Giving the Eidolon access to your feats

[siegfriedliner]

With the exception of feats that give spell-casting and ancestry feats does anyone feel it would be unbalanced to give the eidolon access to all the summoners skill feats and all the feats the summoner could gain from an archetype ?

I kind of wish there was an option to pick up some more combat feats for my eidolon and it seems awful that the eidolon has access to all of the skills the summoner but none of the feats that could let utilize their skills to the fullest degree.

[KrispyXIV]

I had suggested the idea of an ability I called "Lend Expertise", which for an action would allow the Summoner to choose a feat and have their Eidolon receive the benefits.

The idea was that you would be removing your action economy bonus - temporarily - by spending the action. This would mitigate any potential balance concerns that come with sharing skill feats, but still allow you to do cool things like have your Eidolon use Battle Medicine (Tool requirements should be addressed somewhere, but free hands will never be an issue for an Eidolon at least!) or Titan Wrestler or Intimidating Glare.

I like something like that as a compromise for most skill feats, and for covering a lot of ground for the majority of obscure or particularly concept specific options (IE, Bon Mot eidolons).

That said, some options (Specifically, like Titan Wrestler and Intimidating Glare - one's that are potent combat choices) I think could be Evolution options as well. A "Fearsome Evolution" that gave your Eidolon over time Intimidating Glare and Scare to Death would be excellent (there's a Barbarian feat that I'm modeling this on, but I don't think that one is so iconic to Barbarians that duplicating it is an issue) - if we're being really crazy, having this feat also allow your Eidolon to use Strength mod for intimidate would be fitting and mitigate their low charisma.