DnD 5e Feats

Boon of Skill 5e (Updated for the 2024 Rules)

By Mike Bernier

Published on March 10, 2025, Last modified on March 13th, 2025

Become a master of every skill with the Boon of Skill feat in D&D 5e! This Epic Boon grants proficiency in all skills, Expertise in one, and a slight ability score boost.

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What Is the Boon of Skill Feat in 5e?

The Boon of Skill is an Epic Boon that grants your character proficiency in every skill, Expertise in one skill of your choice, and a minor ability score increase. If you ever wanted to be the ultimate jack-of-all-trades, this feat gets you there.

While this may sound exciting, it’s important to consider how much impact skill proficiencies have at level 19+. At this stage, characters have well-established proficiencies, expertise (if needed), and magic items that can boost their skill checks. Most characters already excel at their key skills, making extra proficiencies feel redundant.

How Does Boon of Skill Work?

Boon of Skill is one of the Epic Boons found in the 2024 Player’s Handbook. Unlike regular feats, Epic Boons are only available to characters who reach level 19, making them a capstone reward for high-level play.

When you take the Boon of Skill, you gain the following benefits:

  • Ability Score Increase: Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 30.
  • All-Around Adept: You gain proficiency in all skills. While this looks great on paper, most characters at this level already have proficiency in the skills they use most.
  • Expertise: Choose one skill in which you lack Expertise. You gain Expertise in that skill. This is nice if your class didn’t offer Expertise.

How to Get the Boon of Skill Feat

Any class can pick up the Boon of Skill feat when they reach level 19 and gain the Epic Boon class feature.

Is Boon of Skill Good?

We gave Boon of Skill a D Tier rating In our 5e Feats Tier List, making it an underwhelming feat in most cases.

While this feat grants a lot of proficiencies, skill checks are not a major factor at this level of play. By level 19, characters are more concerned with spells, combat abilities, and powerful magical items. If you’re a non-skill-focused class, you likely won’t see much benefit from being proficient in Performance or Animal Handling. If you’re already a skill-focused class (like a Bard or Rogue), this feat offers little that you don’t already have.

If you really want to be competent at everything, this feat does the job, but most characters will find better options for their Epic Boon.

Which 5e Classes Make the Most of Boon of Skill?

The color code below has been implemented to help you identify, at a glance, how good the Boon of Skill 5e feat is for a specific class/subclass.

  • Red: Weak, unlikely to contribute to your build
  • Orange: Situationally good, but below average
  • Green: A solid choice
  • Blue: A great option worth considering
  • Sky Blue: One of the best choices for optimization

Artificer: Artificers already have a strong skill set, and while extra proficiencies don’t hurt, they don’t gain much from this.

Barbarian: Barbarians don’t make many skill checks, so this feat doesn’t offer much value.

Bard: Bards already get tons of skill proficiencies and expertise. This feat is completely redundant.

Cleric: While this feat can help a Cleric with social and knowledge-based skills, it won't significantly impact their lives post level 19.

Druid: Druids already have proficiencies in their important skills (Nature, Perception, Insight).

Fighter: Fighters don’t typically make enough skill checks for this to be a worthwhile pick.

Monk: While Monks usually have high Dexterity and Wisdom, they don’t need proficiency in every skill to function.

Paladin: Paladins make a few Charisma-based checks but won’t see much benefit from universal skill proficiency.

Ranger: Rangers already get as many skill proficiencies as they need and Expertise.

Rogue: Rogues already have Expertise in key skills, making this a wasted Epic Boon.

Sorcerer: Sorcerers rarely rely on skills outside of social situations, making this feat unnecessary.

Warlock: Warlocks benefit from Charisma skills, but they don’t need proficiency in every skill to be effective.

Wizard: Wizards will appreciate proficiency in Intelligence-based skills, but they usually won’t be making enough skill checks to justify this feat.

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