Wealth feat?

[the Jester]

I have this feat in my game:

INHERITANCE (General)
You receive something of value.
Benefit: You gain an inheritance. This may be (at your option) money, land, or a single object (magical or mundane) worth up to 50% of the average wealth of a pc of your level.


Nobody's taken it yet...

 

[exempt]

I think Nifft or Scion have the right idea because their feat ideas are useful to you even at higher levels I I took a one-shot wealth feat at level 1, it woud be nearly useless to me at level 5, say (I wasted a feat on just 500gp?! ). So, feats that give and keep on giving are probably better choices, unless you plan on playing a short campaign in which characters don't gain maby levels.

 

[Nifft]

Another thing that I do is give "secret leveled items" to those who choose the Wealth feat. They get an heirloom of power, but it's an unknown (to them). It reveals itself as they level up and do things appropriate to activate it.

E.g.: a familiy of aristocrats with many paladins (in service of the Sun God) whose source of wealth is a vinyard grants its youngest son a rune-carved Mithral longsword +1 (at level 3). Secretly, it's really an intelligent artifact +5 Holy Flaming Burst Keen Mithral Longsword, but those aspects won't be revealed until the blade is "awakened", which happens in steps, depending on character level and actions.

(For example, the PC killed a bunch of Salamanders and some Devils, so he awakened the Flaming and Holy aspects of the sword. If he'd had some great critical hits -- say, five over the course of a single fight -- he could have awakened the Keen aspect instead.)

-- N