foe by using
only one hand. Additionally, you do not lose your Dexterity
bonus to AC while pinning an opponent.
Normal: Without two free hands, you take a –4 penalty on
the combat maneuver roll to grapple a foe. While pinning a
foe, you lose your Dexterity bonus to AC.
Jabbing Dancer (Combat)
You've learned to bend and shift your body to avoid attacks
and reposition yourself advantageously.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Improved Unarmed Strike, Jabbing
Style, Mobility; base attack bonus +9, brawler level 5th, or
monk level 5th.
Benefit: Each time you hit with an unarmed strike while
using Jabbing Style, you can move 5 feet without provoking
an attack of opportunity, as long as you move to a space
adjacent to the opponent you hit with the unarmed strike. If
you use this feat, you cannot take a 5-foot step during your
next turn.
Jabbing Master (Combat)
Your quick punches become even more lethal.
Prerequisites: Dodge, Improved Unarmed Strike, Jabbing
Dancer, Jabbing Style, Mobility, Power Attack; base attack
bonus +12, brawler level 8th, or monk level 8th.
Benefit: While you use Jabbing Style, the extra damage you
deal when you hit a single target with two unarmed strikes
increases to 2d6, and the extra damage when you hit a single
target with three or more unarmed strikes increases to 4d6.
Jabbing Style (Combat, Style)
A cluster of quick strikes deals more damage than a single
roundhouse swing.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike; base attack bonus
+6, brawler's flurry class feature, or flurry of blows class
feature.
Benefit: When you hit a target with an unarmed strike and
you have hit that target with an unarmed strike previously
that round, you deal an extra 1d6 points of damage to that
target.
Janni Rush (Combat)
When you leap to the attack, your blows are like bolts from
on high.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Janni Style, Janni
Tempest, Acrobatics 8 ranks, Perform (dance) 8 ranks.
Benefit: While using Janni Style, you are always considered
to have a running start when jumping. Further, if you jump
as part of a charge and make an unarmed strike against the
designated opponent, a hit allows you to roll the unarmed
strike's damage dice twice and add the results together before
adding modifiers (such as from Strength) or extra dice (such
as precision-based damage or dice from weapon abilities).
The extra damage dice are not multiplied on a successful
critical hit.
Janni Style (Combat, Style)
Your whirling fighting technique makes you difficult to hit.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Acrobatics 3
ranks, Perform (dance) 3 ranks.
Benefit: While using this style, you take only a –1 penalty to
AC for charging. Further, opponents that flank you gain only
a +1 bonus on attack rolls against you.
Janni Tempest (Combat)
Your gale of attacks easily throws your opponents off
balance.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Janni Style,
Acrobatics 5 ranks, Perform (dance) 5 ranks.
Benefit: While you are using the Janni Style feat, whenever
you make an unarmed attack and hit an opponent, you gain a
+4 bonus on checks made to bull rush or trip that opponent,
as long as the combat maneuver is your next attack by the
end of your turn. You do not provoke an attack of
opportunity from the target of the maneuver.
Kirin Path (Combat)
You turn knowledge of your enemy into a flawless defense.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Kirin Strike, Kirin Style, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Knowledge (arcana) 12 ranks, Knowledge
(dungeoneering, local, nature, planes, or religion) 5 ranks.
Benefit: Whenever you make a Knowledge check to
identify a creature, even when using Kirin Style, you can take
10 even if stress and distractions would normally prevent you
from doing so. While using Kirin Style against a creature you
have identified using that feat, if the creature ends its turn
within your threatened area, you can spend a use of your
attacks of opportunity that round to move up to 5 feet times
your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1). You must end your
move in a square threatened by the creature. This move does
not provoke attacks of opportunity.
Kirin Strike (Combat)
You have read the texts of the perfect way, and know how
identify to your enemies' weak spot.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Kirin Style, Improved Unarmed Strike,
Knowledge (arcana) 9 ranks, Knowledge (dungeoneering,
local, nature, planes, or religion) 3 ranks.
Benefit: You gain a +2 insight bonus on Knowledge checks
made to identify creatures, including the one Kirin Style
allows. While using Kirin Style against a creature you have
identified using that feat, as a swift action after you have hit a
creature with a melee or ranged attack, you can add twice
your Intelligence modifier in damage (minimum 2).
Kirin Style (Combat, Style)
Your study and your grace allows you to exploit your
enemies' weaknesses.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Knowledge
(arcana) 6 ranks, Knowledge (dungeoneering, local, nature,
planes, or religion) 1 rank.
Benefit: While using this style, you can spend a swift action
to make a Knowledge check to identify a single creature (DC
15 + the creature's CR for this purpose). If you succeed at the
check, while using this style, you gain a +2 bonus on saving
throws against that creature's attacks, as well as a +2 dodge
bonus to AC against that creature's attacks of opportunity.
These bonuses last for as long as you use this style. If you
cease combat with the creature during this time and resume it
later, you can attempt the check again.
Kyton Cut (Combat)
You lash yourself and share the pain with your opponent.
Prerequisites: Wis 17, Exotic Weapon Proficiency (spiked
chain), Kyton Shield, Kyton Style, base attack bonus +8 or
monk level 6th, Knowledge (planes) 3 ranks, ki pool class
feature.
Benefit: When using Kyton Style, your spiked chain attacks
can be brutal, both to yourself and your foe. Before
attempting an attack roll with a spiked chain attack, you can
choose to make a Kyton Cut. Before making the attack, you
take 1d6 points of nonlethal damage. This damage cannot be
avoided or reduced in any way. If you are immune to
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nonlethal damage, you take normal damage instead. If the
attack hits, its target takes an additional 1d6 points of
nonlethal damage and a –4 penalty on concentration checks
for 1 round. The penalty is a painUM effect.
Kyton Shield (Combat)
Whether in your hand or draped around your body, the
spiked chain serves as both weapon and shield.
Prerequisites: Wis 15, Exotic Weapon Proficiency (spiked
chain), Kyton Style, base attack bonus +5, Knowledge
(planes) 3 ranks, ki pool class feature.
Benefit: When using Kyton Style, you gain a +1 shield
bonus to your Armor Class as long as you are wielding a
spiked chain. If the spiked chain is magical, add 1/2 its
enhancement bonus to this shield bonus. If the spiked chain
has the vicious ability, instead add its full enhancement bonus
to the shield bonus.
Kyton Style (Combat, Style)
Your fighting style emulates the disciplined nature of the
kytons, with passion and pain held tightly in chains.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, Exotic Weapon Proficiency (spiked
chain), Knowledge (planes) 3 ranks, ki pool class feature.
Benefit: When using this style, you treat spiked chains as if
they had the monk special weapon feature. Additionally, if
you have Stunning Fist, you can spend 1 point from your ki
pool to make a Stunning Fist attack with your spiked chain
instead of an unarmed strike. This still costs a use of Stunning
Fist as normal.
Maddening Obliteration (Combat)
With a mighty killing blow, your unsettling punch
vaporizes your foe.
Prerequisites: Wis 19, Cha 15, Improved Unarmed Strike,
Maddening Strike, Maddening Style, Stunning Fist,
Knowledge (arcana) 10 ranks, ki pool class feature, nongood
alignment.
Benefit: When you damage a living creature with an
unarmed strike while using Maddening Style, and you have
at least 1 point in your ki pool, that creature suffers a –2
penalty on saving throws against any confusion, madness,
and insanity effects (including your Maddening Strike) for 1
round. Additionally, if you reduce a creature to fewer than 0
hit points with a Stunning Fist attack, you can spend 2 points
from your ki pool as a free action to obliterate your opponent,
reducing their body to fine dust as per disintegrate. A living
creature can attempt a Fortitude save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your
character level + your Wisdom modifier) to negate this effect.
Maddening Strike (Combat)
Your fists are weapons of mind-devouring madness.
Prerequisites: Wis 17, Cha 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
Maddening Style, Stunning Fist, Knowledge (arcana) 8 ranks,
ki pool class feature, nongood alignment.
Benefit: As a swift action, you can spend 1 point from your
ki pool to imbue the next unarmed strike you make on this
turn with the maddening power of the spaces between the
stars. If that attack doesn’t hit, you take 2 points of Wisdom
damage. If the attack hits, your opponent takes damage from
your unarmed strike + 1d4+1 points of Wisdom damage. A
successful Will save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your character level +
your Wisdom modifier) reduces this to 2 points of Wisdom
damage.
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Special: If you are using the sanity system, when you miss
with a Maddening Strike, you take 4 points of sanity damage.
If you hit, the target takes damage from the unarmed strike
plus 8 points of sanity damage (or 4 points of sanity damage
on a successful Will save).
Maddening Style (Combat, Style)
When you clobber an opponent with your fists, you
inundate its mind with visions of madness and horror.
Prerequisites: Wis 15, Cha 11, Improved Unarmed Strike,
Stunning Fist, Knowledge (arcana) 4 ranks, ki pool class
feature, nongood alignment.
Benefit: You gain one additional use of Stunning Fist per
day. When using this style, if you have at least 1 point in your
ki pool, you increase the DCs of your confusion, madness,
and insanity effects (including Maddening Strike) by 1.
Additionally, when you successfully stun an opponent with
your Stunning Fist attack, your target takes 1 point of
Wisdom damage.
Special: If you are using the sanity system, when you
successfully stun an opponent with your Stunning Fist attack,
the target takes 1d4 points of sanity damage instead of 1
point of Wisdom damage.
Mantis Style (Combat, Style)
You have learned to target vital areas with crippling
accuracy.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist,
Heal 3 ranks.
Benefit: You gain one additional Stunning Fist attempt per
day. While using this style, you gain a +2 bonus to the DC of
effects you deliver with your Stunning Fist.
Mantis Torment (Combat)
Your knowledge of the mysteries of anatomy allows you to
cause debilitating pain with a simple touch.
Prerequisites: Heal 9 ranks, Improved Unarmed Strike,
Mantis Style, Mantis Wisdom, Stunning Fist.
Benefit: You gain one additional Stunning Fist attempt per
day. While using Mantis Style, you make an unarmed attack
that expends two daily attempts of your Stunning Fist. If you
hit, your opponent must succeed at a saving throw against
your Stunning Fist or become dazzled and staggered with
crippling pain until the start of your next turn, and at that
point the opponent becomes fatigued.
Mantis Wisdom (Combat)
Your knowledge of vital areas allows you to land
debilitating strikes with precision.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Mantis Style,
Stunning Fist, Heal 6 ranks.
Benefit: Treat half your levels in classes other than monk as
monk levels for determining effects you can apply to a target
of your Stunning Fist per the Stunning Fist monk class
feature. You can also use a standard action and a successful
melee touch attack to remove any Stunning Fist effect you
have applied to a target.
While using Mantis Style, you gain a +2 bonus on unarmed
attack rolls with which you are using Stunning Fist attempts.
Marid Coldsnap (Combat, Style)
You can summon a torrent of water to blast your enemies,
chilling them to the bone.
Prerequisites: Con 15, Wis 17, Elemental Fist**, Marid
Spirit, Marid Style, Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack
bonus +13 or monk level 11th.
Benefit: While using Marid Style, as a standard action, you
can spend two Elemental Fist attempts to unleash a 30-foot
line of frigid water. Creatures caught in the line take your
unarmed strike damage plus the cold damage from your
Elemental Fist attack and are entangled in ice as per the
Marid Spirit feat. A successful Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 your
character level + your Wis modifier) reduces the damage by
half and prevents a target from becoming entangled.
Marid Spirit (Combat)
You can manipulate cold energy to protect yourself and
freeze your foes.
Prerequisites: Con 15, Wis 15, Elemental Fist**, Marid Style,
Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +11 or monk
level 9th.
Benefit: You gain one additional Elemental Fist attempt per
day. While using Marid Style, you gain cold resistance equal
to your base attack bonus, or monk level plus base attack
bonus gained from levels in classes other than monk,
whichever is higher. While denied your Dexterity bonus to
AC you are also denied this resistance. Creatures that take
cold damage from your Elemental Fist attack must succeed at
a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Wis
modifier) or become entangled in ice for 1d4 rounds. The ice
has hit points equal to three times your base attack bonus or
monk level, whichever is higher, and a break DC of 15 + your
base attack bonus or monk level, whichever is higher.
Destroying or breaking the ice ends the entangled condition.
Marid Style (Combat, Style)
You conjure tendrils of icy water to strike your enemies
from a distance.
Prerequisites: Con 13, Wis 15, Elemental Fist**, Improved
Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +9 or monk level 5th.
Benefit: You gain one additional Elemental Fist attempt per
day. While using this style and Elemental Fist to deal cold
damage, you gain a bonus on cold damage rolls equal to your
Wisdom modifier, and your reach with your unarmed strike
increases by 5 feet.
Monkey Moves (Combat)
You scramble around your foes, moving and striking in an
erratic fashion.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike, Monkey
Style, Acrobatics 8 ranks, Climb 8 ranks.
Benefit: While using Monkey Style, you gain a Wisdom
bonus on Climb checks. You can also can climb and crawl at
half your speed; you can take a 5-foot step by jumping,
crawling, or climbing; and you retain your Dexterity bonus to
AC while climbing. Further, while using Monkey Style, when
you use your unarmed strike to hit an opponent twice or
more on your turn, you can spend a swift action to take a 5-
foot step even if you have moved this round.
Normal: You climb at one-quarter your speed, and you lose
your Dexterity bonus to AC while doing so. A 5-foot step is
made using your normal movement modes, and you can take
one only if you have not otherwise moved this round.
Monkey Shine (Combat)
You combine acrobatics and opportunity to devastating
effect against your opponent.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike, Monkey
Moves, Monkey Style, Stunning Fist, Acrobatics 11 ranks,
Climb 11 ranks.
Benefit: While using Monkey Style, if you successfully
deliver a Stunning Fist attempt, in addition to the normal
effect of Stunning Fist, you can spend a free action to enter a
square adjacent to you that is within your opponent's space.
This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
While you are in your opponent's space, you gain a +4 dodge
bonus to AC and a +4 bonus on melee attack rolls against that
opponent. If otherwise unhindered, the opponent can move
away from you, but if he does, he provokes an attack of
opportunity from you even if his choice of movement does
not normally do so.
Normal: You cannot enter an opponent's space.
Monkey Style (Combat, Style)
Your unarmed fighting style is nimble and unpredictable,
full of ground rolls and short leaps.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike,
Acrobatics 5 ranks, Climb 5 ranks.
Benefit: You add your Wisdom bonus on Acrobatics checks.
While using this style, you take no penalty on melee attack
rolls or to AC while prone. Further, you can crawl and stand
up from lying prone without provoking attacks of
opportunity, and you can stand up as a swift action if you
succeed at a DC 20 Acrobatics check.
Normal: You take a –4 penalty on attack rolls and AC
against melee attacks while prone. Standing up is a standard
action that provokes attacks of opportunity.
Owl Dive (Combat)
Your martial training helps you f ly and charge through
others’ spaces.
Prerequisites: Dex 17, Owl Style, Owl Swoop, Skill Focus
(Stealth), base attack bonus +7 or monk level 5th, Acrobatics 1
rank, Fly 1 rank, Stealth 1 rank.
Benefit: While using Owl Style, you can use your base
attack bonus in place of your ranks in Fly to determine your
Fly skill bonus. You can charge through other creatures’
spaces, but you must make a successful Acrobatics check to
move through enemy spaces, as normal. If you fail an
Acrobatics check to move through an enemy’s space during a
charge, your charge stops just before you enter that enemy’s
space; if you threaten that foe, you can make your charge
attack against that foe.
Owl Style (Combat, Style)
You can move with the quiet grace of an owl.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Skill Focus (Stealth), Stealth 1 rank.
Benefit: While using this style, you can use your base attack
bonus in place of your ranks in Stealth to determine your
Stealth skill modifier (as usual, this does not replace your
ranks for other purposes, such as determining the effects of
Skill Focus). While in this stance and using Stealth, you can
charge at a –10 penalty beyond the penalty you take for using
Stealth at full speed (which is typically –5). Foes that fail their
Perception checks and don’t otherwise notice you (for
instance, with an ability like blindsight) are denied their
Dexterity bonuses to AC against all attacks you make against
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them during or at the end of that charge instead of just
against the first attack.
Owl Swoop (Combat)
Your martial training helps you move with acrobatic poise.
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Owl Style, Skill Focus (Stealth),
Acrobatics 1 rank, Stealth 1 rank.
Benefit: While using Owl Style, you can use your base
attack bonus in place of your ranks in Acrobatics to
determine your Acrobatics skill bonus. You can attempt
Acrobatics checks to move on narrow or slick surfaces and to
avoid attacks of opportunity while charging, incurring the
same penalties and increased DCs that you usually would
apply for moving at full speed.
Panther Claw (Combat)
You unleash a rapid series of blows on foes that attempt to
attack you when you move.
Prerequisites: Wis 15, Combat Reflexes, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Panther Style.
Benefit: While using Panther Style, you can spend a free
action, instead of spending a swift action, to make a
retaliatory unarmed strike. You can make a number of
retaliatory unarmed strikes on your turn equal to your
Wisdom modifier.
Panther Parry (Combat)
Your vicious strikes impair your foe's ability to attack you
when you move.
Prerequisites: Wis 15, Combat Reflexes, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Panther Claw, Panther Style.
Benefit: While using Panther Style, your retaliatory
unarmed strikes are resolved before the triggering attacks. If
your retaliatory unarmed strike deals damage to an
opponent, that opponent takes a –2 penalty on attack and
damage rolls with the triggering attack of opportunity.
Panther Style (Combat, Style)
You can strike back at enemies who attack you when you
move.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, Combat Reflexes, Improved
Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: While using this style, when an opponent makes an
attack of opportunity against you for moving through a
threatened square, you can spend a swift action to make a
retaliatory unarmed strike attack against that opponent. Your
attack is resolved after the triggering attack of opportunity.
Pummeling Bully (Combat)
Your combo has the chance to trip or move your target.
Prerequisites: Improved Reposition, Improved Trip,
Improved Unarmed Strike, Pummeling Style; base attack
bonus +9, brawler level 5th, or monk level 5th.
Benefit: When you use Pummeling Style to make an entire
full attack or flurry of blows against a single target, if you hit
with any of your attacks, you can attempt a reposition or trip
combat maneuver check as a free action.
Pummeling Charge (Combat)
Your charge ends with a mobile combo.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Pummeling Style;
base attack bonus +12, brawler level 8th, or monk level 8th.
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Benefit: You can charge and make a full attack or flurry of
blows at the end of your charge as part of the charge action.
You can use Pummeling Charge in this way only if all of your
attacks qualify for using Pummeling Style against a single
target.
Normal: You cannot make a full attack on a charge.
Pummeling Style (Combat, Style)
Your unarmed strikes weave together in an effortless
combo, focusing on the spots you've weakened with the last
hit.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike; base attack bonus
+6, brawler's flurry class feature, or flurry of blows class
feature.
Benefit: Whenever you use a full-attack action or flurry of
blows to make multiple attacks against a single opponent
with unarmed strikes, total the damage from all hits before
applying damage reduction. This ability works only with
unarmed strikes, no matter what other abilities you might
possess.
Shaitan Earthblast (Combat)
With a forceful stomp you release a blast of acid from the
earth to burn your enemies.
Prerequisites: Con 15, Wis 17, Elemental Fist**, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Shaitan Skin, Shaitan Style, base attack
bonus +13 or monk level 11th.
Benefit: While using the Shaitan Style feat, as a standard
action, you can spend two Elemental Fist attempts to unleash
a 20-foot column of acid that has a 5-foot radius and erupts
from a point of origin within 30 feet of you. Creatures caught
in the column take your unarmed strike damage plus the acid
damage from your Elemental Fist and are staggered for 1
round. A successful Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 your character
level + your Wis modifier) reduces the damage by half and
prevents a target from being staggered.
Shaitan Skin (Combat)
You can manipulate acid to shield yourself and disable your
enemies.
Prerequisites: Con 15, Wis 15, Elemental Fist**, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Shaitan Style, base attack bonus +11 or
monk level 9th.
Benefit: You gain one additional Elemental Fist attempt per
day. While using the Shaitan Style feat, you gain acid
resistance equal to your base attack bonus, or your monk
level plus BAB gained from levels in classes other than monk,
whichever is higher. While denied your Dexterity bonus to
AC you are also denied this resistance. Creatures that take
acid damage from your Elemental Fist attack must succeed at
a Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Wis
modifier) or be staggered for 1 round.
Shaitan Style (Combat, Style)
You strike with the caustic forces from within the earth.
Prerequisites: Con 13, Wis 15, Elemental Fist**, Improved
Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +9 or monk level 5th.
Benefit: You gain one additional Elemental Fist attempt per
day. While using the Shaitan Style and Elemental Fist feats to
deal acid damage, you gain a bonus on acid damage rolls
equal to your Wisdom bonus. Further, if your Elemental Fist
melee attack misses while you are using it to deal acid
damage, you still deal 1d6 points of acid damage to your
target.
Snake Fang (Combat)
You can unleash attacks against an opponent that has
dropped its guard.
Prerequisites: Combat Reflexes, Improved Unarmed Strike,
Snake Sidewind, Snake Style, Acrobatics 6 ranks, Sense
Motive 9 ranks.
Benefit: While using the Snake Style feat, when an
opponent's attack misses you, you can make an unarmed
strike against that opponent as an attack of opportunity. If
this attack of opportunity hits, you can spend an immediate
action to make another unarmed strike against the same
opponent.
Snake Sidewind (Combat)
Your sensitive twisting movements make you difficult to
anticipate combat.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Snake Style,
Acrobatics 3 ranks, Sense Motive 6 ranks.
Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus to CMD against trip combat
maneuvers and on Acrobatics checks and saving throws to
avoid being knocked prone. While using the Snake Style feat,
whenever you score a critical threat with your unarmed
strike, you can make a Sense Motive check in place of the
attack roll to confirm the critical hit. Whenever you score a
critical hit with your unarmed strike, you can spend an
immediate action to take a 5-foot step even if you have
otherwise moved this round.
Normal: You can take a 5-foot step only if you have not
otherwise moved this round.
Snake Style (Combat, Style)
You watch your foe's every movement and then punch
through its defense.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Acrobatics 1 rank,
Sense Motive 3 ranks.
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Sense Motive checks, and
you can deal piercing damage with your unarmed strikes.
While using the Snake Style feat, when an opponent targets
you with a melee or ranged attack, you can spend an
immediate action to make a Sense Motive check. You can use
the result as your AC or touch AC against that attack. You
must be aware of the attack and not flat-footed.
Normal: An unarmed strike deals bludgeoning damage.
Snapping Turtle Clutch (Combat)
Your unarmed style allows you to turn your opponent's
attack into an opportunity.
Prerequisites: Snapping Turtle Style, Improved Grapple,
Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +3 or monk
level 3rd.
Benefit: While you are using the Snapping Turtle Style feat,
the shield bonus the style grants to your AC applies to your
CMD and touch AC. Whenever an opponent misses you with
a melee attack while you are using the Snapping Turtle Style
feat, you can use an immediate action to attempt a grapple
combat maneuver against that opponent, but with a –2
penalty.
Snapping Turtle Shell (Combat)
Your guarding hand is almost magical in its skill at
deflecting incoming blows.
Prerequisites: Snapping Turtle Clutch, Snapping Turtle
Style, Improved Grapple, Improved Unarmed Strike, base
attack bonus +5 or monk level 5th.
Benefit: While you are using the Snapping Turtle Style feat,
the shield bonus the style grants to your AC increases to +2,
and your enemies take a –4 penalty on critical confirmation
rolls against you.
Snapping Turtle Style (Combat, Style)
Your deft unarmed style allows you to shield your body
from harm.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus
+1 or monk level 1st.
Benefit: While using the Snapping Turtle Style feat with at
least one hand free, you gain a +1 shield bonus to AC.
Street Carnage (Combat)
For you, the urban environment becomes another brutal
weapon you can use to shred f lesh and break bones.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Improved Bull Rush, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Power Attack, Street Style, Street Sweep,
base attack bonus +8 or monk level 7th.
Benefit: While using Street Style, the critical multiplier of
your unarmed strikes becomes ×3, instead of ×2.
Street Style (Combat, Style)
You use the urban environment to your advantage,
thrashing and bashing your foe and driving it back.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Improved Bull Rush, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Power Attack, base attack bonus +4 or monk
level 3rd.
Benefit: While using this style, once per round as a swift
action when you hit a target with an unarmed strike, you can
deal an extra 1d6 points of damage and attempt a bull rush
combat maneuver against that target.
Special: You can enter the style stance for street style only
while in urban terrain, and the stance ends immediately if
you cease to be in urban terrain.
Street Sweep (Combat)
After driving your foe back, you can quickly knock it to the
ground and slow it down.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Improved Bull Rush, Improved
Unarmed Strike, Power Attack, Street Style, base attack bonus
+6 or monk level 5th.
Benefit: While using Street Style, the first time each round
that you deal damage with an unarmed strike to a foe that
you bull rushed with Street Style since the beginning of your
last turn, that foe must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC = 10 +
your base attack bonus) or be knocked prone and staggered
for 1 round.
Tiger Claws (Combat)
You can sacrifice multiple attacks to make a single
devastating strike.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Tiger Style, base
attack bonus +6 or monk level 5th.
Benefit: While you are using the Tiger Style feat and have
both hands free, you can use a full-round action to make a
single unarmed strike with both hands. Use your highest base
attack bonus, rolling unarmed strike damage for each hand
separately and multiplying both if you score a critical hit. If
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you use Power Attack in conjunction with this attack,
increase your Strength bonus on one of the damage rolls by
an additional one-half your Strength bonus. If you hit, you
can attempt a bull rush maneuver with a +2 bonus on the
combat maneuver check. This bull rush attempt provokes no
attack of opportunity from your opponent, but you cannot
move with that opponent if your bull rush is successful.

Tiger Pounce (Combat)

Your unarmed strikes are as precise as they are powerful,
but they leave you open and you can pursue foes with
blinding speed.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Power Attack,
Tiger Claws, Tiger Style, base attack bonus +9 or monk level
8th.
Benefit: While using the Tiger Style feat, you can apply the
penalty from Power Attack to your AC instead of attack rolls.
Additionally, once per round as a swift action, you can move
up to half your speed closer to a target you hit with an
unarmed strike or made a successful combat maneuver
against on this turn or your last turn.

Tiger Style (Combat, Style)

Your unarmed fighting style emulates the strength and
ferocity of a tiger.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus
+3 or monk level 3rd.
Benefit: While using this style, you gain a +2 bonus to your
CMD against bull rush, overrun, and trip maneuvers. You
can also deal slashing damage with your unarmed strikes.
Whenever you score a critical hit with your slashing unarmed
strike, your opponent also takes 1d4 points of bleed damage
at the start of his next two turns.
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TECHNOLOGY FEATS
Technology feats grant bonuses related to advanced
technology.
Craft Cybernetics
You can build cyberware and install it in a creature's body.
Prerequisites: Technologist, Heal 9 ranks, Knowledge
(engineering) 9 ranks
Benefit: You can create cybernetic items. Creating a
cybernetic item takes 1 day for every 1,000 gp in the item's
price. To create the object, you must use up raw materials
costing half of this total price. See Crafting High-Tech Items
for more information.
You can repair a broken cybernetic item if it is one that you
could make. Doing so costs half the raw materials and half
the time it would take to craft that item from scratch.
You can also install a cybernetic item in a creature's body.
See the Cybertech section for more information on installing
cyberware.
Craft Pharmaceutical
You can craft pharmaceuticals.
Prerequisites: Technologist, Heal 9 ranks, Knowledge
(nature) 9 ranks
Benefit: You can create any pharmaceutical or poison.
Creating a pharmaceutical takes 2 hours if its base price is 250
gp or less; otherwise, the creation of the pharmaceutical takes
1 day for every 1,000 gp in its price. To create the
pharmaceutical or poison, you must use up raw materials
costing half of this total price. See Crafting High-Tech Items
for more information.
Craft Technological Arms and Armor
You can build technological weapons and armor.
Prerequisites: Technologist, Craft (mechanical) 7 ranks,
Knowledge (engineering) 7 ranks
Benefit: You can create technological weapons or armor.
Creating a technological weapon or suit of armor takes 1 day
for every 1,000 gp in the item's price. To create the object, you
must use up raw materials costing half of this total price. See
Crafting High-Tech Items for more information.
You can also repair a broken technological weapon or suit
of armor if it is one that you could make. Doing so costs half
the raw materials and half the time it would take to craft that
item from scratch.
Craft Technological Item
You can craft technological gear and items.
Prerequisites: Technologist, Craft (mechanical) 5 ranks,
Knowledge (engineering) 5 ranks
Benefit: You can create technological gear. Creating a piece
of technological gear takes 1 day for every 1,000 gp in the
item's price. To create the object, you must use up raw
materials costing half of this total price. See Crafting High-
Tech Items for more information.
You can also repair a broken technological item if it is one
that you could make. Doing so costs half the raw materials
and half the time it would take to craft that item from scratch.
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Robot's Bane
You have trained to avoid the attacks and effects employed
by robots and technology and to combat them effectively.
Prerequisite: Knowledge (engineering) 5 ranks
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on attack and damage rolls
against creatures with the robot subtype. Additionally, you
gain a +1 dodge bonus to your AC and a +1 bonus on saving
throws against attacks and effects from robots. If you have at
least 11 ranks in Knowledge (engineering), these bonuses
increase to +2. If you have at least 17 ranks in Knowledge
(engineering), these bonuses increase to +3.
Special: If you have constructs as a favored enemy, you can
use your favored enemy bonus toward constructs in place of
the bonus granted by this feat if it's larger. These bonuses do
not stack with those granted by other abilities that allow you
to add your favored enemy bonus to AC or on saving throws.
Scavenger's Luck
You coax better behavior out of timeworn technology.
Prerequisite: Knowledge (engineering) 1 rank
Benefit: When your check for using a piece of timeworn
technology results in a glitch, you can roll again. You must
choose to reroll before determining the specific glitch, and
must take the second result, even if it's worse. When you use
timeworn technology, it doesn't automatically glitch on a
natural 1.
Technologist
You are familiar with the basic mechanics of technology.
Benefit: You are considered to be trained in any skill used
against a technology-based subject. If the skill in question
requires training to use even against non-technological
subjects, you must still have ranks in that skill in order to
gain the benefit of Technologist.
Normal: You treat all skill checks made against technology
as if they were untrained skill checks. This may mean that
you cannot attempt certain skill checks, even if you possess
ranks in the skill in question.
Technology Adept (Combat)
You utilize high-tech firearms to maximum effect.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Exotic Weapon Proficiency
(firearms), Point-Blank Shot
Benefit: When you attack with a technological firearm that
consumes charges, the save DC of any effect caused by that
firearm increases by 1. If your bonuses from Point-Blank Shot
apply, it increases by 2 instead.
Technophobe
Smashing technological abominations brings you joy.
Prerequisite: Improved Sunder
Benefit: When you reduce a robot to 0 hit points or destroy
a technological item possessed by an enemy, you receive a +2
morale bonus on ability checks, attack rolls, saving throws,
and skill checks for a number of rounds equal to your
Wisdom bonus (minimum 1 round). You receive this bonus
for destroying an unattended object so long as it was in the
possession of an enemy within the last round.
Wrest Charge
You can extract a charge from otherwise depleted
technology.
Prerequisites: Disable Device 5 ranks, Knowledge
(engineering) 5 ranks
Benefit: With a successful DC 20 Disable Device check, you
can jury-rig a depleted (but not destroyed) battery so it
provides 1 more charge. Using this charge or failing your
check by 5 or more permanently depletes the battery.
You can attempt the same check to add 1 last charge to a
discharged piece of timeworn technology. Regardless of the
outcome, no other attempts can be made, even by another
person. Using this feat takes 1 minute. You can attempt to
wrest a charge as a move action by taking a -10 penalty on
your check. This feat does not stack with the charge cycling
deed.

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TEAMWORK FEATS
Teamwork feats grant large bonuses, but they only function
under specific circumstances. In most cases, these feats
require an ally who also possesses the feat to be positioned
carefully on the battlefield. Teamwork feats provide no bonus
if the listed conditions are not met. Note that allies who are
paralyzed, stunned, unconscious, or otherwise unable to act
do not count for the purposes of these feats.
Allied Spellcaster (Teamwork)
With the aid of an ally, you are skilled at piercing the
protections of other creatures with your spells.
Prerequisite: Caster level 1st.
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has
this feat, you receive a +2 competence bonus on level checks
made to overcome spell resistance. If your ally has the same
spell prepared (or known with a slot available if they are
spontaneous spellcasters), this bonus increases to +4 and you
receive a +1 bonus to the caster level for all level-dependent
variables, such as duration, range, and effect.
Back to Back (Teamwork)
Your ally's eyes are your own, and yours are his.
Prerequisite: Perception 3 ranks.
Benefit: While you are flanked and adjacent to an ally with
this feat, you receive a +2 circumstance bonus to AC against
attacks from opponents flanking you.
Broken Wing Gambit (Combat, Teamwork)
You feign weakness, making yourself a tempting and
distracting target.
Prerequisite: Bluff 5 ranks.
Benefit: Whenever you make a melee attack and hit your
opponent, you can use a free action to grant that opponent a
+2 bonus on attack and damage rolls against you until the
end of your next turn or until your opponent attacks you,
whichever happens first. If that opponent attacks you with
this bonus, it provokes attacks of opportunity from your
allies who have this feat.
Cavalry Formation (Combat, Teamwork)
You are skilled at riding in close formation with your
mounted allies without impeding your effectiveness on the
battlefield.
Prerequisite: Mounted Combat.
Benefit: You and your mount can overlap the space of
mounts whose riders have this feat, although no more than
two creatures can share any one square. Further, you can
charge through a space containing an allied mount if that
mount's rider has this feat, although the space from which
you make your charge attack must comply with this feat's
other benefit or be unoccupied.
Combat Medic (Teamwork)
You know the urgency of treating wounds in the heat of
battle, applying first aid to your allies with such speed that
you assure no one gets left behind.
Prerequisite: Heal 5 ranks.
Benefit: Whenever you use Heal to provide first aid, treat
caltrop wounds, or treat poison on an ally who also has this
feat, you provoke no attacks of opportunity, and can take 10
on the check. Unlike with other teamwork feats, allies that are
paralyzed, stunned, unconcious, or cannot otherwise act still
count for the purposes of this feat.
Cooperative Disabling (Teamwork)
You are skilled at working with an ally to disable traps.
Prerequisites: Disable Device 1 rank, trapfinding class
feature.
Benefit: When you use the Disable Device skill and fail the
check against a trap, a single adjacent ally with this feat who
is also within reach of the trap can attempt a Disable Device
check against the same device as an immediate action. The
ally must have remained adjacent throughout the process of
disabling the device and must have either aided your Disable
Device check or taken no other action. If your ally succeeds at
the check, your attempt is considered to be successful. If your
ally fails, your attempt is considered to have failed by 5 or
more, even if the original check failed by 4 or less.
Coordinated Charge (Combat, Teamwork)
You are an expert at leading your allies into the fray.
Prerequisites: You have at least two other teamwork feats,
base attack bonus +10.
Benefit: When an ally with this feat charges a creature that
is no further away from you than your speed, you can, as an
immediate action, charge that creature. You must be able to
follow all of the normal charge rules.
Coordinated Defense (Combat, Teamwork)
You are adept at working with allies to avoid being tripped,
grappled, and subjected to other maneuvers.
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has
this feat, you receive a +2 competence bonus to your Combat
Maneuver Defense. This bonus increases to +4 if the creature
attempting the maneuver is larger than both you and your
ally.
Coordinated Maneuvers (Combat, Teamwork)
You are skilled at working with your allies to perform
dangerous combat maneuvers.
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has
this feat, you receive a +2 competence bonus on all combat
maneuver checks. This bonus increases to +4 when
attempting to break free from a grapple.
Coordinated Shot (Combat, Teamwork)
Your ranged attacks against an opponent take advantage of
your ally's positioning.
Prerequisite: Point-Blank Shot.
Benefit: If your ally with this feat is threatening an
opponent and is not providing cover to that opponent against
your ranged attacks, you gain a +1 bonus on ranged attacks
against that opponent. If your ally with this feat is flanking
that opponent with another ally (even if that other ally
doesn't have this feat), this bonus increases to +2.
Distracting Charge (Combat, Teamwork)
Your ally's charge exposes an opening you can exploit.
Benefit: When your ally with this feat uses the charge
action and hits, you gain a +2 bonus on your next attack roll
against the target of that charge. This bonus must be used
before your ally's next turn, or it is lost.
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Duck and Cover (Teamwork)
Your allies assist you in avoiding certain attacks.
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has
this feat, and both of you are required to make a Reflex
saving throw against a spell or effect, you may take the result
of your die roll or that of your ally (your modifiers still apply
to the roll, regardless of which result you take). If you take
your ally's result, you are knocked prone (or staggered on
your next turn, if you are already prone or cannot be knocked
prone). In addition, you receive a +2 cover bonus to your AC
against ranged attacks as long as your ally is wielding a
shield.
Enfilading Fire (Combat, Teamwork)
Your ranged attacks take advantage of the flanking
maneuvers of allies.
Prerequisites: Point-Blank Shot, Precise Shot, one other
teamwork feat.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on ranged attacks made
against a foe flanked by 1 or more allies with this feat.
Ensemble (Teamwork)
You can create an ensemble of skilled and amateur
performers to aid you in your performance.
Prerequisites: Perform 5 ranks
Benefit: When you are performing, allies within 20 feet who
also have this feat can aid you with your Perform checks
(including those made as part of bardic performance) as if
they were aiding another as an immediate action. The allies
make their aid another rolls before you make your check. No
more than four allies can grant you a bonus with aid another.
Allies aiding you do not need to use the same category of the
Perform skill that you are using in order to aid you.
Special: If you possess one or more levels of the bard class,
you can choose any one ally within 20 feet to be part of the
ensemble. The ally is considered to have the ensemble
teamwork feat for the purposes of aiding your performance.
Escape Route (Teamwork)
You have trained to watch your allies' backs, covering them
as they make tactical withdraws.
Benefit: An ally who also has this feat provokes no attacks
of opportunity for moving through squares adjacent to you
or within your space.
Feint Partner (Combat, Teamwork)
A little diversion is all you need to slip through your foe's
defenses.
Prerequisite: Bluff 1 rank.
Benefit: Whenever an ally who also has this feat
successfully feints an opponent, that opponent also loses his
Dexterity bonus to AC against the next attack you make
against him before the end of the feinting ally's next turn.
Focusing Blow (Teamwork)
You and your allies work together to shake off mental
effects.
Prerequisites: Hobgoblin Discipline, hobgoblin.
Benefit: An ally who also has this feat can deal damage to
you in order to break an ongoing mind-affecting effect that
allows a saving throw. The ally must cause at least 5 points of
damage to you with an attack, spell, or other ability. You then
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reroll your saving throw, with a +1 bonus for every 5
additional points of damage the attack caused. If your save is
successful, the mind-affecting effect ends. Only damage
actually dealt counts for purposes of this feat; nonlethal
damage and damage reduced or eliminated by damage
reduction, resistances, and so on does not qualify.
Horde Charge (Teamwork)
When you charge with an ally, you are more deadly.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +1, half-orc or orc.
Benefit: When charging during the same round as an ally
with this feat, you gain a +2 bonus on attack and damage
rolls in addition to the normal bonus for charging. If you can
make multiple attacks on a charge, this bonus only applies to
the first attack.
Improved Back to Back (Teamwork)
After much practice, you and an ally have become adept at
fighting in close proximity to one another.
Prerequisites: Back to Back, Perception 5 ranks.
Benefit: While you are adjacent to an ally who is flanked
and also has this feat, you can spend a swift action to gain a
+2 bonus to AC against all flankers until the start of your next
turn.
Improved Duck and Cover (Teamwork)
Your allies' ability to protect you from damage extends to
area attacks.
Prerequisite: Duck and Cover.
Benefit: Whenever you use Duck and Cover, your ally has
evasion or improved evasion, and your ally succeeds at its
saving throw, half of the damage you would have taken is
transferred to your ally. (This damage is not reduced by the
ally's evasion or improved evasion.)
Improved Feint Partner (Combat, Teamwork)
Knowledge of your companions' tricks and techniques
allow you to take even greater advantage of your allies'
feints.
Prerequisites: Bluff 1 rank, Combat Reflexes, Feint Partner,
base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: Whenever an ally who also has this feat
successfully feints against an opponent, that opponent
provokes an attack of opportunity from you.
Improved Spell Sharing (Teamwork)
Your link with your companion creature allows you to
share your magic with it.
Prerequisite: Ability to acquire an animal companion, an
eidolon, a familiar, or a special mount.
Benefit: When you are adjacent to or sharing a square with
your companion creature and that companion creature has
this feat, you can cast a spell on yourself and divide the
duration evenly between yourself and the companion
creature. You can use this feat only on spells with a duration
of at least 2 rounds. For example, you could cast bull's
strength on yourself, and instead of the spell lasting 1 minute
per level on yourself, it lasts 5 rounds per level on yourself
and 5 rounds per level on your companion.
Once the spell is cast, you and the companion creature can
move farther apart without ending the effect.
Improved Swap Places (Combat, Teamwork)
When you switch places with your comrade, your sizes
don't matter.
Prerequisite: Swap Places.
Benefit: When you and your ally use Swap Places, your ally
can be up to one size larger or smaller than you, and your
movement into the ally's square does not provoke attacks of
opportunity. If your ally cannot fit into the space you had
been occupying and there are no available adjacent squares to
accommodate the rest of the ally's space, the ally must
squeeze. Alternatively, as part of its movement, the ally can
attempt a bull rush combat maneuver against a creature that
occupies a space your ally would occupy, but this bull rush
cannot move the creature more than 5 feet.
Normal: Using Swap Places requires you and your ally to
be the same size, and your movement into the ally's square
provokes attacks of opportunity.
Intercept Charge (Combat, Teamwork)
You can get in the way of an opponent charging your ally.
Benefit: When an opponent charges your ally with this feat,
as an immediate action you can move up to your speed
toward any square in the path of the charge. If you end your
movement in the path of the charge, the opponent must stop
when it becomes adjacent to you and then attack you instead
of your ally. Your movement from using this feat counts
toward your movement on your next turn.
Lookout (Combat, Teamwork)
Your allies help you avoid being surprised.
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has
this feat, you may act in the surprise round as long as your
ally would normally be able to act in the surprise round. If
you would normally be denied the ability to act in the
surprise round, your initiative is equal to your initiative roll
or the roll of your ally –1, whichever is lower. If both you and
your ally would be able to act in the surprise round without
the aid of this feat, you may take both a standard and a move
action (or a full-round action) during the surprise round.
My Blade Is Yours (Combat, Teamwork)
You fight with seamless grace alongside your allies,
complementing the inherent strengths of your weaponry.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Sense Motive 3
ranks.
Benefit: When adjacent to an ally with this feat who is
wielding a weapon with the blocking, disarm, distracting, or
trip weapon special feature, you can treat your own weapon
as if it also had that feature. If your ally’s weapon has more
than one of those features, you choose one feature to emulate
at the start of your turn.
Outflank (Combat, Teamwork)
You look for every edge when flanking an enemy.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +4.
Benefit: Whenever you and an ally who also has this feat
are flanking the same creature, your flanking bonus on attack
rolls increases to +4. In addition, whenever you score a
critical hit against the flanked creature, it provokes an attack
of opportunity from your ally.
Pack Attack (Combat, Teamwork)
You are skilled at surrounding your enemies.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: When you are adjacent to an ally with this feat, the
first time you melee attack an opponent, you can spend an
immediate action to take a 5-foot step, even if you have
otherwise moved this round.
Normal: You can take a 5-foot step only if you have not
otherwise moved in a round.
Pack Flanking (Teamwork)
You and your companion creature are adept at fighting
together against foes.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, ability to acquire an
animal companion.
Benefit: When you and your companion creature have this
feat, your companion creature is adjacent to you or sharing
your square, and you both threaten the same opponent, you
are both considered to be flanking that opponent, regardless
of your actual positioning.
Normal: You must be positioned opposite an ally to flank
an opponent.
Paired Opportunists (Combat, Teamwork)
You know how to make an enemy pay for lax defenses.
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has
this feat, you receive a +4 circumstance bonus on attacks of
opportunity against creatures that you both threaten.
Enemies that provoke attacks of opportunity from your ally
also provoke attacks of opportunity from you so long as you
threaten them (even if the situation or an ability would
normally deny you the attack of opportunity). This does not
allow you to take more than one attack of opportunity
against a creature for a given action.
Precise Strike (Combat, Teamwork)
You are skilled at striking where it counts, as long as an ally
distracts your foe.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: Whenever you and an ally who also has this feat
are flanking the same the creature, you deal an additional 1d6
points of precision damage with each successful melee attack.
This bonus damage stacks with other sources of precision
damage, such as sneak attack. This bonus damage is not
multiplied on a critical hit.
Seize the Moment (Combat, Teamwork)
You and your allies are poised to pounce whenever one of
you scores a telling blow.
Prerequisites: Combat Reflexes, Improved Critical.
Benefit: When an ally who also has this feat confirms a
critical hit against an opponent that you also threaten, you
can make an attack of opportunity against that opponent.
Shake It Off (Teamwork)
You support your allies and help them recover from
crippling effects.
Benefit: When you are adjacent to one or more allies who
also have this feat, you gain a +1 bonus on saving throws per
such ally (maximum +4).
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Share Healing (Teamwork)
Your link with your companion creature allows you to
share with it any healing magic that's cast upon you.
Prerequisite: Ability to acquire an animal companion, an
eidolon, a familiar, or a special mount.
Benefit: When you and your companion creature have this
feat, your companion creature is adjacent to you or sharing
your square, and you receive the benefit of a healing spell
(whether from yourself or another source), you can divide the
hit points healed evenly between yourself and your
companion creature.
Shield Wall (Combat, Teamwork)
You form a unified defense with those around you.
Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency.
Benefit: Whenever you are wielding a shield and are
adjacent to an ally wielding a shield who also has this feat,
the AC bonus from your shield increases, depending on the
shield wielded by your ally. If your ally is wielding a buckler
or a light shield, your shield bonus increases by +1. If your
ally is wielding a heavy shield or a tower shield, your shield
bonus increases by +2. You keep these bonuses even if your
ally loses his shield bonus due to making a shield bash attack.
If an adjacent ally with this feat uses a tower shield to grant
total cover, you also benefit if an attack targeting you passes
through the edge of the shield.
Shielded Caster (Teamwork)
Your allies cover you while you cast complicated spells.
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has
this feat, you receive a +4 competence bonus on concentration
checks. If your ally is wielding a buckler or a light shield, this
bonus increases by +1. If your ally is wielding a heavy shield
or a tower shield, this bonus increases by +2. Finally, if an
enemy threatening you and your ally has the Disruptive feat,
or another ability that increases the DC of concentration
checks, the amount of the increase is halved.
Stealth Synergy (Teamwork)
Working closely with an ally, you are able to move like twin
shadows.
Benefit: While you can see one or more allies who also have
this feat, whenever you and your allies make a Stealth check,
you all take the highest roll and add all your modifiers to
Stealth.
Swap Places (Combat, Teamwork)
You are skilled at changing places with your ally during a
chaotic melee.
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has
this feat, you can move into your ally's square as part of
normal movement. At the same time, your ally moves into
your previous space as an immediate action. Both you and
your ally must be willing and able to move to take advantage
of this feat. Your ally must be the same size as you to utilize
this feat. Your ally does not provoke an attack of opportunity
from this movement, but you provoke as normal. This
movement does not count against your ally's movement on
his next turn.
Tandem Trip (Combat, Teamwork)
You know how to work together to trip your foes.
Benefit: Whenever you attempt a trip combat maneuver
against an enemy threatened by an ally with this feat, you roll
twice and take the better result.
Target of Opportunity (Combat, Teamwork)
You and your allies pelt your enemies with a deadly
barrage of missiles.
Prerequisites: Point-Blank Shot, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When an ally who also has this feat makes a ranged
attack and hits an opponent within 30 feet of you, you can
spend an immediate action to make a single ranged attack
against that opponent. Your ranged weapon must be in hand,
loaded, and ready to be fired or thrown for you to make the
ranged attack.
Team Pickpocketing (Teamwork)
You distract a mark with friendly conversation while your
partner robs the victim blind.
Prerequisites: Bluff 1 rank, Sleight of Hand 1 rank.
Benefit: Whenever an ally with this feat succeeds a Bluff
check to feint an opponent, if you are adjacent to that
creature, you can spend an immediate action to make a
Sleight of Hand check to pickpocket that opponent and gain a
+4 bonus on that attempt.
Timely Coordination (Teamwork)
You can precisely time your teamwork.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls and skill checks
made as part of readied actions triggered by one of your
allies who also has this feat. When you and an ally who also
has this feat are attempting to overcome separate
simultaneous obstacles as part of a heist or infiltration, you
also gain this +1 bonus on attack rolls and skill checks.
Wounded Paw Gambit (Combat, Teamwork)
Your enemy sees you as an easy mark, but doesn't notice
your allies poised to shoot.
Prerequisites: Broken Wing Gambit, Bluff 5 ranks.
Benefit: Whenever you use Broken Wing Gambit and an
opponent attacks you as a result, each ally who has this feat
and is within 30 feet of that opponent can attempt a ranged
attack against it as an immediate action. The ally's ranged
weapon must be in hand, loaded, and ready to be fired or
thrown in order to make this attack possible.
An ally who has this feat and Broken Wing Gambit can
instead use Broken Wing Gambit to attempt an attack of
opportunity against the foe, but cannot attempt both that
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