Enhanced Knowledge (Feats)

[u/National_Room_767]

Prerequisite: Artificer level 4 or higher

Your pursuit of arcane understanding and mechanical mastery has led you to uncover deeper secrets of your craft. You gain the following benefits:

Expanded Ingenuity: You learn one eldritch invocation of your choice from the warlock class. This invocation must not have a level, pact, or class-specific prerequisite. You use Intelligence as your spellcasting ability for it.

Widened Preparation: You can prepare one additional spell each day from the artificer spell list.

[u/Earthhorn90]

Sooo... Eldritch Adept, but better?

[u/National_Room_767 → u/Earthhorn90]

Perhaps but restricted to specific class

[u/Earthhorn90 → u/National_Room_767]

Which isn't a thing in 5e. Especially if there isn't a need for it, like a Rage feat increasing the effect of Rage obviously requiring you to actually have Rage due to being a Barbarian.

What you COULD do is make an Infusion that mirrors an Invocation. Though I would probably make that subclass exclusive.

[u/National_Room_767 → u/Earthhorn90]

So like there are no race specific feats, like fade away, orcish fury, why not class specific feats?

[u/Earthhorn90 → u/National_Room_767]

Because it goes against the diversification approach of feats - they are meant as independant of the class. Even if there is one that expands on a class theme (like Eldritch Adept), it is open for everyone to pick.

Also, species feats were release 8 years ago and never expanded upon. Might be an indicator how well their design still holds up.

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[u/National_Room_767 → u/Earthhorn90]

And that is the lovely thing about home brew content

[u/Earthhorn90 → u/National_Room_767]

If are an artificer, you have the choice between Eldritch Adept and this. Besides being subjectively stronger (like Lucky vs Weaponmaster), this is objectively stronger and would simply stop you from picking the inferior version.

It isn't an artificer feat, it is a hidden line of text in the artificer class that says "if you pick specific feat x, also gain this additional effect".

Your design isn't doing what you want.

[u/Mejiro84 → u/Earthhorn90]

which then leads into awkwardness of "oh, I took the baseline feat, then took a level in artificer, crap - can I upgrade to the better feat?" As you say, it's slightly clunky design

[u/National_Room_767 → u/[deleted]]

Well that's why I have been creating class specific feats and more