Utility Feats
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Description | Prerequisites | |
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Ability Focus | The special attack of a creature with this feat is more potent than normal. | Special attack |
Able Learner | Cost for all skills is 1 skill point | Human, Doppelganger |
Acrobatic | You have excellent body awareness and coordination. | |
Additional Magic Item Space | You can wear more magic items. | Epic Level |
Agile | You are particularly flexible and poised. | |
Alertness | +2 Listen and +2 Spot | |
Altitude Adaptation | Your body adapts quickly to changes in altitude, preventing you from suffering as much from altitude sickness. | Base Fort Save +2 |
Animal Affinity | +2 Handle Animal and +2 Ride | |
Animal Companion | Gives an animal companion. | Handle Animal (8 ranks) |
Armor Skin | +1 AC | Epic Level |
Artist | You claim descent from Doji, the founder of the Crane household, known as a creator of culture and civilization. | |
Athletic | You have a knack for athletic endeavors. | |
Augmented Alchemy | You can create alchemical items and substances that are much more powerful than normal. | INT 21, Epic Level, Alchemy (24 ranks) |
Blinding Speed | You can trigger short bursts of great speed. | DEX 25, Epic Level |
Blindsight | Your senses are as keen as the bat’s. | Ability to use wild shape to become a dire bat |
Brachiation | You can swing through trees like a monkey. | Climb (4 ranks), Jump (4 ranks) |
Carver's Gift | Your magic allows you to cut through physical items easily. | 5 Levels of Arcane Spells |
Clever Wrestling | You have a better than normal chance to escape from a big creature's grapple or pin. | Improved Unarmed Strike, Size Medium or smaller |
Cold Endurance | Either because of growing up in a frostfell or training your body and mind to ignore the biting effect of cold, you can exist with ease in low-temperature environments. | Base Fort Save +2 |
Commanding Presence | Your stern gaze leaves people quaking in fear | CHA 13, Eyes of Fury, Fearsome Appearance |
Daisho Technique | You are skilled at using the katana and wakizashi simultaneously. | Base Attack Bonus +1, Martial Weapon Proficiency (Katana + Wakizashi), WIS 13 |
Damage Reduction | You can shrug off some damage from attacks | Epic Level, CON 21 |
Daunting Presence | Shake an opponent's resolve using your mere presence. | CHA 13, Base Attack Bonus +1 |
Deceitful | You have a knack for disguising the truth. | |
Deft Hands | You have exceptional manual dexterity. | |
Depths of the Void | Your chi is more focused on the ebb and flow of the void. | Void Use |
Dexterous Fortitude | You are able to resist physical attacks with exceptional agility | Slippery Mind, DEX 25, Epic Level |
Dexterous Will | You are able to resist compelling effects with exceptional agility. | Slippery Mind, DEX 25, Epic Level |
Diehard | You can remain conscious after attacks that would fell others. | Endurance |
Diligent | Your meticulousness allows you to analyze minute details that others miss. | |
Dividing the Stars | With a phrase or two you can alter the perceptions of others towards and individual | Bluff (8 ranks), Diplomacy (8 ranks), Sense Motive (8 ranks) |
Draconic Knowledge | Your draconic blood lets you access ancient draconic knowledge. | 1st Level Caster, Dragon or draconic heritage |
Dragonfriend | You are a known and respected ally of dragons. | Speaks Draconic, CHA 11 |
Endurance | You are capable of amazing feats of stamina. | |
Endure Blows | You gain DR 2/— | Dragon, CON 19, Toughness |
Energy Resistance | You can resist the effects of a chosen type of energy. | Epic Level |
Epic Dodge | You are able to evade attacks with exceptional agility. | Epic Level, DEX 25, Tumble (30 Ranks), Defensive Roll, Improved Evasion, Dodge |
Epic Endurance | You are capable of legendary feats of stamina. | Epic Level, Endurance, CON 25 |
Epic Fortitude | You have tremendously high fortitude. | Epic Level |
Epic Leadership | You attract more powerful cohorts and followers than normally possible. | Leadership, Leadership Score of 25, Epic Level, CHA 25 |
Epic Reflexes | You have tremendously fast reflexes. | Epic Level |
Epic Reputation | Your reputation provides great bonuses on interactions with others. | Epic Level |
Epic Skill Focus | You have a legendary knack with a chosen skill. | Epic Level, Chosen Skill (20 ranks) |
Epic Speed | You can move much more quickly than a normal person | Epic Level, Run, DEX 21 |
Epic Toughness | You are preternaturally tough. | Epic Level |
Epic Will | You have tremendously strong willpower. | Epic Level |
Evil Brand | You are branded with a mark from a dark patron. | Vorovia Setting |
Exotic Armor Proficiency | Choose a type of exotic armor, such as mammoth leather or tumbler's breastplate. You understand how to wear that type of exotic armor properly. | Armor Proficiency of the appropriate sort |
Expert Swimmer | You swim like a fish. You can stay underwater far longer than others of your race, and you are at home in the water. | Endurance, Swim (4 ranks) |
Extended Life Span | Accumulation of various experience in the world have led your body to last miraculously than most of your race. | Epic Level |
Eyes of Fury | Your great skill causes enemies to doubt themselves. | CHA 13 |
Fast Healing | You heal your wounds very quickly. | Epic Level, CON 25 |
Fearless | You never consider retreat or flight from battle | |
Fearsome Appearance | Your presence in battle sows doubt amid your enemies and weakens their will to attack you. | CHA 13, Eyes of Fury |
Flying Fish Leap | You can hurl yourself out of the water with ease. | Jump (8 ranks), Swim (4 ranks) |
Force of Personality | Use CHA Mod instead of WIS Mod for mind affecting spells and effects | CHA 13 |
Giant's Toughness | You are amazingly tough | Base Fort Save +8 |
Great Captain | You are a master pilot and battle leader; your crew anticipates your every command and leaps to do your bidding. | Knowledge (Geography)(7 ranks), Profession (Sailor)(7 ranks), Leadership |
Great Charisma | Your powers of persuasion and leadership are greater than normal. | Epic Level |
Great Constitution | Your health and endurance are greater than normal. | Epic Level |
Great Dexterity | Your agility and coordination are greater than normal. | Epic Level |
Great Diplomat | You are descended from Asako, one of the companions of the first Phoenix, a great healer, diplomat, and warrior. | |
Great Fortitude | +2 on Fort Saves | |
Great Intelligence | Your powers of reason and learning are greater than normal. | Epic Level |
Great Strength | Your muscle and physical power are greater than normal. | Epic Level |
Great Wisdom | Your willpower and insight are greater than normal. | Epic Level |
Haggler | You tend to get the best of any bargain | |
Heat Endurance | Either as a result of growing up in the waste, or by training your body and mind to ignore the effects of searing heat, you can exist with ease in high-temperature environments. | Base Fort Save +2 |
Heavy Armor Proficiency | You are proficient with heavy armor | Light Armor Proficiency, Medium Armor Proficiency |
Honest Merchant | You are descended from a merchant of only the most upstanding principles. | |
Hover | The creature can come to a halt in midair. | Fly speed |
Improved Cold Endurance | Your training and natural hardiness have improved your natural resistance to cold temperatures. | Base Fort Save +6, Cold Endurance |
Improved Heat Endurance | You can survive even in the most extreme natural heat conditions. | Base Fort Save +6, Heat Endurance |
Improved Initiative | You can react more quickly than normal in a fight. | |
Improved Speed | You are faster than others of your kind. | STR 13, Dragon |
Improved Swimming | You can swim faster than you normally could. | Swim (6 ranks) |
Instant Stand | You know how to leap to your feet quickly from a prone position | |
Investigator | You have a knack for finding information. | |
Iron Will | +2 on Will Saves | |
Item Aptitude | You have a natural knack for discovering an item’s magical effects and triggering them. | CHA 15 |
Jack of All Trades | You have picked up a smattering of even the most obscure skills. | INT 13 |
Landwalker | You can survive out of the water for a longer period of time than most of your kind. | Needs to breathe water |
Leadership | Attract loyal minions and cohorts | Character Level 6th |
Legendary Climber | You can climb rapidly much more easily than a normal person. | Epic Level, Balance (12 ranks), Climb (24 ranks), DEX 21 |
Legendary Commander | You attract and lead great armies of followers through sheer force of personality. | Must rule own kingdom and have a stronghold, Epic Level, CHA 25, Epic Leadership, Diplomacy (30 ranks), Leadership |
Legendary Rider | You can ride a mount in combat with ease, even bareback. | Epic Level, Ride (24 ranks) |
Legendary Tracker | You can track prey across or through the water, or even through the air. | Track, Epic Level, Knowledge (Nature) (30 ranks), WIS 25, Wilderness Lore (30 ranks) |
Light Armor Proficiency | You are proficient with light armor | |
Lightning Reflexes | +2 to Reflex saves | |
Lightning Stealth | You are able to move with both speed and stealth | Hide (6 ranks), Move Silently (6 ranks), 3rd Level Ninja |
Magical Aptitude | +2 Spellcraft and +2 Use Magical Device | |
Martial Weapon Proficiency | You are proficient with certain martial weapons in combat. | |
Medium Armor Proficiency | You are proficient with medium armor | Light Armor Proficiency |
Mountaineer | You are a particularly gifted explorer and mountain climber. | |
Negotiator | You are good at gauging and swaying attitudes. | |
Nimble Fingers | You are adept at manipulating small, delicate objects. | |
Old Salt | You are an old hand at shipboard life, having mastered the myriad skills that are required of the experienced sailor. Additionally, you have an eye for the weather. | Profession (sailor) (5 ranks) |
Overcome Weakness | You can overcome an innate vulnerability through sheer willpower. | Iron Will, Suppress Weakness, Vulnerability to Energy |
Perceived Alignment | Through self-control and discipline, you are able to cloak your true motivations, even to the eyes of magic.. | INT 13 |
Perfect Health | You are immune to normal diseases and common poisons. | Epic Level, Great Fortitude, CON 25 |
Persuasive | You have a way with words and body language. | |
Planar Ascetic | +2 Knowledge Planes and +2 Knowledge Religion | |
Poison Immunity | After prolonged exposure to a poison or toxin, you have rendered yourself immune to it. | |
Polyglot | You can speak, read, and write all languages. | Epic Level, INT 25 |
Quick Reconnoiter | You can learn a lot of information from just a quick scan of an area or object. | Listen (5 ranks), Spot (5 ranks) |
Quick Recovery | It's hard to keep you down for long. You have a talent for shaking off effects that leave others unable to act. | |
Quickslime | The slime attack of an aboleth with this feat is particularly fast and difficult to resist. | Ability Focus, Aboleth |
Rapid Ready | You prepare for battle quickly. | |
Rapid Swimming | You are one with the water. | Natural Swim Speed, Base Fort Save +2 |
Run | You are fleet of foot | |
Sailor's Balance | You are experienced with the rolling decks of the ship and maintain strong footing, even in a terrible storm. | Profession (sailor) (4 ranks) |
Sand Camouflage | You can hide yourself in sand with a moment's notice. | Sandskimmer, Hide (5 ranks) |
Sandskimmer | You are particularly adept at moving over sand. | |
Scorpion's Instincts | You are hard to find in the waste. | Hide (5 ranks), DEX 13 |
Scorpion's Resolve | Like the scorpion, you are not easily distracted. | |
Scorpion's Sense | Like the scorpion, you sense other creatures simply by perceiving their contact with the sand. | |
Sea Legs | You are accustomed to the rolling motion on board a ship and can use this motion to your advantage. | |
Shield Proficiency | You are proficient with bucklers, small shields, and large shields. | |
Shock Resistant | You are unlikely to die from a single attack. | Undying, CON 13 |
Simple Weapon Proficiency | You understand how to use all types of simple weapons in combat. | |
Skill Focus | +3 bonus to a selected skill | |
Snowrunner | You are particularly adept at moving through snow and over ice. | Woodland Stride |
Special Dispensation | You have been given leave to carry even banned armor, weapons, and equipment in a given area. | |
Steady Concentration | You are an expert at avoiding distractions and focusing your mind, and you can concentrate clearly even in the most stressful conditions. | Concentration (8 ranks) |
Stealthy | You are particularly good at avoiding notice. | |
Strength of the Earth | You are as resilient and enduring as the mountains. | Toughness |
Strong Stomach | You have greater resilience to illness and foul odors than most people. | Endurance, CON 13 |
Superior Initiative | You can react even more quickly than normal in a fight. | Epic Level, Improved Initiative |
Suppress Weakness | Your vulnerability to an energy type is reduced. | Vulnerability to Energy, Iron Will |
Swift Tumbler | You can flip, twist, and roll with great speed. | Tumble (7 ranks) |
The Mountain's Song | You may focus your inner energy with great clarity. | Depths of the Void, Void Use |
Toughness | +3 HP | |
Tower Shield Proficiency | You are proficient with tower shields. | Shield Proficiency |
Track | You can follow the trails of creatures and characters across most types of terrain. | |
Transcend the Mountain | You prize strength above all else. | STR 14, Base Attack Bonus +4 |
Trap Engineer | You have spent a great deal of time studying trap construction and recognize the work of famous builders, which gives you an edge against their devices. | Knowledge (Dungeoneering) (4 ranks), Knowledge (Architecture and Engineering) (1 rank) |
Trap Sensitivity | Your senses are so attuned that you can detect mechanical traps that are close by. | Trap Sense +2, Elf or Trapfinding feature |
Tunnel Riding | You are particularly adept at maneuvering mounts through tight spaces and underground passages. | Mounted Combat, Tunnel Fighting |
Undying | You ignore pain and damage at death's door. | CON 13 |
Unnatural Will | Add CHA Mod to Will Save vs Fear effects | Iron Will, CHA 12 |
Urban Tracking | You can track down the location of missing persons or wanted individuals within communities. | |
Verminfriend | Vermin regard the character better than they would normally. | CHA 15 |
Void Use | You have learned to focus your concentration on the Void. | |
Willing Deformity | Through scarification, self-mutilation, and supplication to dark powers, the character intentionally mars her own body. | |
Wingover | You change direction quickly once per round while airborne. | Ability to fly |