Originally Posted by
The Blade Wolf
Except, here's the thing. They aren't feats. They are Talents
Feats, you get one at every odd level, and that never changes. Sure, some classes give you bonus feats, but that's a class feature specific to the class, and not part of the system as a whole. Talents on the other hand, are not given to us at the same rate of feats. In fact, there is three different rates you can pick up talents. That alone is a significant enough distinction which shows that no. Talents and feats are not the same thing. But guess what? It goes even further than that! Because the Talents are split into groups known as Sphere's, and if you have a Sphere, you can grab basically any single talent that's available to you there. Feats don't function like that. Feats have prerequisites that stop you from taking some of the stronger feats right away or are locked to a specific level, which the Sphere's don't have - Legendary Talents notwithstanding. Plus there is not one single feat which functions as a prerequisite for 20+ feats like the base sphere's does. Not even Point Blank Shot has that many feats linked to it!
So in summary: It does not matter how much you might declare that Combat Talents are built off the base system and function just like feats. The way you have implemented Combat Talents means that They. Are. Not. Feats. So the entire 'Talents are just feats' bull**** you use in order to dismiss my arguments as to why Psionic Focus functions where Martial Focus fails, falls flat on its face. That's on top of how you completely and utterly ignore how I point out that the Psionic's Power Point system is completely separate from the Psionic Focus and that the Martial Focus is completely entwined with the Talent system, yet is so half-heartedly implemented that it falls flat on its face.
Edit: I can't believe that I can go to sleep, wake up and get instantly frustrated again. Good god its like banging your head against a brick wall, trying to get people to understand clear and 100% fact.