When in Antarctica... [Feats]

[Maldraugedhen]

This one just occurred to me while thinking back on a discussion I had awhile ago concerning one of the developing aspects of warfare. For a good long time, if you wanted to invade a desert, you had to get camels for your infantry. If you wanted to invade a colder country (Russia), you had to dress more heavily. If you wanted to invade a mountainous country, your troops have to learn how to fight in the mountains. Therefore:

Terrain Adaptation
Prerequisites: Int 13, Con 13, Survival 5 ranks
Benefit: Gain one Favored Environment at +2 to skill checks, as per the Ranger variant special ability (however, do not gain the additional +2 allocate-able skill check bonus to apply to a Favored Environment you already have, as a Ranger would at a level appropriate to gain a Favored Environment). Also, if you spends two weeks or more in a specific environment and spends his time in contact with (meaning has line-of-sight to at least once per day) native inhabitants of that region, you may choose to lose one of your Favored Environment and gain that environment as a new Favored Environment at a +2 skill bonus.
Normal: Only Rangers gain Favored Environments, and they may not choose to lose Favored Environments in order to gain others.

Advanced Terrain Adaptation
Prerequisites: Int 13, Con 13, Survival 8 Ranks, Terrain Adaptation
Benefit: For every two more weeks you spend in an environment you have Favored Environment for, you may deduct 2 from the skill bonus you recieve in another Favored Environment (to a minimum of a skill bonus of 2) and add 2 to the skill bonus you recieve in your current environment.
Normal: You may not move the bonuses you recieve from favored environments around from environment to environment.

When in Rome...
Prerequisites: Int 15, Con 13, Survival 10 Ranks, Terrain Adaptation
Benefit: Gain one Favored Environment at +2 to skill checks, as per the Ranger variant special ability. Select a favored environment you have (including the one you gain by taking this feat, if you wish). Increase the skill check bonus you gain in that environment by 2, to a maximum of +8. In addition, gain an attack bonus and an AC bonus when fighting in any of your favored environments equal to one quarter of the skill bonus you recieve in that environment.
Normal: Only Rangers gain favored environments, and they provide only skill check bonuses.
Special: You may purchase this feat multiple times, selecting a different pair of Favored Environments if you wish. You do not accumulate a higher attack bonus or AC bonus for purchasing this feat additional times.

[Hranat]

Sweet... nicely balanced too, there aren't many survivalers with 15 int for what I know...

[Maldraugedhen]

Also gives some combat boosts to Int-type peoples, who are usually pretty heavily lacking in those categories--especially if they take more skillmonkey-ish feats like these.

Other environmental feats?