PF2 - New Player - Build Question - Number of feats at level 1

[Justin Fritz 56]

Good day,

I my wife and I played PF2 for the first time on Wednesday night and now we want to start playing it come the start of the new year.

I am building my first character and I am having an issue with the build. The question I have is about feats. To the point I am building a half elf monk, I took Natural Ambitions to get Wolf Stance and for Class I took Tiger Stance, and for Skill I took Battle Medic. I am using Sajan as a template because I like monks and I played him during Wednesday night. The pregen is a level 1 character and most of the math is working out from what I found in the core book with just one issue.

Sajan shows that he has a general feat, Martial Weapons, and I am unsure how he got that because from what I have found in the book general feats don't kick in until level 3. However I am willing to admit I may have looked over the part that says you get a general at level 1 as well.
To help with this I will list his feats below because there is a human feat that allows him to get a general feat but he did not take it.

Ancestry Feat: Natural Ambition: Tiger Stance
Class Feat: Ki Rush
Skill Feat: Cat Fall
General Feat: Martial Weapon Proficiency

Did I miss the general feat at level 1 or are the pregens a bit special and get one additional feat because they are the icons?

[CrystalSeas]

A bit of a sidenote which doesn't answer your question:

Don't forget to download the free Errata Document that fixes a number of typos, misprints, and downright inaccurate sentences in the Core Rulebook

Blog Post

Errata Document

[cavernshark]

Justin Fritz 56 wrote:

Good day,

I my wife and I played PF2 for the first time on Wednesday night and now we want to start playing it come the start of the new year.

I am building my first character and I am having an issue with the build. The question I have is about feats. To the point I am building a half elf monk, I took Natural Ambitions to get Wolf Stance and for Class I took Tiger Stance, and for Skill I took Battle Medic. I am using Sajan as a template because I like monks and I played him during Wednesday night. The pregen is a level 1 character and most of the math is working out from what I found in the core book with just one issue.

Sajan shows that he has a general feat, Martial Weapons, and I am unsure how he got that because from what I have found in the book general feats don't kick in until level 3. However I am willing to admit I may have looked over the part that says you get a general at level 1 as well.
To help with this I will list his feats below because there is a human feat that allows him to get a general feat but he did not take it.

Ancestry Feat: Natural Ambition: Tiger Stance
Class Feat: Ki Rush
Skill Feat: Cat Fall
General Feat: Martial Weapon Proficiency

Did I miss the general feat at level 1 or are the pregens a bit special and get one additional feat because they are the icons?

Sajan probably has the Versatile Heritage which gives an extra General Feat. General feats usually kick in at 3, but humans and rogues can get them sooner.

[Justin Fritz 56]

cavernshark wrote:

Justin Fritz 56 wrote:

Good day,

I my wife and I played PF2 for the first time on Wednesday night and now we want to start playing it come the start of the new year.

I am building my first character and I am having an issue with the build. The question I have is about feats. To the point I am building a half elf monk, I took Natural Ambitions to get Wolf Stance and for Class I took Tiger Stance, and for Skill I took Battle Medic. I am using Sajan as a template because I like monks and I played him during Wednesday night. The pregen is a level 1 character and most of the math is working out from what I found in the core book with just one issue.

Sajan shows that he has a general feat, Martial Weapons, and I am unsure how he got that because from what I have found in the book general feats don't kick in until level 3. However I am willing to admit I may have looked over the part that says you get a general at level 1 as well.
To help with this I will list his feats below because there is a human feat that allows him to get a general feat but he did not take it.

Ancestry Feat: Natural Ambition: Tiger Stance
Class Feat: Ki Rush
Skill Feat: Cat Fall
General Feat: Martial Weapon Proficiency

Did I miss the general feat at level 1 or are the pregens a bit special and get one additional feat because they are the icons?

Sajan probably has the Versatile Heritage which gives an extra General Feat. General feats usually kick in at 3, but humans and rogues can get them sooner.

That looks like that is it, I missed it on his character sheet: Ancestry: Human (versatile).

Thank you.

Also Crystal thank you for the errata post link.

[Laran]

Justin Fritz 56 wrote:

Good day,

I my wife and I played PF2 for the first time on Wednesday night and now we want to start playing it come the start of the new year.

I am building my first character and I am having an issue with the build. The question I have is about feats. To the point I am building a half elf monk, I took Natural Ambitions to get Wolf Stance and for Class I took Tiger Stance, and for Skill I took Battle Medic. I am using Sajan as a template because I like monks and I played him during Wednesday night. The pregen is a level 1 character and most of the math is working out from what I found in the core book with just one issue.

Sajan shows that he has a general feat, Martial Weapons, and I am unsure how he got that because from what I have found in the book general feats don't kick in until level 3. However I am willing to admit I may have looked over the part that says you get a general at level 1 as well.
To help with this I will list his feats below because there is a human feat that allows him to get a general feat but he did not take it.

Ancestry Feat: Natural Ambition: Tiger Stance
Class Feat: Ki Rush
Skill Feat: Cat Fall
General Feat: Martial Weapon Proficiency

Did I miss the general feat at level 1 or are the pregens a bit special and get one additional feat because they are the icons?

The Human background Versatile gives hima General feat

[Ascalaphus]

Justin Fritz 56 wrote:

I took Natural Ambitions to get Wolf Stance and for Class I took Tiger Stance

Keep in mind you can't be in both stances at the same time. ("Stance", page 157)

Justin Fritz 56 wrote:

General Feat: Martial Weapon Proficiency

Also, Sajan uses Martial Weapon Proficiency General Feat to gain proficiency with the Temple Sword, but it may be better to use the Monk Class Feat Monastic Weaponry to do that (that also gives you access to buying temple swords, and improves your proficiency with it at later levels, and lets you use Flurry with the temple sword). But I guess he was out of available class feats after buying Ki Rush.