Talent Enthusiast (3.5e Feat)
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Talent Enthusiast [General]
You've devoted part of your time to learning more about the things you've dabbled in, without letting your hobby consume your whole life.Prerequisites: Must possess either the Talent Dilettante feat, or a single level in a base class and one or more levels in another base class.Benefit: Upon gaining this feat, you either choose one class feature for which you have the Talent Dilettante feat, or a single base class in which you only have 1 level.
If you choose a class ability gained via the Talent Dilettante feat, upon gaining a level in any class, you may switch out a class feature from that class for a +1 effective level for the class feature gained via the feat, postponing the class feature lost by 1 level each time. However, the class feature given up must be just as important as the class feature gained. So for example, if you were a Fighter and you gained the Talent Dilettante feat for a Wizard's spellcasting at first level, upon taking your second level, you could choose to give up your 2nd-level Fighter bonus feat (The main class feature of the class), in return for advancing your Wizard spellcasting as if you were a 2nd-level Wizard. Upon taking your third level in Fighter, you could choose to either gain the bonus feat you eschewed at 2nd level, or add another level of Wizard casting (Postponing that bonus feat to 4th level and so forth). As a secondary benefit, the class feature gained via the feat (And only that class feature) may now be advanced by prestige classes and the like.
If you apply this feat to a class you have 1 level in, you gain the benefits described above, except it applies to any and all class features of the class in question. So if you had a level in Cleric and a level in Wizard, and chose this feat for your Wizard level, when you gained your second Cleric level, you could choose to advance your Wizard spellcasting instead of your Cleric casting, your Familiar instead of your Turn Undead, and so forth. Unlike the Talent Dilettante version, you can swap more than one class feature per level. Furthermore, the benefits of this version of this feat stacks with actual levels in the class in question, as it's building upon that class level. Finally, you may count any level at which you swapped class features as +1 effective class level for the purposes of multiclass penalties, but only for the class for which you gained this feat. For example, if you were the above example but with 4 levels in Cleric and one level in Wizard, but you'd traded Cleric spellcasting for Wizard spellcasting on your second and third levels of Cleric, you may count those levels of Cleric as levels of Wizard for the purposes of determining multiclass penalties - In which case your Wizard level (3rd) is within 1 level of your Cleric level (4th), resulting in no multiclass penalty to XP.
In either case, because you're trading class features on a one-for-one basis, effective levels for the class features can obviously never exceed your hit dice.
Special: This feat can be taken more than once, but no more than once for every 4 HD you possess. Each time, the feat applies either to a new level-1 base class, or to a new iteration of the Talent Dilettante feat.
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| Article Balance | Very High + |
| Author | Zhenra-Khal + |
| Identifier | 3.5e Feat + |
| Prerequisite | Must possess either the Talent Dilettante feat + and or a single level in a base class and one or more levels in another base class. + |
| Rating | Undiscussed + |
| Summary | Advance a level 1 class feature you possess by trading away other class features you might've gained. + |
| Title | Talent Enthusiast + |
| Type | General + |
