Does the Alertness feet from having a familiar count as a Prerequisite for feets that need Alertness?


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Does the Alertness feet from having a familiar count as a Prerequisite for feets that need Alertness? I put it in the subject box also as a means of making it easier for people to find it in the future.


It says you gain the feat, so you have the feat for the purposes of prereqs. If it said something along the lines of "You get a +2 bonus on Perception and Sense Motive skill checks which progresses as if you had the alertness feat" then it would not count.


Familiar wrote:
While a familiar is within arm’s reach, the master gains the Alertness feat.

You actually have the feat, and just need the familiar around during the time you gain the new feat.

Note that if at any point your familiar stops being within arm's reach, you no longer have Alertness, which means you stop qualifying for a feat you currently have. The rules of this happening are shaky, but it is likely that you will not gain the benefits of the feat that relies on Alertness as long as you don't have Alertness.


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The rules for what happens when you lose the pq for a feat are clear actually, the second paragraph under Prerequisites, Feat chapter of the CRB has this to say:

"A character can't use a feat if he loses a prerequisite, but he does not lose the feat itself. If, at a later time, he regains the lost prerequisite, he immediately regains full use of the feat that prerequisite enables."

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