I'm making a Fireblood Dwarf, and I'm wondering if I, as a Dragonblooded creature, qualify for taking Dragon feats like Improved Speed and Rapidstrike?
[RPG] Can Dragonblooded Characters Take Draconomicon Dragon Feats
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Five: Three with one Claw, once with the other, once with the Tail
Improved Rapidstrike means that you get two extra attacks with one of your claws, and you still get your other claw attack and the tail attack (which are not affected by Rapidstrike), up to a maximum of five attacks.
Your attack routine, assuming +15 BAB (minimum for Imp. Rapidstrike) and 1d6 damage on each natural weapon, would be as follows:
+15/+11/+6 Claw (1d6+Str), +15 Claw (1d6+Str), +15 Tail (1d6+½Str)
The extra attacks granted by Improved Rapidstrike are not secondary attacks so they are not affected by Improved Multiattack. A pair of natural weapons can both be primary, so the second Claw attack isn’t affected either. Imp. Multiattack does affect the Tail attack, which is secondary; without it it would be at −5 or −2 with Multiattack.
Personally, without more secondary attacks, I wouldn’t spend the feats on Multiattack and Improved Multiattack. Even with a few more secondaries, I usually find Multiattack to be enough.
Knowledge Devotion is awesome, and doesn’t care about Turn Undead
Knowledge Devotion can be used at will; it does not reference or use turn undead in any way. It provides a minimum of +1 attack, +1 damage, but with fairly easy Knowledge checks, can produce larger bonuses. Dramatically better returns than the Weapon Focus et al. line, without requiring you to be a fighter, or tying you to a single weapon. A very solid feat.
Travel Devotion is good enough to be worth a feat even 1/day
Travel Devotion gives you a minute’s worth of swift-action movement; that’s worth a feat. Of course, it gets massively better with more Turn Undead; a Cha of 12 nets you 3 minutes of swift-action movement per day, while a Cha of 16 (which, as a spellthief, you may actually have) gets you 4.
Trickery Devotion, again, 1/day could be enough
Trickery Devotion is a bit tougher to use, but you burn Turn Undead uses very quickly getting more of it (since it uses 3 per use), so not having Turn Undead probably won’t slow you down very much. And getting to make a duplicate of yourself for a minute/level each day is, well, very tricksy indeed.
Law Devotion gives a hefty bonus for a minute/day
Like Trickery, Law uses 3 uses of Turn Undead per use of the devotion, which means you do not get dramatically more uses out of it by having Turn Undead. Each use gives you a pretty large bonus to attack or AC for a minute (+3 until 10th, then +5 until 15th, then +7). You need to hit if you’re going to steal anything.
Animal Devotion, if you’re desperate
Animal Devotion gives flight in a feat. That is very rare. Without Turn Undead, you only get 1 minute/day, which sucks, but 1 minute/day is still an awful lot better than none. Also has some other solid uses, once you get yourself set up with a more permanent form of flight.
Cleric dips are really strong!
Don’t ignore the possibility of just taking a level in (cloistered) cleric. You’d get all the devotion feats you want for free, plus Turn Undead to fuel them, plus a smattering of spells. Which, if you do go cloistered cleric, includes identify as a 1st-level divine spell – and identify doesn’t have an expensive material component when used as a divine spell. This is awesome.
Bonus Mention: Godsblood Spelltheft sounds thematically appropriate, is very useful
Godsblood Spelltheft is a feat introduced by Class Chronicles: Factotums and Spellthieves, the same place we got Font of Inspiration from. It is somewhat specific to the Forgotten Realms, but it’s easy enough to fit into any campaign setting, either with a different list of gods and domains, or the same domains but for different reasons, or whatever. Point is, the feat allows you to be sure that, no matter what spell you steal, if it’s useless you can always use one of these domain spells. That’s worth a lot to a spellthief.
For the list of domains that you are eligible to choose, see this question.
Best Answer
No.
While the fireblood dwarf (Dragon Magic 7) has the subtype dragonblood (DM 4) (and, obviously, dwarf), the fireblood dwarf's type remains humanoid not dragon. Only creatures with the actual dragon type--not just the dragonblood subtype--meet the prerequisites of feats that have as a prerequisite the type dragon, like the feats Improved Speed (Draconomicon 71) and Rapidstrike (73).
Further, were a PC to qualify for such feats because of his type (e.g. when he advances a level the PC is the subject of the spell essence of the dragon [trans] (Races of the Dragon 112-3)) the player must still seek the DM's permission to take the feat if the feat's in the category monstrous (Draconomicon 66).
The dragonblood subtype, however, does allow a creature to take feats that have the dragonblood subtype as a prerequisite, such as some feats presented in Dragon Magic and Races of the Dragon.