Because there's not enough hours in a day (3.5 feats, PEACH)

[revquigley]

Insomnia Feats

Power Through:
"You can sleep when you're dead."
Benefit: Every time you take this feat, you require two less hours of sleep (one less hour of trance for elves). You can take this feat multiple times; the effects stack. However, you must still sleep a minimum of two hours per night (one hour trance for elves).
Normal: You require eight hours of sleep a night, four hour trance for elves.
Prerequisites: +2 will save


Night Walker
"This is dark for you?"
Benefit: You gain lowlight vision 30 feet and dark vision 5 feet. If you already have these as racial or class features, you add the distance.
Prerequisites: Power Through


Heimdall's Blessing
"What was that?"
Benefit: You gain +2 on all Listen, Spot, Search, and Sense Motive after using Power Through to sleep less than eight hours. The effect lasts only until you sleep the "normal" amount of time again, to be reinstated whenever you Power Through. The bonus stacks for each time you take Power Through as a feat.
Prerequisites: Power Through, Character level 3rd


Notes:
All can be taken as fighter bonus feats. Designed primarily for specialists or NPCs, such as gate guards or watchmen. Flavor ideas include travelling insomniacs keeping watch for halfling caravans, professional lookouts being hired by a PC party, etc.

[Barbarian MD]

Flavor suggestion: weird side effects.

In all seriousness, you need to very clearly explain what effectthis has on spellcasting.

But, definitely weird side effects. Like, every time you do it a cumulative 5% chance that weird things happen. So if you power through 5 nights, you've got a 25% of seeing things or something.

[revquigley]

Haha, probably. How would I go about that, though?

And I had originally had all Concentration and Spellcraft checks increase in DC by 2 for every two hour block that you miss sleep, cumulative over a couple days. Should that go back in? Should it be all Int-based skills?

[Bardic]

I concur. Not only could hallucinations ensue, but perhaps a penalty to some saves eventually? Also, the effects on spellcasters who have to prepare spells must be interesting. Perhaps, without the necessary rest, they lose one spell slot for a day, or lose control of a spell? It would be amusing to see a bleary-eyed wizard try to cast magic missile, only to use grease instead, for instance.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Shouldn't these be traits?

[Barbarian MD]

I would also suggest condensing them all into one feat. They're far too underpowered to merit 3 feats when you only get 7 in your entire career.

[revquigley]

I'm not familiar with traits... And maybe. I dunno, they aren't really designed for PCs, or at least not classes without bonus feats.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I'm not familiar with traits... And maybe. I dunno, they aren't really designed for PCs, or at least not classes without bonus feats.

Well, give it a penalty along with the bonus. I think traits are OGL. Because, you know, Insomnia isn't a good thing exactly.

[The Winter King]

Insomnia Feats
Night Walker
"This is dark for you?"
Benefit: You gain lowlight vision 30 feet and dark vision 5 feet. If you already have these as racial or class features, you add the distance.
Prerequisites: Power Through

lowlight vision does not work that way. lowlight vision multiplies how much illumination you get from a light source ie a torch povides brightlight out to 20 feet and dim light to 40 feet. w/ lowlight vision those numbers are 40 and 80 respectively.

[DracoDei]

5' darkvision means you can melee in natural darkness very well indeed... seems pretty good to me, and one of the later feats beats the pants off Alertness. While Alertness may be considered underpowered(I wouldn't know), I think that combining them all into one feat would be a very very BAD thing.

[Amnestic]

I'm not familiar with traits... And maybe. I dunno, they aren't really designed for PCs, or at least not classes without bonus feats.

Traits (SRD link). Basically a small negative for a small bonus. They're independent of feats entirely.