<blockquote><div><cite>Jermayan wrote:</cite>Honestly, I'm seriously considering going back through and taking a lot of the feat chains and condensing them into a single feat that has level-based scaling or just plain removing some like Predatory Instincts and baking that bonus into the core system, because as Sansuki mentioned, it takes 4 feats just to get to one 'goal', so to speak.</div></blockquote><br/>Yes. Please do this. I have lofty goals fluffwise. It'd be nice to have enough feats to actually back them up.<br/><br/>Taking a look through myself; Autonomous Sphincter could be rolled into Deep Gut or Extra Roomy as a level scaling effect, Control Digestion could be a level scaling effect of Disable Digestion, Essence Absorption and Power Overwhelming could be scaling effects of Belly Absorption (Potentially with a choice involved. Gain one of your choice at level X, the other at level Y.), Likewise for Antimagic Stomach and Improved Belly Absorption (Kept seperate here mainly because of Antimagic Stomach.), Sleeping Poison could be rolled into Poisonous Skin, the Tasty Prey line could be a single scaling feat, same with all the Chomps. Though Ambush Chomp may require a misc. non-feat prereq or just require you to not be the one the target is focusing on to activate. The Spirit Eater ->Drain Soul line might also be a condensation candidate, the soul vore line has become a little incoherent with the removal of the Swallow Soul feat.<br/><br/>Most level+4 repurchases could become (in some cases optional) level scaling effects. IE: A player may not want her character with Deep Gut to gain the effects of having a 3rd, 4th, etc. stomach. But if another does they can claim that bonus without it eating up a huge number of feats. Improved Gluttony could follow the same guideline of being optional. That way if someone wants their character to be hindered at certain points to match their fluff they can be. Such as if they took Heavy Digester, Inexperienced, Reluctant Predator or just draw a line at how much the character can handle.<br/><br/>I think we all agree that Predatory Instinct and Determined Prey are pretty much feat tax on the level of Weapon Expertise is in D&D 4e right now. If not more so due to being the prerequisite of nearly everything in their respective sides.