Aquiring new feats

[krunchyfrogg]

Do you just get to pick a new feat when the time comes, or does it require any special training? Does it need to "make sense" or can any feat be chosen.

I ask because I thought it would be alright to just choose a feat, as long as it reasonably made sense. But one time I was in a pbem game, and the DM required special training for every new feat (which, incidentally, would take a few weeks to master). This turned out to be a real PITA, since I was playing a Fighter.

 

[Arnwyn]

Heh. See my response in your 'class' thread.

(Summary: Our group uses special training rules for most feats before they can be taken; we have it delineated which feats require training to take and which don't. It's what our group prefers, though it's probably not suitable for other groups.)

 

[Crothian]

No special training, take whatever feat you qualify for. We even do a feat a level instead of every three.

 

[el-remmen]

It is easier for me to provide a link to how we handle it in the games I run than to re-explain it here: http://aquerra.wikispaces.com/Advancement

 

[amethal]

If you qualify for it, you can have it, unless its on my list of banned feats.

(Which is a pretty short list - the "sudden" metamagic feats, and any psionic related ones.)

 

[blargney the second]

We don't bother with training. Once you've got the XP, you can level up. (Even in the middle of a dungeon without rest.)

 

[Lorgrom]

We also do the once you gain enough exp you can level without training or cost. We assume that while you are gaining the exp you are doing your training, not after you have gained it.

 

[KB9JMQ]

No special training, take whatever feat you qualify for. We even do a feat a level instead of every three.

Exactly what we do now.

 

[Delta]

But one time I was in a pbem game, and the DM required special training for every new feat (which, incidentally, would take a few weeks to master). This turned out to be a real PITA, since I was playing a Fighter.

That's a published variant rule in the DMG (which rather simulates prior edition levelling rules), I rather like it myself. It's in 3.0 DMG p. 41, "Variant: Learning Skills and Feats".

 

[Masquerade]

Ditto Crothian and KB9JMQ. Feat every level, no training.