Ways to get Skill Focus w / o spending a feat


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Are there any? Needs to not have any restriction on qualifications for other things, though.


A number of class talents, discoveries etc. include a skill focus or two as an option. Half-elves and some humans can get skill focus as a racial option. Paragon surge can get you a feat temporarily.

What do you mean by a restriction on qualifications for other things?


avr wrote:

A number of class talents, discoveries etc. include a skill focus or two as an option. Half-elves and some humans can get skill focus as a racial option. Paragon surge can get you a feat temporarily.

What do you mean by a restriction on qualifications for other things?

many feats or prestige classes require skill focus in a skill so im thinking they talking about that


avr wrote:

A number of class talents, discoveries etc. include a skill focus or two as an option. Half-elves and some humans can get skill focus as a racial option. Paragon surge can get you a feat temporarily.

What do you mean by a restriction on qualifications for other things?

Well, if it grants Skill focus as a feat, I want to be able to use that as a prereq for other things (namely feats).

Are there any familiars that grant skill focus?


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Spiritualist, but only while their Phantom is in their consciousness.

Chirurgeon Alchemist gets Skill Focus Heal. Inspired Chemist or Mindchemist can select one of a number of Skill Focuses in place of a Discovery.

Insinuator Antipaladin gets bonus feats in place of spells, which must either be combat feats or Skill Focus.

ID Rager Bloodrager gets Skill Focus dependent on their chosen Emotional Focus. A few Bloodlines for Bloodragers and Sorcerers can grant Skill Focus as well.

A number of the Animal Shaman Druids get Skill Focus as an option.

Dragoon Fighter gets Skill Focus Ride, while a Tactician can choose Skill Focus or a Teamwork feat in addition to typical Bonus Feat options.

Infiltrator Ranger might be able to get Skill Focus, depending on the creature they're emulating.

Phantom Thief Rogue can choose Skill Focus in place of a Rogue Talent. There's also the Dampen Presence Rogue Talent, which doesn't grant Skill Focus Stealth, but treats you as having it for the purpose of satisfying the prerequisites of any feat that lists Dampen Presence as a prerequisite.

Name-Keeper Shaman can get Skill Focus by taking the Scrolls Pathfinder's Past option.

Daring Infiltrator Swashbuckler may choose Skill Focus in place of a combat feat.

Dragonscale Loyalist Vigilante may gain either Skill Focus Appraise or Knowledge History, dependent on House choice.

Disenchanter Warpriest may choose Skill Focus Spellcraft as a bonus feat.

Order of the Paw or of the Sword Cavalier can get Skill Focus Ride at level 8.

Shadow Mystery Oracle can get Skill Focus Stealth.

Half-Elves start with a single Skill Focus. Humans can take the Adoptive Parentage alternate racial ability for Skill Focus, or the Focused Studt alternate racial ability for Skill Focus at levels 1, 8, and 16.

Though Familiar bonuses can mimic the bonus from Skill Focus, they do not count as such.

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Humans can also just use their bonus feat to take Skill Focus.


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James F.D. Graham wrote:
Humans can also just use their bonus feat to take Skill Focus.

But if you are going to do that, you may as well take Focused Study so that you can get two more Skill Focus feats later on.


James F.D. Graham wrote:
Humans can also just use their bonus feat to take Skill Focus.

that's not the point the point is they want to not take it as a feat so taking it as a feat is counter intuitive


Is there a specific goal here? Knowing that might make it easier to give advice.


Ironclad Logic is treated as skill focus (diplomacy) for prereqs.

There's an item (shawl?) which allows a spiritualist to keep the skill focus feats when their phantom is manifested.


The specific goal is to reduce the feat tax on certain feat trees. I'm looking for skill focus planes to reduce the feat tax of the abyssal eldritch heritage line, but the info is useful other ways too.


Human with Focused Study. Trade your Level 1 feat for 3 Skill focuses at Level 1,8,&16.

Usually, a good way to go as I have made a few builds that utilize it.

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