I have a adventuring party made up of several characters who were constructed to help me understand and use Team work feats in 3.5 D&D. I have revisited them in hopes to learn and understand the teamwork feats in Pathfinder. I have found many of the Pathfinder teamwork feats far more restricted almost to the point of discouraging the use of them. Most require a team mate to be directly adjacent to the other players to use and some of them make sense that way. But some like "Look out" or "Enfilading Fire" to be either confusing or just dont make sense as to the spirit of the teamwork idea. I'm just taking my first looks at this but it seems rather restricted in use with team feats.
In my head as a combat veteran I can see some of the feats working great this way ( I know real world and fantasy are not the same with physics) but something like look out should have a further effect than just the adjacent team mate.
So Is this done for balance and keeping them from being over powered? Or am I just missing the point?
Thank you in advance for your time on this matter.
Raven
Enfilading Fire doesn't seem to require anyone to be adjacent, other than your buddy being adjacent to the bad guy to flank.
I'm a bit unsure why Lookout requires adjacency, other than possibly for the sake of in-game sensibility. If you're next to a guy, you can nudge him or give him a quick word or look to alert him to trouble, and it's feasible that he'd be the only one who responds. If your partner is 30 feet away, the only way you're going to get the message to him is shouting it, and in that case why aren't the rest of your party alerted?
There doesn't appear to be any balance reason for the restriction.
Enfilading Fire doesn't seem to require anyone to be adjacent, other than your buddy being adjacent to the bad guy to flank.
I'm a bit unsure why Lookout requires adjacency, other than possibly for the sake of in-game sensibility. If you're next to a guy, you can nudge him or give him a quick word or look to alert him to trouble, and it's feasible that he'd be the only one who responds. If your partner is 30 feet away, the only way you're going to get the message to him is shouting it, and in that case why aren't the rest of your party alerted?
There doesn't appear to be any balance reason for the restriction.
Thanks thats more along the lines of what I was thinking but I still need to return to look over them some more.
After looking at it once again I realized it is teamwork through skills in 3.5 and I now see why they dont truly compare.
I hate it when the answer is right in front of me and im looking to hard to see it. LOL Thanks again