Level Up (A5E) Enlarging Parasitism thoughts

[Verall]

I was so psyched when I saw the feat name in the preview, now that I’ve got my hands on it I’m a little disappointed that it’s buried three feats into a 5 feat chain.

I feel like it could be combined with ingens survivor and still be a well balanced feat, or remove the feat prerequisites for ingens survivor. I do however understand why the fifth feat is so far down the chain.

I know I’m pretty biased, my favourite spell is enlarge and I’m always hunting for a permanent size increase in games.

What are your thoughts on the feat or feat chain?

 

[Selganor]

Features that change your size can easily get very problematic.

Adding a feat prerequisite push the effect at least 4 levels higher (and higher levels have their own other problems that a GIANT pc might not even matter that much)

If you stick to the examples as written (so it only enlarges Small to Medium and Medium to Large) you can still get to Huge by a simple Enlarge spell. If it could also apply to larger sizes (Galeoni come to mind) you could look down on Cthulhu or "The Kraken" with a combination like this

 

[Verall]

Features that change your size can easily get very problematic.

Adding a feat prerequisite push the effect at least 4 levels higher (and higher levels have their own other problems that a GIANT pc might not even matter that much)

If you stick to the examples as written (so it only enlarges Small to Medium and Medium to Large) you can still get to Huge by a simple Enlarge spell. If it could also apply to larger sizes (Galeoni come to mind) you could look down on Cthulhu or "The Kraken" with a combination like this

I’ve been mulling this over a lot, I agree with your points but I still feel 3 feats is too steep a price for a size increase. Lvl 12 is the earliest it could come online, but then you’ll have no stat bumps, you’d be better off just being medium and strong in most cases.
If you delay picking it up to later feat choices most games simply won’t get that far.
For all its boons, which lets be honest aren’t exactly OP, it comes with many drawbacks.


As a fix I would drop the ingens survivor prerequisite and combine it with enlarging paratasism.
Then I would put a level restriction on it much like dead eye, personally I would make it lvl 8 but you could make it 12 to match its current availability.