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2024-02-19, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Retraining the "Additional favored class" feat
Hi everyone,
I was wondering what happens if a character, at the end of their build, retrains the Additional Favored Class feat.
Additional Favored Class is a feat from Unearthed Arcana that's pretty much intuitive, and it also specifies:
Normal
Without this feat, if any class other than your race's favored class is two or more levels lower than your highest-level class, you take a -20% penalty to XP earned for each class that is not within one level of your highest-level class.
Thank you for the insight
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2024-02-19, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Retraining the "Additional favored class" feat
Looking at the feat, I'm pretty sure that you would be able to retrain it with no penalty or anything. I don't see any special clause stating that you would apply the effects of not having the feat retroactively.
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2024-02-20, 08:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Retraining the "Additional favored class" feat
A lot of feats can be retrained using the PHBII retraining rules while, strictly RAW speaking, retaining some or all of their benefits. A great example is one of those feats like mercantile background that gives you gold directly.
These occupy a continuum of cheese. The cheesiest readings I've been able to justify in the rules include the feats Obtain Familiar (which allows you to call a familiar and specifies its attributes, but is not strictly required for that familiar to function) and open minded (which grants skill points - a transient resource - and the ability to trade them in for a permanent resource).
Would I allow these at a table I ran? No. Would I try to pull this on most DMs? Hell no. Would I try these exploits using a chameleon's floating feat? Not most of them, no.
RAW is silly, and the rules are more a framework for the social space where the game actually "exists." If you're ever in doubt, explain those doubts to your DM and reach a solution together.
But to answer your question, RAW this totally works. It won't don't up often because most enfranchised players don't use the favored class rules.Last edited by bekeleven; 2024-02-20 at 08:38 AM.
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2024-02-20, 10:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Retraining the "Additional favored class" feat
I mean how big of an xp hit can really get if you’re blowing this feat maybe -60%?