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Not exactly, but close. An active Perception check can be lower than passive Perception--but if your passive Perception was high enough to spot whatever the thing is, you would have spotted it before even making the Perception roll. So, unless there's some situation where your passive Perception...

Okay, then substitute the dragonborn feats that require the dragon breath racial power or the eladrin feats that require fey step. The point still stands, it's not an error in the feat, it's a buffer against potential rules incompatibilities later on.

Sorry, meant force orb.

Quoth Morbo the News Monster: "POLYMORPH DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD-NIGHT!" :)

Dear god, it's like the return of grapple! ;) Seriously, though, that's about four steps more complicated than any attack in 4E should be. I'd really recommend slimming it down a lot.

Burst attacks don't require that you target a creature as the origin point of the attack, so yes, this is allowed. Now, had it been a shock orb, you'd be on shakier ground.

It's not an error (and you're not misreading), it's forward compatability. Notice that, for example, there are elf racial feats in the PHB that require that you be an elf, and also have elven accuracy. By explicitly listing as a prerequisite the racial power a feat modifies, it leaves the door...

I assume you mean Prismatic Beams. As I interpret it, you make one attack roll against all three Defenses, plus one extra roll that applies only to the Will portion of the attack. If both rolls miss the target's Will defense, you're dazed. Example: Wizard casts Prismatic Beams against a...

I would argue that the DMG's rule that determining a legitimate target in the case of uncertainty applies equally to determining whether an ally-targeting power can target a particular creature as it does to whether an enemy-affecting power can target a particular creature. In other words, if...

I agree, based on the fact that there are numbered lists in the PHB for things that have a specific order and the fact that the last item on the list, "no actions," isn't a step in anything, but a global rule regarding the start of your turn. Most of the time order won't matter, but when it...

Except the attack isn't an immediate interrupt, it's a free action. The only "step" it makes sense in is "other effects," in which case whether you believe the list on p. 268 is the specific order of operations or that the player can choose the order is irrelevant, because "other effects" are...

Ahh, good point, I missed that. The rat swarm's aura attack at the beginning of your turn would count as part of the "other effects" phase of the start of your turn, which for consistency with other ongoing damage effects should take place after the "ongoing damage" phase. Not quite--there's a...

Correct; clerics have no real incentive to use a single one-handed weapon and nothing else--unless you want to spend some feats on two-weapon fighting, you're better off with the AC/Ref from a shield or the extra damage from a two-handed weapon.

Minor point: it's a character background, not a feat. Theoretically, the background abilities should all be neat effects you can't get any other way, which helps balance the fact that you only get one of them. Unfortunately, while there are some nice little gems (like a "self-reliant" type who...

See, I like those situations where you're sitting there, knowing you're going to drop at the start of your next turn unless a healer gets to you. It's another little moment of dramatic tension and required tactical thinking, rather like making death saves. I do have regeneration occur before...

Also enjoy your whopping 5 healing surges with which to recover those 12 free hit points, and being ravaged by every disease in the known world. :) I wonder what the Endurance DCs on dysentery are....

Passive Perception is just a constantly-active "take 10 on a Perception check." Any information you'd give out if the PC rolled a 10 (before modifiers) on a Perception check, you should give out with passive Perception. You don't "notice something odd, then roll to figure out what's odd," you...

D'oh, you're right. Forgot about crawl. This is what I get for posting without the book before my coffee has kicked in.

Errata or not, I'm inclined to let you spend a move action to move (not shift) one square while prone, so you can try to roll out of the way of a monster's attack or the like.

Easier to just say a disarmed weapon lands one square away (i.e. in a square not adjacent to the disarmer). If you look at movie swordfights, when someone gets disarmed, the sword rarely drops right at his feet--it goes sailing through the air five or ten feet, and usually ends up dramatically...