In an upcoming XCrawl (dungeon crawling as a sport) game I'm playing in (using the Pathfinder rules with the legacy 3.5ed stuff grandfathered in where it works) I'm looking to play a Dwarf Barbarian/Fist of the Forest mountain man (he's working towards Bear Warrior). Unfortunately Fist of the Forest has pretty steep feat prerequisites including Great Fortitude along with two other far more useful feats. Apart from the feat requirements I can get in at level 5 but unfortunately as a Dwarf I only get two feats by then, delaying entry until the level after when I get my 5th level feat. Are there any variants, traits, character backgrounds or class/racial features I can trade away to get Great Fortitude as a bonus feat instead?
I'm far more used to D&D 3.5 than Pathfinder but it seems to have some extra stuff around traits and character backgrounds that make races and characters a bit more differentiable that I don't know much about but was hoping might have the answer.
I've already asked my DM about taking a flaw to gain a bonus feat but unfortunately he nixed that idea. The other obvious answer is to play a human which gets the required number of feats just fine. I'd rather not do that if there's any way around it though - playing a dwarf seems more fun and a better fit for the character.
Any ideas or do I need to suck it up and choose between delaying entry to fist of the forest for a level or switching race to human?
I'm far more used to D&D 3.5 than Pathfinder but it seems to have some extra stuff around traits and character backgrounds that make races and characters a bit more differentiable that I don't know much about but was hoping might have the answer.
I've already asked my DM about taking a flaw to gain a bonus feat but unfortunately he nixed that idea. The other obvious answer is to play a human which gets the required number of feats just fine. I'd rather not do that if there's any way around it though - playing a dwarf seems more fun and a better fit for the character.
Any ideas or do I need to suck it up and choose between delaying entry to fist of the forest for a level or switching race to human?