Amechra
2014-03-20, 12:03 PM
Slicing Step [Fighter]
You strike your opponents with a speed and grace... almost in the middle of your stride.
Prerequisites: BAB +1, Dex 13
Benefit: Whenever you charge an enemy, you may choose to continue moving after making your attack, up to your normal limit on movement; this additional movement is subject to the same limits as the initial movement made as part of a charge. In addition, Iajutsu Focus is always a class skill for you.
Special: This feat counts as both Dodge and Mobility for the purposes of qualifying for Spring Attack and any feat that has Spring Attack as a prerequisite.
Lightning Stride [Fighter]
You move so quickly, people don't see the first hit coming.
Prerequisites: Slicing Step, Iajutsu Focus 9 ranks.
Benefits: Creatures are flat-footed against the first attack you make against them as part of a charge. In addition, you may sheathe your weapon as a free action at the end of a charge.
Special: If you have the Spring Attack feat, the benefits of this feat extend to attacks made as part of a Spring Attack.
Heart of the Razor [Fighter][Ambush]
You are hellishly experienced with a good blade.
Prerequisites: Slicing Step, Iajutsu Focus 6 ranks.
Benefits: For the purpose of prerequisites, you are treated as having a number of Sneak Attack dice equal to 1/3 your Iajutsu Focus ranks; in addition, you may treat damage dice gained by using Iajutsu Focus as Sneak Attack dice for the purposes of Ambush Feats.
Special: A Fighter that takes this feat treats Ambush Feats as Fighter Bonus Feats for all intents and purposes.
Thousand Blade Fountain [Fighter]
Your speed and grace is nothing short of amazing.
Prerequisites: Bounding Assault, Slicing Step
Benefits: Any additional attacks you gain when using Spring Attack also apply while charging. In addition, you may use Spring Attack as a move action; if you do so, you must forgo any additional attacks after the first.
Rushing River Blade [Fighter][Tactical]
Watching you fight is like watching poetry in motion.
Prerequisites: Spring Attack, Iajutsu Focus 9 ranks.
Benefits: This feat enables the following three tactical options:
Twisting Stream Motions: While you are using Spring Attack, you may use Iajutsu Focus checks in place of Balance or Tumble checks for all purposes.
Terrible Onrushing Waterfall: On any round in which you use Spring Attack, your base land speed increases by 10'.
Tranquil Mountain Pool: On any round in which you make a successful Iajutsu Focus check, you ignore all morale penalties and fear effects you might be subject to.
Beautiful Blade Artist [Fighter]
Your fighting style is absolutely gorgeous.
Prerequisites: BAB +1, Cha 13, Perform (Weapon Drill) 4 ranks
Benefits: You gain the Bardic Music class feature of a 1st level Bard; however, you do not gain the Countersong ability, and your Inspire Courage only applies to yourself. Your Inspire Courage is based off of Perform (Weapon Drill), ignoring the normal prohibition on the use of that skill.
Special: If you already have the Bardic Music class feature upon taking this feat, you may base it off Perform (Weapon Drill), and gain two extra daily uses of Bardic Music.
Elegant Battle Ballet [Fighter]
Your footwork is immaculate, as are the tiny slices you turn your enemies into.
Prerequisites: Beautiful Blade Artist, Cha 15
Benefits: You may make a melee attack as part of the standard action you make to start or sustain Inspire Courage.
Disapproving War Waltz [Fighter]
Your blade is sufficient repartee to almost any argument.
Prerequisites: Beautiful Blade Artist, BAB +2
Benefits: You gain the ability to use Countersong with your Bardic Music ability; in addition, whenever you activate Inspire Courage, you may also activate Countersong as part of the same action for free; if you do so, it only applies to you, rather than every creature within 30' that can hear you.
Vicious Critic [Fighter]
There is nothing you tolerate less than a poor performance.
Prerequisites: Countersong, BAB +4, Combat Expertise
Benefits: Any creature that uses a Sonic or Language-Dependent effect provokes an attack of opportunity from you. In addition, you are considered to not speak any languages for the purposes of any Language Dependent effect you might encounter.
Choral Razor Cantata [Fighter]
You can cut someone with the razor of your song and dance.
Prerequisite: Bardic Music, Perform 9 ranks
Benefits: You may choose to make attacks with your voice treat your voice as a whip, except that it does not require the use of your hands, it deals Lethal Sonic damage, you do not add your Strength bonus to damage, you add your Charisma bonus to attack rolls instead of Strength, and does not provoke an attack of opportunity. Attacking with your voice is a Sonic effect.
In addition, on any round in which you are under the effects of Inspire Courage, you may make attacks of opportunity with your voice against any creature within your reach, and you may deal damage to a creature regardles of their armor or natural armor bonus to AC.
Gorgeous Freedom Song
Your voice instills yearnings for freedom in the hearts of men, and clears their ensorcelled minds.
Prerequisite: Bardic Music, Countersong, Perform 6 ranks.
Benefits: The effects of Countersong extend to encompass Mind Affecting Abilities in addition to Sonic and Language-Dependent effects.
Understanding Through Violence [Fighter]
Sometimes, the best way to understand a man is by feeling his jaw break under your knuckles.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Int 13
Benefits: Whenever you make an unarmed melee attack against a creature, you may choose to gain the benefits of making a Knowledge check against that creature, using the result of your attack roll plus your Intelligence modifier instead of the relevant Knowledge check.
Special: You are considered to have a number of ranks in all Knowledge skills equal to your BAB + 3 for the purposes of prerequisites.
Imposter-Revealing Strike [Fighter]
Sometimes, being a detective involves breaking someone's kneecaps. It's the fun part!
Prerequisites: Understanding Through Violence, Int 13
Benefits: When using this feat's prerequisite, you may choose to forgo the normal benefits to instead automatically break any disguise they are using whose Disguise check is lower than the result of your attack roll plus your Intelligence modifier and any bonuses you would get to your Spot check due to familiarity with the subject. If you break a disguise in this manner, everyone who can see the subject is considered to have automatically made their Spot check.
Reading Light Caresses [Fighter]
A nice firm handshake can tell you a lot about a person. A lot.
Prerequisites: Understanding Through Violence, BAB +6.
Benefits: Whenever you make skin-to-skin contact with a creature, you may make a melee touch attack as an immediate action; if you do so, the attack deals no damage, but you automatically apply the benefits of Understanding Through Violence to that attack.
Expressing My Displeasure [Fighter]
"I am extremely sad at this development; let me tell you how sad I am by punching your gut raw and bloody."
Prerequisites: Understanding Through Violence, Int 15
Benefit: You are able to give earily accurate messages through violence; people simply understand in the way you break their bones.
Whenever you use Understanding Through Violence, you may forgo the normal benefit to instead make a Bluff check to communicate a secret message (http://dndsrd.net/skillsCha.html), using the result of your attack roll plus your Intelligence modifier in place of a Bluff check; you do not have to share a language with the creature you're attacking. Everyone understands the language of pain, after all.
In addition, whenever you use a standard action to Feint, you may make a single melee attack against the creature that you are attempting to feint.
Blade Flick Study [Fighter]
You can tell a lot about a man by how he bleeds when you stick 'im.
Prerequisites: Understanding Through Violence, Int 13
Benefits: You may use Understanding Through Violence with any melee weapon; in addition, whenever you make a successful attack, you may forgo the normal benefit of Understanding Through Violence to become proficient with the weapon you are wielding. This does not grant proficiency to all weapons of that type, just the particular one you are using. This explicitly allows you to become proficient with improvised weapons.
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Also, as long as we are doing homebrew, replace the Prerequisites: line of Bounding Assault and Rapid Blitz with the following:
Bounding Assault
Prerequisites: Spring Attack, BAB +8
Rapid Blitz
Prerequisites: Bounding Assault BAB +12
I have a few more ideas for feats extending off Beautiful Blade Artist... but those'll have to wait.
PEACHes are appreciated!
You strike your opponents with a speed and grace... almost in the middle of your stride.
Prerequisites: BAB +1, Dex 13
Benefit: Whenever you charge an enemy, you may choose to continue moving after making your attack, up to your normal limit on movement; this additional movement is subject to the same limits as the initial movement made as part of a charge. In addition, Iajutsu Focus is always a class skill for you.
Special: This feat counts as both Dodge and Mobility for the purposes of qualifying for Spring Attack and any feat that has Spring Attack as a prerequisite.
Lightning Stride [Fighter]
You move so quickly, people don't see the first hit coming.
Prerequisites: Slicing Step, Iajutsu Focus 9 ranks.
Benefits: Creatures are flat-footed against the first attack you make against them as part of a charge. In addition, you may sheathe your weapon as a free action at the end of a charge.
Special: If you have the Spring Attack feat, the benefits of this feat extend to attacks made as part of a Spring Attack.
Heart of the Razor [Fighter][Ambush]
You are hellishly experienced with a good blade.
Prerequisites: Slicing Step, Iajutsu Focus 6 ranks.
Benefits: For the purpose of prerequisites, you are treated as having a number of Sneak Attack dice equal to 1/3 your Iajutsu Focus ranks; in addition, you may treat damage dice gained by using Iajutsu Focus as Sneak Attack dice for the purposes of Ambush Feats.
Special: A Fighter that takes this feat treats Ambush Feats as Fighter Bonus Feats for all intents and purposes.
Thousand Blade Fountain [Fighter]
Your speed and grace is nothing short of amazing.
Prerequisites: Bounding Assault, Slicing Step
Benefits: Any additional attacks you gain when using Spring Attack also apply while charging. In addition, you may use Spring Attack as a move action; if you do so, you must forgo any additional attacks after the first.
Rushing River Blade [Fighter][Tactical]
Watching you fight is like watching poetry in motion.
Prerequisites: Spring Attack, Iajutsu Focus 9 ranks.
Benefits: This feat enables the following three tactical options:
Twisting Stream Motions: While you are using Spring Attack, you may use Iajutsu Focus checks in place of Balance or Tumble checks for all purposes.
Terrible Onrushing Waterfall: On any round in which you use Spring Attack, your base land speed increases by 10'.
Tranquil Mountain Pool: On any round in which you make a successful Iajutsu Focus check, you ignore all morale penalties and fear effects you might be subject to.
Beautiful Blade Artist [Fighter]
Your fighting style is absolutely gorgeous.
Prerequisites: BAB +1, Cha 13, Perform (Weapon Drill) 4 ranks
Benefits: You gain the Bardic Music class feature of a 1st level Bard; however, you do not gain the Countersong ability, and your Inspire Courage only applies to yourself. Your Inspire Courage is based off of Perform (Weapon Drill), ignoring the normal prohibition on the use of that skill.
Special: If you already have the Bardic Music class feature upon taking this feat, you may base it off Perform (Weapon Drill), and gain two extra daily uses of Bardic Music.
Elegant Battle Ballet [Fighter]
Your footwork is immaculate, as are the tiny slices you turn your enemies into.
Prerequisites: Beautiful Blade Artist, Cha 15
Benefits: You may make a melee attack as part of the standard action you make to start or sustain Inspire Courage.
Disapproving War Waltz [Fighter]
Your blade is sufficient repartee to almost any argument.
Prerequisites: Beautiful Blade Artist, BAB +2
Benefits: You gain the ability to use Countersong with your Bardic Music ability; in addition, whenever you activate Inspire Courage, you may also activate Countersong as part of the same action for free; if you do so, it only applies to you, rather than every creature within 30' that can hear you.
Vicious Critic [Fighter]
There is nothing you tolerate less than a poor performance.
Prerequisites: Countersong, BAB +4, Combat Expertise
Benefits: Any creature that uses a Sonic or Language-Dependent effect provokes an attack of opportunity from you. In addition, you are considered to not speak any languages for the purposes of any Language Dependent effect you might encounter.
Choral Razor Cantata [Fighter]
You can cut someone with the razor of your song and dance.
Prerequisite: Bardic Music, Perform 9 ranks
Benefits: You may choose to make attacks with your voice treat your voice as a whip, except that it does not require the use of your hands, it deals Lethal Sonic damage, you do not add your Strength bonus to damage, you add your Charisma bonus to attack rolls instead of Strength, and does not provoke an attack of opportunity. Attacking with your voice is a Sonic effect.
In addition, on any round in which you are under the effects of Inspire Courage, you may make attacks of opportunity with your voice against any creature within your reach, and you may deal damage to a creature regardles of their armor or natural armor bonus to AC.
Gorgeous Freedom Song
Your voice instills yearnings for freedom in the hearts of men, and clears their ensorcelled minds.
Prerequisite: Bardic Music, Countersong, Perform 6 ranks.
Benefits: The effects of Countersong extend to encompass Mind Affecting Abilities in addition to Sonic and Language-Dependent effects.
Understanding Through Violence [Fighter]
Sometimes, the best way to understand a man is by feeling his jaw break under your knuckles.
Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Int 13
Benefits: Whenever you make an unarmed melee attack against a creature, you may choose to gain the benefits of making a Knowledge check against that creature, using the result of your attack roll plus your Intelligence modifier instead of the relevant Knowledge check.
Special: You are considered to have a number of ranks in all Knowledge skills equal to your BAB + 3 for the purposes of prerequisites.
Imposter-Revealing Strike [Fighter]
Sometimes, being a detective involves breaking someone's kneecaps. It's the fun part!
Prerequisites: Understanding Through Violence, Int 13
Benefits: When using this feat's prerequisite, you may choose to forgo the normal benefits to instead automatically break any disguise they are using whose Disguise check is lower than the result of your attack roll plus your Intelligence modifier and any bonuses you would get to your Spot check due to familiarity with the subject. If you break a disguise in this manner, everyone who can see the subject is considered to have automatically made their Spot check.
Reading Light Caresses [Fighter]
A nice firm handshake can tell you a lot about a person. A lot.
Prerequisites: Understanding Through Violence, BAB +6.
Benefits: Whenever you make skin-to-skin contact with a creature, you may make a melee touch attack as an immediate action; if you do so, the attack deals no damage, but you automatically apply the benefits of Understanding Through Violence to that attack.
Expressing My Displeasure [Fighter]
"I am extremely sad at this development; let me tell you how sad I am by punching your gut raw and bloody."
Prerequisites: Understanding Through Violence, Int 15
Benefit: You are able to give earily accurate messages through violence; people simply understand in the way you break their bones.
Whenever you use Understanding Through Violence, you may forgo the normal benefit to instead make a Bluff check to communicate a secret message (http://dndsrd.net/skillsCha.html), using the result of your attack roll plus your Intelligence modifier in place of a Bluff check; you do not have to share a language with the creature you're attacking. Everyone understands the language of pain, after all.
In addition, whenever you use a standard action to Feint, you may make a single melee attack against the creature that you are attempting to feint.
Blade Flick Study [Fighter]
You can tell a lot about a man by how he bleeds when you stick 'im.
Prerequisites: Understanding Through Violence, Int 13
Benefits: You may use Understanding Through Violence with any melee weapon; in addition, whenever you make a successful attack, you may forgo the normal benefit of Understanding Through Violence to become proficient with the weapon you are wielding. This does not grant proficiency to all weapons of that type, just the particular one you are using. This explicitly allows you to become proficient with improvised weapons.
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Also, as long as we are doing homebrew, replace the Prerequisites: line of Bounding Assault and Rapid Blitz with the following:
Bounding Assault
Prerequisites: Spring Attack, BAB +8
Rapid Blitz
Prerequisites: Bounding Assault BAB +12
I have a few more ideas for feats extending off Beautiful Blade Artist... but those'll have to wait.
PEACHes are appreciated!