New Feats for 3^rd Edition D&D

·         Improved Shove [General]: like improved Feint, allows you to make a Shove attack as a move based action rather than a standard action.  Normal shove allows a contested Athletics vs. Concentration roll against your opponent, with modifiers for size.  If your opponent fails, they are knocked off balance and get no DEX or dodge bonus until the start of their next action.  Fighters may take Improved Shove as one of their bonus feats.  Improved Shove still allows an attack of opportunity to your opponent.  To negate this, take Improved Unarmed Strike or Improved Shield Bash.

·         Taunt [General]: allows a ranged attempt to “demoralize opponent.”  Your target must either be able to see you or understand you or both, but you need not be within threat range of them.  Taunt is a movement based action.  When taunting, you may use either your Intimidate or Bluff skill to upset your target.   If successful, the target will suffer the demoralizing effects unless they immediately move to and or attack you.  They gain no bonus or penalty to the resisted roll for size modifiers.  Normal: demoralized opponent is a standard action that uses your intimidation skill against your opponents level+WIS bonus.  You must be a threat to your opponent in order to be effective.  Opponents gain a bonus (or penalty) for their size modifier.  Fighters may take Taunt as one of their bonus feats.

·         Improved Taunt [General]: requires Taunt + at least 5 levels of bluff or intimidate.  Allows you to Taunt your opponent as a free action.  In addition, you may taunt multiple opponents (possibly even a crowd).  The demoralizing affects of this ability are increased to -3 (all attacks, skills and saving throws).

·         Assessment [General] – allows you to use sense motive to sum up your opponent’s fighting ability.  As a move action, choose a target you can accurately perceive and make a sense motive check resisted by the target’s Bluff skill.  Gaining more successes than the target reveals information, the more the better.  Information that can be gleaned by using Assessment includes whether the opponent is higher or lower level than you, an approximation of their STR and DEX attribute (10-15, 16-19, 20-23 etc.), and in general, the tactics they use in combat (what is a full attack, do they are there any feats employed (dodge, power attack, improved trip etc.).  Fighters may take Assessment as one of their bonus feats.

·         Chokehold [Martial] – prerequisite: improved pin.  If you successfully pin an opponent, you may begin a chokehold, causing your opponent to suffocate for as long as you maintain the hold.

·         Jack of All Trades [General] – you may use skills that are “untrained” as if they were.   Nuclear Physics?  You dabble….

·         Armored Casting [General] – you lessen the penalty for casting spells while wearing armor, up to a maximum of +15%.

·         Improved Armored Casting [General]  – prerequisite: armored casting, level 8.  You lessen the penalty for casting spells while wearing armor, up to a maximum of +30%.

·         Healing Hands [General] – for all spells over 0^th level, you may add your WIS bonus to the healing of the spell, but not to exceed the maximum allowed healing (so cure wounds would still only heal a maximum of 1d8+5).  You also gain +1 bonus to the Healing skill.

• Lunge [Martial] - Prerequisite: Power Attack, You are able to charge an opponent without the usual 10’ movement requirement, in fact Lunge allows a 10’ move but no more.  A successful Lunge gives no attack of opportunity to your opponent or anyone who may threaten you in adjacent hexes.  If you fail to hit your opponent, you are considered prone and your opponent gets an immediate attack of opportunity on you.  All bonuses and penalties from the Charge maneuvers apply when making a Lunge (+2 attack, -2 defense).   Lunge counts as a Full Attack action.  Fighters may take Lunge as one of their bonus feats.

·         Improved Familiar[General]  – Prerequisite: ability to summon a familiar, base attack +3.  Benefits: allows you to summon a superior familiar from the list generated on page 6 of the Forgotten Realms Guidelines.  In addition, I may allow certain other reasonable requests.  Quasits and Imps were allowed to evil players in the old school rules.  I would have to review changes made very carefully before I agreed to this kind of substitution.  If interested consult your GM.

·         Scholar [General] - +1 to any trained Knowledge skill roll.

·         Magical Artisan [Item Creation] - Prerequisite: any other item creation feat.  Benefits: saves XP cost of item creation feats (*75%).

·         Contortionist [General]  - this implies that you are double jointed and allows you to fit into and get out of tight places.  This feat gives you a +2 bonus to escape artist skill, which is treated as a class skill for you and allows you to go anywhere a race one size smaller than you could fit into.  It also gives you +2 Perform skill when performing as a contortionist.

·         Devoted Craftsman [General] - this feat gives you a +2 bonus with any 2 specific craft skills.  These bonuses do not count toward your maximum skill/level, as they are not bought as skill points.  You may not buy this feat multiple times for the same skills, but may purchase it to apply to other Craft skills

• Foe Hunter [General] - This gives +1 to damage a specific type of creature with melee or at close range with missile weapons and +1 to your threat range for attacking said creature type.  If you are able to track, you are +2 to survival checks against this particular creature type.  You may make an untrained Knowledge (Xenology) roll in regard to this creature at any time.  This feat may be taken multiple times but only once per creature type.

·         Signature Spell [Metamagic] - Prerequisite: Spell Mastery.  Benefits:  You are so familiar with a mastered spell that you can convert other prepared spells into that spell.  Each time you take this feat, choose a spell you have mastered with spell mastery feat.  You may now convert prepared arcane spells into that signature spell like a divine casting cleric converts prepared spells into cures or cause wound spells.

·         Seize Initiative [General] – you may penalize your defense to increase your initiative score on a one to one basis, up to a maximum of your base attack bonus.  Fighters may take Seize Initiative as one of their bonus feats.

·         Mind Over Matter [General] – prerequisite: 5 ranks of meditation skill.  Allows you to make a meditation roll to stabilize your wounds and stop you from dying.  The Meditation roll is a DC10 regardless of how bad your injuries are.  This feat also allows you to use your Meditation skill as a synergistic bonus to Concentration checks.

·         Feign Death [General] – prerequisite: 10 ranks of meditation skill.  You are able to use your Meditation skill to attain a near death state.  Use of this feat is a full round action and you must make a successful meditation roll against a DC20, +5 if you are wounded, +10 if you are disabled.  Attempts to determine your actual status (live or dead) constitute a Notice check resisted by your Bluff skill (with a synergistic bonus from Meditation of +2/5 ranks).