Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
ShortQuests -- individual adventure modules! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed to plug in to your game.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cabral" data-source="post: 24315" data-attributes="member: 1193">See reply below for 3.5 UpdateI've been considering replacing the special mount and familiar class abilities with feats. Here are my initial thoughts:Invest Mount [General] You enhance your mount's natural intelligence and form a strong bond with it.Prerequisite: Ride skill 5 ranks, Handle Animal 10 ranks, ability to cast spells, Mounted Combat.Benefit: The mount gains 1 HD, +2 to natural armor, +1 strength, +4 Intelligence, share spells, share saving throws, and empathic link. The mount becomes a magical beast (recalculate BAB, Saves, and hit points for a magical beast)Saddle Expert [General]Prerequisite: Ride Skill 10 ranks, Improved Initiative, empathic link with mount.Benefit: You grant your mount Improved Evasion while mounted.Gifted Mount [General]Your training allows your mount excell beyond the abilities of others of its kind.Prerequisite: Invest Mount, Skill Focus (Handle Animal)Benefit: The mount gains +2 Intelligence, 1 HD, and +1 to any ability per 4 full hit dice above the minimum for its size.Hardy Mount [General]Your training enhances your mounts toughnessPrerequisite: Invest Mount, Skill Focus (Handle Animal)Benefit: The mount's natural armor bonus improves by 4 and the mount gains +2 Strength, +2 Constitution, and +2 HD.Master of Beasts [General]Your mount can rally animals of its type.Prerequisite: Invest Mount, Mount Charisma 13+Benefit: The mount gains the Command ability.Summon Familiar [General] You summon a magic creature to be your companion.Prerequisite: Handle Animal 5 ranks, Ability to cast first level spells.Benefit: You summon a Tiny or smaller animal to be your familiar, the type changes to Magical Beast (recalculate BAB, Saves, and hit points for a magical beast) and it gains +2 to natural armor, +6 Intelligence, share spells and empathic link. The familiar becomes a magical beast (recalculate BAB, Saves, and hit points for a magical beast) You may spend a language point to learn your familiar's language. You familiar has half your hit points and considered as having a number of hit dice equal to your level.Familiar Coduit [General]You can cast touch spells through your familiar.Prerequisite: Ability to cast second level spells, Summon Familiar.Benefit: You can use the familiar to deliver touch spells; you must be in contact with the familiar when the spell is cast.Great Familiar [General]Prerequisite: Summon Familiar, Ability to cast 3rd level Transmutation spells.Benefit: Your familiar grows by one size category.Gifted Familiar [General]Your training allows your Familiar to excell beyond the abilities of others of its kind.Prerequisite: Summon Familiar, Handle Animal 10 ranks, Skill Focus (Handle Animal)Benefit: The Familiar gains +4 Intelligence, +1 to any ability per 4 full hit dice above the minimum for its size.These are just the starting point and need a lot of work. Perhaps they can be consolidated to allow for a lot of flexibility.</blockquote>

Verification