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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1025576" data-attributes="member: 707">This makes sense.  If for any reason you lose the prerequisites for a feat, you lose access to that feat.  So unless you were proficient with a morningstar (a prerequisite for focus) then you'd have Weapon Focus (morningstar) but not be able to use it.  Luckily, the morningstar is a simple weapon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But if you gained the Weapon Focus as a racial feat, you should also gain the Alertness, no?Yes, but my reasoning is as follows:1.  The bugbear entry lists two feats: Alertness and Weapon Focus (Morningstar).2.  The characters section explains that Bugbears gain two feats as racial feats.3.  Thus, the two feats listed in the bugbear entry are racial feats.4.  The description of Alter Self says that the caster gains racial feats.5.  Thus, a character using Alter Self to become a bugbear should gain its two racial feats, Alertness and Weapon Focus (morningstar).Or so it would seem.</blockquote>