Out of Character

I've posted but not leveled up yet. This last week has been utterly manic - I was away from Saturday to Friday with internet access but virtually no time to post (was off on business). I'll have follow up etc next week but will hopefully be able to post regularly :) Glad the game is going to keep going.

No worries! Is your son ill? Nothing serious, I hope!

So I wanted to ask a quick question that anyone more knowledgeable than me can answer. ;)

Am I right in thinking that as a fighter lvl2 I should have the following:

2 Adventurer Feats
4 Maneuvers
3 Talents

My three class talents are cleave, power warrior and heavy attack but are the feats part of those? Like a feat is the adventurer level of that talent?

And maneuvers - are they they same as feats? Because my level up suggests I should have four but only two feats?

I don't think I've understood this fully when I initially rolled but want to make sure I'm completely on track going forward and know what my options are. I might also be overthinking this or missing something glaringly obvious...

Thanks!

Which reminds me: I need to pick a feat and stuff.

Maneuvers are not the same as Feats. They're additional attack/power options that Fighters have. Somewhat comparable to the spell choices that Wizards have. The choices expand and become more powerful at odd levels (1,3,5,7,9). At Level 2, you can select 4 Level 1 Maneuvers.

The Maneuvers are listed right after the Class Talents here http://www.13thagesrd.com/classes/fighter/

Feats are boosts to existing Talents/Maneuvers. You don't get them automatically; you have to choose which you want to take and are limited in how many Feats you can select. At Level 2, you can boost 2 of your 7 special abilities (3 Talents, 4 Maneuvers) to the Adventurer Feat tier. Not every Maneuver has an Adventurer Feat, some only have Champion or Epic.

Feats are different than maneuvers and Talents (all classes have talents to pick some have class talents for free), Maneuvers are different than Talents and specific to Fighters, feats could be off a maneuver or talent or just a normal feat (Improved Initiative for example). I'd check out the free SRD if you're trying to figure out what all everything does.

Thank you both - that makes a lot more sense now. Clearly I needed it explained in simple terms. ;)

I did have a look at quite a few guides but none of them explained it quite so succinctly...

Fyi you need the talent/maneuver/power to take the feat. I know it sounds silly otherwise but my face to face group starting out took feats for things they didn't have and assumed that meant they'd get the ability. I stated that would be super broken if you could.

Just a heads up I'll be in NJ/NY from the 1-4th. If you're in my other games you'll see a similar post.

No probs. Enjoy.

If I get anything I'm using them this month.

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Hey are we taking a break over Christmas at all? I'm conscious we're just entering battle but I'm travelling to family til just before new year so Internet time will be sketchy.

That's a good point which I planned to address in all my games today. I'm not expecting much in the way of activity over the Christmas period. If I said that we pretty much wrapped up any activity from end of tomorrow (23rd) until say 2nd January would that be a huge concern for anyone?

I'm certainly around and I can advance games if people so desire but it's Christmas and nobody should feel under pressure to do anything other than spend time in real life.

Any objections to the above plan then let me know. If anyone sporadically posts in the interim then fine I'll try and address it and I can also make the NPC/Monster attacks so we're in a better place when we resume but I'd expect pretty much everyone to be out of the loop if I'm honest.

I'm at home and working all of next week. And I'm lucky in that I have most of my extended family within 15 minute walk. But I don't mind using what little spare time I have on family instead of online :P

Happy holidays and wish you all gaming related gifts :)

I'll be around to post, but I'm also fine with taking a break for the holiday. I'm traveling Dec 23-24 and Jan 3-4 so posting on those days might be sketchy, but otherwise, I'll be good with whatever.

I'm available to post, but don't mind a break either. Happy Holidays, everyone!

Given that it's combat, let's try and finish this round before we wrap up then resume 2nd Jan-ish with the understanding that njohn858 may be indisposed and we need to wait on him getting back to us. All good with that?