Grudge-Bearer
You have a deep hatred for a particular kind of creature. Choose your foes, a type of creature to bear the burden of your wrath: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, humanoids, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. You gain the following benefits:
- Initiative Bonus. During the first round of any combat against your chosen foes, your attack rolls against any of them have advantage.
- Avoid Foe. When any of your chosen foes makes an opportunity attack against you, it makes the attack roll with disadvantage.
- Favored Enemy. You have advantage on Survival checks to track them, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about your chosen foes, and you deal an additional 1d4 damage with weapon attacks against your chosen foes. If you already have a feature that permanently gives either of these bonuses against specific chosen creatures, you instead gain all the benefits of the features against your chosen foes, and the benefits of this feat against the creatures chosen in those features.
Rulings
- What abilities count for Favored Enemy?
- A Ranger or Slayer's Favored Enemy, a Bloodhunter's Hunter's Bane, a Seeker Rogue's Divine Foe, or an Illidari Adept's Demon Hunter ability. Ones with temporary creature type bonuses, like a Paladin's Divine Sense or Divine Smite, would get the secondary benefit instead.
- How does Hunter's Bane work with this?
- The character would get advantage on Survival and Intelligence checks, plus the 1d4 damage bonus, against the chosen foe from Grudge Bearer AND the three creature type chosen in Hunter's Bane.
- How does Divine Foe work for this?
- The two foes chosen from this feat AND the two Divine Foes chosen from the Seeker ability would gain all the benefits from this feat AND would count as Divine Foes for the Seeker's subclass features.
- If I am a Ranger with Favored Enemy, do I deal 2d4 damage to my favored enemies?
- No. Because you already add 1d4 (or more) to damage against your favored enemies, you do not get this bonus again. However, the two foes chosen from this feat count as Favored Enemies for you. This means they gain all the benefits of the Favored Enemy class feature, and your Favored Enemies gain all of the bonuses from this feat as well.
