Bard Dedication, Muse - Do I get the feat? Or just access to the feats?


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Shadow Lodge

OK, I has a confusion.

On the Bard Dedication (link) page, it says, “ Choose a muse as you would if you were a bard. You have that muse for all purposes, allowing you to take that muse’s feats, but you don’t gain any of the other abilities it grants.” I am choosing the Enigma Muse (link) which says, in part, “You gain the Bardic Lore feat and add true strike to your spell repertoire.”.

I expect, based on the intent of the first quoted sentence, that all I get is the opportunity to take feats limited to that muse from the usual list. I do not in fact get Bardic Lore (link) as a free feat.

What do you folks think? Getting the free feat seems inline with other Archetypes, but I’m just not sure that’s what the wording says.


I don't think you get the feat. "You have the muse for all purposes" means anytime something asks the question "do you have the enigma muse" then the answer is "yes." But you don't get anything else from having the Enigma muse neither bardic lore nor true strike (since you don't have level 1 spells yet.)

However, Bardic Lore is just a level 1 feat that requires the Enigma Muse, so you can just get it via "Basic Muse's Whispers".

Shadow Lodge

Yeah, that's my thought too, but I want to be sure I'm not shooting myself in the foot for no reason. :)

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