13th Age - Foolz!

champion: The champion tier comprises
levels 5 through 7. Your adventures in this tier
take you far afield and to the halls of power. [xx]
Cha, Charisma: An ability, your force of
personality and social grace. Hard to define,
hard to miss when it walks by.
class talents: Characteristics/powers that
make a class special. Choose three talents out of
several available to your class to help define
your character compared to other PCs from your
class. [xx]
close-quarters spell: A spell that you can
cast while engaged in battle, without drawing
the usual opportunity attacks. [xx]
Con, Constitution: An ability, your
toughness and endurance. It’s the one ability
that every class needs.
Confused: A confused creature can’t make
opportunity attacks or use any of its powers on
its turn. Instead, it makes an at-will attack
against a random nearby ally. [xx]
crit, critical hit: If the 20-sided die comes up
20 on an attack roll, the attack is a crit and deals
double damage. Some attacks and class talents
do fun things with crits. If you get lucky and
you manage to double the damage again, triple
it instead. If you manage to double your triple
damage, bump it up to quadruple, and so on.
[xx]
crit range: If you can score critical hits on
natural rolls other than 20, you have an
expanded crit range. We’re not the type of game
that employs a shrunken crit range.
daily: Some class talents and powers are
usable once per day. For better play balance, a
day is defined loosely, and you get your used
daily talents back when you heal up (see full
heal-up).
damage: Attacks and special traits deal
damage, which reduces the defender’s hit
points. Characters and stories are great and all,
but it’s also fun to reduce the bad guys’ hit
points. [xx]
dazed: Dazed creatures take a –4 penalty to
attacks. [xx]
defense: Armor Class, Mental Defense, and
Physical Defense are defenses that define how
hard you are to hit with various sorts of attacks.
[xx]
Dex, Dexterity: An ability, your agility,
reflexes, and handiness. It factors into Armor
Class, Physical Defense, and Initiative, making it
generally useful.
disengage: You have a chance to get away
from enemies you’re engaged with in battle
without risking opportunity attacks. [xx]
engaged: Locked in battle. Engaged
characters might draw opportunity attacks if
they use ranged attacks or spells. If they move
away from enemies they are engaged with, they
draw opportunity attacks unless they
successfully disengage first. If you are using
miniatures, push the miniatures together to
show they are engaged. [xx]
environment: The difficulty level of the
location/setting where the characters are
adventuring. There are three levels of
environment: adventurer-level, champion-level,
and epic-level. More often than not, characters
fight in environments of their own tier. The
exceptions, higher or lower, tend to be
interesting. [xx]
epic: The epic tier comprises levels 8
through 10. Characters in this tier are dealing
with icons and battling really nasty critters. [xx]
escalation die: Starting on the second round
of combat, the PCs get an attack bonus. It starts
at +1 and increases by +1 each round until it
maxes out at +6. This bonus offsets the fact that
all the monsters have defenses 1 higher than
they should be. The party starts each fight in the
hole and fights its way up. [xx]
far away: Distant enough from a battle that
you won’t get caught in fireballs. Also, enemies
must spend a round closing with you before
they can engage you. The opposite of nearby.
[xx]
fear: A creature under the effects of fear is
dazed and can’t use the escalation die (in the
case of characters). [xx]
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