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Changed rules:
Character creation, stats&weapon ranks:
-Two Affinity rolls made by GM; Player chooses one of them.
-Characters joining in Prologue, Chapter 1 or Chapter 2 start as Trainees; those joining afterwards start as First Class
-Character Skills banned: Corrosion (because wep.quality on enemies is not counted), Discipline (look below), Provoke (No real use for it), Reinforce (because I say so :3), Stillness (No real use for it, too)
-Blossom: Gives +5% to all Progression rates, and it can raise them above normal limit (Example: 105% for HP). Those 5% cannot be re-distributed in any way.
-Character Skills changed: Guard (only one person per turn can be Guarded), Nullify (Protects only from one 'Effective vs X' category; you choose it at character creation).
-When the Handbook says 'Your Choosen Weapon (S)', FEF treats it as 'Your Choosen Weapon Subcategory (S)', for the sake of simplicity.
-Automated Weapon Rank Progression: When you reach Level 10 in First Class, you choose one subcategory, either already ranked or from general category, and it gains 1 Rank up. The same happens when you reach Level 10 in Promoted Class.
-Class Skills are changed/removed in several classes, look into spoiler above for full listing.
-Stat Caps:
Normal class: 50HP*, Preferred Stats at 20, rest of stats at 18.
Promoted class: 60HP*, Preferred Stats at 30, rest of stats at 28.
*doesn't matter if it's Preferred Stat or not.
-Dark Magic, Dread subcategory:
'Triumps': Weapon Triangle advantage (no +1 DMG due to ->) AND Effective Damage against their specified target.
'Loses': Weapon Triangle penalty.

Class Skill Legacy&Replacement
Unless stated otherwise, the skill from First Class is retained by Promoted Class. Exceptions:

Wyvern Rider - > Wyvern Knight:
'Dragon Scales', Wyvern Rider version replaced by 'Dragon Scales', Manakete version.

Lvl Up's:
-Performed at the end of Turn during which the Exp.Pool counter went over 100 points.

Trainee Promotions Nerf:
-Trainees no longer receive whole set of bonuses to their stats; instead, they only receive CON and MOV bonus, as well as +1 bonus to the Preferred Stats of the First Class they promote to (example: Your character promotes to Knight, and gets +1 HP and +1 DEF). All other bonuses (+5% progression, weapon ranks, etc) remain as normal.

Inventory Space:
-CON no longer used to determine amount of inventory slots. Every unit have 5 inventory slots, unless special rules are applied ('Bag of Holding' of Rogue class, for example).

KO and Dying:
-If you get KO'd on Player Phase, you start with 2/3 counter.
-You die when the 'KO' counter goes to 0. Death is permament.

Terrain:
-Click here for terrain&weather explanations

Combat specific:
-Staff-bearers auto-equip a weapon for combat duration, provided they have any weapon at all and they can use it (similar to Fire Emblem 4: Genealogy of Holy War).
-Critical % chance hard-capped at 85.

Gold:
-In FEF, gold is distributed as party pool, accessible by all players all the time.

Performances:
-Performers cannot be 'revitalized' (given another move) by other Performers.
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