<style>.phb a{color: #001eff;}</style> # Feats A Feat represents a talent or an area of expertise that gives a character special capabilities. It embodies training, experience, and abilities beyond what a class provides. At certain levels, your class gives you a Feat of your choice from the following list. You can take each Feat only once, unless the Feat's description says otherwise. ___ You must meet any prerequisite specified in a Feat to take that Feat. If you ever lose a Feat's prerequisite, you can't use that Feat until you regain the prerequisite. For example, the Grappler Feat requires you to have a Strength of 13 or higher. If your Strength is reduced below 13 somehow-perhaps by a withering curseyou can't benefit from the Grappler Feat until your Strength is restored. ### Ability Score Improvement *(Prerequisite: 4th level)* ___ Increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or two ability scores of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20. You can select this feat multiple times. ### Actor Skilled at mimicry and dramatics, you gain the following benefits: - Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You have an advantage on Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Performance) checks when trying to pass yourself off as a different person. - You can mimic the speech of another person or the sounds made by other creatures. You must have heard the person speaking, or heard the creature make the sound, for at least 1 minute. A successful Wisdom (Insight) check contested by your Charisma (Deception) check allows a listener to determine that the effect is faked. ### Alert Always on the lookout for danger, you gain the following benefits: - You can't be surprised while you are conscious. - You gain a +5 bonus to initiative. - Other creatures don't gain advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of being unseen by you \columnbreak ### Artificer Initiate You’ve learned some of an artificer’s inventiveness: - You learn one cantrip of your choice from the Artificer spell list, and you learn one 1st-level spell of your choice from that list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells. - You can cast this feat's 1st-level spell without a spell slot, and you must finish a long rest before you can cast it in this way again. You can also cast the spell using any spell slots you have. - You gain proficiency with one type of artisan's tools of your choice, and you can use that type of tool as a spellcasting focus for any spell you cast that uses Intelligence as its spellcasting ability. ### Athlete You have undergone extensive physical training to gain the following benefits: - Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - When you are prone, standing up uses only 5 feet of your movement. - Climbing doesn't cost you extra movement. - You can make a running long jump or a running high jump after moving only 5 feet on foot, rather than 10 feet. ### Cartomancer *(Prerequisite: 4th Level, Spellcasting Feature)* ___ You have learned to channel your magic through a deck of cards. You gain the following benefits: - You gain proficiency with a deck of cards, which you can use as your spellcasting focus. - You learn the *Prestidigitation* cantrip and two other cantrips of your choice from the Wizard spell list. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells. - Additionally, you can use *Prestidigitation* to create illusions that duplicate the effects of stage magic. When you do so, you can conceal the verbal and somatic components of the spell as ordinary conversation and card handling. ### Charger 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). \pagebreakNum ### Crossbow Expert Thanks to extensive practice with the crossbow, you gain the following benefits: - You ignore the loading quality of crossbows with which you are proficient. - Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls. - When you use the Attack action and attack with a one handed weapon, you can use a bonus action to attack with a hand crossbow you are holding. ### Crusher You are practiced in the art of crushing your enemies, granting you the following benefits: - Increase your Strength or Constitution by 1, to a maximum of 20. - Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an attack that deals Bludgeoning damage, you can knock it Prone and launch it up to 10 feet away, provided the target is no more than one size larger than you. ### Defensive Duelist *(Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher)* ___ When you are wielding a finesse 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. ### Dual Wielder 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. ### Dungeon Delver 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 advantage on saving throws made to avoid or resist traps. - You have resistance to the damage dealt by traps. - Travelling at a fast pace doesn't impose the normal -5 penalty on your passive Wisdom (Perception) score. \columnbreak ### Durable Hardy and resilient, you gain the following benefits: - Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - When you roll a Hit Die to regain hit points at the end of a short rest, you gain the maximum amount of hit points possible for that die. ### Eldritch Adept *(Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic feature)* ___ Studying occult lore, you learn one [Eldritch Invocation](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-O4M7xNHMmaXBSIS5RsN#p11) option of your choice from the warlock class. Your spellcasting ability for the invocation is Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma (choose when you select this feat). If the invocation has a prerequisite of any kind, you can choose that invocation only if you’re a warlock who meets the prerequisite. ___ Whenever you gain a level, you can replace the invocation with another one from the warlock class. ### Elemental Adept *(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. Spells you cast ignore resistance to damage of the chosen type. In addition, 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 select this feat multiple times. Each time you do so, you must choose a different damage type. ### Grappler You've developed the skills necessary to hold your own in close-quarters grappling. You gain the following benefits: - You have advantage on attack rolls against a creature you are grappling. - You can use your action to try to pin a creature grappled by you. To do so, make another grapple check. If you succeed, you and the creature are both restrained until the grapple ends. ### Great Weapon Master You've learned to put the weight of a weapon to your advantage, letting its momentum empower your strikes. You gain the following benefits: - On your turn, when you score a critical hit with a melee weapon, or you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a melee weapon, you can make one melee weapon attack as a bonus action. - Before you make a melee attack with a heavy weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10 to the attack's damage. \pagebreakNum ### Healer You are an able physician, allowing you to mend wounds quickly and get your allies back in the fight. You gain the following benefits: - When you use a healer's kit to stabilize a dying creature, that creature also regains 1 hit point. - As an action. you can spend one use of a healer's kit to tend to a creature and restore 2d6 + 4 hit points to it, plus additional hit points equal to the creature's maximum number of Hit Dice. The creature can't regain hit points from this feat again until it finishes a short or long rest. ### Heavily Armored *(Prerequisite: Proficiency with medium armor)* ___ You have trained to master the use of heavy armor, gaining the following benefits: - Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You gain proficiency with heavy armor. ### Heavy Armor Master *(Prerequisite: Proficiency with heavy armor)* ___ You can use your armor to deflect strikes that would kill others. You gain the following benefits: - Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - While you are wearing heavy armor, Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage that you take from nonmagical attacks is reduced by 3. ### Inspiring Leader *(Prerequisite: Charisma 13 or higher)* ___ During a short rest, you can spend time inspiring your companions, shoring up their resolve to fight. When you do so, choose up to six friendly creatures (including possibly yourself) within 30 feet of you who can see or hear you and who can understand you. Each creature gains temporary hit points equal to your level + your Charisma modifier. A creature can't gain temporary hit points from this feat again until it has finished a short or long rest. ### Keen Mind You have a mind that can track time, direction, and detail with uncanny precision. You gain the following benefits. - Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - 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. \columnbreak ### Lightly Armored You have trained to master the use of light armor, gaining the following benefits. - Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You gain proficiency with light armor. ### Linguist You have studied languages and codes, gaining the following benefits: - Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You learn three languages of your choice. - You can ably create written ciphers. Others can't decipher a code you create unless you teach them, they succeed on an Intelligence check (DC equal to your Intelligence score + your proficiency bonus), or they use magic to decipher it. ### Lucky You have inexplicable luck that seems to kick in at just the right moment. ___ You have 3 luck points. Whenever you make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can spend one luck point to roll an additional d20. You can choose to spend one of your luck points after you roll the die, but before the outcome is determined. You choose which of the d20s is used for the attack roll, ability check, or saving throw. You can also spend one luck point when an attack roll is made against you. Roll a d20 and then choose whether the attack uses the attacker's roll or yours. ___ If more than one creature spends a luck point to influence the outcome of a roll, the points cancel each other out; no additional dice are rolled. ___ You regain your expended luck points when you finish a long rest. ### Mage Slayer You have practiced techniques in melee combat against spellcasters, gaining the following benefits. - When a creature within 5 feet of you casts a spell, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature. - When you damage a creature that is concentrating on a spell, that creature has disadvantage on the saving throw it makes to maintain its concentration. - You have advantage on saving throws against spells cast by creatures within 5 feet of you. \pagebreakNum ### Magic Initiate Choose a class: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard. You learn two cantrips of your choice from that class's spell list. In addition, choose one 1st-level spell to learn from that same list. Using this feat, you can cast the spell once at its lowest level, and you must finish a long rest before you can cast it in this way again. ___ 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. ### Martial Adept You have martial training that allows you to perform special combat maneuvers. You gain the following benefits. - You learn two [maneuvers](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-NuPt0sMv3uy2Wn9AYJD#p11) of your choice from among those available to 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). - You gain one superiority die, which is a d6 (this die is added to any superiority dice you have from another source). 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. ### Medium Armor Master *(Prerequisite: Proficiency with medium armor)* ___ You have practiced moving in medium armor to gain the following benefits: - Wearing medium armor doesn't impose disadvantage on your Dexterity (Stealth) checks. - When you wear medium armor, you can add 3, rather than 2, to your AC if you have a Dexterity of 16 or higher. ### Metamagic Adept *(Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic feature)* ___ You've learned how to exert your will on your spells to alter how they function: - You learn two [Metamagic](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-O4IrVvV6TcgrK7bEEe1#p10) options of your choice from the sorcerer class. You can use only one Metamagic option on a spell when you cast it, unless the option says otherwise. Whenever you reach a level that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can replace one of these Metamagic options with another one from the sorcerer class. - You gain 2 sorcery points to spend on Metamagic (these points are added to any sorcery points you have from another source but can be used only on Metamagic). You regain all spent sorcery points when you finish a long rest. \columnbreak ### Mobile You are exceptionally speedy and agile. You gain the following benefits: - Your speed increases by 10 feet. - 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. ### Moderately Armored *(Prerequisite: Proficiency with light armor)* ___ You have trained to master the use of medium armor and shields, gaining the following benefits: - Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You gain proficiency with medium armor and shields. ### Mounted Combatant 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 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. ### Observant Quick to notice details of your environment, you gain the following benefits: - Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You have a +5 bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) and passive Intelligence (Investigation) scores. - If you can see a creature's mouth while it is speaking a language you understand, you can interpret what it's saying by reading its lips. \pagebreakNum ### Performer You master performance so that you can command any stage. You gain the following benefits: - Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You gain proficiency in the Performance skill. If you are already proficient in the skill, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it. - As an action, you can try to distract one humanoid you can see who can see and hear you with a performance. Make a Charisma (Performance) check contested by the humanoid’s Wisdom (Insight) check. If your check succeeds, you grab the humanoid’s attention enough that it makes Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks with disadvantage until you stop performing. ### Piercer You have achieved a penetrating precision in combat, granting you the following benefits: - Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20. - Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an attack that deals piercing damage, you can re-roll 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. ### Polearm Master Having mastered polearms, you gain the following benefits: - When you take the Attack action and attack with only a glaive, halberd, quarterstaff, or spear, you can use the Pommel Strike weapon action with that weapon. Pommel Strike used in this way doesn't use your normal use of that ability. - While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, quarterstaff, or spear, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter the reach you have with that weapon. ### Prescient Planner You regularly create convoluted plans and contingencies, drawing from your resources in even the most unlikely scenarios to enact them. - Your Wisdom modifier increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. - Over the course of a minute, you can pick an item from your inventory that you hadn't previously declared you had purchased, which you intuited that you would come to need and purchased it at the earliest opportunity. The item must be a piece of adventuring gear, can't be a weapon, armor, magic item, or other treasure, and can't weigh more than an amount that would cause you to exceed your carrying capacity. \columnbreak ### Psi Adept *(Prerequisite: Intelligence of 12 or higher)* ___ You've learned minor mental techniques common among Mystic orders. You gain the following benefits: - You learn two [psionic talents](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-O11tn4VzbnV2nv0rKke#p11) of your choice from among those available to Mystic class. If the talent has a prerequisite of any kind, you can choose that talent only if you’re a mystic who meets the prerequisite. If a talent you use requires your target to make a saving throw to resist the talent's effects, the saving throw DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier. - You gain one mystic energy die, which is a d6 (this die is added to any mystic energy dice you have from another source). This die is used to fuel your psionic talents. A mystic energy die is only expended when specified. You regain your expended mystic energy dice when you finish a short or long rest. ### Resilient Choose one ability score. You gain the following benefits: - Increase the chosen ability score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You gain proficiency in saving throws using the chosen ability. ### Ritual Caster *(Prerequisite: Intelligence or Wisdom of 13 or higher)* ___ You learn three 1st level spells that have the ritual tag. These spells are written in a ritual book, which you must have in hand while casting one of them. You can't cast these spells except as rituals, unless you've learned them by other means. If you come across a spell with the ritual tag in written form, such as a magical spell scroll or a wizard's spellbook, you might be able to add it to your ritual book. The spell's level can be no higher than half your level (rounded up). The process of copying the spell into your ritual book takes 2 hours per level of the spell, and costs 50 gp per level. The cost represents the material components you expend as you experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks you need to record it. ### Savage Attacker Once per turn when you roll damage for a melee weapon attack, you can reroll the weapon's damage dice and use either total. \pagebreakNum ### Sentinel 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 provoke opportunity attacks from you even if they take the Disengage action before leaving your reach. - 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. ### Sharpshooter You have mastered ranged weapons and can make shots that others find impossible. You gain the following benefits: - Attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls. - Your ranged weapon attacks ignore half and three-quarters cover. - Before you make an attack with a ranged weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If that attack hits, you add +10 to the attack's damage. ### Shield Master You use shields not just for protection but also for offense. You gain the following benefits while you are wielding a shield: - If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield. - If you aren't incapacitated, you can add your shield's AC bonus to any Dexterity saving throw you make against a spell or other harmful effect that targets only you. - If you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can use your reaction to take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, interposing your shield between yourself and the source of the effect. ### Skilled You gain proficiency in any combination of three skills or tools of your choice. ___ Alternatively, you can choose to gain two skill proficiencies, and expertise in one skill with which you have proficiency. Expertise means your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make with it. The skill you choose must be one that isn't already benefiting from a feature, such as Expertise, that doubles your proficiency bonus. \columnbreak ### Skulker *(Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher)* ___ You are an expert at slinking through shadows. You gain the following benefits: - You can try to hide when you are lightly obscured from the creature from which you are hiding. - When you are hidden from a creature and miss it with a ranged weapon attack, making the attack doesn't reveal your position. - Dim light doesn't impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks relying on sight. ### Slasher You've learned where to cut to have the greatest results, granting you the following benefits: - Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20. - Once per turn when you hit a creature with an attack that deals Slashing damage, you can reduce the speed of the target by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. - When you score a critical hit that deals slashing damage to a creature, you grievously wound it. Until the start of your next turn, the target has disadvantage on all attack rolls. ### Spell Sniper *(Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell)* ___ You have learned techniques to enhance your attacks with certain kinds of spells, gaining the following benefits: - When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell's range is doubled. - Your ranged spell attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover. - You learn one cantrip that requires an attack roll. Choose the cantrip from the Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard spell list. Your spellcasting ability for this cantrip depends on the spell list you chose from: Charisma for Bard, Sorcerer, and Warlock; Wisdom for Cleric or Druid; or Intelligence for Wizard. ### Tavern Brawler Accustomed to the rough-and-tumble fighting using whatever weapons happen to be at hand, you gain the following benefits: - Increase your Strength or Consititution score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You are proficient with improvised weapons. - Your unarmed strike uses a d4 for damage. - When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike or an improvised weapon on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to grapple the target. \pagebreakNum ### Telekinetic You learn to move things with your mind, granting you the following benefits: - Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You learn the *Mage Hand* cantrip. You can cast it without verbal or somatic components, and you can make the spectral hand invisible. If you already know this spell, its range increases by 30 feet when you cast it. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it. - As a bonus action, you can try to telekinetically shove one creature you can see within 15 feet of you. When you do so, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier) or be moved 5 feet toward or away from you. A creature can willingly fail this save. ### Telepathic You awaken the ability to mentally connect with others, granting you the following benefits: - Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You can speak telepathically to any creature you can see within 60 feet of you. Your telepathic utterances are in a language you know, and the creature understands you only if it knows that language. Your communication doesn't give the creature the ability to respond to you telepathically. - You can cast the *Detect Thoughts* spell, requiring no spell slot or components. You must finish a long rest before you can cast it this way again. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it. ### Tough Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to twice your level when you gain this feat. Whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by an additional 2 hit points. ### War Caster 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. \columnbreak ### Weapon Master You have practiced extensively with a variety of weapons, gaining the following benefits: - Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - You gain proficiency with four weapons of your choice. Each one must be a simple or a martial weapon.