These activities present ways to directly improve your character in some way. The original rules for Martial Training provided an alternative to the Feats and options of modern D&D - instead of locking them away behind levels, experience and complex prerequisites, the kind of abilities normally covered by feats are things you can simply spend time studying - if you can find a master to teach you. Now this overlaps with the Fighter Techniques system a bit, but techniques are primarily a way fo...