Herioc feats

[Ferrix]

Heroism.
You react when needed.
You may take a partial action at any point in combat which is resolved as a readied action. After this action you are considered flat footed until your next action. (This is the case even if a special ability normally prevents you from being considered flat footed.) If the heroic action is taken before your normal initiative, your next action is the following round on your normal initiative. If you have already acted in the round you take your heroic action, you take no action the following round and act on your modified initiative the round after that. You may use heroism once per day, plus once for every two points of natural charisma modifier if positive. If you take this feat a second time you gain only one more use of heroism.

Perhaps base this off of the feat in the WoT book called Heroic Surge, it would be based off of character level per day (1 + 1 per 4 or 5 levels) Only able to be taken once. I might also add a prerequisite of Improved Initiative or something along those lines (maybe) to emphasize the mastered reaction time.

Flying leap. Prereq - heroism, speed 40 or less.
You move farther than you normally could for one action.
When executing a charge or partial charge, your base speed increases by 10 ft plus 5 ft for each point of Cha bonus, if positive. At the end of your action, you are prone until your next initiative even if you can stand from prone as a free action.

Don't like this one because of your prerequisite of speed 40 or less, it's the same as benefiting a character with a low ability score because of it being low. And ditch the heroism requirement, I could see any character being able to do this. Make it usable once per day, plus once per point of Con modifier and make the bonus a flat bonus, like half your normal base movement. So for a base move of 30, you'd get +15 or something of the sort. Also, the whole prone bit I could see for the "leap" but you mention nothing about leaping in the feat so I'd drop the prone affect, and add the penalty of being flat-footed till your next action like Heroism.

NOOOOO!!!! Prereq - heroism.
You interpose yourself between an ally and danger.
When an ally is struck by a melee, ranged or area attack which you are not also subject to, you may make a grapple attempt against the ally. If successful, the ally takes no damage from the attack and you take maximum damage.

Again drop the Heroism prereq. Add these requirements, ally must be within your reach and you must not have acted yet this round or you must be able to act (i.e. heroism). Touch attack against your ally. Same results.

Those are my thoughts on those three, I do agree with you about having heroic feats and a lot of times I'll let a player perform some heroic action if it hits it up with the plot without a feat or whatnot. But that's usually for flair and heroic effect.

~Ferrix

 

[Privateer]

Personally, I would allow NOOO!!!! to be used without a feat. I really can't think of anyone that would think ahead about sacrificing themselves. I also can't think of someone who would take a feat like this rather then, say, Weapon Focus. Yes, yes, it's a roleplaying feat -- but still, even the biggest roleplaying ham chooses his feats carefully -- if you want NOOO!!! to be heroic, it shouldn't be commonly used, like other feats.

 

[Vexed]

WOT?

"Perhaps base this off of the feat in the WoT book called Heroic Surge" -Ferrex

I have someone who is using Heroic Surge in my game. I allowed the feat, but he can not remember where he found it. What is "WOT" ? Anyone?

Much Appreciated!

P.S.
My player uses this feat to his full advantage! He has a 19th level caster and w/haste casts multiple times a round!!!

 

[Kosh]

WoT = Wheel of Time...

If I rememeber clearly...