Feat Acquisition Modified

Feats are separate from Ability Score Improvements and may only be acquired through new features based on your total character level similar to increases in your proficiency bonus. Each feat may only be taken once, unless specifically stated otherwise.

Acumen (Novice) (Ability)

Prerequisite: Intelligence 10 or higher

You have a mind that can track time, direction, and detail with uncanny precision. You gain the following benefits:

• You always know which way is north.
• You always know the number of hours left before the next sunrise or sunset.
• You can accurately recall anything you have seen or heard within the past month.
• You gain proficiency with one skill or tool of your choice
• Choose one of your skill or tool proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses the chosen proficiency.
• The time required to copy a spell into a spellbook or create a spell scroll is halved.
• When you prepare spells, you can prepare an additional number of spells equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down).

Athletic (Novice) (Ability)

Prerequisite: Strength 10 or higher

You have undergone extensive physical training to gain the following benefits:

• When you are prone, standing up uses only 5 feet of your movement.
• Your carrying capacity is increased to 20 times your Strength score, also increasing the amount you can push, drag, or lift to 40 times your Strength score.
• Climbing doesn’t halve your speed.
• You can make a running long jump or a running high jump after moving only 5 feet on foot, rather than 10 feet.
• You gain proficiency in Athletics checks, or if you already have proficiency, you gain Expertise.

Chef (Novice) (Ability)

Time and effort spent mastering the culinary arts has paid off. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain proficiency with cook’s utensils if you don’t already have it.
• As part of a short rest, you can cook special food, provided you have ingredients and cook’s utensils on hand. You can prepare enough of this food for a number of creatures equal to 4 + your proficiency bonus. At the end of the short rest, any creature who eats the food and spends one or more Hit Dice to regain hit points regains an extra 1d8 hit points.
• With one hour of work or when you finish a long rest, you can cook a number of treats equal to your proficiency bonus. These special treats last 8 hours after being made. A creature can use a bonus action to eat one of those treats to gain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus.

Enduring (Novice) (Ability)

Prerequisite: Constitution 10 or higher

Hardy and resilient, you gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Constitution checks.
• When you roll a Hit Die to regain hit points, treat any rolls that are less than half the value of the die as half the value of the die.
• Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to your level when you gain this feat.
• Whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by 1 additional hit point.

Explorer (Novice) (Ability)

Alert to the hidden traps and secret doors found in many dungeons, you gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks made to detect the presence of secret doors.
• You have a +5 bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) and passive Intelligence (Investigation) scores.
• You have advantage on saving throws made to avoid or resist traps.
• You have resistance to the damage dealt by traps.
• You can search for traps while travelling at a normal pace, instead of only at a slow pace.

Field Medic (Novice) (Ability)

Prerequisite: Wisdom 10 or higher

You are a skilled physician, allowing you to mend wounds quickly and get your allies back in the fight. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain proficiency in Medicine Checks.
• When you use a healer’s kit to stabilize a dying creature, that creature also regains 1 hit point.
• As an action During a short rest, you can spend one use of a healer’s kit to tend to a creature and restore 1d6 + 4 hit points to it, plus additional hit points equal to the creature’s level.
• During a short rest you can spend two uses of the healer's kit to neutralize a known poison or disease afflicting a creature.
• A creature can’t regain hit points can benefit from this feat again until it finishes a short or only once per long rest.

Flexible (Novice) (Ability)

Prerequisite: Dexterity 10 or higher

If you are not wearing mail, splint, or plate armor:

• You can squeeze through tight spaces that are large enough for a creature one size smaller.
• You have Advantage on ability checks to escape grapples and bonds such as ropes, manacles, or nets.
• You can move through the space of creatures that are the same size or smaller.

Blitzer (Skilled) (Combat Training)

Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher

• When you use your action to Dash, you can use a bonus action to make one melee weapon attack or to shove a creature.
• If you move at least 10 feet in a straight line immediately before taking this bonus action, you either gain a +5 bonus to the attack’s damage roll (if you chose to make a melee attack and hit) or push the target up to 10 feet away from you (if you chose to shove and you succeed).

Bulwark (Skilled) (Combat Training)

Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher

You have mastered techniques to take advantage of every drop in any enemy’s guard, gaining the following benefits:

• When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the creature’s speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.
• Creatures within 5 feet of you provoke opportunity attacks from you even if they take the Disengage action before leaving your reach.

Dirty Fighter (Skilled) (Combat Training)

Prerequisite: Strength or Dexterity 13 or higher

Accustomed to rough-and-tumble fighting using whatever weapons happen to be at hand, you gain the following benefits:

• You are proficient with improvised weapons, and their damage increases to 1d6, or 1d8 when wielded in two hands (at the DM's discretion that the item is not unwieldy enough).
• Your unarmed strikes are considered finesse weapons, and deal 1d4 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier for damage. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.
• When you take the Attack action, you can use a bonus action to make an unarmed strike.

Fighting Basics (Skilled) (Combat Training)

Prerequisite: Proficiency with a martial weapon

Your martial training has helped you develop a particular style of fighting.

• You learn one Fighting Style option of your choice from the fighter class. If you already have a style, the one you choose must be different.
• Whenever you gain a level, you can replace this feat’s fighting style with another one from the fighter class that you don’t have.

Poison Skills (Skilled) (Combat Training)

You can prepare and deliver deadly poisons, gaining the following benefits:

• When you make a damage roll, you ignore resistance to poison damage.
• You can coat a weapon in poison as a bonus action, instead of an action.
• You gain proficiency with the poisoner’s kit if you don’t already have it. With one hour of work using a poisoner’s kit and expending 50 gp worth of materials, you can create a number of doses of potent poison equal to your proficiency bonus. Once applied, the poison retains potency for 1 minute or until you hit with the weapon. When a weapon coated in this poison deals damage to a creature, that creature must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or take 2d8 poison damage and become poisoned until the end of your next turn.

Swift Attacker (Skilled) (Combat Training)

Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher

• When you use the Dash action, difficult terrain doesn't cost you extra movement on that turn.
• When you make a melee attack against a creature, you don’t provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn, whether you hit or not.

Team Tactician (Skilled) (Combat Training)

Prerequisite: Intelligence 13 or higher

Your presence in a scrap tends to elevate your comrades. You gain the following benefits:

• You can use the Help action as a bonus action.
• When you use the Help action to aid an ally in attacking a creature, increase the range of the Help action by 10 feet. Additionally, you can help two allies targeting the same creature within range when you use the Help action this way.

Vigilant (Skilled) (Combat Training)

Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher

Always on the lookout for danger, you gain the following benefits:

• You add your proficiency bonus to initiative rolls.
• You can’t be surprised while you are conscious.
• Other creatures don’t gain advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of being hidden from you

Crushing Attack (Skilled) (Weapon Training)

Prerequisite: Strength 13 or higher

You are practiced in the art of crushing your enemies, granting you the following benefits:

• Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an attack that deals bludgeoning damage, you can move it 5 feet to an unoccupied space, provided the target is no more than one size larger than you.
• When you score a critical hit that deals bludgeoning damage to a creature, attack rolls against that creature are made with advantage until the end of your next turn.

Duelling Defense (Skilled) (Weapon Training)

Prerequisite: Strength or Dexterity 13 or higher

• When you are wielding a melee weapon with which you are proficient and another creature hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to add your proficiency bonus to your AC for that attack, potentially causing the attack to miss you.

Heavy Weapons Damage (Skilled) (Weapon Training)

Prerequisite: Strength 13 or higher

You’ve learned to put the weight of a weapon to your advantage, letting its momentum empower your strikes.

• On your turn, when you score a critical hit with a melee weapon that is not a light or finesse weapon or reduce a creature to 0 hit points with one, you can make one melee weapon attack as a bonus action.

Martial Maneuvers (Skilled) (Weapon Training)

Prerequisite: Strength or Dexterity 13 or higher

You have martial training that allows you to perform special combat maneuvers. You gain the following benefits:

• You learn two maneuvers of your choice from among those available to the Battle Master archetype in the fighter class. If a maneuver you use requires your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver’s effects, the saving throw DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).
• If you already have superiority dice, you gain one more; otherwise, you have one superiority die, which is a d6. This die is used to fuel your maneuvers. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest
• You can select this feat multiple times. Each time you do so, you must choose two different maneuvers.

Martial Weapons (Skilled) (Weapon Training)

Prerequisite: Proficiency with Simple Weapons

You have practiced extensively with martial weapons, gaining the following benefits:

• You gain proficiency with martial weapons.

Paired Weapons (Skilled) (Weapon Training)

Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher

You master fighting with two weapons, gaining the following benefits:

• You gain a +1 bonus to AC while you are wielding a separate melee weapon in each hand.
• You can use two-weapon fighting even when the one-handed melee weapons you are wielding aren’t light.
• You can draw or stow two one-handed weapons when you would normally be able to draw or stow only one.

Piercing Attack (Skilled) (Weapon Training)

You have achieved a penetrating precision in combat, granting you the following benefits:

• Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an attack that deals piercing damage, you can reroll one of the attack’s damage dice, and you must use the new roll.
• When you score a critical hit that deals piercing damage to a creature, you can roll one additional damage die when determining the extra piercing damage the target takes.

Heavy Armor (Skilled) (Armor Training)

Prerequisite: Proficiency with medium armor

You have trained to master the use of heavy armor, gaining the following benefits:

• You gain proficiency with heavy armor.

Light Armor (Skilled) (Armor Training)

You have trained to master the use of light armor, gaining the following benefits:

• You gain proficiency with light armor.

Medium Armor & Shields (Skilled) (Armor Training)

Prerequisite: Proficiency with light armor

You have trained to master the use of medium armor and shields, gaining the following benefits:

• You gain proficiency with medium armor and shields.

Cantrip Initiate (Skilled) (Magic Training)

Prerequisite: Wisdom, Intelligence, or Charisma 13 or higher (depending on class chosen)

Choose a class: bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard.

• You learn two cantrips of your choice from that class’s spell list.
• Your spellcasting ability for these spells depends on the class you chose: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, or warlock; Wisdom for cleric or druid: or Intelligence for wizard
• You may select this feat multiple times. Each time you do so, you must choose two different cantrips.

Eldritch Caster (Skilled) (Magic Training)

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

Studying occult lore, you have unlocked eldritch power within yourself.

• You learn one Eldritch Invocation option of your choice from the warlock class. If the invocation has a prerequisite, you can choose that invocation only if you’re a warlock and only if you meet the prerequisite.
• Whenever you gain a level, you can replace the invocation with another one from the warlock class.

Bulwark Retaliator (Veteran) (Combat Mastery)

Prerequisite: Sentinel Feat; Dexterity 13 or higher

• When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the creature’s speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.
• When a creature within 5 feet of you makes an attack against a target other than you (and that target doesn’t have this feat), you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the attacking creature.
• If your attack hits, then it interrupts the attacker and they miss their attack against their target.

Cleave (Veteran) (Combat Mastery)

Prerequisite: Strength 13 or higher

• When your melee attack hits an enemy with an attack roll 5 or higher than their AC or a critical hit, you may target another enemy within reach, and if the original attack roll can hit it, applies half damage to it.

Tracker (Veteran) (Combat Mastery)

Prerequisite: Wisdom 13 or higher

You have spent time hunting creatures and honed your skills, gaining the following benefits:

• You learn the Hunter’s Mark and Longstrider spells, which you can cast at their lowest level.
• You can cast each of these spells without expending a spell slot. Once you cast either of these spells in this way, you can’t cast that spell in this way again until you finish a long rest.
• You can also cast these spells using any spell slots you have. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
• You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track creatures.

Vigilant Expert (Veteran) (Combat Mastery)

Prerequisite: Alert Feat; Dexterity 13 or higher

• You now add double your proficiency bonus to initiative.
• You have advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn't taken a turn in combat yet.
• Any hit you score against a creature that is surprised is a critical hit.

Heavy Weapons Master (Veteran) (Weapon Mastery)

Prerequisite: Great Weapons Feat; Strength 13 or higher

• Before you make a melee attack with a weapon that you are proficient with that is not a light or finesse weapon, you can choose to take a penalty to the attack roll equal to your proficiency bonus. If the attack hits, you add twice your proficiency bonus to the attack’s damage.

Reach Weapons Expert (Veteran) (Weapon Mastery)

Prerequisite: Proficiency with Glaives, Halberds, Pikes, or Quarterstaffs

You can keep your enemies at bay with reach weapons. You gain the following benefits:

• When you take the Attack action and attack with only a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the opposite end of the weapon.
• The weapon’s damage die for this attack is a d4, and the attack deals bludgeoning damage.
• While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.

Riding Expert (Veteran) (Weapon Mastery)

You are a dangerous foe to face while mounted. While you are mounted and aren’t incapacitated, you gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on melee attack rolls against any unmounted creature that is smaller than your mount.
• You can force an attack targeted at your mount to target you instead.
• If your mount is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.

Sniper Deadeye (Veteran) (Weapon Mastery)

Prerequisite: Sharpshooter Feat

• Before you make an attack with a ranged weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take a penalty equal to your proficiency bonus to the attack roll.
• If the attack hits, you add twice your proficiency bonus to the attack’s damage.

Heavy Armor Expert (Veteran) (Armor Mastery)

Prerequisite: Proficiency with heavy armor

You can use your armor to deflect strikes that would kill others. You gain the following benefits:

• While you are wearing heavy armor, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage that you take from non magical weapons is reduced by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus.

Combat Mage (Veteran) (Magic Mastery)

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You have practiced casting spells in the midst of combat, learning techniques that grant you the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Constitution saving throws that you make to maintain your concentration on a spell when you take damage.
• You can perform the somatic components of spells even when you have weapons or a shield in one or both hands.
• When a hostile creature’s movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to cast a spell at the creature, rather than making an opportunity attack. The spell must have a casting time of 1 action and must target only that creature.

Elemental Expert (Veteran) (Magic Mastery)

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

When you gain this feat, choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder.

• When you gain this feat, choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder.
• Spells you cast ignore resistance to damage of the chosen type.
• When you roll damage for a spell you cast that deals damage of that type, you can treat any 1 on a damage die as a 2.
• You can change the damage of any spell you cast that does acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder to your chosen damage type. When changed in this way, normal resistance and damage rolls apply.