<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=126755.msg6117147#msg6117147">Quote from: ShadowFox89 on 10-04-2012, 03:37:20</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> Except... That's so you can gain multiple abilities from a single nommed character.<br/><br/> If it were meant to replace the class ability, it would have the clarification of "an acquired (skill/feat/class ability/special quality/etc) replaces the slot of acquire (x)". There is no such clarification.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That's probably supposed to be assumed, the way they didn't feel the need to say you can't take actions while dead.<br/><br/>Consider that the 'sample' Savant has Acquire Skill and Acquire Feat once each, and only has 1 acquired skill and 1 acquired feat - if a Savant could take a new Skill/Feat/whatever from every brain it ate, the sample would have to have a minimum of 2 acquired skills, since it ate at least one brain post-level 3 to also gain a feat, nor does it have skill ranks in the hundreds or thousands that it'd logically acquire from eating at least one brain every month.