Teamwork Feats and Abilities???

[malaryal]

At one point in the past, I remember coming across some feats that had to do with teamwork and helping each other in combat, but I can't find them in any book. Does anyone know if I'm dreaming this up? From what I remember there was some feat that a character picked as a prereq for more specific teamwork bonus feats. I just picked up the Races of Destiny book and the Outcast Champion prestige class reminded me of these supposed teamwork feats, and my fellow players and i were interested in picking up some teamwork abilities. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks-
-malaryal

 

[Storyteller01]

The 3.0 'Sword and Fist' book had a feat that had Combat Reflexes as a prereq. If those involved had the feat (I forget the name) and flanked an opponent, the flanking bonus increased to +4.

Never saw use in my campaign. Characters had to be built around the idea of teamwork, and everyone had their own concepts they wanted to play with...

It's the only one I've seen to date...

 

[Scharlata]

[...] and my fellow players and i were interested in picking up some teamwork abilities. [...]

Hi!

Coming to my mind are the following feats:

1.) Dual Strike (3.0) from Sword and Fist: [both flankers gain +4 instead of +2]
2.) Cooperative Spell (3.5) from Complete Arcane: [Bonus to save DC and on caster level checks of spells cast in conjunction with other spellcasters]
3.) Distracting Attack (3.5) from Miniatures Handbook: [Your attack gives +1 bonus on other creature's attack against same target]
4.) Shieldmate and Improved Shieldmate (3.5) from Miniatures Handbook: [Your shield grants shield bonus to adjacent allies]
5.) Phalanx Fighting (3.5) from Complete Warrior: [form an shield wall with adjacent shieldbearers]
6.) Fling Ally (3.5) from Races of Stone: [Throw a friend into another square]
7.) Swarmfighting (3.5) from Complete Warrior: [Occupy same square as other swarmfighting ally, gain +1 morale bonus per ally (up to Dex bonus)]
8.) Formation Expert (3.5) [Tactical] from Complete Warrior: [form a wall of polearms, step into breach, etc.]

Hope that helps and kind regards

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Aid Spellcaster from AU. There's a .pdf for sale on RPGNow that's focused on teamwork feats.

 

[Geoff Watson]

Theres a few in OA:

Great Teamwork,
Improved Aid,
Spellcaster Support,
Strength of the Crab.

Geoff.

 

[Saeviomagy]

At one point in the past, I remember coming across some feats that had to do with teamwork and helping each other in combat, but I can't find them in any book. Does anyone know if I'm dreaming this up? From what I remember there was some feat that a character picked as a prereq for more specific teamwork bonus feats. I just picked up the Races of Destiny book and the Outcast Champion prestige class reminded me of these supposed teamwork feats, and my fellow players and i were interested in picking up some teamwork abilities. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks-
-malaryal

There is stuff like that in a dragon magazine - basically one character takes the generic teamwork feat, and then they create a teamwork pool by contributing skill points to it. Other members contribute too. Once you have a certain number of points, you buy a special ability that applies to the entire team.

Personally I don't really like the mechanics of it - trading skill points for feat-like abilities doesn't mesh well for me. Since a great many of the new abilities benefit fighters over all others, and since fighters have almost no use for their skill points, it seems a really onerous burden on other classes to have to make that sacrifice.

I'd much rather have some sort of XP sacrifice. Like - everyone gives up 10% of their XP, and the teamwork pool effectively levels up.

 

[Trainz]

Complete Warrior: Formation Expert, Swarmfighting, Phalanx Fighting.

Personally, I'm not fond of those feats, but hey, to each his own.

 

[malaryal]

There is stuff like that in a dragon magazine - basically one character takes the generic teamwork feat, and then they create a teamwork pool by contributing skill points to it. Other members contribute too. Once you have a certain number of points, you buy a special ability that applies to the entire team.

thanks Saeviomagy, that is actually what i was remembering. just went through my back issues of dragon and found it. i think i was remembering it better than it was, especially considering that my party of 3 doesn't have many skill points between us.

cheers-
-malaryal

 

[CronoDekar]

Others that come to mind... Summon Earth Elemental in Races of Faerun which can be used cooperatively, but unless you're using a whole bunch of svirfneblin that's probably not too useful. Cooperative Spell (T&B, republished in CA?) for spellcasters, but that one's really meh. S&F has Dual Strike, which gives you +4 to attack rather than +2 when you're flanking with someone else that has the feat. None else come to mind, really. I would like to see more cooperative feats, just more useful than the previous ones and with less prerequisites (or make it so only one person involved needs the feat).

EDIT: Oh, I see this got double-posted. For anyone else who missed it, this is the larger version of this thread:

 

[Darkness]

Duplicate threads merged.