Five Feats (part I)

There are never enough feats, expecially if you going to use the BoXM feat rules as part of your AE game. This is a new idea for an article that I can crank out 5 feats week, from OGC sources and convert them to AE, unlike products like FEATS from AEG and The Ultimate Book of Feats by Mongoose publishing, I am actually going to edit the feats in an attempt to improve balance and avoid "feats that suck", the idea being why take this feat when I can take power attack.

FREE SPIRIT [Unbound]
Your will to do whatever you feel like makes you resistant to mind controlling influences.
Prerequisite: Unbound
Benefit: You receive a +5 bonus to all saving throws to resist mind-influencing effects.

GREATER LUCKSPIN [Ceremonial]
Your control over the ebb and flow of luck is impressive.
Prerequisites: Character level 7th, Truename, Luckspin.
Benefit: Once per day, you can influence your personal luck, providing you with a +2 luck bonus to any d20 roll for one hour. At the end of the hour of good fortune, you suffer a -2 luck penalty to all d20 rolls.
Special: The bonus and penalty from this feat do not stack with those provided by the Luckspin feat.

LUCKSPIN [Ceremonial]
You possess a degree of control over the ebb and flow of your fortunes.
Prerequisites: Character level 3rd, Truename.
Benefit: Once per day, you can influence your personal luck, providing you with a +1 luck bonus to all d20 rolls for one hour. At the end of the hour of good fortune, you suffer a -1 luck penalty to all d20 rolls for one hour.

THREAT OF THE CROSSBOW [General]
You can threaten any area when wielding a loaded crossbow.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +2.
Benefit: When wielding any kind of loaded crossbow, you threaten any square within range, as if you were armed with a melee weapon and were in an adjacent square. When you would have the chance to make an attack of opportunity, you may do so with your crossbow if it is an adjacent square (1d4+ strength modifiers, critical x2) or you may take a shot with your crossbow on the opponent.
Normal: You can use an arrow or a bolt as a melee weapon, but you do not threaten adjacent spaces when wielding a ranged weapon.

BULL RUSH STRIKE [Ceremonial]
You gain a attack of opportunity against a foe you bull rush.
Prerequisites: Str 13, Truename Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack.
Benefit: Whenever you successfully bull rush an opponent, you may make an attack of opportunity.

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New Contests!

The answer was Ballista.


No winner :(

So I need a new contest to give away a copy, how about two contests?

Nearly all of my monsters tell thier own story, as they are intervieed by a brave ollamh lorekeepr, a loresong faen of the Harrowdeep Court,

The first person to post the name of this interviewer of monsters gets the free copy.

Also for those that have purchased a copy there is a rune in my company logo, If you tell me what that rune represents I will give you a free copy of our second book Mythical Monstrosities.

The Last Vault

I am running a game in honor of Gary Gygax next Sat (we are under white death today so no game).

I decided to have a false door ask riddles telling them that it would open its secrets to them if it answers its riddles (the door leeds nowhere but the riddles are clues to the rest of the dungeon). So I will putting up the riddles untill I get done. along with whatever else I feel like posting. I will only put up here what is useful for AE and a riddle is always useful.



Behind I, What am I?
Named part scorpion,
Turn both gyre and gripon
Twin rod with knot of spring
From ash and coil twisting
I am part mortality feathered
My use, keep cordoned.

I will reveal the answer in my next post.

new magical item and the official release

Vestments of the Avowed Companions
Price (item level): 560 gp (2nd) [1x1x800 gp -30% oath required =560 gp ) less valuable than bracers of armor +1]
Body slot: Torso
Caster level: 1st
Aura: minor transmutation (DC 16)
Activation: Triggered (immediate)
Weight: -

These plain looking heraldry tabard takes on the appearance desired by all their bearers (if there is disagreement between the bearers, the highest of opposed Wisdom checks imposes a form on all the badges for 1 week). The tabards change size, shape, design and coloring. On the inside of the tabard is inscribed an oath in Common: "I am a sworn companion; I swear to shed my life blood for my fellows."

The item will not function unless all bearers take the sworn oath. If a companion who is wearing a tabard is disabled, or dying, any other bearer in sight of the wounded comrade can use a lesser transfer wounds spell (caster level equal to bearers character level) once per encounter as a immediate action. Note that only one transfer lesser wounds per set of vestments can be cast per encounter, not one per vestment.

Prerequisites: Craft Constant Item, Quicken Spell, (lesser transfer wounds)
Cost to Create: 280 gp (22 xp)



Rite Publishing has released Veiled Denizens, a new monster supplement for Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved, for sale in PDF and Print On Demand format.