Faith points are effectively a specialized form of action points available to the rhai’selog race as well as characters who have a profound and unshakeable faith in the divine. Faith points share many traits with action points, but they function somewhat differently.
Gaining Faith Points
Characters only gain faith points in a few limited ways:
- Gaining a Faith feat grants 5 faith points with each feat gained.
- Demonstrating great faith in character, advancing the cause of your religion or deity, converting others to your faith, and similar acts can earn 1 or more faith points as a DM reward.
- Members of the rhai’selog race have a limited ability to convert divine spells directly into faith points.
Using Faith Points
Faith points can be used only to power Faith feats. Each feat describes precisely what spending a faith point with that feat does.
Unless noted otherwise, a character can only spend 1 faith point per round. Spending a faith point does not take an action. (Because a faith point is a specialized kind of Action Point, you can typically only spend one or the other kind of point in a round.)
Once a faith point is spent, it is gone until the character earns new points through one of the methods described above.
Faith points generally cannot be used as action points nor can action points be used as faith points. (The Faith in Action feat is an exception.)