Readthrough: some writing issues


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On my initial readthrough preparing to GM, a few notes that came out about the writing for editing:

- For those classes that get their first class feat at level 2, it is confusing that the level marker for the feats still says 1. In the case of Sorcerer, the headline also says "1st level", but they get their feat at 2nd level.

- Ditto ancestry feats for half-orc etc. shouldn't really be level 1, as they can't be taken until level 2 because the level 1 feat must be the one that makes you a half-orc.

- "All tasks that take longer than a turn are activities." This seems contradictory since we just stated that activities take longer than one action, not one turn. Also, the word "task" is suddenly thrown into this paragraph without explanation. Is a task a kind of action?

- Page 12: Most of this page is unnecessary.

- Page 16: Definition of good and evil is rather awkward. Most adventures actively seek to harm evil people.

- Page 18: "when you gain multiple ability boosts at the same time.."; "at the same time" could be changed to "from the same source".


hyphz wrote:


- For those classes that get their first class feat at level 2, it is confusing that the level marker for the feats still says 1. In the case of Sorcerer, the headline also says "1st level", but they get their feat at 2nd level.

Humans can take a feat which grants a class feat at first level. I would say this is why the feats are level 1 and not level 2.

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The OP also failed to mention the "elephant in the room."

TOO MUCH GAMESPEAK!

The text of the playtest is attempting to be very precise, but this results in a book that is confusing, needlessly complex, and hard to read.

Can this material be reworded into more "plain language"?


Actually, thanks for bringing that to my attention - I have mainly been dissecting fighters, rogues, wizards, paladins, monks, rangers - I never even realized that bards, clerics, etc. don’t get class feats at level 1!

But in the end, Ironwedge is right, humans can get level 1 class feats, and also one of the typical multiclass archetype feats say “gain a level 1 or 2 (class) feat”, so there have to be a few of each.

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