Hi,

I've been looking at the action cards and their traits. Is there any restriction on the action cards that can be chosen by a character of a particular career?

I ask because I have just received the adventures pack and there are action cards that look like they are speciffically for particular races but I dont seem to say anywhere that they are only for those races. It would seem odd ot have an elf to be using one of the ancestor traited action cards or a student using a swordmastery card.

thanks

Not really, provided you meet the prerequisites. The biggest restriction is going to be for Careers with low numbers of Action advances. So though a Student may buy a Swordmaster Action, he will likely develop other Swordmaster Actions so slowly that it will probably not be worth his while (they gorw in power the more you have).

I thought that might be the case. I'm loving the way the system works but Im struggling a bit with the careers. There is so little difference between them, especially when compared to previous editions of the game, I was hoping that there was something here.

So far I actually think things are more different than in past version becuase of the different action cards. In the old days everyone was basically the same. +/- an attack, you all swung your weapon and after a career or two everyone who was combat-y was very similar. I've loved how different the swordmaster plays to the trollslayer, and either one compared to a normal sword and board warrior.