I know there's the "Special: You can take this feat again and select a different X Feat" on the Multiclass Archtype feats, but is it written somewhere that you can't take a feat multiple times?
In every time a feat says "Special: You can select this feat more than once." is the book saying you can't generally take a feat multiple times.
And in the introduction where the layout of an action or feat is explained, it says "Special Any special qualities of the rule are explained in this section. Usually this section appears in feats you can select more than once, explaining what happens when you do." further stating that you can't generally take a feat multiple times.
Gotcha, that's how I thought it worked as well but it doesn't ever say, "you can only take a feat once unless otherwise stated" anywhere. Mostly was just trying to find a rule as somebody was asking if they could do retraining shenanigans by taking Wizard Dedication at 2, Arcane Spell feat at 4, and then take Wiz Dedication at 9 with human Multitalented and then retrain out of Wiz Dedication at 2 and keep the lvl 4 feat.
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They very strongly imply that most feats can be taken only once without ever directly saying it. This is definitely a case where "The exception proves the rule" directly applies.
They very strongly imply that most feats can be taken only once without ever directly saying it. This is definitely a case where "The exception proves the rule" directly applies.
While I fully agree that feats without the exception clause can only be taken once it would have really, really, really been nice to mention this in the CRB at least once. Reverse logic is not for everyone...
Gotcha, that's how I thought it worked as well but it doesn't ever say, "you can only take a feat once unless otherwise stated" anywhere. Mostly was just trying to find a rule as somebody was asking if they could do retraining shenanigans by taking Wizard Dedication at 2, Arcane Spell feat at 4, and then take Wiz Dedication at 9 with human Multitalented and then retrain out of Wiz Dedication at 2 and keep the lvl 4 feat.In every time a feat says "Special: You can select this feat more than once." is the book saying you can't generally take a feat multiple times.
And in the introduction where the layout of an action or feat is explained, it says "Special Any special qualities of the rule are explained in this section. Usually this section appears in feats you can select more than once, explaining what happens when you do." further stating that you can't generally take a feat multiple times.
Even if they did, the Retraining clearly says you can only take feats if you met the requirements at the time. So a level 4 couldn't take a level 4 feat with a level 2 feat requirement if he doesn't have it by level 4.
They very strongly imply that most feats can be taken only once without ever directly saying it. This is definitely a case where "The exception proves the rule" directly applies.While I fully agree that feats without the exception clause can only be taken once it would have really, really, really been nice to mention this in the CRB at least once. Reverse logic is not for everyone...
Agreed! At least they put the statements in general places that would apply to all stat blocks -- but it would have been nice for them to have made a direct statement of the rule that they only directly stated the exception(s) to.