My Batch of Homebrew Errata for the Player's Handbook

As an avid fan of D&D 4e, I have taken it upon myself to write up this large batch of homebrew errata for the Player's Handbook that addresses various balance issues of the game. Since the following only covers the Player's Handbook, it runs into a few compatibility and balance problems from supplementary material. For example, the revision to Divine Challenges clashes with the Mighty Challenge heroic feat; a highly unnecessary feat tax, I might add (shame on you, WotC, for patching severe class issues with tax feats rather than errata; the Painful Oath paragon feat is the most glaring example, and worse still is the fact that it does not help heroic-tier avengers). Likewise, the alteration to Lay on Hands conflicts with the Untiring Virtue paragon feat, and the upgrade to Warlock's Curse renders the property of the Vicious Rod and the first benefit of the Warlock's Wrath heroic feat superfluous.

Rest assured, I plan on moving on to homebrew errata for other supplements, including Dragon Magazine (the Student of Caiphon, especially), in due time. Consider the changes to the Holy Avenger, the Bracers of Mighty Striking, and the Bracers of the Perfect Shot previews of how I plan on fixing the Radiant Weapon, the Staff of Ruin, the Bracers of Archery, the Iron Armbands of Power, the Chaos Shard Implement, and various dragonshard augments; even if you consider them item taxes along the lines of Weapon Focus that supposedly keep characters up with the system's intended damage curve, it is difficult to dispute that they severely tower above most other items of their respective categories to an overpowering degree and that they should not exist in their current state.

Version 2 changes:
• Error in Twin Strike's Target line corrected.
• Error in Warlock Class Features page numbering corrected.

Version 3 changes:
• Force the Battle toned down because it is a rather ludicrous power.
• Follow-Up Blow toned down less such that it is not strictly inferior to Force the Battle.
• Cry Havoc not deleted such that the Battle Captain remains worthwhile.
• Battle Inspiration toned down less such that the Battle Captain remains worthwhile.
• Greater Ice Storm upgraded to balance out level 29 wizard daily powers in the Player's Handbook.
• Legion's Hold toned down less to balance out level 29 wizard daily powers in the Player's Handbook.
• Meteor Swarm upgraded to balance out level 29 wizard daily powers in the Player's Handbook.

Version 4 changes:
• Priest's Shield upgraded slightly.
• Fate of the Void pact boon given a slight boost.
• Major typographical error in the Wand of Accuracy corrected.
• Lasting Frost made to stack with existing cold damage.
• Utility and daily powers gained from paragon multiclassing toned down.

Version 5 changes:
• Inescapable Force, Lasting Frost, Lightning Arc, Resounding Thunder, Psychic Lock, and Solid Sound overhauled.
• Soldier of the Faith prerequisites lightened.

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Player's Handbook
New Updates

Races

Dragon Breath
Page 34: Replace the entire Targets line with "Target: Each creature in burst." On the Attack line, replace all instances of "+ 2" with "+ 3". On the Hit lines, replace all instances of "Constitution" with "Strength, Constitution, or Dexterity," "+4 bonus" with "+6 bonus," and "+6 bonus" with "+9 bonus." This standardizes the power to match wording of other close attacks and the new attack bonus progression for attack powers with neither the Implement keyword nor the Weapon keyword, and also removes the unnecessary limitation of a Constitution-exclusive damage bonus.

Tiefling Ability Scores
Page 48: Replace "+2 Intelligence, +2 Charisma" with "+2 Constitution or +2 Charisma, +2 Intelligence." This opens up the race as an option for characters with a +2 racial bonus to Constitution and Intelligence, something that was not previously possible in the rules without the use of monster races.

Tiefling Skill Bonuses
Page 48: Replace "+2 Bluff, +2 Stealth" with "+2 Arcana, +2 Bluff or +2 Endurance." This gives the tiefling race thematic skill bonues that play to its new strong ability scores. Stealth is of limited use to the race as a whole and is not as fitting as the Arcana and Endurance skills.

Infernal Wrath
Page 48: Replace "Minor Action" with "Free Action." Add the following as a line before the Effect line: "Trigger: An enemy hits you with an attack" Replace the text in the Effect line with "Until the end of your next turn or until you hit with an attack against the triggering enemy, you gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and a bonus to damage rolls equal to your Constitution, Intelligence, or Charisma modifier against the triggering enemy." This standardizes the wording of the power to match similar effects, allows it to function effectively for tieflings lacking a high Charisma score, gives the power a duration, making its use with Infernal Wrath-related feats clearer.

Powers

Keywords
Page 55: Add the following as a fifth paragraph of the section: "If an effect would add acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, or thunder damage to your attack powers, or if it would change the damage type of your attack powers to include any one of those damage types, your attack powers do not gain the appropriate damage type keyword unless the effect states so. For example, if a tiefling paladin were to wield a Flaming Bastard Sword, she could convert the damage of her Holy Strike at-will into fire and radiant damage, but the power itself would still have only the divine, radiant, and weapon keywords, leaving it ineligible for the Hellfire Blood heroic feat. However, if a warlock were to enter a paragon path that would let her change the damage type of her Eldritch Blast to lightning damage and give it the lightning keyword, then her Eldritch Blast would then have the arcane, implement, and lightning keywords, making it compatible with the Lightning Arc paragon feat." Add the following as a sixth paragraph of the section: "Some options, such as feats, magic items, and class features, have effects that come into play when you use certain powers. For example, the Solid Sound paragon feat increases your defenses when you use a power with the force or thunder keyword. Any benefits that you gain from these options are considered to originate from those options, not from the powers that that they affect. Therefore, if you had the Solid Sound feat, your force and thunder powers would not be considered powers that increase your defenses, as the defense increase comes from a feat, not from the power." These additions clarify how damage type additions or changes affect the keywords of a power, prevent certain types of magic weapons from being used to make all of a character's attacks compatible with options keyed to damage types, and explain how options that upgrade powers interact with other such options.

Cleric

Cleric Bonus to Defense
Page 60: Replace "+2 Will" with "+1 Fortitude, +1 Reflex, +1 Will." As a divine class, the cleric should receive a +1 bonus to all non-AC defenses.

Cleric Class Skills
Page 60: Add Athletics (Str) to the list of cleric class skills. Classes with a Strength-based, weapon-using build available to them should generally have Athletics as a class skill for the sake of theme and for ensuring that such characters can make good use of their Strength score with regards to skills.

Channel Divinity
Page 61: Add the following as a third paragraph to the class feature: "You can use your Wisdom modifier or your Charisma modifier in place of your Intelligence modifier when making Religion checks, and you can use the lower of your Wisdom modifier or your Charisma modifier in place of your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier for your Reflex defense. While you are not wearing heavy armor, you can use the lower of your Wisdom modifier or your Charisma modifier in place of your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier for your AC defense. While you are wearing no armor or cloth armor, you gain a +3 bonus to AC. This bonus to AC does not stack with any other bonus to AC you would gain from wearing no armor or cloth armor." Religion is a mandatory skill for divine characters, and so they should be able to use it with efficacy even without a high Intelligence score. This ensures that divine characters who have high Wisdom and Charisma are not handicapped by drastically low non-AC defenses, giving them higher Reflex and initiative as compensation. This also allows such characters to take up the aesthetic of a divine servant in priestly robes without sacrificing much AC.

Healer's Lore
Page 61: Replace "Wisdom" with "Wisdom or Charisma." Add the following as a third sentence: "This does not affect the temporary hit points or regeneration that you grant." This ensures that battle clerics with high Strength and Charisma can make use of the class feature, and also clarifies that this feature does not apply to temporary hit points and regeneration.

Lance of Faith
Page 63: Add the following as an additional line: "Special: This power can be used as a ranged basic attack." Upgrading low-key powers into basic attacks makes them more attractive choices and also provides characters with more options for basic attacks.

Priest's Shield
Page 63: On the Hit line, delete "and you and one adjacent ally gain a +1 power bonus to AC until the end of your next turn." Add the following as an additional line: "Effect: You and one adjacent ally gain a +1 power bonus to AC until the end of your next turn." Add the following as an additional line: "Special: This power can be used as a melee basic attack." The power was exceedingly weak previously and was in need of its hit effect being turned into an actual Effect. Also, upgrading low-key powers into basic attacks makes them more attractive choices and also provides characters with more options for basic attacks.

Righteous Brand
Page 63: On the Hit line, replace "melee attack rolls against the target equal to your Strength modifier until the end of your next turn" with "his or her next melee attack roll made against the target before the end of your next turn equal to your Charisma modifier." This power's highly potent rider effect should be tied to the battle cleric's secondary ability score, such that clerics of the build cannot rely purely on Strength for the power. Restricting the power bonus to the next melee attack roll against the target also brings it in line with the potency of other at-wills.

Seal of Binding
Page 71: Replace the text of the Sustain Standard line with "Each time you sustain the power, you and the target both take 2d10 + Wisdom modifier damage, the target remains stunned and protected against all other attacks until the end of your next turn, and you can't regain hit points or temporary hit points until the end of your next turn." This clarifies the duration of the effects of sustaining the power and also prevents clerics from using the power while supported by regeneration and healing from allies in order to create a one-sided situation.

Weapon Training
Page 72: Delete the feature entirely. The Astral Vibrance feature is a strong enough feature, and Weapon Training unnecessarily makes the paragon path even more powerful.

Astral Wave
Page 73: Replace "Implement" with "Weapon", and replace "burst 8" with "burst 2." On the Attack line, replace "Wisdom" with "Strength." On the Hit line, replace "2d8 + Wisdom" with "2[W] + Strength." The battle cleric build makes use of Strength and Charisma and weapon powers, and so this power should be commensurately altered to suit the build. Also, close burst 8 is too far-reaching for a power of this level.

Terrifying Insight
Page 73: Replace the text of the class feature with "You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls with divine implement powers that target Will." The former version of the class feature was far too potent and unbalanced.

Battle Cry
Page 74: On the Attack line, replace "Wisdom" with "Strength." On the Hit line, replace "Wisdom" with "Strength." The battle cleric build makes use of Strength and Charisma and weapon powers, and so this power should be commensurately altered to suit the build.

Solar Wrath
Page 74: Replace "burst 8" with "burst 2." Close burst 8 is too far-reaching for a power of this level.

Battle Pyres
Page 74: Remove the Implement keyword and add the Weapon keyword. On the Attack line, replace "Wisdom" with "Strength." On the first Hit line, replace "2d8 + Wisdom" with "2[W] + Strength," and replace "secondary attack" with "secondary weapon attack." On the Secondary Attack line, replace "Wisdom" with "Strength." On the second Hit line, replace "5d10 + Wisdom" with "3[W] + Wisdom." The battle cleric build makes use of Strength and Charisma and weapon powers, and so this power should be commensurately altered to suit the build.

Fighter

Fighter Trained Skills
Page 75: Replace "three trained skills" with "four trained skills." Three skill trainings are far too little for any character who wishes to be of good use in non-combat encounters.

Fighter Class Skills
Page 75: Add Insight (Wis) and Perception (Wis) to the list of fighter class skills. The fighter is the archetypical font of martial intuition, reading enemy movements and responding to them with wits and acuity, and is also the archetypical guard, watching over his or her ward with a keen eye. Making these two skills available to them does not break their theme and expands their options during skill challenges.

Fighter Bonus to Defense
Page 75: Replace "+2 Fortitude" with "+1 Reflex, +1 Will." Every fighter is guaranteed to have a high Strength score, ensuring a strong Fortitude defense. Giving the class a +1 bonus to Reflex and Will balances and smooths out its non-AC defenses, rather than the lopsided defenses caused by +2 Fortitude.

Fighter Weapon Talent
Page 76: Replace the text of the class feature with the following: "You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls with weapon attacks and martial powers. You are also proficient with one superior melee weapon of your choice. While you are wielding a shield or a weapon that you are proficient in, you can use your Constitution modifier or your Wisdom modifier in place of your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier for determining your AC in no armor or light armor." This removes the unnecessary restriction of weapon types from the class feature and makes it compatible with martial powers that do not bear the Weapon keyword, such as those involving shield attacks. As well, this also gives more support to lightly-armored fighters. These changes bring the class feature up to the level of Battlerager Vigor and Tempest Technique.

Reaping Strike
Page 77: Replace the text of the Miss line with the following: "Strength modifier damage." Add the following as an additional line: "Special: This power can be used as a melee basic attack." The reduced damage for oe-handed weapons was unnecessary, and upgrading low-key powers into basic attacks makes them more attractive choices and also provides characters with more options for basic attacks.

Sure Strike
Page 77: Add the following as an additional line: "Effect: After the attack, you gain combat advantage against the target until the end of your next turn." This makes the power actually worthwhile compared to other fighter at-will powers.

Tide of Iron
Page 77: On the Hit line, delete "if it is your size, smaller than you, or one size category larger." This restriction on the power is unnecessary and arbitrarily makes it useless against Huge and Gargantuan monsters.

Rain of Steel
Page 79: Remove the Weapon keyword. Replace the text of the Effect line with the following: "Until the stance ends, as long as you are wielding a melee weapon that you are proficient with and are able to make opportunity attacks, any enemy that starts its turn adjacent to you takes damage equal to 2 + your Strength modifier." The previous version involved a damage roll and could thus generate disproportional amounts of damage through bonuses to damage rolls.

Storm of Blows
Page 82: On the Weapon line, replace "Gain a bonus to the damage roll equal to your Dexterity modifier" with "slide the target 1 square on a hit." The original incarnation of this power offered an overpowering amount of damage and shifting against multiple enemies.

Unyielding Avalanche
Page 82: Remove the Weapon keyword. Replace the text of the Effect line with the following: "Until the stance ends, you gain a +1 power bonus to AC and saving throws, and as long as you are wielding a melee weapon that you are proficient with and are able to make opportunity attacks, any enemy that starts its turn adjacent to you takes damage equal to 4 + your Strength modifier and is slowed until the end of its turn." The previous version involved a damage roll and could thus generate disproportional amounts of damage through bonuses to damage rolls, and the encounter-long regeneration offered too much resilience.

Reaper's Stance
Page 85: Remove the Weapon keyword. Replace the text of the Effect line with the following: "Until the stance ends, you gain a +1 power bonus to attack rolls, and as long as you are wielding a melee weapon that you are proficient with and are able to make opportunity attacks, any enemy that starts its turn adjacent to you takes damage equal to 6 + your Strength modifier and ongoing 10 damage (save ends). The previous version involved a damage roll and could thus generate disproportional amounts of damage through bonuses to damage rolls. The 19-20 critical range was superfluous for most fighters, as they would most likely already possess such a critical range by levle 25, and the power bonus to damage rolls was too over the top. Replacing these benefits with a more modest bonus to attack rolls balances the power.

Force the Battle
Page 86: Remove the Weapon keyword. Replace the text of the Effect line with the following: "Until the stance ends, as long as you are wielding a weapon you are proficient with and can make opportunity attacks, you can make a melee basic attack as a free action any enemy that starts its turn adjacent to you." The original version of the power is rather over-the-top, even for a level 29 daily power, especially when compared to other fighter powers of the same level. This tones it down appropriately.

Kensei Prerequisites
Page 87: Add "Fighter Weapon Talent class feature" after "Fighter class." This prevents the paragon path from being abused by virtually any weapon-using character multiclassed into fighter.

Kensei Focus
Page 87: Replace the text of the feature with "When you use a weapon power or a martial power, you can score a critical hit on a roll of a natural 19 or 20." This replaces the previous ambiguous feature with one more suited for a level 11 feature.

Kensei Mastery
Page 87: Replace the text of the feature with "The bonus to attack rolls from your Fighter Weapon Talent class feature increases to +2." This replaces the previous feature, which offered too large benefit and had a highly unnecessary and unflavorful restriction, with one more suited for a level 16 feature.

Masterstroke
Page 87: On the Attack line, replace "AC" with "Reflex. This attack can score a critical hit on a roll of a natural 18, 19, or 20." This increases the strength of the power to match that of other level 11 encounter powers.

Dirty Fighting
Page 87: Replace the second sentence of the description of the feature with "When you hit a creature that you have marked and that you have combat advantage against using a weapon power or a martial power, you gain a bonus to the damage roll equal to your Wisdom modifier." This clarifies the benefit of the feature, preventing it from being used to increase static damage, ongoing damage, and implement power damage, and tones down its previously overwhelming potency.

Steel Grace
Page 88: Replace the description of the feature with the following: "You can use any melee fighter at-will power as a melee basic attack, provided that you make the attack with a light blade or a heavy blade that is not a polearm. When you score a critical hit with a weapon attack using a light blade or a heavy blade that is not a polearm, after the entire attack is resolved, you can shift your speed and then mark each enemy adjacent to you at the destination square until the end of your next turn." This opens up the feature to include fighter at-will powers other than the ones in the Player's Handbook and also elevates its usefulness to put it in line with other paragon path's features.

Fantastic Flourish
Page 88: Replace "Ranged 5" with "Close burst 5." Replace the text of the Target line with the following: "One enemy in burst other than the one you just hit." This prevents the power from provoking opportunity attacks, which was not the intent of the power.

Crescendo Sword
Page 88: On the Effect line, replace "one daily power you have already used" with "one daily power, other than Crescendo Sword, that you have already used for today." This clarifies that the power cannot be used to continuously recharge itself.

Paladin

Paladin Class Skills
Page 89: Add Athletics (Str) to the list of paladin class skills. Classes with a Strength-based, weapon-using build available to them should generally have Athletics as a class skill for the sake of theme and for ensuring that such characters can make good use of their Strength score with regards to skills.

Channel Divinity
Page 91: Add the following as a third paragraph to the class feature: "You can use your Wisdom modifier or your Charisma modifier in place of your Intelligence modifier when making Religion checks, and you can use the lower of your Wisdom modifier or your Charisma modifier in place of your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier for your Reflex defense. While you are not wearing heavy armor, you can use the lower of your Wisdom modifier or your Charisma modifier in place of your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier for your AC defense. While you are wearing no armor or cloth armor, you gain a +3 bonus to AC. This bonus to AC does not stack with any other bonus to AC you would gain from wearing no armor or cloth armor." Religion is a mandatory skill for divine characters, and so they should be able to use it with efficacy even without a high Intelligence score. This ensures that divine characters who have high Wisdom and Charisma are not handicapped by drastically low non-AC defenses, giving them higher Reflex and initiative as compensation. This also allows such characters to take up the aesthetic of a divine servant in priestly robes without sacrificing much AC.

Divine Challenge
Page 91: Replace the second paragraph of the Effect line with the following: "While a target is marked, it takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls for any attack that doesn't include you as a target. Until the mark ends, the target takes radiant damage equal to 3 + your Strength or Charisma modifier the first time each round it makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target. The damage increases to 6 + your Strength or Charisma modifier at 11th level and 9 + your Strength or Charisma modifier at 21st level." This standardizes the class feature's wording to match that of Divine Sanction and also allows Strength/Wisdom-based paladins to use it effectively without any need for feats.

Lay on Hands
Page 91: Replace "At-Will (Special)" with "Encounter." Replace the text of the Special line with the following: "When you spend an action point, you regain the use of this power and can use it immediately as a free action. Using this power as a free action still expends it." The previous, pseudo-daily usage of this power is an unnecessary holdover from a previous edition that does not mesh well with the system for at-will, encounter, and daily powers.

Enfeebling Strike
Page 92: Add the following as an additional line: "Special: This power can be used as a melee basic attack." Upgrading low-key powers into basic attacks makes them more attractive choices and also provides characters with more options for basic attacks.

Stunning Smite
Page 99: On the Secondary Target line, replace "Each" with "One." On the Secondary Hit line, replace "stunned" with "dazed." This power is already highly accurate, being a weapon attack that targets Will, and it toning it down in this manner brings its level of power down to that of other defenders' level 27 encounter powers.

Certain Justice
Page 100: On the Hit line, replace the second sentence with "If the target is marked by you, it is also weakened and dazed until the end of its next turn." The power was previously capable of shutting down the offensive capabilities of a monster for the entire encounter.

Ranger

Archer Fighting Style
Page 104: Replace the text of the class feature with "Because of your focus on ranged attacks, you can designate any enemy you can see as your quarry when you use your Hunter's Quarry class feature, and you can load any ranged weapon as a free action." This replaces the negligible bonus feat of Defensive Mobility with a benefit that complements the combat methods of an archery ranger well and also makes it easier for such a ranger to wield a crossbow.

Prime Shot
Page 104: Add the following as a second sentence: "This bonus does not apply if you are adjacent to the target." This prevents the class feature from being abused with methods that allow ranged attacks to be made without provoking opportunity attacks.

Two-Blade Fighting Style
Page 104: Replace the third sentence of the class feature with "In addition, while you are not wielding heavy armor and are wielding a melee weapon that you are proficient with, you can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier for determining your AC defense." There is very little reason for two-weapon rangers to receive Toughness as a bonus feat. Meanwhile, they are in drastic need of an AC increase, and allowing them to use their Wisdom modifier for their AC solves the issue.

Twin Strike
Page 105: Replace the entire Targets line with the following: "Target: One creature." On the Attack line, replace "two attacks" with "make two attack rolls. If either hit, resolve the attack as a single hit with your main weapon. If either score a critical hit, resolve the attack as a single critical hit with your main weapon." Replace the text of the first Hit line with "1[W] damage. If both attack rolls hit, you add your Strength modifier (melee) or your Dexterity modifier (ranged) to the damage roll." Twin Strike was too strong for an at-will power, and this revision brings it in line with other ranger at-wills.

Disruptive Strike
Page 106: Replace the text of the Hit line with the following: "1[W] damage. The target takes a penalty to its attack roll equal to your Wisdom modifier." As an out-of-turn basic attack that virtually guaranteed a miss on the previous attack, the original version of this power was overpowered and in need of a downgrade.

Great Ram Arrow
Page 111: On the Attack line, replace "AC" with "Reflex." Replace the text of the Hit line with the following: "4[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and you push the target a number of squares equal to your Wisdom modifier and knock it prone. The target cannot stand up from prone (save ends)." Replace the text of the Miss line with the following: "2[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and you push the target 2 squares and knock it prone." Archery rangers should not be using Strength, and so this power's rider effect is altered to fit the true secondary score of the build. This revision also brings the effectiveness of the power in line with other level 19 daily powers.

Follow-Up Blow
Page 113: Replace the text of the Effect line with the following: "Once per round, when you hit with a melee or close weapon attack using your main weapon, you can make a melee basic attack as a free action against each enemy adjacent to you after the triggering attack is resolved. You can target Reflex with this melee basic attack." Even the previously errata'd version was too strong for a level 29 daily power, as it allowed for long attack chains when used in conjunction with other ranger powers. This tames the power down to a more appropriate level.

Three-in-One Shot
Page 113: On the Attack line, replace "AC" with "Reflex." Replace the second sentence of the attack line with the following: "If the first attack hits, the second and third attacks hit automatically." On the Hit line, replace "2[W]" with "4[W]." The power is otherwise completely overshadowed by Five-Missile Dance.

Battlefield Experience
Page 113: Replace the text of the feature with the following: "You can designate more than one creature as your quarry at a time, up to a number equal to your Wisdom modifier. You must still use a minor action to designate a single creature as your quarry. In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls against any creature designated as your quarry." This clarifies the mechanics of the first half of the class feature and prevents the second half from being used to grant allies the +1 bonus to attack rolls as well.

Archery's Glory
Page 114: Replace "Encounter" with "Daily." The generation of action points on an encounter basis is overpowered and clashes with the rules for action point limitations.

Chosen Prey
Page 114: Replace the text of the class feature with the following: "You never provoke opportunity attacks and cannot be marked by any beast, any magical beast, or any creature designated as your quarry. Once per round, when you score a critical hit against a beast, a magical beast, or a creature designated as your quarry, you can shift your speed and then make a ranged basic attack as a free action after the critical hit is resolved." The previous version of the class feature was highly situational and very weak.

Pinpointing Arrow
Page 114: On the Attack line, replace "AC" with "Reflex. You can make two attack rolls and use the higher result." On the Hit line, replace "2[W]" with "3[W]." The original version of the power was too weak for a level 11 encounter power.

Beast Stalker's Target
Page 114: On the Attack line, replace "AC" with "Reflex. You can make two attack rolls and use the higher result." Replace the text of the Hit line with the following: "5[W] + Dexterity modifier damage, and the target is pushed a number of squares equal to your Wisdom modifier and knocked prone." The original version of the power was too weak for a level 20 daily power.

Cruel Recovery
Page 114: Delete "the amount of damage you dealt from Hunter's Quarry +." The original version granted far too much temporary hit points on an at-will basis.

Blade Storm
Page 115: Replace the text of the feature with the following: "Once per round, when you hit a creature with a melee or close weapon attack, one creature adjacent to it takes damage equal to your Wisdom modifier." Blade Storm had initially provided rangers with an overwhelming amount of bonus damage each round, and it did not even use the proper secondary score of the two-weapon build (Wisdom). This revision maintains the paragon path's theme of spreading out damage across multiple enemies while altering the feature to be more balanced.

Twin-Blade Storm
Page 115: Replace the text of the feature with the following: "Once per round, when you hit a creature with a melee or close weapon attack, two creatures adjacent to it take damage equal to your Wisdom modifier. This replaces the benefit of your Blade Storm feature." This changes Twin-Blade Storm commensurately to match the revision to Blade Storm.

Rogue

Rogue Bonus to Defense
Page 116: Replace "+2 Reflex" with "+1 Fortitude, +1 Will." Every rogue is guaranteed to have a high Dexterity score, ensuring a strong Reflex defense. Giving the class a +1 bonus to Fortitude and Will balances and smooths out its non-AC defenses, rather than the lopsided defenses caused by +2 Reflex.

Artful Dodger
Page 117: Replace the text of the class feature with the following: "You gain a bonus to all defenses against opportunity attacks equal to your Charisma modifier. As a move action, you can shift a number of squares equal to 1 + half your Charisma modifier. When you miss with a weapon power using a weapon compatible with your Sneak Attack class feature, after the entire attack is resolved, you can slide the target 1 square and shift 1 square in any order, and then gain combat advantage against the target until the end of your next turn." A bonus to AC against opportunity attacks simply cannot compare to the straightforward Sneak Attack damage increase of the Brutal Scoundrel class feature, especially when most characters would try to avoid opportunity attacks through shifting anyway, and when monsters with opportunity attacks that target Fortitude, Reflex, or Will would ignore the bonus to AC altogether. This revision increases the versatility of Artful Dodger rogues to compensate.

Rogue Weapon Talent
Page 117: Replace the text of the class feature with the following: "You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls with weapon powers made using a dagger, a hand crossbow, a shuriken, or a sling." This removes any ambiguity from the power's wording and simplifies it to function with the otherwise low-key weapons available to the rogue.

Deft Strike
Page 118: Add the following as an additional line: "Special: This power can be used as a melee basic attack if used as a melee attack, or as a ranged basic attack if used as a ranged attack." Upgrading low-key powers into basic attacks makes them more attractive choices and also provides characters with more options for basic attacks.

Dagger Precision
Page 127: Replace the text of the class feature with the following: "When you make an attack roll for a weapon power using a dagger or a weapon that you can treat as a dagger for the purpose of the Rogue Weapon Talent class feature, you can score a critical hit on a roll of a natural 19 or 20." This tones down the previously ludicrous 18-20 critical range that the feature offered, prevents its abuse in the hands of implement-users with a dagger implement, and makes it compatible with weapons such as the parrying dagger and the kukri.

Warlock

Warlock Bonus to Defense
Page 129: Replace "+1 Reflex, +1 Will" with "+1 Fortitude, +1 Will." Most warlocks are going to have a high Intelligence score, thus ensuring a strong Reflex defense. Giving the class a +1 bonus to Fortitude and Will balances and smooths out its non-AC defenses, rather than the somewhat lopsided defenses for Fey Pact, Dark Pact, and some Star Pact warlocks caused by +1 Reflex and +1 Will.

Warlock Class Skills
Page 129: Add Diplomacy (Cha) and Stealth (Dex) to the list of warlock class skills. Warlocks are skilled pactmakers and bargainers, and Fey Pact warlocks are adept at stealthily slinking around.

Warlock Class Features
Page 129: Add Ritual Casting as an additional warlock class feature.

Warlock Class Features
Pages 130-131: Add the following as an additional warlock class feature: "Ritual Casting. You gain the Ritual Caster feat as a bonus feat, allowing you to use magical rituals (see Chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook (see Chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook). You own a ritual book, and it contains three rituals of your choice that you have mastered: Hand of Fate and two 1st-level rituals. Once per day, you can use Hand of Fate to consult your patron without expending components." These skilled and knowledgeable arcanists should logically be able to use rituals, especially since such practices are how their pacts are made in the first place.

Misty Step
Page 130: Add the following as a second sentence to the second paragraph of the class feature: "Until the end of your next turn, you gain the concealment from your Shadow Walk class feature, and you gain combat advantage against enemies that were adjacent to you either at the origin square or the destination square of your teleportation." Misty Step is the weakest of the warlock pact boons, and this revisions brings it up to par with the other boons.

Fate of the Void
Page 131: Replace the second and third paragraphs of the feature with the following: "When an enemy under your Warlock's Curse is reduced to 0 hit points or fewer, you gain a +1 bonus to a single attack roll, damage roll saving throw, skill check, ability check, or damage roll that you make before the end of your next turn. This bonus can be applied after you make the roll and are informed of its success or failure. If you choose to gain a bonus to a damage roll, the +1 bonus is instead 2 additional damage (4 at 11th level, 6 at 21st level). This bonus is cumulative; if three cursed enemies drop to 0 hit points or fewer before the end of your next turn, the bonus is a +3 bonus (or 6 additional damage)." This upgrades the usefulness of the pact boon and ensures that it is not wasted as often.

Prime Shot
Page 131: Add the following as a second sentence: "This bonus does not apply if you are adjacent to the target." This prevents the class feature from being abused with methods that allow ranged attacks to be made without provoking opportunity attacks.

Shadow Walk
Page 131: Add the following as a second sentence to the class feature: "Even when you do not have this concealment, while you are not wearing heavy armor, you can use the lower of your Constitution modifier or your Charisma modifier in place of your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier for determining your AC defense." This ensures that warlocks who focus on Constitution and Charisma and eschew Intelligence are not fraught with poor AC.

Warlock's Curse
Page 131: Add the following as a sixth sentence to the first paragraph: "This extra damage can be applied when you hit with an attack that does not deal damage, but if you do so, you gain no bonuses to the damage roll." On the table for Warlock's Curse extra damage, replace "1d6" with "1d10", "2d6" with "2d10", and "3d6" with "3d10." This allows warlock powers that do not deal damage to benefit from this striker class feature, and also boosts the noticeably low striker damage that warlocks previously doled out.

Dire Radiance
Page 131: Add the Cold keyword. Replace the text of the Attack line with the following: "Constitution or Charisma vs. Reflex." Replace the text of the first Hit line with the following: "1d6 + Constitution or Charisma modifier cold and radiant damage. If the target willingly moves, shifts, or teleports towards you before the end of your next turn, it takes 4 + Constitution or Charisma modifier cold and radiant damage after the movement is resolved. This extra damage applies only once per use of this power and does not occur if you the target is marked by you." Replace the text of the second Hit line with the following: "Increase damage to 2d6 + Constitution or Charisma modifier and extra damage to 8 + Constitution or Charisma modifier at 21st level." This gives the power a thematically appropriate second damage type, makes the power usable by Star Pact warlocks focusing on Charisma and Intelligence, renders it slightly more accurate (by targeting Reflex instead of Fortitude), prevents the power from being abused through marking, prevents the extra damage from gaining unbalancing bonuses to damage rolls, and clarifies that the extra damage applies only once.

Eyebite
Page 132: Add the Radiant keyword. Replace the text of the first Hit line with the following: "1d6 + Charisma modifier psychic and radiant damage, you slide the target 1 square, you shift 1 square, and until the start of your next turn, you are invisible to the target as long as you do not have it marked. If the target makes a melee or ranged attack against you before the start of your next turn, it takes 3 + Charisma modifier psychic and radiant damage before the attack is resolved. This extra damage applies only once per use of this power and does not occur if you have the target marked." Replace the text of the second Hit line with the following: "Increase damage to 2d6 + Charisma modifier and extra damage to 6 + Charisma modifier at 21st level." This gives the power a thematically appropriate second damage type, grants the power greater control potential to compensate for its weaknesses, prevents it from being abused by defenders, and gives it a use against monsters with blindsight, tremorsense, or truesight.

Hellish Rebuke
Page 132: Add the Necrotic keyword. Replace the text of the first Hit line with the following: "1d6 + Constiution modifier fire and necrotic damage. If you take damage from a source other than yourself before the end of your next turn, the target takes 3 + Constitution modifier fire and necrotic damage before the damage is resolved. This extra damage applies only once per use of this power and does not occur if you have any enemy marked." Replace the text of the second Hit line with the following: "Increase damage to 2d6 + Constitution modifier and extra damage to 6 + Constitution modifier at 21st level." This gives the power a thematically appropriate second damage type, prevents the power from being abused through marking, prevents the extra damage from being abused through damaging oneself, prevents the extra damage from gaining unbalancing bonuses to damage rolls, and clarifies that the extra damage applies only once.

Warlord

Warlord Bonus to Defense
Page 143: Replace "+1 Fortitude, +1 Will" with "+1 Reflex, +1 Will." All warlords are guaranteed to have a high Strength score, thus ensuring a strong Fortitude defense. Giving the class a +1 bonus to Reflex and Will balances and smooths out its non-AC defenses, rather than the somewhat lopsided defenses for Inspiring Presence and Bravura Presence warlords caused by +1 Fortitude and +1 Will.

Commander's Strike
Page 145: On the Target line, replace "One creature" with "One creature within reach." Delete the Attack line and the Hit line. Add the following as an Effect line: "One ally of your choice can make a melee basic attack against the target with a bonus to the damage roll equal to your Intelligence modifier. The ally must be able to reach the target." This substantially clarifies how the power functions.

Lead the Attack
Page 145: On the Hit line, replace "power bonus to attack rolls against the target equal to 1 + your Intelligence modifier" with "+2 power bonus to attack rolls against the target." The power previously granted far too large an attack bonus for a level 1 daily power that scaled overpoweringly well.

Battle Inspiration
Page 153: Replace the text of the feature with the following: "When a bloodied ally spends a healing surge through your Inspiring Word power, the ally gains a power bonus to attack rolls equal to half your Intelligence modifier until the end of the ally's next turn." The previous version of the power had ambiguous wording and granted an enormous bonus to attack rolls and speed with but a single use of Inspiring Word.

Tough as Nails
Page 154: On the second sentence, replace "Constitution" with "Intelligence or Charisma." Constitution is not a key ability score for the warlord class and should have no place in a warlord paragon path feature.

Honor and Glory
Page 155: Replace "+2" with "+1." A +2 untyped bonus to attack rolls for allies on a regular basis is too effective for a paragon path feature of this level.

Wizard

Wizard Bonus to Defense
Page 156: Replace "+2 Will" with "+1 Fortitude, +1 Will." All wizards are guaranteed to have a high Intelligence score, thus ensuring a strong Reflex defense. Giving the class a +1 bonus to Fortitude and Will balances and smooths out its non-AC defenses, rather than the somewhat lopsided defenses for Orb of Deception and Orb of Imposition wizards caused by +2 Will.

Orb of Imposition
Page 157: Replace the second paragraph of the class feature with the following: "When you hit a creature with a wizard power using an orb, the first time that creature succeeds on a saving throw against an effect caused by that power, it must reroll the saving throw with a penalty equal to your Wisdom modifier." The previous version of the Orb of Imposition allowed a wizard to utterly cripple an enemy for an entire encounter by stacking save penalties.

Staff of Defense
Page 157: Replace the first four sentences of the class feature with the following: "While you are wielding a staff, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. Once per encounter, while you are wielding a staff, when an enemy hits you, you can use a free action to gain a bonus to all defenses equal to your Constitution modifier until the end of your next turn." This clarifies the wording of the power and slightly improves it.

Wand of Accuracy
Page 158: Replace the first two sentences of the class feature with the following: "Once per encounter, when you miss with a wizard power using a wand, you can reroll the attack roll and any other missed attack roll of the power with a bonus equal to your Dexterity modifier. You can also use the lower of your Dexterity modifier or your Intelligence modifier in place of your Wisdom or Charisma modifier for determining your Will defense." This clarifies the function of the power, improves it such that it is more useful with the area and close powers that war wizards tend towards, and ensures that wizards who focus on Dexterity and Intelligence are not unfairly stuck with two low non-AC defenses.

Cloud of Daggers
Page 159: On the first Hit line, replace "1d6" with "1d8." On the second Hit line, replace "2d6" with "2d8." This elevates the power to the level of the other wizard at-will powers available.

Ray of Frost
Page 159: On the Attack line, replace "Fortitude" with "Reflex." On the first Hit line, replace "1d6" with "1d8." On the second Hit line, replace "2d6" with "2d8." This improves the power by making it slightly more accurate (by targeting Reflex rather than Fortitude) and increasing its damage.

Scorching Burst
Page 159: On the first Hit line, replace "1d6 + Intelligence modifier" with "1d6." On the second Hit line, replace "2d6 + Intelligence modifier" with "2d6." Add the following as an additional line: "Effect: The target takes fire damage equal to your Intelligence modifier. Resistance to fire damage does not apply to this automatic damage." Various powers are objectively superior to Scorching Burst, such as Dishearten, Vanguard's Lightning, and Winged Horde. This boosts the power such that it has an actual use over similar controller powers.

Prismatic Spray
Page 168: On the Hit (Will) line, replace "is stunned (save ends)" with "takes ongoing 15 psychic damage and is dazed (save ends)." Mass-stunning to the power's original degree, even with a level 25 daily power, is too powerful.

Greater Ice Storm
Page 168: On the Target line, replace "creature" with "enemy." Replace the text of the Hit line with the following: "6d8 + Intelligence modifier cold damage, and the target takes ongoing 15 cold damage and is immobilized (save ends)." Replace the text of the Miss line with the following: "4d8 + Intelligence modifier cold damage, and the target is slowed (save ends)." Replace the text of the Effect line with the following: "The burst creates a zone of frigid rime. The zone is difficult terrain for your enemies, even flying enemies, until the end of the encounter or for 5 minutes. If an enemy ends its turn within the zone, it is immobilized (save ends). If an enemy rolls a natural 1 on a saving throw against slowing or immobilization while within the zone, it is petrified until it is no longer slowed or immobilized."

Legion's Hold
Page 168: Replace the text of the Hit line with the following: "4d10 + Intelligence modifier psychic damage, and the target takes ongoing 15 psychic damage and is dazed and immobilized (save ends all)." Replace the text of the Miss line with the following: "3d10 + Intelligence modifier psychic damage, and the target takes ongoing 15 psychic damage and is dazed and immobilized (save ends all)." Mass-stunning to the power's original degree, even with a level 29 daily power, is too powerful. This revision makes the power more appropriate for a level 29 daily power.

Meteor Swarm
Page 168: Add the Force and Thunder keywords. On the Target line, replace "creature" with "enemy." Replace the text of the Hit line with the following: "8d6 + Intelligence modifier fire, force, and thunder damage, you slide the target 3 squares and knock it prone, the target is restrained and takes ongoing 15 fire, force, and thunder damage (save ends both), and the target cannot stand up from prone until it is not restrained." Replace the text of the Miss line with the following: "6d6 + Intelligence modifier fire, force, and thunder damage, and you slide the target 3 squares and knock it prone." This boosts the power to match the strength of other level 29 daily powers.

Arcane Riposte
Page 169: Replace the text of the class feature with the following: "Your ranged wizard powers can be used as ranged basic attacks, and can also be used as melee basic attacks with a range of melee touch. Your ranged and area wizard and battle mage powers do not provoke opportunity attacks. When a creature scores a critical hit against you or reduces you to 0 hit points or fewer, you can make a ranged basic attack against it as a free action before the creature's attack is resolved." Even the previously errata'd bonus of this feature was absolutely useless, given that the attack roll was against AC and had far too little attack bonuses attached to it. This new version is actually useful for wizards and fits with the name and the theme of the feature.

Blood Pulse
Page 170: Replace "burst 3" with "burst 2." On the Hit line, replace "leaves" with "willingly moves or shifts into." This tones down the previously-overwhelming power.

Destructive Salutation
Page 170: On the Hit line, replace "stunned" with "dazed." On the Miss line, replace "stunned" with "dazed." Guaranteed mass-stunning to the power's original degree, even with a level 20 daily power, is too powerful.

Storm Spell
Page 170: Replace the first two sentences of the feature with the following: "Once per day, as a free action at the end of your turn, you can reach into the spellstorm and extract a spell you have already used so that you can use it again. Make a Wisdom check that others cannot aid you with." This clarifies the usage of the power and prevents it from being abused through the Aid Another action.

Corellon's Implement
Page 171: Replace the text of the class feature with the following: "Choose one implement group that you are proficient with. You can use a longsword as if it were that type of implement for the purpose of feats, powers, and class features (including Arcane Implement Mastery). Your ranged wizard powers can be used as ranged basic attacks, and can also be used as melee basic attacks with a range of melee touch, as long as you use them through a longsword. Your ranged and area wizard powers do not provoke opportunity attacks as long as you use them through a longsword." This improves the power such that it is compatible with feats and class features, as the previous version did not even function on Arcane Implement Mastery. This also gives wizards an incentive to actually use a longsword for their powers.

Radiant Censure
Page 171: Replace the text of the class feature with the following: "When an enemy's attack or ongoing damage bloodies you, reduces you to 0 hit points or fewer, or scores a critical hit against you it takes radiant damage equal to your Intelligence modifier before the triggering attack or ongoing damage is resolved. The previous version of the feature was useful for only Orb of Deception wizards, and even then, its utility was limited due to such wizards' high Will. This revision upgrades the feature such that it is more useful overall and can be used by a wizard of any stripe.

Epic Destinies

Sly Fortune's Favor
Page 174: Replace the second sentence of the feature with the following: "Once per encounter as a free action, you can reroll an attack roll, a skill check, an ability check, or a saving throw as a free action." The previous usage limitation was an unnecessary holdover from a previous edition that does not mesh well with the system of at-will, encounter, and daily powers.

Divine Miracle
Page 176: Replace the text of the feature with the following: "Choose two of your encounter attack powers. You can now use each of the chosen powers twice per encounter. When you spend an action point, you gain a third use of one of those powers for the encounter." Even the previously errata'd version of the feature was far, far too powerful, even for a level 30 feature. This brings it down to a more tame level, and also one that does not change the battle tactics of a character as drastically.

Skills

Intimidate
Page 186: On the Success line, replace "surrender" with "take a -2 penalty to attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, saving throws, and defenses until the end of the encounter." The previous version of the feature could instantly take enemies out of the fight, which was not right for a single use of a skill at all.

Feats

Enlarged Dragon Breath
Page 194: On the Benefit line, replace "blast 5" with "blast 6." The previous version was overshadowed by the Hurl Breath heroic feat.

Ferocious Rebuke
Page 195: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When you use the Infernal Wrath power, you can also push the triggering enemy 1 square as part of the free action." This clarifies the wording of the feat and allows its benefit to match the new wording of the power in question.

Sehanine's Reversal
Page 200: On the Effect line of the feat power, add the following as a second sentence: "You cannot transfer the dying or unconscious conditions." This prevents the power from being abused with death saving throws.

Weapon Focus
Page 201: Add the following as a fourth and fifth sentence to the first Benefit line: "This bonus applies to both implement powers and weapon powers made using a weapon from the chosen weapon group. If you choose the staff weapon group, the bonus applies on implement powers and weapon powers made using a staff weapon, but not implement powers made using a staff implement." This clarifies how the feat functions on implement powers and prevents staff implements from overshadowing other implements through this feat.

Wintertouched
Page 201: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "You gain combat advantage against creatures that are vulnerable to cold or taking ongoing cold damage." Very few creatures have cold vulnerability, and so this feat is upgraded to encompass a greater deal of enemies.

Deadly Axe
Page 202: Add the following as a second sentence to the Benefit line: "When you make a weapon attack using an axe that is already a high crit weapon without this feat, you can score a critical hit on a roll of a natural 19 or 20." This allows the feat to be useful for characters wielding greataxes and execution axes, serving as an early Axe Mastery not limited to melee attacks.

Dwarven Durability
Page 202: On the Benefit line, delete "your number of healing surges by two and." This feat is otherwise too strong for a paragon feat, especially when compared to Durable.

Fiery Rebuke
Page 203: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When you hit with an attack benefiting from the bonuses of your Infernal Wrath power, the target also takes fire damage equal to your Constitution, Intelligence, or Charisma modifier. This damage ignores resistances." This clarifies the wording of the feat, allows its benefit to match the new wording of the power in question, tones down its previously overlarge bonus damage, and lets it be useful against creatures with fire resistance.

Hammer Rhythm
Page 203: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When you miss with a weapon attack using a hammer or a mace, you deal 3 damage to the target, even if it is a minion. This damage receives no modifiers, cannot be increased, and does not trigger vulnerabilities. The extra damage increases to 5 at 21st level." This lightens the restrictions of the feat and simultaneously tones its level of power down to match other paragon feats.

Inescapable Force
Page 203: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When you use an encounter or daily attack power that has the force keyword, you gain combat advantage against insubstantial enemies for the attack, insubstantial enemies take full damage from the attack, and any insubstantial enemy hit by the attack loses all resistances, loses insubstantial, loses all regeneration, and cannot fly (save ends all)." The power was previously too situational; this new version allows a single use of an encounter or daily power to aid the entire party at bringing down insubstantial enemies.

Lasting Frost
Page 203: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When you hit with an encounter or daily attack power that has the cold keyword, one creature hit by the attack takes ongoing 5 cold damage (save ends), or any existing ongoing cold damage on it is increased by 5. The target is also slowed until it saves against this ongoing damage." If the target already has ongoing cold damage on it, the existing ongoing cold damage is increased by 5. The target is also slowed until it saves against this ongoing cold damage." The previous version offered too large a damage boost, especially when combined with Wintertouched. This still allows it to be a useful feat and still synergistic with Wintertouched, albeit at a tamer level.

Lightning Arc
Page 204: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When you hit with an encounter or daily attack power that has the lightning keyword, you can choose a creature within 5 squares of a creature that was hit by the attack. The chosen creature takes is slid 1 square and takes ongoing 5 lightning damage (save ends), or any existing ongoing lightning damage on the creature is increased by 5." The original version of this feat was too conditional, as it required a critical hit, and the payoff was not even that good.

Polearm Gamble
Page 204: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When a nonadjacent enemy willingly moves, shifts, or teleports into a square adjacent to you, after its movement is resolved, you can use an opportunity action to shift 1 square and then slide the enemy 3 squares to a square adjacent to you. If you do so, you grant combat advantage to that enemy until the end of your next turn." The free attacks (which could prevent enemies from moving adjacent in the case of fighters and various other builds) that the previous version of the feat granted were overpowering.

Psychic Lock
Page 205: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When you hit with an encounter or daily attack power that has the psychic keyword, one creature hit by the attack takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls (save ends)." The original incarnation of the feat was overpowered as it allowed characters who focused solely on psychic attacks to impose attack penalties round after round.

Resounding Thunder
Page 205: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When you use an encounter or daily attack power that has the thunder keyword, if it is an area or close power, you can increase its blast or burst size by 1." The previous version bore too much abuse potential when used with certain at-will powers.

Scimitar Dance
Page 205: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When you miss with a weapon attack using a falchion or a scimitar, you deal 3 damage to the target, even if it is a minion. This damage receives no modifiers, cannot be increased, and does not trigger vulnerabilities. The extra damage increases to 5 at 21st level." This lightens the restrictions of the feat, simultaneously tones its level of power down to match other paragon feats, and makes it available to the falchion (a thematically similar weapon) as well.

Solid Sound
Page 206: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "Once per round, when you hit with an encounter or daily attack power that has the force or thunder keyword, you gain a +1 bonus to all defenses until the start of your next turn." The previous version was rather situational due to only one defense, a non-AC one, at that, being boosted.

Triumphant Attack
Page 207: Replace the text of the Benefit line with the following: "When you score a critical hit with a weapon attack, the target takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls and defenses until the end of your next turn." The previously errata'd version of the feat was far too powerful at the epic tier. This new version tones it down and also lightens its restriction to weapon attacks.

Initiate of the Faith
Page 208: On the first Benefit line, replace "the Religion skill" with "one skill from the cleric's class skill list." This solves issues regarding arbitrary trained skill redundancy and offers more freedom to characters taking multiclass feats.

Soldier of the Faith
Page 208: On the Prerequisites line, replace "Str 13, Cha 13" with "Str 13 or Cha 13." Most paladins use either Strength or Charisma, as would many candidates for this multiclass feat. A good deal of paladins would not even possess the ability scores originally demanded by this feat.

Sneak of Shadows
Page 208: On the first Benefit line, replace "the Thievery skill" with "one skill from the rogue's class skill list." This solves issues regarding arbitrary trained skill redundancy and offers more freedom to characters taking multiclass feats.

Pact Initiate
Page 208: On the Prerequisite line, replace "Cha 13" with "Con 13 or Cha 13." Constitution-based warlocks exist, and should likewise open up the possibility of Constitution-based characters multiclassed into warlock.

Arcane Initiate
Page 208: On the first Benefit line, replace "the Arcana skill" with "one skill from the wizard's class skill list." This solves issues regarding arbitrary trained skill redundancy and offers more freedom to characters taking multiclass feats.

Paragon Multiclassing
Page 209: Replace the second, third, and fourth paragraphs of the section with the following: "At 11th level, you gain two bonus feats that you must meet the prerequisites for, you gain one 1st level at-will attack power from your second class as an additional at-will attack power, you gain one 13th level or lower encounter attack power from your second class, and when you spend an action point, you gain a +4 bonus to attack rolls until the end of your next turn. At 12th level, you gain one 10th level or lower utility power from your second class. At 16th level, you gain a bonus feat that you must meet the prerequisites for. At 20th level, you gain a 19th level or lower daily attack power from your second class. Any powers you gain from paragon multiclassing cannot be replaced or swapped out, but they can be retrained into equal level or lower powers of the same category from your second class." Paragon multiclassing requires a heavy investment and should logically reward the character with a large set of benefits, rather than swindle characters of potential and power.

Magic Items

Holy Avenger
Page 224: Replace the entire Property line of the magic weapon with the following: "Power (Daily): Free Action. Trigger: You hit with an implement or weapon attack using this weapon. Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you deal extra radiant damage equal to this weapon's enhancement bonus on all implement and weapon attacks using this weapon, including the triggering attack." Constant bonuses to damage from magic items is overpowered and should fall under the purview of item daily powers.

Magic Item Powers
Page 226: Replace the second and third sentences of the third paragraph with the following: "However, unless a magic item's power specifically states that you gain certain keywords, you do not gain the keywords of a magic item's power on your own powers. When a magic item allows you to convert the damage type of your attacks, any untyped damage from your powers is replaced by the damage type specified by the magic item, and typed damage from your powers is combined with the damage type specified by the magic item. For example, if a paladin uses a Lightning Bastard Sword's at-will power, her Holy Strike power would deal fire and radiant damage, but would still have only the divine, radiant, and weapon keywords. Likewise, if a fighter uses a Lightning Bastard Sword's at-will power, both the damage on the target and the adjacent enemy would be completely converted into lightning damage, but the power would still bear only the martial and weapon keywords." Add the following as a paragraph under the third paragraph: "Some characters can use magic weapons as implements for their powers. For example, a cleric or a paladin can use a Holy Avenger as a holy symbol implement for their powers, and a warlock can use a Pact Blade as an implement for her powers. The enhancement bonus, critical effects, properties, and powers of magic weapons apply on both implement and weapon attacks for such characters. However, a magic staff implement is different from a magic staff weapon. A magic staff implement (such as a Staff of Fiery Might) can be used as a magic quarterstaff for weapon powers (see pages 240-241), but it does not benefit from the Weapon Focus feat. A magic staff weapon (such as a Lightning Quarterstaff), on the other hand, does benefit from Weapon Focus, but it cannot be used as a staff implement by members of classes that use staff implements." This prevents magic weapons and implements from being abused to trigger damage type-specific options and clarifies how damage type conversions and weapons-as-implements function.

Holy Avenger
Page 234: Replace the entire Property line of the magic weapon with the following: "Power (Daily): Free Action. Trigger: You hit with an implement or weapon attack using this weapon. Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you deal extra radiant damage equal to this weapon's enhancement bonus on all implement and weapon attacks using this weapon, including the triggering attack." Constant bonuses to damage from magic items is overpowered and should fall under the purview of item daily powers.

Orb of Inevitable Continuance
Page 238: Replace the text of the Power (Daily) line with the following: "Free Action. Trigger: You hit with an implement attack using this orb. Effect: Any effects of the triggering attack that would last until the end of your next turn or the end of the target's next turn instead have the duration of (save ends) on one target hit by the attack." The previous version was overpowered as it allowed characters to draw out multiple low-level copies of such orbs to vastly prolong the effects of a single power.

Rod of Reaving
Page 240: On the Property line, replace "target" with "target using an action." This prevents the property of the rod from being abused in conjunction with the Rod of Corruption.

Bracers of Mighty Striking
Page 244: Replace the entire first Property line with the following: "Power (Daily). Free Action. Trigger: You hit with a melee basic attack. Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you gain a +2 item bonus to damage rolls with melee basic attacks, including the triggering attack." Constant bonuses to damage from magic items is overpowered and should fall under the purview of item daily powers.

Bracers of the Perfect Shot
Page 244: Replace the entire first Property line with the following: "Power (Daily). Free Action. Trigger: You hit with a ranged basic attack. Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you gain a +2 item bonus to damage rolls with ranged basic attacks, including the triggering attack." Constant bonuses to damage rolls from magic items is overpowered and should fall under the purview of item daily powers.

Shield of Deflection
Page 245: Replace the entire first Property line with the following: "Power (Daily). Free Action. Trigger: You are hit by a ranged attack. Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you gain resist 5 to all damage from ranged attacks, including the triggering attack." Constant resistance to damage from all ranged attacks is overpowered and should fall under the purview of item daily powers.

Belt of Giant Strength
Page 252: On the Power (Daily) line, replace "power bonus" with "item bonus." This is an item and so should grant an item bonus to the damage roll, not a power bonus.

Belt of Titan Strength
Page 253: Replace the text of the Power (Daily) line with the following: "Minor Action. You gain a +6 item bonus to all damage rolls with melee attacks until the end of your next turn." This adjusts the power into a more balanced, less "explosive" state and replaces the power bonus with a more appropriate item bonus.

Combat

Falling
Pages 284-285: Add the following as a sixth line: "No Opportunity Attacks: A creature does not provoke opportunity attacks as it falls." This prevents the abuse of teleportation powers being used to force creatures into falling and receiving opportunity attacks.

Forced Movement
Pages 285: Replace the fourth sentence with the following: "You cannot move a target on the ground vertically, but you can use a pull or a slide effect to vertically drag a target to the ground. In such a case, in addition to the horizontal pulling or sliding, you also reduce the altitude of the target by 4 squares for every 1 square of pulling or sliding that the power allows. If the target touches the ground in a single instant of forced movement, it is subject to falling damage (see page 284)." This gives a party more options to deal with flying monsters, which are otherwise incredibly hard to target for melee characters.

Teleportation
Page 286: Add the following as an additional line: "Vertical Teleportation: You can teleport yourself vertically. If you do so on your turn and cannot fly, you fall down at the end of your turn. You can also teleport another creature vertically. If you do so and the creature cannot fly, the creature falls down immediately after the teleportation. Whether you teleport yourself or another creature, any falling damage is reduced by 10 feet per 2 squares of upwards teleportation." This clarifies how vertical teleportation functions and prevents it from being used to force creatures into taking automatic falling damage and proning.

Action Points
Page 286: On the Once per Encounter line, add the following as a third sentence: "Even if you can use more than 1 action point per encounter, you can still use only 1 action point per round." This prevents characters and monsters with multiple action points from abusing them for a series of multiple standard actions.

Rituals

Key Skills
Page 300: Add the following as a third sentence to the first paragraph: "If a ritual requires a skill check, then you must be trained in the key skill to use the ritual, but if it requires no check, then you need not be trained in the key skill." This clarifies how the key skill of a ritual interacts with skill training.

That is all.

I like a LOT of those changes.

Although it's too much change for my taste and it's a problem with the Character Builder.

Your new keyword rules are just plain wierd. They mean that flaming attacks from flaming weapons don't have the fire keyword, which will lead to odd rule interaction. Why don't you simply ban or modify the feats that are causing problems?(ie - lasting frost and wintertouched). The other elemental feats are pretty balanced, and the idea of taking feats to boost your elementally enhanced weapon is not much different from taking weapon focus really.

... just looked, and you HAVE fixed those feats. I really don't understand why you felt the need to do both of these things.

A lot of the powers that you tag as "low key" powers that are in need of an upgrade by treating them as a basic attack aren't nearly as bad as you make them sound. Deft strike, for instance, is a potent weapon in a rogue's arsenal.

I'm not quite sure why you've decided that divine classes should have +1 to all NADs.

Why make reaper's strike a basic attack and not careful attack? Careful attack as a basic attack would be great for a fighter, and makes it contribute to his role as a defender.

Your changes mean that the kensai PP is significantly weaker for non-fighters. Given how generic the PP is, this is a bad thing in my eyes.

You've done the same thing for the pitfighter PP (although bizarrely it's still good for paladins...). Again, the concept is pretty generic and restricting it to fighters only seems silly.

Your change to lay on hands appears to allow its use in every encounter PLUS an extra time whenever you spend an action point. Given that the ability is powered by surges, that may not be too powerful, but I'd personally remove the action point bit.

Your change to archer fighting style increases the tedium of playing the ranged ranger, because you no longer need to move around to get the correct quarry. I don't quite understand why you think rangers need advantages with a crossbow.

Your change to twin strike still leaves it as numerically superior to sure(or whatever) strike.

Your changes to artful dodger are insane. I'd suggest using just the first line, letting the bonus apply to all defenses against OAs.

If you run the numbers for dagger precision, then it comes out balanced at 18-20 against other PHB options. It's only when you bring non-rogues from later books in that it runs out of control. I do approve of your banning of implement users, but I think the other problems should be solved by errataing the future powers instead of crippling an otherwise balanced PP.

Your change to warlock defenses doesn't really help skewed defenses. Warlocks can potentially have any two of the three NADs high.

Personally I never thought that the PHB wizard at-wills were the ones in need of errata. So take it as read that I don't like any of your changes there and would prefer later books to be cut back.

I plan to comment, since I like a lot of what I'm seeing.

From a visual standpoint, I recommend grouping your changes and putting headers on them.


Like "Fighter Changes", then "Fighter Paragon Path Changes". ETc. Right now there are no transitions and its a little jarring.

From experience I can tell with such a long list...formatting a presentation is the only way to get good feedback, if something is hard to read, a lot of people won't bother.

That is *a lot* of house rules. Too many, in fact. Were I in your game, I would prefer you pick like, your favorite 10 and let the rest go. I appreciate your desire to rebalance the game, and a lot of your logic is sound, but the glut of it is just overwhelming.

Jay

Edit: And I did read them all, no skimming. Stalker0's point about layout is good. Still too many rules, though.

...wow. I do have a few questions:

1. How much of this is fixing potential/theoretical problems, and how much is from in-play experience?
2. What are you using as a baseline for power? E.g. a target of "character power should be roughly here"
3. Could you please sort it into sections? Page-by-page is useful, but for general reading/digesting of the information, sections would be lovely IMO

Adslahnit said:

Wand of Accuracy
Page 158: Replace the first two sentences of the class feature with the following: "Once per encounter, when you miss with a wizard power using a wand, you can reroll the attack roll and any other missed attack roll of the power with a bonus equal to your Dexterity modifier. You can also use the lower of your Dexterity modifier or your Intelligence modifier in place of your Wisdom or Charisma modifier for determining your Reflex defense." This clarifies the function of the power, improves it such that it is more useful with the area and close powers that war wizards tend towards, and ensures that wizards who focus on Dexterity and Intelligence are not unfairly stuck with two low non-AC defenses.

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Thanks, but I'll use the higher of the two for my Reflex, thank you (It should be Will)

I first want to say I amend your dedication to this great game.

I secondly want to admit that I did not, in fact, read every houserule. You have quite a lot, and while I amend that (as previously stated), I realized I didn't want to read the whole thing.

This isn't because it would take a long time. This is because I noticed that some of your changes were quite dramatic. Instead of balancing the game, you are increasing a lot of already powerful things, such as Artful Dodger and Wand of Accuracy.

This is just my opinion, though. I am one who like to keep 4e where it is, only adding and not changing (unless the beach wizards do, since they are wrote it in the first place). It is actually a pretty balanced game when playing it, I have found. However, if your games have gone differently, then do what is fun for you!

However, adding is cool and fun. Creating powers, feats, and such is a neat way to add in flavor and (though I hate overusing words, but it's too true) fun. I have created a whole bunch of homebrew things myself. You seem like you'd have some great ideas, do you have any?

All my comments!:



Dragon Breath – I think this is fine, it does seem the way WOTC is going.

Tiefling Ability Scores – As far as races with ability scores go, Tiefling isn’t the first one I would choose. Imo, the Eladrin has the worst ability array. But its not a bad change.

Infernal Wrath – Slight increase to the power which is fine. I’ll disagree with changing charisma to other things, I actually like powers that encourage players to spread out there stats.

Keywords – I would summarize this one, got a headache reading the whole thing.

Cleric Bonus to Defense – To me, the +1 to all defenses is a class benefit of the Paladin (why the avenger gets it I’m not sure). I don’t think its needed for the cleric.

Cleric Class Skills – I’ve never seen clerics as the running/jumping sorts, but alright.

Channel Divinity – I completely agree with the skill change. I think the AC change is fine, but the reflex change is not. Clerics don’t get reflex, its part of who they are.

Healer's Lore – I think this is a fine change.

Lance of Faith – My houserule on this one is to increase its range, and allow it as a melee attack. For a cleric, I don’t know how much benefit there is to a basic ranged attack.

Priest's Shield – My houserule for this one to make the AC bonus an effect. The at-will is so weak as is…but if you guarantee the buff it makes it more useful.

Righteous Brand – A good change.

Seal of Binding – Good change.

Fighter Trained Skills – Agreed.

Fighter Class Skills –This one is tricky. You start getting into the argument that all classes should be watchful and wary (why shouldn’t the paladin get perception?). I think insight seems appropriate, but not perception.

Fighter Bonus to Defense – In 4e bonuses to all the defenses is useful. Its not like in 3e were the difference can literally be +15 or more. I think leaving it with fort is fine.

Fighter Weapon Talent – I’ll agree with the +1 to all attacks…I’ve done that as well. I don’t think the fighter needs any messing with his AC mechanics, his AC is just fine.

Reaping Strike – Looks good. Ever since Brash Strike came out this poor at will got tossed in the gutter.

Sure Strike – An interesting idea. The common houserule for this one is to make it a basic attack. Your idea is pretty good.

Tide of Iron – Sure.

Rain of Steel – While the stance does a goodly amount of damage, I don’t think its overpowered.

Paladin Class Skills – Big agreement here!

Channel Divinity – While I might agree with a cleric being in cloth, the flavor of a paladin has always been big knight in big armor. I’ll agree with the skill change, not on the AC fix.

Divine Challenge – Sounds good.

Lay on Hands – An interesting mechanic, though you do lose the wisdom part of it. I never had a problem with the original version myself.

Enfeebling Strike – This at will is fine to me, and the paladin already has a basic attack at will.

Prime Shot – Completely disagree with this one. To me, if the ranger has a power that lets him make a ranged attack with taking an OA, more power to him. The point of the ability is for the ranger to get in close. If the ranger is right in the guy’s face…mission accomplished.

Two-Blade Fighting Style – I just gave this build chain armor…fixed that problem right up.

Twin Strike – Poor,poor ranger I dislike taking away twin strikes ability to hit two targets. There’s a current thread that has a lot of variants of twin strike that might give you the nerf you want without taking that part away.

Rogue Bonus to Defense – Same argument as before. Rogues are reflexive, its fine for them to have reflex.

Artful Dodger – I like the shift idea…but if you give them that, that is all they need. That is a very very powerful ability, don’t underestimate it.

Rogue Weapon Talent – Looks good.

Deft Strike – Looks good.

Dagger Precision – I’m fine weakening this, but perhaps they should get some compensation elsewhere in the PP.

Warlock Bonus to Defense – Same argument as before.

Warlock Class Skills – I never noticed warlocks don’t have stealth. Definitely agree here.

Warlock Class Features – I like it.

Misty Step – I’ll disagree, I think the star warlocks pact is the weakest. I can find plenty of uses for a teleport. A +1 to attack roll only helps 1 in 20 rolls…and if I happen to be attacking right then and there.


Shadow Walk – Warlocks definitely need some love in the AC department (especially star warlocks). Not sure if I like this version, its something to think about.

Warlock's Curse – Maybe 1d8…but 1d10 is too good. Warlocks do get a lot of controllery effects afterall.

Dire Radiance – I like the addition of charisma or con, but otherwise I think the power is fine as is.

Eyebite – Eyebite is a great power already imo, no changes needed.

Commander's Strike – I gave this one range 5, and allow it to use either int or charisma. I can’t see why an charisma based warlord can inspire his men to strike harder.

Lead the Attack – Looks good.

Orb of Imposition – Does this one work at will now? And it affects multiple creatures? In some ways its more powerful than the original. Common houserule here is that the wizard can apply a penalty to a saving throw equal to his wisdom mod as a free action (so you can do it after you know the result). As an encounter power of course.

Wand of Accuracy – I’m fine with the area attack boosts, again don’t like messing with the AC mechanics.

Cloud of Daggers – Honestly I still wouldn’t take it.

Ray of Frost – Not all creatures have a good fort attack, you do want some fort powers in there. I would focus on the damage and not the attack type.

Scorching Burst – there is nothing wrong with this at will as far as I’m concerned. With enlarge spell, it’s a brutal minion killer.

Legion's Hold – It’s a 29th level daily for the premiere controller of dnd. I think its just fine.

Meteor Swarm – Now that’s a daily I can get behind! I would take out the enemy only restriction though. Wizard spells hurt allies. Get out fo the wizard’s way when he goes full fury.

Arcane Riposte – I think the first two sentences are good enough.

Blood Pulse – Seems good.

Divine Miracle – I neat change, I like it.

Intimidate – This one is your MVP of houserules as far as I’m concerned. It encourages the monster to runs, but doesn’t force him too. What a great idea, I tip my hat to you!

Wintertouched – I like it.

Deadly Axe – Too good, doubling your crit range for a non epic feat is asking for trouble. I would increase the crit damage instead.

Dwarven Durability – I would change durable instead. I think this feat is fine, its durable that’s crap.

Lasting Frost – This version might actually be a better one for wizards, who tend to crit a lot and like to slow things. I like it.

Psychic Lock – I like the feat as is myself.

Triumphant Attack – I turned this one back to its preerrated state. I don’t know what WOTC was thinking on this one.

Initiate of the Faith – Cool.

Pact Initiate – I agree. While you are at it. I would recommend making the paladin multiclass feat Str 13 or Cha 13. It sad when most paladins don’t even have the stats for the multiclass feat.

Paragon Multiclassing – I’m all for increasing this power, but this is too much. A multiclasser shouidn’t get higher level powers than the main classer. I’m fine with going them bonus feats, and maybe a +2-3 bonus on their attack roll for an action point (+4 is huge!), but no more.

Forced Movement – Overall I like it, though the 4 squares for every 1 square of movement is unecceary and complicated. 4e makes it so 1 square over can also be 1 square down. Its clean and simple and it works.

Teleportation – I would just make it where you can’t teleport someone else vertically.

Forgive me, but this looks like a list of changes that you plan to implement before trying the game as-is. In my experience, it's usually worth trying things as-is before deciding what needs fixing.

Deft Strike as a Basic attack? Sure?
I can move 2 during a charge attack or an OA?