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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2532989" data-attributes="member: 23094">No, it's not plausible.There are two possibilities.One: Every feat can be taken multiple times.  The ones that have special language discussing what happens when you take it multiple times merely modify that rule.For instance:So, I can take Self-Sufficient multiple times, and each time I gain a +2 bonus to Heal and Survival checks (they're unnamed bonuses, and so they stack).However, I can only take Skill Focus (Survival) once, and it provides an unnamed +3 bonus to Survival checks.  If I want to take Skill Focus again, it needs to be in something other than Survival.Two:  When a feat says in its Special line, "You can gain this feat multiple times," it is doing so because, as a general rule, you cannot take the same feat multiple times.  Therefore, unless the feat specifies so, you cannot take it multiple times.The problem with interpretation one is that it makes the first one (or two) sentence(s) of the Special line completely useless.  Why should they call out "You may take this feat multiple times" if, in fact, that's the general case?Under such a rules paradigm, Skill Focus's Special line would read:It doesn't.Moreover ...Now, you'll notice that the particular table this is referring analogously to is not present in the SRD.  That would be the table in the PHB which has listing of all the feats, those which can be taken multiple times marked by a specific footnote.  You'll notice that most of the feats don't carry that footnote.Feats may only be taken once unless it is specifically called out that they may be taken multiple times.You interpretation not only is not "the best or only," it's not even valid.</blockquote>

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