5 MORE Underrated But AMAZING Feats In D&D 

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I will say, definitely ask your DM before trying to pull up with strixhaven initiate or the knights of solamnia feats. Not all tables necessarily allow setting specific content, especially backgrounds that come with free feats attached.

Telepathy + Scrying, + being an Elf (only needing 4 hours of long rest a day) = target dies of exhaustion? Awesome.

I need everyone to know about the telekinetic feat. Especially its 5ft shove. The amount of mileage that I have gotten out of telekinetic and especially that feature is insane. It’s literally free movement for my allies, bonus action disengage for myself, and occasionally shove baddies into bad spots. On any given turn that I am not using my bonus action to cast spells, I have the option to just move the battle wherever I want.

Or use the actor telepathy combo to mimic your targets voice, so they can't even trust their own mental voice. Edit, so one of the replies brought up the point that it only allows you to mimic voices you can hear, so if this combo is to work, then you would also need to use detect thoughts.

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Telepathy for evil/pranks? Yes please hehehe

I'm so glad you brought up the fact that the Gunner feat has applications outside of people who want to replicate Percy de Rolo. It works on bows, too.

So that Knight of the Sword feat also has a prerequisite that you are playing the Dragonlance Campaign, as well as being either a Fighter or Paladin Class or Knight of Solamnia Background. I think that's why it doesn't get talked about too much. I'm currently playing the Dragonlance adventure and going with "Initiate of High Sorcery (Lunitari)" + "Adept of the Red Robes" on a Watchers Paladin 7/Swords Bard 4 build.

Quill from "High Rollers" has abused the Observant feat ever since he got it. He would regularly read people's lips and get information the party wasn't intended to get so easily, and one time skipped an _entire plotline_ with his ridiculous Passive Perception. Strixhaven Initiate has been vital for my Owl House character builds.

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Telepathic is a must-have on a druid, because of wildshape sure, but also because (as a wisdom-based character) you're likely to be one of the best in the party at Insight checks. You can silently inform the entire party if the NPC you're talking to has hidden motivations or if you suspect they're lying. (Then again, your component-free Detect Thoughts might be able to reveal this as well!)

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When you suggested pairing the actor feat with the telepathic feat my first thought was using it to imitate the person I was talking to telepathically to pass myself off as thoughts that they were thinking, pair this with the previous suggestion of following someone around and speaking to them nonstop and you could probably cause any person of your choice to go crazy

I did the revenant blade feat on an Aasimar Paladin. It was a blast. Especially when you add Devine Smit to every blow

I am planning on getting telepathic on my current character and one of the things I can't wait for is the detect thoughts without components effectively letting you read people's mind without anyone knowing

Combine the unsleeping + telepathic + familiar combo with vicious mockery, and you can talk someone to death from anywhere ☠️

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In my opinion the most underutilized feets are the two(most of the time) attached to your body. I played an Aven Monk and it was so fun to describe my combat because unarmed strikes doesn’t have to be a punch. I was doing flying backflip kicks, wing slaps, roundhouses. Then my DM would reward my creativity with an extra D4 damage

Colby over at D4 used the Revenant Blade feat for the Blender half of his Battery and Blender team build. The Blender was a Wood Elf Barbarian/Rogue that was able to Rage and Sneak Attack at the same time. While Rage and Reckless Attack only work with Strength, Sneak Attack only states that you must be wielding a finesse or ranged weapon, not that you must be attacking with Dexterity.

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I love the observant treat. I love making high passive characters and observant is the way to go if you want a passive that’s 20+

Another overlooked feature of Telepathic is that when you use the 1/long free cast of Detect Thought it requires no components so no one can tell you're casting it. The target won't have any idea until you attempt to dive deeper.

I wish some did this in my campaign. Rolling deception or persuasion checks from thoughts you put in others heads sounds dope af.

I do the Telepathy + Actor feat thing with my Halfling Soulknife, and it's so much fun. Especially for setting up Sneak Attack, since all you need is someone Hostile to your target adjacent to them. Imitate the target's voice in their head with a yo mama joke. Or rumormongering, forging Sending spells, or impersonating intrusive thoughts.

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Using Telepathy with _Words of Terror_ from the Whispers Bard is nasty. And just Telepathy on an infiltrator character - a Changeling, Whispers Bard, and/or Warlock with the _Mask of Many Faces_ Eldritch Invocation... or all of the above (although there's also a place for the plasmoid Whispers/Hexblade). Telepathy allows an underrated but possibly vital ability - being able to tell the Party _who you are_ should you cross paths... "Hey guys, it's me. Third guard on the Baron's left, the one with the red moustache." The same trick could even be used in combat with enough Party coordination so that you can go _Mistique_ on the enemy, changing into one of them, without worrying about friendly fire [besides the usual ☄️].

I actually took observant on my rogue ranger cleric multiclass and got my passive perception up to nearly 30. I could see more stuff innately than most dragons with that character X3 Great video btw ^w^

I like the combination of having one player taking both Observant and Telepathic. That way they can recreate the cool story feature of some Batman and Superman joint comics, where they communicate privately because Superman can hear Batman's subsonic whispers while Batman can read Superman's lips when he goes to reply without making any noise at all. If you take both of those feats, you can do that with anyone at any time. Provided you're somewhat close and can see that person.

Ever since I learned of the telepathic and telekinetic feats. I have been plotting on how to include them on several of my character wish list. My favorite is my Changling Djinni-lock. Built with utility from the pact of the tome. I also went with the actor-telepathic combo for shenanigans. And with telepathic, they gain more things to do aside from Eldrich Blast. Knight of the Sword(with Squire of Solamnia) and Revanant Blade are feats I never even heard of. But damn, do I want to use K.o.t.S. on my fighters and conquest paladin. And Revanent Blade is fine with or without the Elf only restirction. I have considered Observant. I would love to take it on a character with an espionage campaign. Gunner is my goal when the DM allows it on my G-onks. I have about a dozen characters with Strixhaven initiate as one of their feats. That is some amazing content and I would love to find a DM who would let me use it to the fullest.

My DM homebrewed the half-orc version of the revenant blade feat to give more flavor to my barbarian and his orcish double axe (also homebrewed). Very nice feat indeed

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I'm waiting on the book but already making plans. I like the idea of investigating monster weaknesses, such that I am going to build this into many monsters. Chuul, oozes, hook horror. All sorts. Yummie!

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I mostly let my players take a feat at level 1 that fits to their background/backstory (just explain why you have that particular talent). I love to DM high-power games and my players got creative with this home rule. Once, for example, one player who choose monk for his class took the tavern brawler feat because of his 'drunken master' subclass. His weapon was a frying pan and he hhd the TF2 pan hit/crit sound effects ready every session😂

Currently doing a Revenant Blade Wood Elf Ranger in a campaign, the funny part is they are blind and can only see through their drake from drakewarden making things kind of trippy sometimes.

Observant is definitely very fun, in a Strixhaven campaign where I was working at the newspaper, I used observant not only to get the scoop on fellow students easier but also to figure out what a suspicious figure was up to!

I love rhe telepathy feature of GOO warlock, like coordinating a surprise attack or luring an enemy into a trap, warn allies silently, or spice up the deception/intimidations

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i haven't had a chance to try it yet because i've been exploring all sorts of different classes, but i've got an idea in my head for a something like a bard or rogue that has high performance or deception to telepathically get enemies to start fighting each other by telepathically mimicing them to each other by insulting them. Or another idea i had in my head that used the telepathy feat was to play a high stealth rogue or a character that turns invisible and do that thing in anime and movies where a person is fighting someone and they turn invisible but their mocking voices are still heard.

The telepathy bit reminds me of something that happened in a game of ShadowRun back in the 90's, our group was trying to steal a new prototype Police Banshee variant from some corporate test facility for client so-and-so, and there was a group of guards to get past, two trolls and the rest were human. We had two mages in the group and they used telepathy and some kind of impersonation skill checks to convince some of the guards that others were talking shit, and started a mini-race riot between the trolls and the humans, and we got past the fighting guards without them knowing until they heard the turbines start up on the aircraft as we prepped to fly the Banshee right out of the facility.

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Observant is kickass. I'd say a must have to a ranger. Especially with tasha's optional class rules

I used the reverent double bladed scimitar with a tabaxi Swashbuckler 3 / Hexblade 2 / bard 1. So much fun!

The cat with a gun reminded me of the web novel "Kitty Cat Kill Sat", featuring a sentient cat on a HILARIOUSLY well-armed space station. At one point the cat triggers a security drill in a particularly run-down part of the station and needs to get past the guard bots now patrolling the hallways. Thing is, the bots can see and aim too well to sneak or run past, and the cat doesn't have hands and so can't actually work a gun. Cat's solution? Pile about thirty guns pointing at a zone that the bots will pass through, run a string through the trigger guards, wait/bait a bot into the zone, then yank the string and watch the entire hallway get shredded.

Observant as a Divination Wizard makes a wonderful fun "all seeing wizard" You enter a room and can read the room passively, giving you another mystical 4th dimensional wizard feel

I love taking Strixhaven Initiate on wizards, being able to viciously mock enemies and having healing word as well!

I’m currently playing a wildfire Druid with a gun and having the gunner feat was a must get for me, but this character is some of the most fun I’ve had in a while

Revenant Blade reminds me of a TWF build I did back in 3.5 Started with a Sylven Elf, dipped 2 levels of fighter for bonus feats (Exotic Prof: Double Bladed Sword & Weapon Focus) before embarking upon a journey of madness through Barbarian into the Frenzied Berserker prestige class. Armed with a power attack that hit hard enough to force a save vs massive damage, and a plethora of attacks courtesy of my greater two weapon fighting and supreme cleave, my elven rage machine was a whirlwind of death and insanity upon the battlefield. My friends never made fun of elves ever again, and I got banned from playing melee characters within that group. Good times.

I love how you list THREE feats I love using. Telepathic, Observant and Strixhaven Initiate are all feats I love using for characters. Want to play a Druid who can talk via telepathy and use some wizard spells while reading lips from far away... take all three! lol

Never expected revenant blade to pop up. I found the feat, and just HAD to make a character using a double scimitar because of it.

I am currently playing a lvl 2 hex warlock 7 blade singer in an ebberon campaign where I took gunner lvl 1 (custom lineage) and because a pistol is a one handed weapon it works with the blade song. Yeah it is a bit mad needing both cha and int, but I get to use wiz spells and Eldritch blast. Using haste, and the multi attack bladesonger gets, I'm currently at 5 attacks a turn and don't need to worry about being within 5 ft of an enemy with the gunner feat

My Necromancer is telepathic and the audacity you can have while using this is so funny. It might be a little more powerful since I convinced my DM that I can speak Verbal Spell Components mentally. But seriously just walking up to a guard, telling them to look left in their head and then slipping by right has had me get past so many initial hurdles when trying to contact people, it's hilarious

That revenant blade feat made me think of a fun build of a folk hero swashbuckler rogue who is a expert duelist that challenges big bads

I used Telepathy with actor in a campain to speak into people's head in their own voice. Used it to implant some ideas that they should help the party and became "their conscience"

Re: using telepathy and acting to mimic the voice of a dead spouse: I'd make it an incredibly hard roll penalty or just rule it impossible if the character has never heard the spouse speak in person. And I would definitely give a chance for the deity or one of its minions to have their attention attracted by someone telepathically lying about being a god. Having their worship hijacked is literally stealing the food out of their mouth or the blood out of their veins. They'd definitely be finely attuned (even if it's just in the way your skin is attuned to detecting mosquito bites) to the feeling of having their vital source of energy swiped. And considering what happens to mosquitos when *they* get detected, well, the results would vary by how vengeful or merciful the god is, but it would be likely to be interesting, and not in the good way.

I totally slept on knight of the sword, Now to find a way to smash that into the conquest paladin I'm building.

3:43 Pretend to have THEIR own voice So they would start to believe those are intrusive or subconscious thoughts, you can basically make them do what ever you want while they THINK they are doing it because they want

thanks for mentioning observant, my dm loves and hates my inquisitive rogue with 30 passive perception

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As soon as he said « the creature is frightened of you » I was like : New character ! Variant human Hexadin of conquest... now !

I'm playing a Kenku Soulknife and use the telepathy strategy. Kenku comes packed with mimicry, which gives you that utility of actor right away. Soulknife Rogue gives you telepathy, and therefore that combo, at level 3. Now when you hit 4 you can use the feat on Telepathy to gain an element of Arcane Trickster as well :)

I do like Gunner because its just like Crossbow Expert with a ASI. I know there was a build talked about in another video where there was a Rogue/Artificer. I suggested going Artificer first if guns were allowed so you could get a gun as a Rogue, or 2 guns if you went Artilerist, but you could get this feat instead and open up your infusions. It is a good feat, I wasn't exactly sure if it could be taken if guns weren't allowed but even if you can't use a gun the ASI and getting rid of the penalty for close range is worth it for some builds.

I have a passive perception of 26 based on smell and hearing with a wisdom of 14 on my level 1 werewolf barbarian. Keen smell and hearing gives advantage on perceptions that are smell and hearing based perceptions which in turns give you a +5 to your passive in those areas.

Tavern Brawler turns the world into your weapon and is great for unarmed/MMA/ Baki character builds. It also allows you to add your proficiency to thrown items like acid, alchemist fire, bear trap on a rope, get creative or watch Baki for ideas.

When you are describing the Telepathic feat and how to use it offensively (in both sense of the word) all I can think about is the scene from Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Whoppie Goldberg where he follows her around singing "I am Henry the VIIIth I am" for HOURS until she agrees to help him LOL! From Wikipedia - the movie was in 1990 In the 1990 film Ghost, Sam (Patrick Swayze) sings this song on a continuous run in a bad Cockney London accent all night long, to Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) to annoy her into helping him.[5]

I have the Knight of the Sword feat with my Rune Knight. But instead of it having the original prerequisite we renamed it and made it so I can only trigger it while enlarged with Giant's Might.

Another crazy thing about Telepathic: you gain the ability to cast it without components, essentially gaining the Subtle Spell meta magic ability. Even after your 1/LR cast, you can still use it this way by expending a spell slot. Wild.

I was already thinking of mixing battlesmith artificer and inquisitive rogue. To make a gunsling detective, this has just sold me on taking observant and gunner.

I took Revenant Blade on my Blood Hunter and it's amazing. Get the extra BH damage on both attacks is nice!

Monk with guns! You to can live you fantasy of mastering Gun Kata from Equilibrium xD

Love having the Observant feat. Wished BG3 had it.

I already scream in my head. It starts every damn day when I wake up for class 😂

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Can confirm about actor + telepathy: combined with a good deception roll, it basically gave my warlock a no-resource jedi mind trick!

Revenant Blade seems like an alternate option for Dual Wielder since both feats seem to give similar mechanical bonuses (Assuming you are okay with using a Rapier in each hand)

the best telepathic torture is to sing "Henry The Eighth, I Am" repeatedly.....forever.

Never heard of the first one, but I'll have to try it out! Because martials need more interesting utility. I just realized the telepathic feat can actually combo with a handful of spells, specifically the ones that stipulate 'the target needs to hear you'. Such as: compulsion, dissonant whispers, geas, modify memory, suggestion, and vicious mockery. Combined with subtle spell . . . and oh boy! I love observant, but the catch is it has to be a language you can speak, still pairs great with linguist or any background that gives you an extra dialect. And entirely agree about your comment using setting specific options outside their intended campaign, that simple flexibility grants quite a bit of variety for flavor and minmaxing; though our homebrew is throwing out race restricted classes feats and equipment. Don't know if you've covered these feats already nor remember if I've brought up farland's before. The combo of 'expert medic' and 'hard to kill' turn any character into a passive life cleric. EM gives you a +1 wisdom, and as long as you're within 50 feet of an ally they gain advantage on death saving throws, and they get a free success roll. HtK raises your constitution by +1, once a day you can roll a death save with advantage, and all of your death saving throws get a +1 bonus. There's also the 'punisher' feat which raises strength by +1, and once per round you can make an attack of opportunity without spending your reaction. Great on magical martials as they can use their reaction for the shield spell or some other retaliation while not forfeiting your guard. 'Avenger' raises any ability of your choice by +1, and whenever an enemy inflicts a debilitating condition or critical hit on an ally, your next attack roll gains advantage. Neither feat has a limit, so you could use them both every round but might be more situational. The 'shield grand master' feat is the only one of the bunch to require another feat as a prerequisite, obviously 'shield master'. SGM adds +1 to your armor class so long as you have a shield equipped, and you have advantage on dexterity saving throws against all area of effects. It helps you survive things you have no business beating, even when dexterity is your dump stat XD

The double bladed scimitar restriction is because the only in universe way you'll ever see that weapon used in in the Eberron setting with one of the elven nations as a cultural weapon to make them stand out from the inevitable 'All elves are brilliant at archery' trope. Would be nice Sea elves & Triton got something like that with Tridents as you also rarely see those in a game and it would give more players an opportunity to give them a go.

A monk with guns remembers me the gun-kata, that fighthing style from the movie Equilibrium with Christian Bale

I have Observent on my knowledge cleric and it is magnificent. Went with the variant human to pick up preception proficiency and observant at level 1 putting his passive perception at +10. Acolyte background with cleric grants further proficiency into, insight, religion, medicine, history and 2 more languages. Knowledge domain adds arcana and nature at double proficiency and increases the total of languages to 4. Pairing all this with the knowledge domain abilities and spells he can track anyone anywhere...

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Playing a Moon Druid with telepathy is the absolute best! It is so much fun roleplaying a dire wolf ripping someone apart while forcing them to listen to Duran Duran as they are eaten and great for Rick Rolling party members before they learn you took the feat. Also fun to harass commoner NPCs. My favorites are: - an otter king who tells random citizens to surrender to the otters of the river or have their town "crushed like a clam upon my belly." - a dog that looks wealthy looking women in the eye and tells them "he knows, don't go home." - and a dog that tells random people it's time to pay the debt they owe to its master...I usually walk alway with some coins and a pair of shoes with that one.

The telepathic feature makes me think of the brain that doesn't make its owner sleep because it asks paradoxes

I actually have a character I love role-playing. He is an arcane trickster based on the MTG character Lazav. He is rocking the feats Actor, Observant, keen mind and linguist. Next will be telepathy. He prides himself on being able to walk into any room, read it them become anyone he needs to be in it

Honestly, inspiring leader i feel is in this sort of underrated feat, because of how week the amount of temp hp you can give, and the fact it grinds the session to a halt.

note: The Kalashtar Race/Species also has a version of the Telepathic feat. and is great for druids and bards (exactly what I always try to multiclass)

I can't believe I've been playing an elven rogue without picking up Revenant Blade. Definitely getting it next ASI.

I have already made a Dex based Psi Warrior who uses the Revenant blade feature, to maximize that Jedi awesomeness

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Revenant blade has a cool build option - by multiclassing Fighter 1/Rogue 19 - and taking a Great Weapon Fighting style - now you can reroll 1s and 2s on your sneak attack! And considering that weapon has 2d4 damage - you will have a chance to increase the damage by +1/+2/+3 50% of the time! (+rerolling sneak attacks). And it scales by level with your SA!

I'm running a game where my partner was playing a Ranger and wanted to play a deaf character, so they took the Observant feat for the lip reading and I let them take sign language as one of their language proficiencies. They were definitely a lot of fun to play with, though that character died recently. Their wolf companion is still traveling with the group, so I decided to bulk up the wolf a bit to make it a semi-functional member of the party on its' own, since the group only has three characters, so I gave the wolf some barbarian levels. Haven't had the opportunity to make use of that yet, but we'll see how it goes

Lol I did the telepathy thing without the feat using a soulknife changling rogue. It's great using persuasion to convince an npc that it's their idea to free us

An extremely simple but amazing feat for combat is Savage Attacker. Simply letting you roll a damage dice twice and take either number. Its incredibly good on monks and fighters who tend to attack more than twice per turn

I really like observant. I made a Halfling Druid(Circle of Grasslands) build that had observant and skill expert feats. At level 10 the passive perception was 32. She's an amazing one shot character, though she really annoyed my GM. Immune to poison and being poisoned in a house filled to the brim with poison gas traps. I can't wait to see if I get to play her again.

Actor and/or Observant are great for chain warlock with the Voice of the Chain Master invocation.

On Revenant blade the Elf only restriction makes sense for Eberron lore reasons. The thing is that double-bladed scimitar is used primarily by elves of Valenar who have deep and long warrior culture. These scimitars are passed through generations as heritage. Wielding such weapon means you are following the code and you are quite able warrior. Anyone from Valenar can challenge you for a duel and if you lose they are allowed to take your scimitar and call it their own. If you stole a scimitar (the indication of that is most likely the fact that you are not an elf), you are dire criminal and must be eliminated at sight, after which the scimitar must be returned to family who owns it.