(total frustration) There MUST be an Extra Feats Academy around somewhere here ...

[Edena_of_Neith]

I don't agree with the idea of the Feat Master (despite my humorous question above about Feat Colleges.) Unless an Anything College exists.

What I was actually referring to, was a way to accelerate a character's training (without using the gestalt rules.) By some means, be it drawing from incarnum, psionics, or other inner power, or from universal chaos, magic, divinity, and other external power, I was looking for a school that reinforced the character.
Any fighter could benefit from a fighter feat, obviously. The more he has, the more powerful he becomes.
Any wizard could benefit from a metamagic feat, obviously. The more she has, the more powerful she becomes.

The PrCs I am reading about, are about this. They allow the character to draw upon internal or external power, or upon group power and group lore (as well as group resources) to advance himself. But not in feats, usually. Generally, this advancement takes the form of special abilities or extensions of class abilities.

 

[philreed]

I'm hearing of more and more groups that take a new feat every level (or every even level) but I've never tried it myself. Maybe someone with experience in this could fill us in on how it impacts their game.

 

[mara]

(looks mighty frustrated)
Ok, I'm down to this humorous question: Is there an Extra Feat Academy for Player Characters out there somewhere in Greyhawk, FR, Dragonlance, Eberron, or Kalamar?!

Kalamar's Villian Design Handbook has Anti-Feats, which are sort of like flaws. Anti-Alertness would give you skill penalties instead of bonuses, for example. The concept was a little wobbly in practice because some feats don't make much sense when "reversed."

-Mara

 

[el-remmen]

Whaddya want more feats for?

Just make the best character you can. Even the great Edena of Neith did not become 136th level in a day. . .

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

I often go for characters who get a feat of some type every level, or almost every level. It usually turns out quite effective.

WotC's d20 Modern is the Feat Academy you asked after.

Its six Base Classes each give a feat at every even level, and its (easy-to-access) Advanced Classes give one at every third level. All of these are fully compatible with D&D/fantasy d20.

IIRC, I went something like:

Dwarf
Ranger 1 (Track, 1st level feat)
Ranger 2 (Two-Weapon Fighting)
(d20 Modern) Fast Hero (3rd level feat)
Fighter 1 (bonus feat)
(d20 Modern) Soldier (Weapon Focus)
(d20 Modern) Soldier (Weapon Specialization, 6th level feat)
Fighter 2 (bonus feat)
(d20 Modern) Fast Hero (bonus feat)
Fighter 3 (9th level feat)
Soldier 3 (bonus feat)

So, even though I started as a dwarf rather than human, I had 12 feats at 10th level, while still getting some useful abilities (like Evasion from the Fast Hero). Just as important, I had a constant stream of feats, as opposed to the "burst of feats" the human monk/fighter gets.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

People are increasingly allowing 1 feat per level, in addition to the normal feats?

 

[ForceUser]

People are increasingly allowing 1 feat per level, in addition to the normal feats?

Nobody I know.

 

[Eternalknight]

I'm hearing of more and more groups that take a new feat every level (or every even level) but I've never tried it myself. Maybe someone with experience in this could fill us in on how it impacts their game.

We are using a feat every level, but then we are also using the generic Unerathed Arcana classes. That kind of balances it out.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

(look of amazement)

MoogleEmpMog, congratulations!

Thus:

Character creation: take 2 flaws, gain 2 feats
Character creation: 1 feat at the start + 1 feat if human
1st level:
2nd level: Feat (as per d20 modern rules)
3rd level: Feat (as per PH 3.5 rules)
4th level: Feat (as per d20 modern rules)
5th level: -
6th level: Feat (as per PH 3.5 rules) + Feat (as per d20 modern rules)
7th level: -
8th level: Feat (as per d20 modern rules)
9th level: Feat (as per PH 3.5 rules)
10th level: Feat (as per d20 modern rules)
11th level: -
12th level: Feat (as per PH 3.5 rules) + Feat (as per d20 modern rules.)

If fighter, fighter feats stack
If wizard, wizard feats stack
If rogue above 9th level, rogue feats stack
All other class abilities stack

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

I'm hearing of this PrC in the BOED that allows a feat every level. Some sort of Knight.
But then, you have to be an Exalted Character to access that.

EDIT: OMG. Sword of Righteousness. And it's not a class or PrC. It's a diversion of 3 levels, and grants THREE extra exalted feats, in ADDITION to level gained Feats. An officially sanctioned ... Feat Master PrC!!

EDIT: (grins) They just provided an nice little incentive to play an Exalted character there ...