Anti-first-round-nuke feats

[Zibik]

What I wouldn't give for more feat slots....

Have you considered allowing feats / skill points to be bought with xp? Let them spend earned xp down to the previous level, or put like a tenth of earned xp into another pool. Price em something like a couple of thousand xp per requirement or whatever.

 

[Croesus]

What I wouldn't give for more feat slots....

If your group will go for it, give a feat at every level. Fighters still get their bonus feats, so they're not weakened by the change, and other classes get a chance to try out stuff they would never usually take.

My group has been doing this for some time now and it's working great. Of course the players don't always appreciate it when I give monsters a feat for every HD, but GM's should have fun too...