Do I have the right number of feats for my character?


Rules Questions


I think starting at Level 3 threw me a bit. I am a Lvl3 human cleric, and I have four feats. I know one is from the human Bonus Feat trait, but I'm unsure of where exactly I got the others... So, really, how many feats am I supposed to have, and where should I have got them from? I'm really sorry, I know this is a stupid question. Thanks so much!


You get
One from being human
One at Level 1
One at Level 3
So you should have three, not four, unless your cleric archetype or something class-related gave you another, but I cannot think of anything like that off the top of my head


Which domains do you have?


Cheers! My domains are Fire and Sun. Are there some which give extra feats?


Darkness, Rune, and Nobility do.
But you have indeed one feat too many.


One of the cleric archetypes gets weapon focus with the deity's favored weapon... can't remember which tho.


Unless you've got a bonus feat for a class or archetype, you are indeed one over.


Can you list your feats? We can reverse engineer the build to see where you might have gotten another one or been mistaken...


Barry Armstrong wrote:
Can you list your feats? We can reverse engineer the build to see where you might have gotten another one or been mistaken...

My Character Sheet is at my GM's house currently, but if I remember rightly, I have Selective Channeling, Extra Channel, Alignment Channel and Channel Smite.


I don't believe any of those come from a domain unless someone sees something I don't.

Which means, you are indeed 1 over for a 3rd level human cleric.


If your deity has a favoured weapon that clerics already have proficiency with, you get Weapon Focus in that weapon instead. Similar to when your deity has "unarmed strike" as a favoured weapon and cleric get Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus.

I believe that is a standard rule in Golarion and PFS.


Darth Borehd wrote:

If your deity has a favoured weapon that clerics already have proficiency with, you get Weapon Focus in that weapon instead. Similar to when your deity has "unarmed strike" as a favoured weapon and cleric get Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus.

I believe that is a standard rule in Golarion and PFS.

Nope. Not anywhere I can find.

Grand Lodge

Weapon Focus, no.

Improved Unarmed Strike, yes.


darth_borehd wrote:

If your deity has a favoured weapon that clerics already have proficiency with, you get Weapon Focus in that weapon instead. Similar to when your deity has "unarmed strike" as a favoured weapon and cleric get Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus.

I believe that is a standard rule in Golarion and PFS.

This is not correct, though it is similar to a houserule I use. If your deity's favored weapon is an exotic weapon, you gain proficiency. If a martial weapon, you get proficiency and Weapon Focus. If simple, you get Weapon Focus and the ability to qualify for Weapon Specialization as if you were a fighter of equivalent level to class that grants the weapon (cleric/inquisitor), though you don't actually gain specialization as a bonus feat.


That's cool, thanks a lot guys. :) Which fear do you think I should drop until fifth level?


Alignment Channel and Channel Smite are VERY selective situation feats. That being said, Channel Smite is more useful IMHO than Alignment Channel.

I'd drop Alignment Channel unless syou are attempting to qualify for a PrC such as Holy Vindicator or similar?


Barry Armstrong wrote:

Alignment Channel and Channel Smite are VERY selective situation feats. That being said, Channel Smite is more useful IMHO than Alignment Channel.

I'd drop Alignment Channel unless syou are attempting to qualify for a PrC such as Holy Vindicator or similar?

No, the setting doesn't lend itself at all to Multiclassing or Prestige Classing. Thanks for the advice! I'll take that out and add it again at 5.

Many thanks again to everybody who helped! :D

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