Background Feats

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Background Feats

The following feats are available only to characters of certain backgrounds, as specified in the feat descriptions. For more information on feats and how they are acquired, see Chapter 5: Feats.

ARTIST
You come from a culture in which the arts, philosophy, and music have a prominent place in society.

Backgrounds: Taraboner, Ogier.

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on all Perform checks and to checks for one Craft skill that involves art (your choice), such as calligraphy, painting, sculpture, or embroidery.

BLOODED
You know what it means to fight for your life, and the value of quick wits and quicker reactions when blades are bared and deadly weaves fly. Enemies find it difficult to catch you off guard.

Backgrounds: Aiel, Borderlander.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on initiative checks and a +2 bonus on Spot checks.

BULLHEADED
The stubbornness and determination of your kind is legendary. You are exceptionally headstrong and difficult to sway from your intended course.

Backgrounds: Aiel, Midlander.

Benefit: You receive a +1 bonus on Will saves and a +2 bonus on Intimidate checks.

COSMOPOLITAN
Your exposure to the thousand forking paths of the city has taught you things you ordinarily would never have un-covered.

Backgrounds: Cairhienin, Domani, Ebou Dan, Illianer, Tar Valoner.

Benefit: Choose a nonexclusive skill you do not have as a class skill. You gain a +2 bonus on all checks with that skill, and that skill is always considered a class skill for you.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new skill.

DISCIPLINED
Your people are admired for their single-minded determination and clarity of purpose. You are difficult to distract by weave or blow.

Backgrounds: Aiel, Atha?an Miere.

Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on Will saves and a +2 bonus on Concentration checks.

DUELIST
Among your people, bloody duels are a common way of settling disputes or avenging insults. You have had to develop a quick wit, a quick knife, or both to survive.

Backgrounds: Ebou Dan.

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Diplomacy checks and a +2 bonus on initiative checks.

EDUCATION
Some lands hold the pen in higher regard than the sword. In your youth you received the benefit of several years of more or less formal schooling.

Backgrounds: Tar Valoner, Ogier.

Benefit: All Knowledge skills are class skills for you. You get a +1 bonus on all skill checks with any two Knowledge skills of your choosing.

Special: You may only take this feat as a 1st-level character.

GAMBLER
Dice, cards, or horse races?whatever the game of chance, your people have a love for it.

Background: Ebou Dan, Tairen.

Benefit: Profession (gambler) is a class skill for you. You gain a +2 bonus on Profession (gambler) checks and a +2 bonus on Sense Motive checks.

LIVING HISTORY
The past is not merely a collection of stories to your people. It is a part of the present, a lesson you carry with you in everything you do.

Background: Taraboner, Ogier.

Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on all Knowledge checks.

LUCK OF HEROES
Your land is known for producing heroes. Through resilience, determination, and pluck, your people survive when no one expects them to come through.

Background: Midlander.

Benefit: You receive a +1 luck bonus on all saving throws.

MERCANTILE BACKGROUND
Powerful merchants and tradesmen control the wealth and commerce of much of the westlands. You come from a family that excels at a particular trade and knows well the value of any kind of trade good or commodity.

Background: Atha?an Miere, Ebou Dan, Jllianer, Taraboner, Tairen.

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on all Appraise checks and a +2 bonus on checks for the Craft or Profession skill of your choice.

MILITIA
You served in Andor?s Queen?s Guard, the Companions of Jllian, Tear?s Defenders of the Stone, the Tower Guard in Tar Valon, or some similar military unit or local militia. There, you trained with weapons suitable for use on the battlefield.

Background: Cairhienin, Domani, Jllianer, Midlan-der, Tar Valoner, Tairen.

Benefit: You get Martial Weapon Proficiency (cross-bow) and Martial Weapon Proficiency (pike or halberd) as bonus feats.

SADDLEBACK
Your people are as comfortable riding as walking.

Background: Borderlander, Tairen.

Benefit: You receive a +3 bonus on Ride checks.

SEA LEGS
The heaving decks of a ship are like a home to you, and you are as comfortable on or in the water as others are on land.

Background: Atha?an Miere.

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Balance and Swim checks.

SEDUCTIVE
The people of your land are skilled at applying sensual suggestion to turn negotiations to their favor.

Background: Domani.

Benefit: You gain a +3 bonus on Bluff and Diplomacy checks when dealing with members of the opposite sex.

SHADOWSPAWN HUNTER
Along the Blight, many warriors learn ways to fight effectively against creatures of the Dark. You have served long in defending the Borderlands from the encroachment of the Blight?s horrors.

Background: Borderlanden.

Benefit: When fighting Trollocs, you gain a +1 competence bonus on damage rolls for melee attacks and for ranged attacks at ranges of up to 30 feet. In addition, you act as if you had the Improved Critical feat for the weapon you are using. This benefit does not stack with the Improved Critical feat.

Special: You may take this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. The second time you take the feat you may add one of the following types of Shadowspawn: Draghkar, or Myrddraal. The third and each additional time, you may choose another from that list or from among the following: Darkhound or Gray Man.

SILVER PALM
Your culture is based on haggling and the art of the deal.

Background: Atha?an Miere, Cainhienin, Illianer.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on Appraise and Bluff checks.

SMOOTH TALK
Your people are accustomed to dealing with strangers and foreigners without needing to draw weapons to make their point.

Background: Atha?an Miere, Cairhienin, Tar Valonen, Ogier.

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Diplomacy and Sense Motive checks.

STEALTHY
Your people are known for their stealthiness.

Background: Aiel, Borderlander.

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Hide and Move Silently checks.

STREET SMART
You have learned how to keep informed, ask questions, and interact with the underworld without raising suspicion.

Background: Cairhienin, Domani, Ebou Dan, Illianer.

Benefit: You get a +2 bonus on Bluff and Gather Information checks.

STRONG SOUL
The souls of your people are hard to separate from their bodies.

Background: Borderlanden, Midlander.

Benefit: You get a +1 bonus on Fortitude and Will saves and an additional +1 bonus on saving throws against energy draining and death effects.

SURVIVOR
Your people thrive in a region that others find uninhabitable. This gives you a savvy and strength of will that you can take to any difficult environment.

Background: Aiel.

Benefit:You get a +1 bonus on Fortitude saves and a 2 bonus on Wilderness Lore checks.