Strongheart Halflings: Alertness fix?

[Red Ropes]

Strongheart halflings do not get the alertness feat added to their character, but, merely to their skin. Since every other race / class has them directly added might be a worthy update / fix.

[Opustus]

That must be intended so it won't count as a prerequisite for Harper and Shifter.

[Memelord]

That seems an obnoxious exception to make. Other races get bonus feats that are prerequisites for PrC's - why does the half orc's predisposition towards smashing things make it easier for them to become blackguards, while the cultural pre-dispositioning of Strongheart hin towards being skilled watchmen not make it easier for them to pick up prestige classes that require such?

[Opustus]

I wouldn't say it's an obnoxious exception and I don't know if the decision has been based on how they are culturally predisposed but maybe rather on making the Alertness bonus generally less useful for the race or maybe because the team wants to keep Harper and Shifter very neutral in terms of accessibility. Dunno, would have to ask them directly. Another way to think about the Alertness feat on the race is as if it were a simple +2 spot and listen; if it were so, we would not probably be even having this conversation?

[Red Ropes]

I don't think there is any reason for it other than Stronghearts were made a very long time ago when everything was with skins.

I doubt there is a 'reason for it', beyond that.

[Opustus]

Oh, righto!

[Mithreas]

I don't think there is any reason for it other than Stronghearts were made a very long time ago when everything was with skins.

I doubt there is a 'reason for it', beyond that.

Yup. Giga coded Stronghearts around 13-14 years ago, long before we had NWNX plugins integrated into Arelith that would let us add feats directly to character sheets. In 10 years I never noticed that they were treated differently

[TimeAdept]

It was a dark time, when subraces were soft bonuses on character sheets, rather than hard stat bonuses.

[WanderingPoet]

The alertness of Strongheart does count for Shifter/Harper. All this bug does is allow a strongheart to take the feat a second time.

At least, my strongheart hin druid meets the prereqs for Shifter without ever taking the alertness feat on levelup.