Timo Fey |
How do you understand the following wording of a Vigilante Racial Paragon talent description: The vigilante can take a move action to gain the benefit of a feat with a racial prerequisite he meets but doesn’t have .
I'm missing something here, maybe, but still: does 'but doesn't have' refer to 'a racial prerequisite' (that's how the line is built; yet, what does it mean – a racial prerequisite one meets but doesn't have) or rather to 'a feat' (that would make more sense, yet it is not exactly what is written)? This nuance seems to be essential for understanding the talent's very idea – most importantly, does a vigilante choose from the feats with his/her race as a prerequisite or rather with some other race.
To put it into context, below is complete wording of a new talent introduced in Blood of the Beast:
The vigilante can take a move action to gain the benefit of a feat with a racial prerequisite he meets but doesn’t have. This effect lasts for 1 minute. The vigilante must meet all the feat’s prerequisites. He can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + 1/2 his vigilante level (minimum four times per day). The vigilante can use this ability again before the duration expires to replace a previous racial feat with another choice. If a feat temporarily gained in this way has a daily use limitation, any uses of that feat while using this ability count toward that feat’s daily limit. This vigilante talent can be selected multiple times. Each time it is selected after the first, the vigilante can use this ability to gain the benefits of one additional racial feat at the same time, or to reduce the action required to activate this talent by one step (a move action becomes a swift action, a swift action becomes a free action, and a free action becomes an immediate action). If the vigilante chooses to gain the benefits of multiple feats, the feats selected must share the same racial prerequisite. He can use one of these feats to meet a prerequisite of a second feat; doing so means he cannot replace a feat currently fulfilling another’s prerequisite without also replacing those feats that require it. Each individual feat selected counts toward his daily uses of this ability.
This subject was touched upon briefly at the Blood of the Beast thread back in November, yet, comments would be appreciated.