Jake the Snake

[Hulking Hurler]

Any chance a Nagaji would qualify for the Final Embrace chain of feats? Hoping for an unlikely PFS legal yes.

Final Embrace (Combat)

Your coils are particularly deadly, allowing you to constrict opponents of your size or smaller.

Prerequisites: Str 13, Int 3; naga, serpentfolk, or creature that has the constrict special attack; base attack bonus +3.

Benefit: You gain the constrict and grab special attacks. Your constrict attack deals damage equal to your unarmed strike or primary natural weapon melee attack. Further, you can grab and constrict opponents up to your size.

Normal: You can grab and constrict creatures one size smaller than you.

[MacGurcules]

I'd probably allow it. But by the book, Nagaji appear to count as reptillian rather than proper naga or serpentfolk.

If you need something more concrete, there's always Anaconda's Coils. It's a belt that gives you the constrict ability. You can use that to qualify for the feat. Afterwards you can even sell the belt if you want, since once you have the feat, you have constrict, and you then qualify for the feat.

[Hulking Hurler]

As much as I love the creative work around with the Anaconda's coils, is it legal to use an item to qualify for a feat? In a home game I'd allow it, but you would lose use of the feat if the requirements were no longer met. I doubt that this, or my original question, would fly in PFS.

[MacGurcules]

It's legit. If you meet the prerequisites for a feat, no matter how, you can take the feat. There's a common notion that you have to have an ability or stat for at least 24 hours before you can use it to qualify for a feat. But it's not even that strict.

Sean K Reynolds wrote:

The "24 hour activation" doesn't have anything to do with qualifying for feats. If you have a Str 13, you can take Power Attack. It doesn't matter if you have it naturally, or a +2 from a belt, or even a +4 from a barbarian rage or bull's strength spell--the instant you have the required ability score, you can learn the feat, and you can use the feat as long as you're meeting all the prerequisites (which means you could have a character who can only PA when he's under the effect of a rage or bull's strength spell).

Bolded for emphasis.

EDIT: Hang on... Later in that thread, Sean went on to contradict his earlier statement. He clarifies that the official word is that you need an ability for at least 24 hours (i.e. "permanent") in order to qualify for a feat. So, yeah, Anaconda's Coils should still work, but something like Beast Shape III probably won't. Honestly, the book doesn't make any mention of needing qualifications to be permanent, so I'd probably still roll with it the other way, but there you go.

[Sah]

Hmm, Would you be able to take off the belt later, and due to circular reasoning keep the feat? Since one of the requirements is a constrict attack, and the feat gives a constrict attack?