feat Skill Focus

Skill Focus (General)

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Choose a skill.

Benefit: You get a +3 bonus on all checks involving that skill.

Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new skill.

How Skill Focus Works

When you take Skill Focus, choose one skill. You gain a +3 bonus on checks using that skill. The feat is deliberately narrow: it gives a stronger bonus to one chosen skill rather than spreading smaller bonuses across several different skills.

Choosing the Right Skill

• Signature skills: choose a skill your character expects to roll often and wants to perform reliably.
• Role-defining skills: scouts, negotiators, crafters and specialists can reinforce the skill that defines their job in the party.
• Prerequisite planning: some character options care about particular skill totals, making a focused bonus more valuable than a broader but smaller increase.

Taking Skill Focus More Than Once

Skill Focus can be selected multiple times, but each selection must apply to a different skill. Taking Skill Focus twice for the same skill does not stack the bonus. A character could therefore take Skill Focus for one social skill and later take it again for a completely different knowledge, movement or perception skill.

See the Feats index for other general and skill-based character options.