Epic Boon Query

Hi all!

I've been playing for a few years now, I'd like to say I've become quite familiar with how the game works generally across 2014 and 2024, however with that said, I did stumble across something a little perplexing and was wondering if anyone could walk me through what may just be a result of inexperience!

I was working on a character sheet for a potential avenune a character of mine could take, which would've resulted in a complete respec. I removed the prior classes from the character, so that I could have a clean slate while maintaining my background and such. I put them at level 10 Paladin, Oath of Redemption, and while working through the feats, traits, and other options, I noticed I could select a boon at level 8.

Now, I was under the impression boons were something that became available to you at level 19, but my level 10 Paladin has boon of Fortitude. None of the groups I've had the pleasure of being a part of have reached double digit levels, so I don't know how classes open up at later levels, and I could just be googling for the wrong information, the answer could be in bold text in the DMG and I could simply just be missing it.

If anyone would be kind enough to catch me up/ loop me in on how boons function, I'd be eternally grateful! One thing I do appreciate about D&D is how passionate the community is!

Thank you kindly!

Boon of Fortitude has a prerequisite of level 19+, so you should not be able to take it as a level 10 character.

If D&D Beyond is letting you select it, it's possible you've turned off Feat Prerequisites on the Home tab, or that you've actually selected a homebrew feat with the same name that doesn't have a prerequisite.

Greetings HiiLaundry,

You are correct in your assumptions, scrolling through the list of Boons, you can see that they have a prerequisite of "Level 19+".

As Wagnarokkr stated, your Level 10 Paladin should not be able to pick up the Boon of Fortitude.

Maybe try building the character from scratch as a new Character and see if the option is still there, and if it is, do some digging to find out where that option is coming from.

Cheers!

Hello friends,

I have no idea how or why, but your assumptions were correct, the Feat Prerequisites option was toggled off. Not quite sure when or why it was disabled, since I really can't imagine doing so intentionally, but the boons did disappear, and all is as it should be! A little silly to realise it was an error on my part rather than anything interesting, but alas, it happens.

Thanks again!

No problem!

I have found many instances of this.  The correct way to rebuild a character (or build a higher level one) is to raise it one level at a time.  

The character will unlock abilities at the correct levels that way.

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I have found many instances of this.  The correct way to rebuild a character (or build a higher level one) is to raise it one level at a time.  

The character will unlock abilities at the correct levels that way.

The way the D&D Beyond character builder is structured, it really doesn't matter whether you raise it one level at a time or several. If there are cases where it's unlocking abilities at the wrong level, that's a bug related to those specific abilities and you should report it in the Bugs & Support forum.

As HiiLaundry noted above, their issue was that just that they didn't have feat prerequisites turned on.