Those were roughly my general thoughts on the matter. I've combined many of the similar feats into single feats similar to what 5th did, but even still it would be pretty much impossible to ever balance perfectly.<br/><br/>The biggest problem with using vore as a viable combat tactic is the amount of time required to use it and the payoff for it need to outweigh what you could have been using your actions doing instead. It's hard to justify spending two-to-three turns wrestling down a meal just to have it cut its way out when you could have been smacking it in the face with magic or a hammer that whole time to likely better effect.<br/><br/>The best way around this that I can think of is to treat vore less like a new, viable combat option and more like a flavorful thing that you can do to the last-person standing or that guard you crept up behind who is alone at his post. At best, it is a new tool for your toolbox, but not the central pillar of your character's build.<br/><br/>The only way around that would be to make a class that is centered around using vore... or maybe subclasses, but that is a ton of work and even more balancing.<br/><br/>I mean, eating a person wearing armor and bearing weapons is just not a good idea. For my games, using vore on the fringes is looking like the best way to go about it rather than making it the dominant tactic.<br/><br/>Like you said though, nothing in D&D is really too balanced. Even with the strides 5e has made, the game still feels most functional at lower levels before spellcasters gain their massive AOE spells that wreck face. So I'm not going to sweat balance too hard.<br/><br/>I'm also just going to abandon the traits and flaws section of the Pathfinder VSRD as there is no comparable system in 5e, really. Most of that could be re-flavored by making vore-centric subraces for the various races and allowing them to pick traits from that list, but that is outside the scope of what I'm wanting to do right now. If a player wanted a transparent belly or something, I'd just let them have it (as long as it doesn't give some special advantage, of course).