[RPG] Can you take the Magic Initiate feat more than once

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One of my players, a Warlock, wants to learn a few Cleric spells but not multiclass into Cleric, so he took the magic initiate feat. He just posed the question about taking the feat again at a later level and I'm not sure if there's anything that disallows it.

If there is something in there that says you can't take the feat more than once, would I be breaking anything by allowing him to?

Best Answer

By RAW, no.

The Feats description mentions

You can take each feat only once, unless the feat’s description says otherwise.

The Magic Initiate feat does not say it can be taken twice.

Would it be game-breaking? I don't think so.

You are trading an ASI upgrade to learn a few cantrips and 2 1st-level spells. It seems to me to actually be a poor mechanical decision.

That being said, I would suggest him multi-classing into Cleric for a level instead of taking this feat twice as a homebrew rule. I don't know your motives for not wanting to do it, of course, so this may not be applicable to your group.