Oh!! To find a feat....

[sanwah68]

Hi all,

I am looking for a feat that allows a character to use Dex for damage (like Dervish Dancer in Pathfinder). Is there one in 3.5ed?? If so, any idea which book??

I have looked through some of the obvious books (Complete Adventurer and Scoundrel), but it wasn't there.

[Digitalelf]

Here is an index of Feats from WotC...

Feat Index

[Geistlinger]

Alderac Entertainment has a book called Feats. In it there is a feat called Superior Finesse which allows you to add your DEX bonus to damage instead of STR.

[sanwah68]

Thanks to both of you for your help. My DM doesn't allow 3rd party stuff in his campaign (should have been clearer in the original post). I put in Dex as the search term in the Feat list, but din't get anything resembling the feat I am looking for. Maybe it doesn't exist.

[Bellona]

If you're running an elf or half-elf character, there is a prestige class called Champion of Corellon in WotC's 3.5 supplement Races of the Wild (p. 113). The L 2 class feature is Elegant Strike, which sounds like what you're looking for. (The L 5 class feature is pretty good too.)

[Are]

Crossbow Sniper (Player's Handbook II) grants half Dex bonus to damage with a crossbow.

I thought I had seen a feat allowing Dex instead of Str to damage, but I can't find it at the moment.

[sanwah68]

Are wrote:

I thought I had seen a feat allowing Dex instead of Str to damage, but I can't find it at the moment.

I thought I had too, but then could not find it....like the Champion though, it may have been a prestige class class feature. There is so much stuff to look through.

Bellona, a elf does not really work in this particular campaign, so the Champion is not an option, but thanks.

I could have a chat to the DM, but as it is my husband, we are very careful to not be seen as allowing favouritism.

[hogarth]

The feat "Shadow Blade" from the Tome of Battle lets you use Dex for damage while you're in a Shadow Hand stance and using a Shadow Hand school weapon. To get that stance, you can either take a level of a Tome of Battle class, or you can spend the two feats to get a maneuver and a stance.

(I think that's right; I don't have the Tome of Battle in front of me at the moment, though.)

EDIT: See this thread for details.

http://paizo.com/forums/dmtz3iek?Dex-mod-to-damage-for-melee-attack