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Taking both heritage feats (Storm of Zehir)

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Taking both heritage feats (Storm of Zehir)

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It never occurred to me that humans and halflings can take both heritage feats, fey and fiendish at character creation. I don't have NWN2 installed right now, but I'd like some thoughts on this if that's alright.

I suppose you can have two bloodlines, but does the game / dialogue take that into account at any point if you make your character that way? It seems like a rather special occurrence. Does the caster level and save DC bonus you get from Fiendish power stack with the one you can get from Fey power?

Edit: I am a sucker for D&D tidbits, so if anyone knows what could happen in the PNP.. I'd be rather curious. :)
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Those feats were only introduced for SOZ - and SOZ barely takes alignment into consideration. :(

So, nope. ;)

Saving Throw bonuses are supposed to stack from any source - so probably. (..I've not done it though.)

However,

+1 spell bonus from good characters? How useful is that? (..yeah, the +4 poison can be useful - but spend a feat on it?)
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Not so great I suppose. Though I suppose if you would have feats to spare.. which a Warlock *might*, since they only have one spell school.. ah, I don't know.

I looked around a bit and the closest I get in D&D lore is a race called Fey'ri, bred of demons and elves. I doubt SoZ would have any special dialogues along those lines, especially since the PC would still have to be human/halfling as well.
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If caster level was the only concern, it would actually be a bad idea to take both at startup (+2 caster levels). It's better to take Spellcasting Prodigy and one of the heritage feats (+3 caster levels).
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Clarification:

+1 saving throw against spells. If it were a Spell Bonus like a Red Wizard, that would be more interesting.

Basically it's no different than having +5 in Spellcraft. The + 4 against poison really doesn't up the "wow factor" for Fiendish Heritage.
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RWs are unavailable to many races and classes like Warlocks. I wish they had, but they get few enough invocations as it is. But lots of invocation take caster level into account, so a little bump might not be the worst choice of feat *if* you have feats to spare. That's all I'm saying, really.
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