The Elephant in the Room: Feat Taxes in Pathfinder (Full Rules Document)


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Liberty's Edge

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In September of 2012, my brother and I released a blog post discussing the issue of feat taxes in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Although the post was intended to be a one-off thought experiment based on our experiences building characters for organized play, it gained an inexplicable amount of traction online.

In response to the continued interest expressed by the Pathfinder community, we’ve decided to publish an updated and expanded version of our feat tree. This document, titled The Elephant in the Room after the original blog post, includes a reimagined version of the entire feat section found in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook.

We’re publishing the revised rules on the Hearth & Blade website, as our (in progress) campaign setting was largely inspired by these feat tax rules - albeit adjusted for the P6 rule set. The document provides a good idea of what our upcoming core rulebook will look like when it is finished.

More than anything, however, we hope that this document continues to spur interesting and lively discussion of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, just as the original blog post did.


Good to have some free roomy and elephantine tax-feat consolidation stuff out there. ;)


Your revised rules make zero mentions of the dirty trick maneuver. The only place that dirty tricks are mentioned in that pdf are in the Original Article section. How do you handle dirty tricks now?


I'm a fan of your blog post and I've used some of your ideas before. :)

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