Strength Devotion

Domain feat

Complete Champion (CC), p. 62Updated Supplementals (3.5)

Strength Devotion is a D&D 3.5 feat (Domain) from CC, p. 62. You can overcome an opponent’s normal resistance to damage.

Prerequisite

Once per day as a swift action, you can bypass hardness with your melee attacks for 1 minute. In addition, you gain a slam attack as a natural weapon, and all your melee attacks (natural or not) gain the adamantine property for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. As a natural weapon, your slam attack does not provoke attacks of opportunity. It deals damage based on your size and character level, as given on the following table. Level Damage(S) (M) -- (L). lst-5th ---- 1d4 --- 1d6 --- 1d8. 6th-10th -- ld6 ---- 1d8 --- 2d6. llth-15th -- 1d8 ---- 1d10 - 2d8. 16th-20th- 1d10 ---2d6 --- 3d6. If you already have a natural weapon, use whichever damage value is higher. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus on any damage rolls you make with that weapon.

You can select this feat multiple times, gaining one additional daily use each time you take it.|||If you have the ability to turn or rebuke undead, you gain one additional daily use of this feat for each daily turn or rebuke use you expend.

Benefit

Once per day as a swift action, you can bypass hardness with your melee attacks for 1 minute. In addition, you gain a slam attack as a natural weapon, and all your melee attacks (natural or not) gain the adamantine property for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. As a natural weapon, your slam attack does not provoke attacks of opportunity. It deals damage based on your size and character level, as given on the following table.

Level Damage (S)Damage (M) Damage (L)
1st-5th 1d4 1d6 1d8
6th-10th 1d6 1d8 2d6
11th-15th 1d8 1d10 2d8
16th-20th 1d10 2d6 3d6
If you already have a natural weapon, use whichever damage value is higher. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus on any damage rolls you make with that weapon.

Special

You can select this feat multiple times, gaining one additional daily use each time you take it.|||If you have the ability to turn or rebuke undead, you gain one additional daily use of this feat for each daily turn or rebuke use you expend.

Description

You can overcome an opponent’s normal resistance to damage.