Common NPCs and Feats

[d13]

Do Common NPCs get Feats as they level up or do Feats only go to adventuring types? I read a thread earlier where someone was talking about giving some Experts the Brew Potion feat because they liked the idea of having an apothecary who wasn't necessarily a spell caster. I think it was more of a house rule, but it made a lot of sense to me.

How do other people handle this?

[Thanis Kartaleon]

d13 wrote:

Do Common NPCs get Feats as they level up or do Feats only go to adventuring types? I read a thread earlier where someone was talking about giving some Experts the Brew Potion feat because they liked the idea of having an apothecary who wasn't necessarily a spell caster. I think it was more of a house rule, but it made a lot of sense to me.

How do other people handle this?

Feats are granted based on hit dice, regardless of class or creature type. Same thing with the ability ups.

As for Brew Potion, I can't see a nonspellcaster making potions of barkskin and the like. Allowing them to take Craft (Alchemy) on the other hand, sounds fine to me.

[Amal Ulric]

d13 wrote:

Do Common NPCs get Feats as they level up or do Feats only go to adventuring types? I read a thread earlier where someone was talking about giving some Experts the Brew Potion feat because they liked the idea of having an apothecary who wasn't necessarily a spell caster. I think it was more of a house rule, but it made a lot of sense to me.

How do other people handle this?

In the DMG (p107) under NPC Classes, it says that "members get feats every three levels and ability score increases every four levels." Basically, you should treat one just like a PC for these functions. Most NPCs take non-combat feats, but you can do whatever you like. Brew Potion would work better for an Adept than an Expert, unless you're really bending the potion creation rules.

[Moff Rimmer]

d13 wrote:

Do Common NPCs get Feats as they level up or do Feats only go to adventuring types? I read a thread earlier where someone was talking about giving some Experts the Brew Potion feat because they liked the idea of having an apothecary who wasn't necessarily a spell caster. I think it was more of a house rule, but it made a lot of sense to me.

How do other people handle this?

Pretty much everyone (except some constructs, animals, and vermin) get feats at first level and every third level or HD.

I think that giving the brew potion feat to an expert is a house rule (but it does kind of make sense).

You should probably look at the magewright and the artificer classes from Eberron if you really want this kind of class.

[d13]

Thanis Kartaleon wrote:

As for Brew Potion, I can't see a nonspellcaster making potions of barkskin and the like. Allowing them to take Craft (Alchemy) on the other hand, sounds fine to me.

I was mistaken. You are right. The old thread I read was, in fact, talking about CRAFT: ALCHEMY - not BREW POTION. I stand corrected. Thank you sir.

[d13]

Amal Ulric wrote:

[In the DMG (p107) under NPC Classes, it says that "members get feats every three levels and ability score increases every four levels." Basically, you should treat one just like a PC for these functions. Most NPCs take non-combat feats, but you can do whatever you like. Brew Potion would work better for an Adept than an Expert, unless you're really bending the potion creation rules.

Thank you. Didn't have my DMG handy.