Eldritch Heritage and gaining a bloodline


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Liberty's Edge

I was looking at the Eldritch Heritage feat a little closer over the past few days and noticed an odd bit of wording.

"This bloodline cannot be a bloodline you already have."

The rules text as written would imply that you could later gain the full bloodline and have two sources granting the same bloodline power. However, the intent seems to be that you either have the feat or the bloodline. Is this wording intended to allow someone to later gain the full bloodline (from either sorcerer levels, dragon disciple, or other future sources)? or Is it intended to prevent having both concurrently and is just worded poorly?

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I would say the intent is to avoid having a double of the same bloodline.

Liberty's Edge

ryric wrote:
I would say the intent is to avoid having a double of the same bloodline.

I agree with that intent; but the wording is, at best, unclear.

Shadow Lodge

I believe that if you were to get the bloodline after you took the feat, you could no longer use the feat because you no longer meet the prerequisites. Like if you use a belt of incredible dexterity to qualify for TWF and enter an antimagic field, you can't TWF.


Eldritch Heritage wrote:

You are descended from a long line of sorcerers, and some portion of their power flows in your veins.

Prerequisites: Cha 13, Skill Focus with the class skill of bloodline selected for this feat (see below), character level 3rd.

Benefit: Select one sorcerer bloodline. You must have Skill focus in the class skill that bloodline grants to a sorcerer at 1st level (for example, Heal for the celestial bloodline). This bloodline cannot be a bloodline you already have. You gain the first-level bloodline power for the selected bloodline. For purposes of using that power, treat your sorcerer level as equal to your character level – 2, even if you have levels in sorcerer. You do not gain any of the other bloodline abilities.

It's not technically part of the prerequisites :/

Edit: Compare a feat that actually does put this in the prereqs.

Animal Ally wrote:

Your respect for nature is so great that you can form a deep and lasting friendship with an animal.

Prerequisites: Nature Soul, character level 4th, must not have an animal companion or mount that advances as an animal companion.

Benefit: You gain an animal companion as if you were a druid of your character level –3 from the following list: badger, bird, camel, cat (small), dire rat, dog, horse, pony, snake (viper), or wolf. If you later gain an animal companion through another source (such as the Animal domain, divine bond, hunter's bond, mount, or nature bond class features), the effective druid level granted by this feat stacks with that granted by other sources.

RAW, this feat turns off if you acquire an AC from any other source.

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