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Mystic Muse
2010-02-06, 12:39 AM
Okay. My friend informs me that if at next level, if I retrain this one feat I can also retrain my other two feats since without that one feat I don't qualify for those other two.
Is this true? I can't seem to find it anywhere in the section on feats.:smallconfused:
nepphi
2010-02-06, 12:55 AM
It is not true. The retraining RAW is as follows:
"You can't replace a feat if it's a prerequisite for any other attribute you have (another feat or a paragon class for example),..."
[p 28, PHB]
If he's willing to make it a house rule of course, that's one thing, but RAW does not support his claim. You would have to retrain those feats individually until the base feat was no longer a prerequisite, then you could retrain it aside.
DabblerWizard
2010-02-06, 08:57 AM
Okay. My friend informs me that if at next level, if I retrain this one feat I can also retrain my other two feats since without that one feat I don't qualify for those other two.
Is this true? I can't seem to find it anywhere in the section on feats.:smallconfused:
Nepphi's explanation was somewhat confusing. Let me rephrase.
Using the same quotation as Nepphi presented.
You would have to look in the phb 1 on retraining rules, not under feats specifically.
Your scenario seems to be this: I want to retrain Feat A, but it leads to Feats B and C.
According to RAW, Since Feat A leads to B, and C, you have to retrain B, and C first, one at at time, one per level of retraining. Afterward, or three levels from now, you can retrain A.
If my player had reasonably decided that they want to retrain a certain feat, I'd let them retrain a stack of feats if it cascaded like yours does. Maybe I'm too nice.
Sinon
2010-02-06, 09:54 AM
You are very nice for those cascading feats. :smallwink:
For those of us who are not as nice: Strictly speaking, page 28 of the PHB reads, "You can make only one change at each level."
And further: "You can’t replace a feat if it’s a prerequisite for any other attribute you have (another feat or a paragon path, for example)"
So, if you had a chain of feats, you’d have to retrain the last link, the one most recently acquired, and wait until next level, retrain another, and so forth.
tbarrie
2010-02-06, 09:58 AM
Okay. My friend informs me that if at next level, if I retrain this one feat I can also retrain my other two feats since without that one feat I don't qualify for those other two.
Is this true? I can't seem to find it anywhere in the section on feats.:smallconfused:
Is the friend in question your DM? If so, it's true. (But as others have pointed out, it's not true in the standard rules.)
Mystic Muse
2010-02-06, 10:07 AM
No. If it was the DM I wouldn't be asking. It's another player. I don't know where he got the idea though.
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