Can you take Iron Will more than once?

[Aluvial]

Basically can you take this type of feat more than once and have the bonuses stack?

Aluvial

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Noooooooo.

Edit: No feat may be taken more than once unless such a thing is specifically stated in the description of the feat. You may want to look at other feats that grant you a bonus to your will saves (luck of heroes and bull-headed spring to mind, although I'm not sure about the second one)

AR

 

[Crothian]

IF your DM allows there are othe feats that improve will save in different optional books.

 

[Planesdragon]

Basically can you take this type of feat more than once and have the bonuses stack?

In pure-rules D&D? No.

In my game? Yep. You can take a number of feats multiple times, up to three. A +6 to one save isn't that bad--and I balance it out by making "Items of Resistance", which grant bonuses to all saves, harder to come by.

I may just wind up making the items to aid in saving throws "feat" items; so, a "diadem of Iron will +6" would give the user the power of three Iron WIll feats, which wouldn't stack with any feats they already have.

OTOH, if you want to be really nasty in D&D, just multiclass.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

OTOH, if you want to be really nasty in D&D, just multiclass.

And end up with high saves and very, very poor BAB

AR

 

[Quirhid]

Short answer: No.

I have to agree. There's no point in having more than just one Iron Will feat. It makes your character too overpowering when dealing with saves. There isn't much fun in playing a character that cannot die from spells. The excitement from playing comes from near-death experiments.

It's not fun to play god, is it?

 

[thorian]

One way to increase your will save after you've taken Iron Will is to take the feat Cumbrous Will from Savage Species. You choose to activate it before you roll your save, then it adds +6 to your will saves, but after its use, you are shaken until the end of the encounter. Of course shaken is much better than dominated!

 

[Prism]

Edit: No feat may be taken more than once unless such a thing is specifically stated in the description of the feat.
AR

Nowwhere does it say you cannot take a feat more than once. What it does say however is that if you do take a feat more than once its effects do not stack unless indicated. Generally this means the same thing as you said where the PHB feats are concerned, but other feats from other sources are not always as well described

 

[Sejs]

I have to agree. There's no point in having more than just one Iron Will feat. It makes your character too overpowering when dealing with saves.

I've got to disagree with you there. Class with bad will saves (say, fighter) + Iron Will once does not equal a class with good will saves, let alone outstrip it.

Anyway, by the rules no, you can't take Iron Will more than once.

If you run it by a DM and the DM says sure what the heck, go for it, then you could, however.

IMO, a character being defined by their abilities, in this case having a good will save from spending feats to that end, rather than relying on magic items to carry the weight for them, is a good thing.

 

[Falling Icicle]

Nowwhere does it say you cannot take a feat more than once. What it does say however is that if you do take a feat more than once its effects do not stack unless indicated. Generally this means the same thing as you said where the PHB feats are concerned, but other feats from other sources are not always as well described

I have to disagree. If feats could be taken more than once as a general rule, there would be no need for any feat to specify that it can be. Every feat which can be taken multiple times clearly says so in its description, and also indicates what effect it has to purchase it more then once. Iron Will is not one of them.