Arachonomicon; the Book of Spiderkind (4e Sourcebook)/Feats

Feats

New Types of Feats

The Arachonomicon sourcebook introduces new types of feats. These new types of feat are explained below.

Abyssal Heritor Feats

Abyssal heritor feats represent daemonic ancestry. If you have more than two abyssal heritor feats, you must be of the good, chaotic evil or unaligned alignments (if you are not of one of these alignments when you take your second abyssal heritor feat then you must change your alignment to one of these alignments) and you cannot willingly change your alignment to one other than the aforementioned alignments.

Ambush Feats

Ambush feats are only available to characters with a class feature that increases the amount of damage you deal when you fulfill specific requirements, such as sneak attack or hunter's quarry (these class features are referred to as "extra damage class features" in the feat descriptions). They allow you to apply extra effects to your attack when you use such a class feature, at the cost of one or more dice of extra damage. You must declare your intent to use any ambush feats before you roll your extra attack damage dice from your class feature. You cannot use an ambush feat if it would reduce the number of dice used for this class feature to 0. You can apply more than one ambush feat to any one attack, so long as you still deal at least one dice of extra damage from your class feature.

Darkfire Feats

Darkfire feats are only available to characters with the Darkfire lolthtouched power. You can use a darkfire feat when you use your Darkfire power. Using a darkfire feat alters the effect of Darkfire, as described by the feat. When you use a darkfire feat to alter the effect of Darkfire, you cannot use any other feats designated as a darkfire feat to alter the effects of your Darkfire power. Darkfire feats are not a separate type of feats as such; a feat is a darkfire feat if it is designated as being a darkfire feat in its description.

Darkness Feats

Darkness feats are only available to characters with the Cloud of darkness lolthtouched power. You can use a darkness feat when you use your Cloud of darkness power. Using a darkness feat alters the effect of Cloud of darkness, as described by the feat. When you use a darkness feat to alter the effect of Cloud of darkness, you cannot use any other feats designated as a darkness feat to alter the effects of your Cloud of darkness power. Darkness feats are not a separate type of feats as such; a feat is a darkness feat if it is designated as being a darkness feat in its description.

Metamagic Feats

By taking a Metamagic Feat you receive a Feat Power with the Metamagic Keyword. A Metamagic Power may be used to effect a Arcane, Arachane, Divine, Primal or Shadow power.

NEW KEYWORD:METAMAGIC Metamagic: Powers with the Metamagic Keyword may be used once a round. You may only affect a power with one Metamagic Power at a time.

Spider Feats

Spider feats are feats only available to creatures of the spider keyword. Spider feats are typed to a specific species of spider (Lycosidae, Theraphosidae and Saltacidae); only a spider of that keyword can select a spider feat of that type (for example, only a spider with the saltacidae keyword can select feats of the type [Spider—salticidae]). If you are a spider rider, you can select spider feats, so long as your spider fulfills the prerequisites, however, only your spider can gain the benefits of the feat. If you are a spider rider and are eligible to take spider feats yourself, both you and your spider can both use any spider feats you have, so long as you both fulfill the prerequisites.

Vile Feats

Vile feats are available only to creatures of the evil or chaotic evil alignment with an intelligence score of 3 or more. When you take a vile feat, you must make a vow (as stated in the feat's description). If you break this vow, you loose the benefits of the feat until you perform the vow of penance ritual (see below). When you take a vile feat, you automatically learn the vow of penance ritual, even if you cannot learn and perform rituals.

Vow of Penance

You bow before the darkness and accept your penance, no matter how excruciating it may be...

Level:	1	Component Cost:	100 gp, plus a holy symbol worth at least 10gp and 4 healing surges, which cannot be regained for 168 hours
Type:	Vile	Market Price:	—
Time:	2 hours	Key Skill:	Religion (no check)
Duration:	—

You regain the ability to use any vile feats you lost the ability to use due to braking a vow.

Feat Descriptions

Heroic Tier Feats

Name	Type	Description	Prerequisites
Aleval School	Ambush	You have learned House Aleval's fighting techniques, allowing you to deal damage that weakens your enemy's physical or mental state.	Extra damage class feature +2 dice
Alter Weaves	Arachnomancer	You can twist your weaves to trade accuracy for power.	Arachnomancer
Arachne's Weave	Divinity, Attack Feat Power	Arachne weaves her webs to trap your foes.	Channel Divinity class feature, must worship Arachne.
Arachnid Trainer	General	Your knowledge of spiderkind gives you insight into training arachnids.	Trained in arachana
Araneidae Aspect	Spider—Araneidae, Attack Feat Power	You have the weaving ability of the araneida.	Dex 14
At Home in the Deep	Drow	This feat needs a summary.	Drow
Blend into Shadows	General	Shoot and remain hidden.	Trained in Stealth.
Brutal Charge	Spider—Theraphosidae	Your fangs have the power of the theraphosid.	Str 14
Brute Fang	Spider—Theraphosidae	Your fangs have the power of the theraphosid.	Str 14
Cautious Attack	General	Be less offensive, gain higher defenses.	Wis 15.
Caver	General	You are knowledgeable about the secrets of the subterrainean world and are wise in its ways.	None
Charger of the Web	Spider Rider Multiclass	Training in Arachana, Deadly Charge 1/encounter	Str or Cha 13, Dex 13
Chosen Foe	General	Deal extra damage to target you mark once per encounter.	None
Claws of the Beast	Abyssal Heritor	Your hands are twisted like claws. This deformity allows you to deal more damage than usual with your unarmed attacks.	Demonic Ancestry
Clever Opportunist	General	You can switch places with a creature of your size or smaller when you hit with an opportunity attack.	Combat Reflexes.
Command Spiders	Divinity, Attack Feat Power	You have the ability to force spiders to obey you.	Channel Divinity class feature, must worship Lolth or Arachne.
Constant Guardian	General	Take a -2 penalty to an attack roll to grant an ally a +2 bonus to AC.	None
Ctenizidae Aspect	Spider—Ctenizidae	Gain tremorsense.	Dex 16
Darting Charge	General	When you charge you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls and to bull rush attempts.	Dex 13.
Dazzling Fire	General	Targets hit by your Darkfire power are dazed.	Drow, Drow
Deceptive Illumination	General	You are invisible to targets hit by your Darkfire power.	Drow, Drow
Demonic Sneak Attack	Abyssal Heritor	1/Encounter re-roll a number of sneak attack dice equal to the number of abyssal heritor feats that you posess.	Demonic Ancestry.
Despana School	General	Gain advantages when fighting alongside a monster you summoned.	Ability to use one or more powers with the summoning keyword.
Divine Intercession	Divinity, Utility Feat Power	Use Channel Divinity to invoke divine intercession.	Channel Divinity class feature
Drow Illusion Mastery	Drider	Gain Lolthtouched racial trait.	Drider
Dutiful Guardian	General	Switch places with the beneficiary of your constant guardian feat as an immediate interrupt.	Constant guardian
Eilservs School	General	Gain advantages when attacking a foe with your staff.	Ability to use one or more powers with the summoning keyword.
Elfhunter	Drow	This feat needs a summary.	Drow, Drow.
Enervate Spell	Metamagic, Feat Power	Your attack spells have the necrotic keyword and you deal +4 damage.	Non-good alignment
Fade into Darkness	General	Be more stealthy in dark environments.	Darkvision
Fascinating Illumination	General	You are invisible to targets hit by your Darkfire power.	Drow
Gift of the Spider Queen	Drow, Utility Feat Power	You can use your innate drow racial powers in new and potent ways.	Drow
Hatred	General	You absolutely hate a particular creature.	None
Inlindl School	General	Sacrifice your shield bonus to AC to gain a bonus to your attack rolls.	Shield Proficiency.
Instinctive Darkness	Drow	You can use Cloud of darkness as an immediate reaction.	Drow, Cloud of darkness racial power.
Intensify Darkness	Drow	You can extend the effect of Cloud of darkness to close burst 3.	Drow, Cloud of darkness racial power.
Keeper of Forbidden Lore	Abyssal Heritor	Gain a bonus to knowledge skill checks equal to the number of abyssal heritor feats that you posess.	Demonic Ancestry.
Knight of the Spider Queen	Spider Rider	You are a master of spider-mounted combat, easily the equal (or superior) of any horseman.	Spider Rider
Lolth's Boon	Divinity, Utility Feat Power	Use Channel Divinity to invoke Lolth's boon.	Channel Divinity class feature, must worship Lolth
Lolth's Caress	Divinity, Utility Feat Power	Use Channel Divinity to invoke Lolth's caress.	Channel Divinity class feature, must worship Lolth
Lolth's Meat	Drow	Gain a bonuses when you kill a living creature with an intelligence score of 3 or more.	Drow
Lycosid Precision	Spider—Lycosidae	1/Day, re-roll a single bite attack roll.	Str 12, Dex 14
Lycosid Speed	Spider—Lycosidae	Gain a bonus to your speed.	Str 12, Dex 14
Lycosidae Aspect	Spider—Lycosidae	You have the strength of a mighty wolf spider, and the speed of one too.	Str 12, Dex 14
Master of Poisons	General	Apply poison to a weapon as a minor action.	None
Master of Shadow	Drow	You can use one more lolthtouched racial power per encounter.	Drow
Master of Shadow and Illusion	Half-Drow	Use both Cloud of Darkness and Darkfire lolthtouched powers.	Half-Drow
Metanode Spell	Metamagic	When casting a spell with a metamagic feat in the area of an earthnode, that metamagic feat does not count towards the maximum number of metamagic feats you can use per round.	None
Otherworldly Countenance	Abyssal Heritor, Attack Feat Power	Your abyssal heritage manifests itself in your extreme good looks. Your beautiful appearance is unsettling to those around you- even to your foes!	Cha 18, Demonic Ancestry.
Perfect Accuracy	Spider—Lycosidae	Gain a +1d4 bonus to your lycosid precision re-roll.	Str 12, Dex 14
Poison Healer	General	Heal hit points equal to your constitution modifier when you make a save against a poison or a poison fails to hit you.	Con 13.
Poisonous Bite	Spydric-One, Attack Feat Power	You gain Poisonous Bite as an encounter power.	Spydric-One
Primordial Scion	Abyssal Heritor	Gain a bonus to damage rolls against creatures of the lawful good and evil alignments.	good, unaligned or chaotic evil, Demonic Ancestry.
Prodigeous Leap	Spider—Saltacidae	You can leap unbelievably huge distances.	Dex 16
Profane Agony	Divinity, Attack Feat Power	Use Channel Divinity to invoke profane agony.	Channel Divinity class feature, evil or chaotic evil alignment.
Psychic Refusal	General	Gain a +2 bonus to will defense against powers with the psychic keyword.	None
Pupil of Arachane Lore	Arachnomancer Multiclass	Training in Arachana, arachnomancer power 1/encounter	Cha 13
Radiant Flicker	Drow	Use darkfire to grant concealment to an ally.	Drow
Reactive Resistance	Drow	You can transfer your Spell Resistance to any other defense as an immediate interrupt.	Drow, Spell Resistance
Ride-By Attack	Spider Rider	You are skilled at making fast, overrun charges.	Dexterity 15, Spider rider
Sadistic Reward	General	Gain a +1 bonus to damage rolls when you deal damage to a living creature.	Drow
Salticidae Aspect	Spider—Salticidae	You have all the leaping talent of your salticid kin.	Dex 16
Scytodidae Aspect	Spider—Scytodid, Attack Feat Power	You can use spit as a daily power.	Dex 14
Shadowborn Warrior	Drow	Gain a +2 bonus to initiative and a +1 bonus to AC when in darkness.	Drow
Shi'quos School	General	Knock an opponent at a lower elevation than you prone by charging at them.	None
Sickening Strike	Ambush	Sacrifice one die of sneak attack damage to deal ongoing 2 damage (save ends).	Extra damage class feature +2 dice
Spell Resistance	Drow	Gain a +2 bonus to will defense against Arcane powers.	Drow
Spellbook of Arachane Lore	Arachnomancer	Gain a spellbook.	Arachnomancer
Spiderfriend	General	You can prevent spiderkind creatures from attacking you.	Spiderkind origin, ability to speak spydric
Spiderfriend Weaves	General	Your weaves do not affect your spiderkind allies.	Arachnomancer
Steal and Strike	General	You can disarm a foe with your rapier and then make a followup attack with your kukri	Two-Weapon Fighting, Weapon Focus (Rapier), Weapon Focus (Kukri)
Surprising Riposte	Rogue	Gain a +1 bonus to damage rolls when you gain combat advantage using the bluff skill.	Rogue, trained in bluff skill.
Swift Weaver	Spydric-One	Use Web as a minor action.	Spydric-One
Terrifying Strike	Ambush	Sacrifice one die of sneak attack damage to stun an opponent until the end of your next turn.	Extra damage class feature +2 dice, trained in intimidate
Theraphosidae Aspect	Spider—Theraphosidae	You have the brute strength and power of a theraphosid.	Str 14
Tormtor School	General	You are trained to use a javelin with greater skill.	Proficiency with Javelins, Weapon Focus (Spear)
Toxic Death	General	+1 to damage with poison or necrotic power.	13 Charisma
Tunnelfighter	General	Reduce attack penalties for fighting in tight spaces.	Tunnelrunner
Tunnelrunner	General	Reduce speed penalties for moving through tight spaces.	None
Unspeakable Vow	Vile	You willingly give yourself to an evil deity or cause, denying yourself an ordinary life to serve your unspeakable ends.	None
Urticating Hair	Spider—Theraphosidae, Attack Feat Power	You can use Urticating hair as an daily power.	Str 14
Vae School	General	You are trained to trip foes with your spiked chain and scourge.	Weapon Focus (Spiked Chain or Scourge).
Venomous Strike	Ambush	Sacrifice one die of sneak attack damage to gain a +2 bonus to the attack roll of a poison and inflict a -2 penalty to saving throws against a poison.	Extra damage class feature +2 dice, Master of Poisons
Versatile Combatant	Ranger	You have learned to combine attacks with the favoured weapons of the drow.	Ranger, proficiency with rapier and hand crossbow, two-weapon fighting style
Vestigial Wings	Abyssal Heritor	Gain a bonus to jump skill checks equal to +3 per abyssal heritor feat that you posess.	Demonic Ancestry.
Web of Steel	Spydric-One	+2 damage and proficiency with light and heavy blades.	Spydric-One
Xaniqos School	General	You are trained to fight aggressively with a crossbow.	Proficiency with Crossbow, Weapon Focus (Crossbow).

Paragon Tier Feats

Name	Type	Description	Prerequisites
Agile Crawler	Spydric-One	Ignore penalties for squeezing	Spydric-One
Armor Proficiency, Spidersilk	General	You are trained in spidersilk armor.	Dex 16, training with hide armor.
Armor Specialization, Leather	General	You are skilled with leather armor.	Dex 15, training with leather armor.
Armor Specialization, Spidersilk	General	You are skilled with spidersilk armor.	Dex 18, training with spidersilk armor.
Cloak of the Obyrith	Abyssal Heritor	Gain resistance to untyped damage.	Demonic Ancestry
Coercive Spell	Metamagic, Feat Power	Your spell cause a -2 penalty to the target's will defence.	None
Deadly Blade	General	You can strike your foes precisely in vital spot.	Dex 18
Deafening Spell	Metamagic, Feat Power	All creatures hit by your attack spell are deafened.	None
Death Leaper	Spider—Salticidae	You are leaping death to your foes.	Dex 16
Disrupting Spell	Metamagic, Feat Power	Your spell cause a -2 penalty the target's attack rolls made as part as non-martial powers.	None
Fell Drain	Metamagic, Feat Power	Foes damaged by your spells are also weakened.	None
Fell Terror	Metamagic, Feat Power	Foes hit by your spells are dazed.	None
Fell Weaken	Metamagic, Feat Power	Foes hit by your spells take a -2 penalty to Strength based checks.	None
Gloom Strike	Ambush	Your sneak attacks leave a residue of darkness that clouds your enemy's vision.	Extra damage class feature +3 dice, Drow, Drow, Darkness racial power
Heart of the Nabassu	Abyssal Heritor	Gain resistance to necrotic damage equal to the number of abyssal heritor feats that you possess.	Demonic Ancestry
Imperious Command	Drow, Attack Feat Power	You gain the Imperious Command power as a Lolthtouched racial power.	Cha 16, Trained in Intimidate
Mighty Leap	Spider—Salticidae	You are particularly skilled at making mighty leaps.	Dex 16
Poison Spell	General	You can mystically transfer poison with your spells.	Arachnomancer, or ability to use one or more arcane powers.
Poison Talons	Abyssal Heritor	You can secrete Abyssal poison onto your claws., Your claws drip with a poison as dark as the abyss.	Claws of ther Beast, Demonic Ancestry.
Radiant Spell	Metamagic, Feat Power	Your spells create an area of light.	None
Rider of the Web	Spider Rider Multiclass	Gain the spider rider's spider mount class feature.	Any one spider rider multiclass feat, paragon multiclassing as a spider rider.
Scholar of the Web	Arachnomancer Multiclass	Gain lesser weaves class feature	Any one arachnomancer multiclass feat, paragon multiclassing as an arachnomancer
Teachings of the Web	Arachnomancer Multiclass	Gain arachnomancer tactics class feature	Any one arachnomancer multiclass feat, paragon multiclassing as an arachnomancer
Umbral Spell	Metamagic, Feat Power	Your spells create an area of darkness.	None
Vow of Vengeance	Vile	Gain a +1 bonus to damage rolls and to your critical threat range against a particular race or creature.	None
Vow of the Spider Queen	General, Attack Feat Power, Vile	Shoot poison for your Spider Queen	Unspeakable Vow, must worship Lolth

Epic Tier Feats

Name	Type	Description	Prerequisites
Chaotic Spell Recall	Abyssal Heritor	1/Day, spend an action point to regain a daily spell.	Any one abyssal heritor feat, Daemonic ancestry.
Demonic Skin	Abyssal Heritor	Gain a +1 racial bonus to your AC.	Demonic Ancestry.
Eyes of the Abyss	Abyssal Heritor	Gain darkvision, and a bonus to perception skill checks equal to the number of abyssal heritor feats that you posess.	Demonic Ancestry.
Highborn Drow	Drow, Utility Feat Power	Gain Levitate as a Lolthtouched racial power.	Drow, Drow.
Improved Levitation	Drow	Levitate 6 squares instead of 4.	Drow, Drow, Highborn Drow
Master Weaver	Arachnomancer	Omit squares from your area or close arachnomancer powers.	Arachnomancer
Precognitive Visions	Abyssal Heritor	Gain a number of bonuses equal to 1 + 1 per 2 abyssal heritor feats that you possess.	Demonic Ancestry.
Staggering Critical	Arachnomancer	When you make a critical hit, the target of the attack is slowed.	Ability to score a critical hit with a weapon group on the roll of 19-20.

Multiclass Feats

Name	Type	Description	Prerequisites

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