1. Feat Variants Compendium

Assembling here all of the banned, altered and homebrew feats into a compilation and linked to their entries for easy reference:

Banned/Removed

• Ammo Drop merged with Rapid Reload.
• Arithmancy
• Blinding Flash no longer requires a feat.
• Calculating Mind
• Celestial Obedience, Empyreal Focus (by and large, empyreal powers do not interlope as deities on Toril).
• Call Out no longer requires a feat.
• Call Truce no longer requires a feat.
• Cleaving Finish merged with Cleave.
• Claw Wrench no longer requires a feat.
• Combat Advice no longer requires a feat.
• Combat Expertise
• Cooperative Crafting no longer requires a feat.
• Craft Shoddy Item no longer requires a feat.
• Damned Disciple, irrelevant with obedience rework.
• Damned Soldier, irrelevant with obedience rework.
• Deadly Aim
• Deadeye’s/Erastil’s Blessing (superceded by Zen Archery which anyone can take)
• Demonic Obedience, superceded by Fiendish Obedience.
• Destructive Persuasion no longer requires a feat.
• Dirty Fighting no longer requires a feat.
• Diverse Obedience, irrelevant because each deity only has one set of boons.
• Equipment Trick (with noted conditions and exceptions) no longer requires a feat.
• Evolved Summon Monster, broken and banned.
• Expanded Summon Monster, table merged with Summon Monster table and available to all.
• Half Drow Paragon benefits are free for taking half drow racial package or alternate traits.
• Heighten Spell available to all casters without a feat.
• Improved Familiar Bond no longer needed due to rebalance of Familiar Bond.
• Improved Cleaving Finish merged with Great Cleave.
• Improved Bull Rush, Improved Overrun, Improved Reposition, Improved Sunder merged into Powerful Maneuvers.
• Improved Trip, Improved Disarm, Improved Dirty Trick, Improved Feint, Improved Steal merged into Deft Maneuvers.
• Improved Vital Strike merged with Vital Strike.
• Incredible Healer no longer requires a feat.
• Greater Vital Strike merged with Vital Strike.
• Juggle Load merged with Rapid Reload.
• Merciful Takedown no longer requires a feat.
• Monkey Lunge merged with Lunge.
• Monitor Obedience, doesn’t fit with the campaign setting same as Celestial Obedience.
• Monstrrous Mount, Monstrous Companion, Monstrous Mount Mastery; see why
• Pantheistic Blessing (Because that’s not how FR faiths work)
• Pathologist no longer requires a feat.
• Performing Combatant (with listed conditions) no longer requires a feat.
• Pirhana Strike
• Power Attack
• Ranged Study (with its limitations) no longer requires a feat.
• Rhino Charge no longer requires a feat.
• Sacred Geometry
• Shade of the Uskwood/Woodlands (Because druids in FR don’t do undead, period)
• Summon <Alignment type> Monster removed and the creatures assigned to deity specific summons.
• Wasp Familiar (because no relevant deity; but instead anyone can get a one-feat familiar)
• Weapon Finesse

Banned 3pp

• Improved Bonded Object (both iterations on PFSRD because we houseruled our own default progression)
• Einhander, Improved Einhander (Legendary) and Free-Hand Defense (Frog God) (rebalanced a one-hand defense feat of our own that’s not OP)

Homebrew/3pp

• Complete Champion/Complete Divine converted feats
• Analytic Strike (Combat)
• Amateur Kineticist (Combat)
• Archer’s Flexibility (Combat)
• Charmed Life (Heritage)
• Charming the Arrow (Heritage)
• Close Spell (Metamagic)
• Divine Strike (Combat)
• Dueling Style (Combat, Style)
• Deadeye Shot (Combat)
• Elemental Bloodline Development (Racial)
• Extra Deed (General)
• Extra Eldritch Empowerment (Combat)
• Extra Ki Power (General)
• Extra Ranger Talent (General)
• Extra Terrain Mastery (General)
• Fey Legacy (Racial)
• Fey Presence (Racial)
• Feytouched Wild Shape (General)
• Free-Hand Defense (Combat)
• Genie Magic (Racial)
• Genie Magic, Greater (Racial)
• Greater Two-Weapon Defense (Combat)
• Greater Composite Plating (Racial)
• Improved Composite Plating (Racial)
• Iron Guard (Combat)
• Ki Vow (General)
• Killoren Ancient (Racial)
• Killoren Destroyer (Racial)
• Killoren Hunter (Racial)
• Nature’s Rampart (Racial)
• Practised Spellcaster (General)
• Savage Charge (Combat)
• Scorpion Stance (Combat)
• Sculpt Spell (Metamagic)
• Skillful Feint (Combat)
• Supreme Guide (General)
• Sword of Two Worlds (Combat)
• Terrain Supremacy (Combat)
• Two-Weapon Focus (Combat)
• Two-Weapon Parry (Combat)
• Whirling Cleave (Combat)
• Zen Archery (Combat)

Reworked

• Amateur Swashbuckler un-errata’d.
• Agile Maneuvers reflects EitR changes to maneuver feats.
• Arcane Armor Training effectively granted to any class that can cast arcane spells in light armor.
• Augment Summoning changed prerequisites.
• Barroom Brawler gains additional uses at higher BAB.
• Bladed Brush (is now reworked as a Combat feat and not deity exclusive).
• Bullying Blow is no longer race restricted.
• Canny Tumble/Spring Attack are interchangeable as prerequisites.
• Cleave is merged with Cleaving Finish,
• Critical Focus, Improved Critical are now interchangable as prerequisites.
• Combat Feats: list of all feats that count as bonus combat feats.
• Crane Style reworked to be an unarmed strike only chain
• Deflect Arrows, Missile Shield combined.
• Deific Obedience reworked mechanics.
• Dodge combined with Mobilty.
• Eclectic is not human-only and addresses alternate FCBs with the second class
• Elemental Spell reworked mechanics.
• Elephant Stomp no longer sucks.
• Endurance, Diehard combined into one.
• Familiar Bond reworked mechanics.
• Fast Learner is no longer human only, clarifies mixing points and alternate FCBs
• Fey Obedience reworked mechanics.
• Fiendish Obedience reworked mechanics.
• Fury’s Fall apply both Str and Dex bonuses when using a Trip maneuver.
• Great Cleave is merged with Improved Cleaving Finish.
• Human Spirit flat out gives halfelves the skilled racial trait, or an alternate human racial trait.
• Imptoved Unarmed Strike, Improved Grapple merged into one.
• Improved, Greater Two-Weapon Fighting merged into one.
• Lunge, Monkey Lunge merged into one.
• Metamagic Feats no longer increase spontaneous spellcasting.
• Natural Spell changes prerequisites to allow non-Wis casters, natural shapechangers.
• Neither Elf Nor Human cannot be taken if you use either human or elf as a racial prerequisite.
• Nimble Natural Summons open to all alignments.
• Point Blank Master overhauled prerequisites.
• Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot merged into one.
• Quick Draw, Quick Stow merged into one.
• Rapid Shot merged with Ammo Drop and Juggle Load and reworked.
• Sacred Summons is open to any divine caster.
• Selective Spell works for duration spells also.
• Shield Bash, Shield Slam and etc. remove TWF as prerequisites and require only one shield be equipped.
• Spell Focus: Conjuration affects summon casting times and durations.
• Toughness can be taken multiple times for +HD hit points.
• Two-Weapon Grace adds Dervish Dance as a possible prerequisite.
• Vital Strike consolidates Improved, Greater Vital Strike into a single feat.
• Weapon Feats, all: apply to weapon groups vs. individual weapons.
• Whip Mastery reworked entire feat chain.
• Wild Speech adds change shape racial feature as an alternate prerequisite to wild shape, removes druid level requirement.