Evolved Companion Is this a legal feat?

[redviiper]

Evolved Companion

Your animal companion has abilities that makes it different from others of its kind.

Prerequisite(s): Cha 13, animal companion class feature.

Benefit: Select a 1-point evolution from those available to a summoner's eidolon. Your animal companion gains this evolution. The animal companion must conform to any limitations of the evolution. For instance, only an animal companion of an appropriate size and base form can have the mount evolution.

If you gain a new animal companion, your old animal companion loses this evolution, and you can select a new 1-point evolution for the new animal companion.

Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time you do, select an additional 1-point evolution for your animal companion.

[Arutema]

No.

[Nefreet]

WWARD?

Darn owl ninjas =\

[David Bowles]

No, and they don't need it, either.

[claudekennilol]

David Bowles wrote:

No, and they don't need it, either.

No PCs "need" anything beyond the CRB. What's your point? He should've checked the additional resources before asking, but almost everything in there isn't "needed". I really don't understand what point you're trying to make? There are tons of things that are cool and powerful yet available. There are also cool and powerful things that aren't. Of course it's not needed.

[kinevon]

claudekennilol wrote:

David Bowles wrote:

No, and they don't need it, either.

No PCs "need" anything beyond the CRB. What's your point? He should've checked the additional resources before asking, but almost everything in there isn't "needed". I really don't understand what point you're trying to make? There are tons of things that are cool and powerful yet available. There are also cool and powerful things that aren't. Of course it's not needed.

David Bowles has a well-known, and widely publicized, bias against Animal Companions. He feels that they are overpowered and break things for various reasons, like having an AC that can be fairly well buffed up, having a bunch of attacks, having pounce, etc.