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Message: <blockquote data-quote="inati" data-source="post: 4373532" data-attributes="member: 71567">Marks that last until the end of the encounter are just overpowered, open to abuse, and potentially game breaking.  You need to make the mark have a limit as a function of time/turn.if you really want a house rule like this, make the ability constraint qualifier be Wisdom, as that is the tertiary score for paladins.  A Cha qualifier just means Cha based paladins will kick butt compared to Str based paladins, which would be unbalanced.With that said, the Fighter Combat Challenge feature SHOULD be better than the Paladin's Divine Challenge, just based on the fact that the Paladin possesses the Channel Divinity power suite and Lay on Hands.  Fighters have just Combat Challenge and Combat Superiority.  Paladins give up some of their aggro retention in order to receive some quasi-leader abilities.  This is what makes the disparity in the two aggro mechanisms balanced.Now, mechanically, Divine Challenge is a burst 5 power, whereas Combat Challenge must be an attack.  With this house rule, you have just given the paladin the ability to mark things at will, at range,  as a minor action (which means up to 2 marks per round), and which will debuff the mobs for the rest of the encounter.  I feel that the the two abilities from the PHB are balanced as is.  If you were to implement a Paladin house rule like this, it would make Paladins way overpowered.</blockquote>