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This question came up in the explosive Crane Wing thread, but I thought that maybe a separate thread to discuss it would be better than just adding to the madness in that one. I guess the title pretty much sums it up, but to give an example, if a Barbarian took the Brawler rage power at 4th level would he qualify to take Improved Grapple at 5th?
My initial opinion is that gaining IUS from Brawler should let you qualify for feats like Improved Grapple which have IUS as a prereq but you'd only be able to benefit from those feats while raging. It was mentioned in the other thread that you'd need to wear a belt which grants an ability score bonus for 24 hours before you could qualify for a feat with it. For the first 24 hours the +2 Str would be a temporary ability score bonus which doesn't affect access to feats. I'm not sure that those rules would apply to this situation though since Brawler gains temporary access to the IUS feat, not a temporary bonus to some attribute.
Necro. Is there any new wisdom on this topic?
Brawlers (class, not Rage Power) are meant to qualify for any TWF feat as long as they use Brawler's Flurry; so can a Barb qualify for Crane Wing with the Brawler Rage Power?
I think the general feel is that if you have access to something consistently (like able to use every day) then you can build off of it, but only get the benefits while using the ability.
