Magic Items That Grant the Wearers/Users Feats

[saucercrab]

I'm researching the creation of a couple magic items that would bestow the benefits of feats. As such, I'm looking for official magic items that do this. I want to take a look at the requirements, pricing, etc. as examples.

So far, all I've found are the mighty cleaving weapon special ability, & a staff in Magic of Faerun that bestows the Improved Trip feat.

Are there any others out there? Don't have to be weapons, either.

 

[Legildur]

Wow, I was going to blindly post that some intelligent items grant the ability of certain feats, but a quick scan of the 3.5 SRD shows I was wrong. Maybe that was the case under 3.0?

Anyway, I distinctly recall seeing some very well thought out and priced rules for exactly this under 3.0. But this was a few years ago and I can't find the thread/site in my bookmarks. IIRC the guy's name was Len, and it may have been a thread on EnWorld... But it was a long time ago.

 

[Blue]

My rule of thumb is one fo the ioun stones that grant the Alertness feat for 10,000 gp. I assume since this is a slotless item, a "correctly slotted" item bases costs 5000 gp.

On course, I also assume that is a base price for an feat that has no prequisites. Feats with prequisites probably cost more. The standard pricing would have it at 5000 x "number of pluses (1+requisite feats?)" squared, but that gets expensive. Boots of Spring Attack would cost 45,000gp by that logic, so I'm not sure if it holds or not.

Other items, I think one of the FR books had a bow that granted the precise shot feat, and a bridle that granted one of two riding related feats (granted one and if you had it already granted a different one). Don't have references or costs offhand though, sorry.

Good luck, let us know what you go with.

Cheers,
Blue

 

[saucercrab]

Thanks, guys. Guess I'll have to keep looking, then.

Of the two I did find, though, they didn't list the feat itself as a prerequisite. I'd think that that should be the case. I mean, a ring of jumping requires ranks in Jump. Then again, boots of elvenkind don't require any Move Silently ranks. Weird, huh?

 

[Li Shenron]

My rule of thumb is one fo the ioun stones that grant the Alertness feat for 10,000 gp. I assume since this is a slotless item, a "correctly slotted" item bases costs 5000 gp.

Mmm... I wouldn't use such an item as a base. Alertness is not a particularly worth feat compared to the majority. At least the "+s" should be worth differently (see item creation pricing rules for example). Then the reason to make an item which grants feat is probably not to give mere bonuses - which you can already get from other items - but feats which grant you a non-bonus ability, such as Cleave or Improved Trip from the examples.

 

[KarinsDad]

Ring of Evasion gives the Evasion feat.

Although not a feat, the Monk's Belt gives Monk special abilities to a non-Monk.

I tend to lump special abilities with feats.

Ditto for a Belt of Dwarvenkind which gives Dwarven special abilities to a non-Dwarf.

Boots of Striding and Springing give +10 to Speed (which is similar to the Speed of Thought feat).

Bracers of Armor (Lesser and Greater) bestow the ability to use a bow (Martial Weapon: Bow).

Any of the +5 Competence Bonus items (e.g. Cloak of Elvenkind, Gloves of Swimming and Climbing) are similar to the feats that give +2/+2 (or +3) to two skills (e.g. Deceitful). The only difference is that one is a competence bonus and the other is an unnamed bonus.

Hand of Glory allows a character to wear a third ring by taking up a necklace slot. This is a special ability about on par with a lesser feat at least.

Mantle of Faith grants Damage Reduction 5/evil, another special ability more potent than a feat (e.g. Greater Resiliency).

Vestment, Druid's grants one extra wild shape per day. The Extra Wild Shape feat grants two extra wild shapes per day.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Gloves of Arrow Snaring.

Of course, I think those are priced way on the lower end of "feat items." I tend to figure a starting range of 5,000 to 7,000 is usually a safe bet for "normal" feats.

Metamagic is, of course, an entirely different ball of wax.

 

[Wish]

Belt of Endurance from A&EG, 10000gp for a +2 enhancement bonus to Con and the Great Fortitude feat. Probably 6k for the feat, in that instance. Or 4k * 1.5 for it being the second, related ability, which would put the base price at 4k. I think that's reasonable for the lower end feats such as skill focus, the save feats, the +2/+2 skill feats. I would increase the cost for feats that have more direct combat utility, unless restricted in some way. A ring that gives the quick draw feat, for example, I'd price more highly than a scabbard that gives quick draw only for the single weapon stored within it. I'd start charging a lot of money for items that add more significant bonuses like a power attack belt or elusive target boots.

 

[Staffan]

My rule of thumb is one fo the ioun stones that grant the Alertness feat for 10,000 gp. I assume since this is a slotless item, a "correctly slotted" item bases costs 5000 gp.

I think 10,000 for the ioun stone that provides Alertness is a bit over the top. It's essentially just +2 to two skills, which should cost 2^2*100 + 2^2*100*1.5 (second ability) = 1,000 gp as a slotted item, or 2^2*100*2 (two bonuses)*2 (slotless) = 1,600 as a slotless item. Perhaps a little more, because of stacking with other items (like eyes of the eagle - maybe double the price for that, like Natural Armor and Deflection bonuses cost twice as much as Armor bonuses.

 

[Evilhalfling]

in the creating intelligent items section each feat adds +5,000 gp to the cost of the item -
which agrees with the rest of the examples.