3.5e OGL Feats

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Complete Open Game License Feat List

Name	Type	Prerequisites	Description
Accurate Jaunt	Spelltouched	Exposure to greater teleport, plane shift, teleport, or shadow walk spell.	You have an instinctive sense of interplanar travel.
Advanced Block	General	BAB +4, Dexterity 13, Combat Reflexes, Improved Block	Block even more often in a single round.
Advanced Breaking Strikes	General	BAB +8, Strength 13, Power Attack, Basic Breaking Strikes, Improved Breaking Strikes, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Sunder	You have mastered hard martial arts designed to shatter an opponent’s weapons, body, and spirit. These “breaking” strikes impose a penalty to your attack roll, but cause a special effect in addition to inflicting damage on your target.
Advanced Called Shot	General	BAB +4, Improved Called Shot	Don't provoke an AoO when performing a called shot.
Advanced Dive for Cover	General	BAB +4, Dexterity 13, Combat Reflexes, Improved Dive for Cover	Dive for cover multiple times per round.
Advanced Feint	General	Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Feint	Feint as a free action.
Advanced Grapple	General	Dexterity 13, Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Unarmed Strike, Improved Grapple, Improved Trip	Learn to use new moves when grappling.
Advanced Maintain Footing	General	BAB +4, Dexterity 13, Combat Reflexes, Improved Maintain Footing	Maintain your footing for free more than once per round.
Advanced Nerve Strikes	General	BAB +8, Improved Unarmed Strike, Basic Nerve Strikes, Improved Nerve Strikes	You have mastered nerve strike techniques.
Advanced Roll with Blow	General	BAB +4, Dexterity 13, Combat Reflexes, Improved Roll with Blow	You can roll with an opponent's blow multiple times per round.
Advanced Unarmed Strike	General	Improved Unarmed Strike	You have mastered nerve strike techniques.
Anticipate Power	Psionic	Manifester level 3rd	You can anticipate and cancel your enemy’s manifestations.
Armor Ignoring Power	Metapsionic	None	The damage from your powers ignores protection.
Armor Ignoring Spell	Metamagic	None	The damage from your spells ignores protection.
Armor Piercing Power	Metapsionic	None	The damage from your powers ignores half of an enemy's protection.
Armor Piercing Spell	Metamagic	None	The damage from your spells ignores half the protection an enemy enjoys.
Augment Animations	General	Created a Necroling	Your animated undead are more powerful than normal.
Basic Breaking Strikes	General	BAB +1, Power Attack, Strength 13, Improved Bull Rush	You have basic training in hard martial arts designed to shatter an opponent’s weapons, body, and spirit. These “breaking” strikes impose a penalty to your attack roll, but cause a special effect in addition to inflicting damage on your target.
Basic Nerve Strikes	General	BAB +1, Improved Unarmed Strike	Nerve strikes are martial arts techniques for melee combat. Also known as ripping or tearing techniques, they focus on apply excruciating pressure to vulnerable points on your opponent’s anatomy. By gripping the appropriate spot and pinching, twisting, tearing, or stabbing it, you can render an enemy weak with pain. All nerve strikes impose a penalty to your attack roll. All nerve strikes cause a special effect in addition to inflicting damage on your target.
Bladeproof Skin	Spelltouched	Exposure to stoneskin or iron body spell.	Your skin has a degree of protection from even the sharpest edge.
Block Projectile	General	BAB +4, Dexterity 15, Improved Block	You can now use the Block action to block projectiles.
Breadth of Knowledge	Spelltouched	Exposure to legend lore or vision spell.	Your time spent plumbing the depths of magic knowledge has resulted in a treasure trove of obscure facts.
Breaking Block	General	BAB +1, Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise, Basic Breaking Strikes, Improved Bull Rush	The breaking block is an advanced martial arts technique. You strike your enemy’s body (usually his limbs) in order to prevent him from hitting you with a melee weapon.
Catch Projectile	General	BAB +4, Dexterity 15, Improved Block, Block Projectile, Improved Unarmed Strike	You can snatch projectiles and hurl them back at attackers.
Clean-up Blow	General	BAB +4, Strength 13, Power Attack, Basic Breaking Strikes, Improved Bull Rush	Attack a dazed opponent freely.
Close Combat Shot	General	Point Blank Shot	Shoot enemies without provoking attacks of opportunity.
Combat Awareness	General	None	You are so perceptive that you practically have eyes in the back of your head.
Combat Sense	General	BAB +4, Intelligence 13, Knowledge (strategy and tactics) 7 ranks, Combat Expertise	You have an intuitive feel for the actions an opponent will take in combat.
Conductivity	Spelltouched	Exposure to call lightning, lightning bolt, or chain lightning spell.	You have crude control over electricity effects near you.
Continual Power	Metapsionic	Any other metapsionic feat	You can manifest a power that repeats its effect each round while you maintain concentration.
Controlled Immolation	Spelltouched	Exposure to fireball or delayed blast fireball spell.	If you catch on fire, the flames don't hurt you.
Cortical Resonance	Psionic	Manifester level 3	Powers you manifest against psionic or nonpsionic targets do more damage than normal.
Craft Alchemical Item	Item Creation	Craft (alchemy) 4 ranks.	You are capable of creating alchemical items and substances.
Craft Dreamgift	Item Creation, Psionic	Manifester Level 3rd, possess at least one dreamgift item.	You can create a variety of special psionic items that mimic standard psionic items, except you are guided in your creation after dreaming special dreams.
Craft Masterwork Armor	Item Creation	Craft (armorsmithing) 6 ranks.	You are trained in the creation of fine armor and shields
Craft Masterwork Ranged Weapon	Item Creation	Craft (weaponsmithing) 6 ranks.	You are trained in the creation of fine ranged weapons and ammunition, such as bows, crossbows and arrow.
Craft Masterwork Weapon	Item Creation	Craft (weaponsmithing) 6 ranks.	You are trained in the creation of fine melee and thrown weapons, such as swords, maces, daggers, and shortspears.
Creature Capacitor	Psionic	Psionic Talent	You can store part of your daily unused power points per day.
Dead Aim	General	Wisdom 13, Point Blank Shot, Far Shot	You gain the ability to aim carefully, making more precise shots.
Defensive Position	General	Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise	You use cover to maximum advantage.
Defensive Strike	General	BAB +4, Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise	By protecting yourself carefully you gain a bonus against an opponent who misses you.
Disarm Mind	Psionic	Mental Adversary	You can use psionic assaults to effectively relieve your enemies of all their power points.
Dodge, Grim-N-Gritty	General	Dexterity 13	You have learned to protect yourself from glancing blows.
Dorje Blade	Psionic	Use Psionic Device 4 ranks	You can use a dorje as a simple light weapon.
Durable Construct	Psionic	Boost Construct	Astral constructs serve you longer than normal.
Dynamic Grip	General	BAB +1, Martial Weapon Proficiency	When you wield a weapon, you do not lock your hands in a fixed position on its handle. Instead, you can constantly adjust your grip, sliding up and down the weapon’s length, even gripping the blade of the weapon (if it’s single-edged). This allows you to extend your reach with the weapon and optimize your striking opportunities.
Elemental Spike	Psionic	Manifester level 3+	You enhance your powers with an elemental spike.
Elusive Target, Grim-N-Gritty	General	Dexterity 13, Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise, Dodge	You can use opponents as cover when engaged in melee combat.
Enduring Tattoo	Item Creation, Psionic	Manifester level 5+, Scribe Tattoo, Craft (tattooing) (6 ranks)	You can extend the usage of psionic tattoos that you create.
Eyes to the Sky	Spelltouched	Exposure to scrying or greater scrying spell.	You have an instinctive sense of when someone is magically watching you.
False Pretenses	Spelltouched	Exposure to charm or dominate spell.	Those who try to charm you get an unpleasant surprise.
Favored Energy	Psionic	Ability to manifest the energy missile power	You prefer a certain energy type over all others.
Fearful Advantage	General	Created a Necroling	Base Attack Bonus +4, Intimidate 4 ranks
Feather Touch	General	BAB +1, Dexterity 13, Wisdom 13, Weapon Finesse, Improved Unarmed Strike, Basic Nerve Strikes	You may perform nerve strikes with a delicate touch.
Flow with Enemy	General	Dexterity 13, Intelligence 13, Wisdom 13, Dodge, Combat Expertise	You enter a state of unfettered mindfulness that permits you to anticipate your opponent’s movements and act before he acts.
Flurry of Blows, Grim-N-Gritty	General	Combat Reflexes	You can strike multiple blows at the expense of accuracy.
Hail of Bullets	General	Dexterity 13, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot	You can fire at all foes around you in a single instant.
Heightened Dorje	Psionic	Craft Dorje, Use Psionic Device 1 rank	With your psionic expertise, you can coax better results from a dorje than normal.
Improved Accelerated Pair	General	Point Blank Shot	You can fire at all foes around you in a single instant.
Improved Block	General	BAB +1, Dexterity 13	You may block more quickly than others.
Improved Breaking Strikes	General	BAB +4, Strength 13, Power Attack, Basic Breaking Strikes, Improved Bull Rush	You have superior training in hard martial arts designed to shatter an opponent’s weapons, body, and spirit. These “breaking” strikes impose a penalty to your attack roll, but cause a special effect in addition to inflicting damage on your target.
Improved Called Shot	General	BAB +1	You can make called shots more easily.
Improved Charge	General	Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise	You can make called shots more easily.
Improved Deep Impact	Psionic	BAB +5, Strength 13, Psionic Weapon, Deep Impact	You can strike your foe with a melee weapon as if making an armor piercing touch attack.
Improved Dive for Cover	General	Dexterity 13	You can quickly use the Dive for Cover action.
Improved Fell Shot	Psionic	BAB +5, Dexterity 13, Point Blank Shot, Psionic Shot, Fell Shot	You can strike your foe with a ranged weapon as if making an armor piercing touch attack.
Improved Flurry of Blows, Grim-N-Gritty	General	Combat Reflexes, Flurry of Blows	You can use any weapon to make a flurry of blows. making an armor piercing touch attack.
Improved Grapple, Grim-N-Gritty	General	Dexterity 13, Improved Unarmed Strike	You can start a grapple quickly and easily while wielding weapons.
Improved Maintain Footing	General	Dexterity 13	You can keep your feet beneath you where others usually fall.
Improved Nerve Strikes	General	BAB +4, Improved Unarmed Strike, Basic Nerve Strikes	You have superior training in nerve strike techniques.
Improved Roll with Blow	General	Dexterity 13	You can roll with blows far faster than your peers.
Improved Unavoidable Strike	Psionic	BAB +5, Strength 13, Psionic Fist, Unavoidable Strike	You can make an unarmed strike or use a natural weapon against your foe as if delivering an armor piercing touch attack.
Improvised Weapon Mastery, Grim-N-Gritty	General	Intelligence 13, Simple Weapon Proficiency, Combat Expertise, Improvised Weapon Proficiency	Your attacks with an improvised weapon deal more damage.
Improvised Weapon Proficiency, Grim-N-Gritty	General	Intelligence 13, Simple Weapon Proficiency, Combat Expertise	You can attack with improvised weapons without a penalty.
Ineluctable Echo	Spelltouched	Exposure to wail of the banshee or any power word spell.	Those who use words of power around you hear the sound of their own voices.
Infuse Dream	Item Creation, Psionic	Manifester level 3+	Items you make have special qualities in dream.
Latent Psi: Firestarter	Psionic	None	You have a thing for fire.
Latent Psi: Hardy	Psionic	None	You can withstand more abuse than others.
Latent Psi: Vicious Mind	Psionic	None	You can attack another’s mind.
Life Leech	Spelltouched	Exposure to death touch domain granted power or death knell spell.	You automatically try to steal the last bit of life energy from anyone nearby.
Live My Nightmare	Spelltouched	Exposure to phantasmal killer spell.	Those who magically pry into your mind become privy to your most frightening dreams.
Lucid Dreaming	Psionic	None	You do not lose yourself to dreams.
Mental Adversary	Psionic	None	You supercharge your psionic assault.
Mind Trap	Psionic	Psychic Bastion	You can inflict retribution against psionic foes.
Momentary Alteration	Spelltouched	Exposure to alter self spell.	You can briefly transform yourself into a second form, acquiring its physical qualities.
Naturalized Denizen	Spelltouched	Exposure to dimensional anchor spell.	You are unusually anchored to your location.
Nonlethal Force	General	BAB +1	You are adept at using nonlethal force to subdue an opponent.
Omniscient Whispers	Spelltouched	Exposure to commune or contact other plane spell.	A constant, barely audible muttering echoes in your ears, usually beyond your comprehension. But if you focus all your energy on listening, you sometimes catch a sentence or two that bears directly on your current situation.
Overwhelm Buffer	Psionic	Mental Adversary	You are trained in psionic attacks against nonpsionic minds.
Penetrating Power	Metapsionic	None	You manifest powers that can slice through an enemy’s power resistance more easily than normal.
Permanent Focus	Psionic	Narrow Mind	You can retain your focus for a given feat.
Permanent Tattoo	Item Creation, Psionic	Manifester Level 7+, Scribe Tattoo, Enduring Tattoo, Craft (tattooing) 12 ranks	You can scribe permanent psionic tattoos.
Persistent Power	Metapsionic	Extend Power	You make one of your powers last all day.
Photosynthetic Skin	Spelltouched	Exposure to barkskin spell.	Your skin toughens when it draws energy from the sun.
Polar Chill	Spelltouched	Exposure to cone of cold or ice storm spell.	You can call forth the cold of the arctic regions, making movement and fighting difficult for the unprepared.
Power Attack, Grim-N-Gritty	General	Strength 13	Perform a melee attack with devastating force.
Preconscious Power	Metapsionic	Manifester level 5+, Subconscious Power	You can manifest powers against foes even when indisposed.
Primordial Surge	Psionic	Base Attack Bonus +2	Your melee and ranged attacks against living targets that inflict critical damage shake your foes.
Psychic Bastion	Psionic	None	You fortify yourself against ability depletion.
Quick Reload, Grim-N-Gritty	General	BAB +1	You can quickly reload your ranged weapons.
Redirect Force	General	Dexterity 13, Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise, Dodge, Improved Unarmed Strike, Improved Grapple, Improved Trip	You may take advantage of a foe who's off his balance to maneuver him around.
Residual Rebound	Spelltouched	Exposure to spell resistance or spell turning spell.	Sometimes spells cast at you rebound on the caster instead.
Riposte	General	BAB +1, Dexterity 13, Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise, Dodge	You may strike back against those whose attacks you block.
Sculpt Self	General	None	You have the ability to modify the essence of your being.
Sequester Power	Psionic	Psionic Talent, manifester level 3+	You get additional power points per day for every power you sequester.
Skill Finesse	Psionic	Key ability score 13+	You are especially adept at using a certain skill that can benefit from your key ability score.
Skill Knowledge	General	None	You gain access to new knowledge and abilities.
Sniper	General	Wisdom 13, Point Blank Shot, Far Shot, Dead Aim, Sneak Attack	You can target an opponent's vitals at any range.
Stench of the Dead	Spelltouched	Exposure to ghoul touch or vampiric touch spell.	The odor of decay hangs heavy on you, causing others to gasp and retch.
Strength of the Grave, Dread Codex	General	Undead Type, Base Attack Bonus +2	Undead that have been turned can attempt to recover and negate the turning effect.
Strengthen Undead	General	Created a Necroling, Spellcraft ranks 12+	You can use arcane energy to protect undead from being turned.
Student of the Shallows	Psionic	Craft (dream interpreting) 4 ranks	Through careful study of the Shallows and its essentially predatory nature, you have learned to impose your will over some aspects of the Shallows.
Subconscious Power	Metapsionic	Unconditional Power	You can manifest powers on yourself even when indisposed.
Sudden Action	General	Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise, Improved Initiative	Burst into sudden action when the situation calls for it.
Suppress Avatar	Psionic	None	You can avoid psionic combat.
Tactical Aid	General	BAB +4, Intelligence 13, Charisma 13, Combat Expertise, Knowledge (strategy & tactics) 7 ranks	Your knowledge of strategy and tactics lets you guide your allies in combat.
Talented Crafter	General	Any item creation feat.	You have an extraordinary talent for item creation.
Transcend Limits	Psionic	Overchannel, Manifester Level 3+	You can boost your powers beyond their normal limits with metapsionic feats.
Unbalance Opponent	General	Dexterity 13, Intelligence 13, Wisdom 13, Dodge, Combat Expertise, Improved Grappling, Improved Unarmed Strike, Flow with Enemy	In close combat, you keep your opponents off balance and unable to effectively apply force.
Undead Sensitivity	General	Created a Necroling	Special intimacy with the undead gives you a special sight to detect their presence. Physically, the whites of your eyes turn an inky black.
Visceral Surge	Psionic	Base Attack Bonus +2, Primordial Surge	Melee and ranged attacks against living targets that inflict critical damage shake your foe.
Weapon Group - Axes	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use axes and axelike weapons.
Weapon Group - Basic Weapons	General	None	You understand how to use a few basic weapons.
Weapon Group - Bows	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use bows.
Weapon Group - Claw Weapons	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use strapped to the hands.
Weapon Group - Crossbows	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use crossbows.
Weapon Group - Druid Weapons	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use weapons favored by druids.
Weapon Group - Exotic Double Weapons	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use the exotic double weapons associated with the weapon groups that you have mastered.
Weapon Group - Exotic Weapons	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use the exotic weapons associated with the weapon groups that you have mastered.
Weapon Group - Flails and Chains	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use flails and chain weapons.
Weapon Group - Heavy Blades	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use large bladed weapons.
Weapon Group - Light Blades	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use light bladed weapons.
Weapon Group - Maces and Clubs	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use maces and clubs.
Weapon Group - Monk Weapons	General	None	You understand how to use weapons normally favored by monks.
Weapon Group - Picks and Hammers	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use picks and hammers.
Weapon Group - Polearms	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use polearms.
Weapon Group - Slings and Thrown Weapons	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use slings and handheld thrown weapons.
Weapon Group - Spears and Lances	General, Fighter	None	You understand how to use spears and javelins.
Wounding Cut	Psionic	Base Attack Bonus +3	Your melee and ranged attacks that inflict critical damage against living targets also bleed.
Wounding Resonance	Metapsionic	Manifester level 3+	Damaging powers you manifest that inflict damage against living targets also bleed.

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