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7. Move Silently and Hide are rolled into a single skill, Sneak. Sneak is still opposed by Listen or Spot, whichever is most appropriate.

8. Weapons have a parry modifier. This is added to your AC when using the fighting defensively or total defense action.


I'm not sure if we're including just mechanics differences or also including things that are more fundamentally different, so just in case...


9. There are no penalties for multiclassing, and races do not have favoured classes.

10. A spell slot can be broken down to make two lesser spell slots (one 4th-level spell slot can make 2 level 3 spell slots) or can be woven with two more of the same level to make a spell of one higher level (three 4th-level spell slots can be woven to make one 5th-level spell slot).

11. Using the Search skill to find traps is no longer only for one class. Any class can use Search to find traps as a rogue could in 3.5.

12. Weapon Specialization is no longer a fighter-only feat. It is a ceremonial feat any character can purchase if he or she qualifies.

13. Magic items are made completely differently. The spells used also modify the base price.

14. One is not 'dying' at 0 hit points. One is 'disabled'. Disabled and Dying scores depend on your constitution.

15. All characters get one more feat than in D&D. If you have a Truename, it's a ceremonial feat. If you do not have a truename, it's a Talent or regular feat.

23. Sprytes are tiny but still threaten a 5-foot space.

24. Claw attacks are weapon attacks. Fighting with two claws is treated the same as fighting with two weapons. Claws are 'light' weapons for the purposes of two-weapon fighting penalties. Ambidexterity and Two-Weapon Fighting reduce these penalties.

25. Bites are weapon attacks. They are considered 'light weapons'. Using a bite grants an extra attack, but all attacks suffer a -2 penalty. If the character makes a bite attack when fighting with two weapons or with a double weapon, the penalty is a -4 instead. Ambidexterity and Two-Weapon Fighting do not reduce these penalties.

26. There is no alignment in AE. An action is judged by its own merits as 'good' or 'bad' and this judgement will also depend on perspective.

27. Ceremonial feats are feats that grant magical abilities. These abilities are suppressed in anti-magic fields just like other magical abilities. Ceremonial feats require a Truename and the character must pay a cost for the ceremony.

28. Twice in a character's career he may exchange a feat. At level 10 and level 20 he can pay a cost and perform a ceremony to exchange one of his feats for another.

29. A truename is the name of a person's soul. It is required for most resurrection magic, curses, healing magic such as Restoration, and some other spells. One cannot compel someone to reveal his own or another character's truename by any means, mundane or magical. When a character dies, he can choose to lose his Truename and become Unbound. He loses his first ceremonial feat and gains a talent instead. This decision cannot be reversed. A character who has died and been raised 6 times automatically loses his truename and gains a generic one which anyone who wishes to can automatically know. This character cannot become unbound.



(Included Claw and Bite because they are treated as weapon attacks per AE rules, rather than 'natural attacks' per MM rules.)

If you read the Dracha and Litorian entries, the claw attacks are specifically mentioned as weapon attacks, not 'natural weapons'. Similarly, creatures that gain the bite attack do so through use of the Bite feat. The Wolverine totem class also says specifically to treat them as weapons. It seems a reasonable conclusion that all PC 'natural weapons' are to be treated as normal weapons, and it specifically outlines the uses Two-Weapon Fighting and Ambidexterity can be put to with regards to them.