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Daily Punch 2-13-17 Excommunicate negative feat for DnD 5e

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I have a modest proposal.  DnD 5e is feat poor.  I’d like to propose that DnD 5e is feat poor.  To help with this, i’d like to propose the idea of Negative Feats.  These feats hurt a character is some way, but allow the character to take an additional feat or gain two abilities points at first level.  This has the potential to spin out of control quickly, but if carefully managed, players will be able to take power bonuses at first level at the bonus of character background building and expense of in game penalty.  Here is the first one I propose.

 

Excommunicate

You have left your church.  This decisions may have been yours alone, mutual, or your may have been forced to leave the church.  But, in any case, that church and its associated gods no longer look upon you with favor.  Non-player characters now treat your with as much spurn as they can muster in the situation.  In civil situations, you will be ostracized as much as possible.  In combat situations, clerics of the church will not and can not heal you.  If provoked, members of the church will attack.  Chose an alignment (LN, N, LG, G, or CG).  Members of that alignment can not heal you, gods of those alignments disdain you, and you can not receive any healing or positive benefits from spells or other abilities from clerics or gods of those alignments.  Damaging spells from those alignments will still work against you however.  Even spells that would provide a mixed benefit such as a damaging spell that increase your AC or damage that allows you to activate an ability only provide the negative aspect of the spell and do not activate any of your abilities.

 

 

Thoughts?

 

Daily Punch 2-6-17 Magi Rush feat for Pathfinder

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Why do mages have to sit in the back and cast spells.  Why not let them join the party in the melee?

 

Magi Rush

You might be the magical master, but you like to mix it up as well.

Benefit(s): When you perform a charge, at the end of the attack, you can cast a spell with a range of touch.  All normal modifiers and attack of opportunity apply for this attack.  You can attempt to cast the spell defensively as part of the charge.

Daily Punch 1-24-17 Sign Magic for DnD 5e

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If you can’t speak, how about still being able to cast spell…

 

Sign magic

You can’t hear and you might not be able to speak, but that doesn’t mean you can master the magic in and around you.  Gain the following:

  • Increase your spell casting ability by 1, to a maximum of 20.
  • When you cast a spell with verbal components, you may instead treat those as somatic components as you speak the magic words with your body and hands instead of your voice. A spell may never lose both the somatic and verbal components however.

Thoughts?

 

Daily Punch 1-23-17 Tongue Twister feat for DnD 5e

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How about a quick feat for DnD 5e..

 

Tongue Twister

You’ve mastered speech, word, thought, and movement in your magic.  Gain the following:

  • Increase your spell casting ability by 1, to a maximum of 20.
  • When you cast a spell with somatic components, you may instead treat those as verbal components as you twist your tongue in ways to make the movements for your spells.  A spell may never lose both the somatic and verbal components however.

 

 

Thoughts?

 

Daily Punch 12-6-16 Percussive Maintenance feat for DnD 5e

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How about we transfer the same idea of “hit it again!” to a different system?

 

Percussive Maintenance

You might not be the smartest, but you do hit hard and that sometimes make the machines work. You gain the following benefits:

  • When you use a machine you are unfamiliar with you may use your Strength modifier and you are considered proficient with the machine when attempting to activate the machine.
  • You can use magic items you are not attuned with by simply hitting them harder.  If the item uses one of your ability modifiers, it uses Strength.  If the use of the item requires a charge, you use an additional charge for each use.  You apply your proficiency bonus to any spell or effect save DC, but you are not considered proficient with the item.  As an example, you would use your Strength modifier and your proficiency bonus to determine a save DC, but you would not gain proficiency with a new armor or a weapon.

 

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 9-12-16 Crack the Shell feat for Pathfinder

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How about a way to take down armor as a monk in Pathfinder?

 

Crack the Shell (Combat)

Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Ki pool class feature, Wis 13

Benefit: You learn how to channel your ki into the armor of another to devastating effect.  When you make an unarmed strike, you may declare you are using this feat and may spend up to 1 ki point per three character levels.  If you  successfully strike the target and the target takes damage from the blow and the creature must attempt a Fortitude saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2 the character’s level + the character’s Wis modifier).  On a failure the armor takes damage equal 5 times the ki points spent.  If the saving throw is successful, the target’s armor is unaffected.  Creatures with natural armor  have the bonus from their natural armor reduced by the number of ki points, up to to the natural armor bonus.  After a week of natural rest or healing magic the natural armor bonus returns.  If the target as multiple armor bonuses from natural and artificial armor, you may choose which one to attack.

 

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 7-26-16 Faith Healer feat for DnD 5e

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One more idea that I have been kicking around for a bit.

 

Faith Healer

The power of life courses through your veins, and you share this gift with those you can.  Gain the following:

  • Increase your Charisma ability score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
  • Gain a +2 bonus to Charisma(persuasion) checks.
  • When you use an ability or spell that causes a target that isn’t you to regain hit points, you add your Charisma ability modifier to the amount regained.  If this bonus was from a spell or an ability that is limited to a number of times per day, add as normal.  If this ability functions as if the hit points come from a reserve of hit point you can use through out the day, you must use at least 1/5 of your total reserve for this bonus to function.

 

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 7-14-16 Coordinated Strike feat for DnD 5e

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Ok, one more feat before we get back into kicking giants.  Let’s make this happen!

 

 

Coordinated Strike

You and your allies adventure together, drink together, and train together.  You have each other backs in a fight, and you know how to use that to your advantage.  When you are engaged with a target and another character who has this feat is also engaged with the target, you both gain advantage on your melee attacks against the target.

 

Thoughts?  Is this one too powerful?  Is it just enough?

Daily Punch 7-13-16 Punish the Weak feat and metamagic for DnD 5e

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How about a twofer?  Let’s make this happen-a feat and a metamagic

 

1st-the feat!

Punish the Weak

You capitalize on hurting those who are already reeling.  Gain the following:

  • Increase one ability score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
  • When you use an ability or spell that requires a saving throw and you would have advantage if you used a melee or ranged attack on the target, the target has disadvantage on the saving throw.

 

 

Second, the megamagic-a modified version of the heightened spell

Hunting Spell

When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects and you would have advantage on attacking the target with a melee or ranged weapon, you can spend 1 sorcery points to give one target of the spell disadvantage on its first saving throw made against the spell.

 

Thoughts?