Does this feat exist or am I just going out of my mind?

[Terumitsu]

For the past while now, I have been trying for the life of me to remember the name of some feat that I remember has some rather funny fluff requirements for you to keep the benefit of.

At this point I am starting to become unsure if it was a feat at all but maybe some magical effect from some tome or something...

Anyway, the most I can remember is that the fluff requirements are that you suffer nightmares ever few days as determined by dice and that at least a good portion of your character's clothing must be either grey or black else you don't gain the effect of the feat/magical thing/whatever for 24 hours.

I apologize that I cannot offer more than that for things to go on as I can't even remember if it was from a 3.5 or a Pathfinder source.

My thanks in advance for your time.

[holywhippet]

Closest I can find is this: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/UA:Live_My_Nightmare_%28Feat%29

It would help if you could recall what the feat actually does.

[Warrnan]

Sounds like a cursed version of the "ring of Gygax" from 3.0.

The ring had an 8 sided gem with runes on each side. At dawn the ring would randomly rotate to show a different rune (rolled a d8 to see which) and gave you some sort of epic all day buff.

[Grod_The_Giant]

Corrupt Arcane Studies, from Ghostwalk. +1 DC and CL for all sorcerer/wizard spells, but you lose 2 wisdom, "develop a fixation for dressing in black and gray clothing" (and lose the feat's benefit if you don't!), and have to make a Wisdom check every night if you want to prepare spells the next day. Amazing for sorcerers; a little less good for wizards.

[AvatarVecna]

For the past while now, I have been trying for the life of me to remember the name of some feat that I remember has some rather funny fluff requirements for you to keep the benefit of.

At this point I am starting to become unsure if it was a feat at all but maybe some magical effect from some tome or something...

Anyway, the most I can remember is that the fluff requirements are that you suffer nightmares ever few days as determined by dice and that at least a good portion of your character's clothing must be either grey or black else you don't gain the effect of the feat/magical thing/whatever for 24 hours.

I apologize that I cannot offer more than that for things to go on as I can't even remember if it was from a 3.5 or a Pathfinder source.

My thanks in advance for your time.

Recently, I was crawling through the Site That Shall Not Be Named looking for useful feats for a character that got infinite feats, and I came across this bizarre 3.? feat that is exactly what you're talking about, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. I'm going to go see if I can narrow it down, but all I can tell you for sure is that is comes before "Deafening Song" alphabetically.

EDIT:

Found it. It's called "Corrupt Arcane Studies", and it comes from the 3.0 splatbook "Ghostwalk". It's a wonderfully powerful feat for low-/mid-op casters, but those nightmares can be a bitch to work with unless you have absolutely ungodly Wisdom.

EDIT 2:

Ninja'd by a giant. Well, that's what I get for just reading the OP.

[Sith_Happens]

Corrupt Arcane Studies, from Ghostwalk. +1 DC and CL for all sorcerer/wizard spells, but you lose 2 wisdom, "develop a fixation for dressing in black and gray clothing" (and lose the feat's benefit if you don't!), and have to make a Wisdom check every night if you want to prepare spells the next day. Amazing for sorcerers; a little less good for wizards.

Don't forget hilarious in concept.

[AvatarVecna]

Don't forget hilarious in concept.

Hell yeah. Being an evil mage is one thing, but if you're not rocking the classical look, you're literally not as powerful as you could be.

[Terumitsu]

Corrupt Arcane Studies are it exactly! I didn't even think it was 3.0 material so that might be why I couldn't find it.

Thanks a lot for finding this!