Running on way too little sleep, but I gotta toss up a question: Is there any difference between a stock wizard feat and an arcane discovery. I have a strange idea that there is no difference and want validation, clarification or derision.
Arcane discoveries work like feats with a pq of wizard levle X.
Other than the following, they have no relation to one another at all:
A wizard can learn an arcane discovery in place of a regular feat or wizard bonus feat.
They really should have just been feats. They work in almost every way like a new subtype of feat would have.
Are they effectively 'Wizard only feats'?
Milo v3: Thanks for the quote, I was thinking it had to be a bonus feat only.
Yes, only wizards can take them. Kyrt-ryder is also correct in that they don't synergize with abilities that affect feats.
Doh! Was not meta-thinking on Bonus stacking. As if my players wouldn't have exploited it some way...
I built a wizard that took nothing but arcane discoveries except for maybe one or two feats. I loved it. I had the GM asking "you're doing what" almost every session. Ahhh, that was great.