A Whole Mess of Warrior's Feats

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So, before we get started, let's get into the design philosophy behind these quite powerful feats. At the very basic, the idea here is to create feats that, often with just a single feat investment, provide entirely NEW and entirely viable actions or tactical rewards to players. Players should be able to pick whatever feats they think seem cool and fit their character flavorfully without worrying about sacrificing power.

I also believe strongly in giving warrior types thematic and powerful abilities at the levels it makes sense for them to have them. As it stands, it takes several levels for any Fighter to learn how to do anything effective let alone anything indicative of his supposed skill level. A first level Fighter is supposed to be a highly-trained warrior with years of combat experience and he's only supposed to get more impressive as he gains levels, instead for many levels he's spending his feats to display how he's apparently been trained to hit stuff really hard. I want to deliver feats, at early levels, that indicate an appropriate level of skill for such a supposedly seasoned warrior.

Adrenaline
Prerequisites: Con 15
Benefit: As long as a creature threatens you and you have at least 3/4 (or 75%) of your maximum hit points you gain a +1 morale bonus to attack rolls, to damage rolls, and to the saving throw DCs of spells and abilities you control. This bonus increases by +1 at your 5th character level and once every five levels thereafter.

Blindside
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Bluff 1 rank, Sleight of Hand 1 rank
Benefit: If you attack a creature that neither threatened you nor was threatened by you at the beginning of your turn, your attack gains a +2 bonus and deals additional damage equal to your base attack bonus.
Special: You may Blindside foes on your attacks of opportunity, but not those provoked by enemies moving out of your threatened squares.
Special: You may not Blindside foes with ranged attacks if you hit them with a ranged attack in the previous round.

Whirling Blitz¹
(Replaces Whirlwind Attack)
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Combat Reflexes, Base Attack +1
Benefit: You may make a melee attack against any number of creatures you threaten as a full-round action, making each attack at your highest attack bonus. When you do your attack rolls suffer a -2 penalty for 1 round.
Special: When you have Base Attack +4 you do not suffer a penalty to attack rolls from using this feat. For every four points of base attack bonus you have beyond +4 you gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls for 1 round when using this feat.

Seize Victory¹
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Cleave, Base Attack +8
Benefit: If you deal a creature enough damage to make it drop (typically by dropping it to below 0 hit points or killing it), instead of using your Cleave feat you may immediately take an extra standard action. This extra action is lost if you do not take it immediately.
Normal: Cleave grants a single, immediate, extra attack against another creature within reach.
Normal: Cleave may only be used once per round, thus Seize Victory may only be used once per round.

Total Victory¹
Prerequisites: Cha 15, Great Cleave, Seize Victory, Base Attack +15
Benefit: Once per round, when you use your Seize Victory feat you may immediately take your choice of an extra full-round action or an extra standard action and an extra move action. Any extra actions not taken immediately are lost.
Normal: Great Cleave operates separately from the Cleave feat, and thus doesn't actually grant additional uses of Seize Victory per round.

Vigor
Prerequisites: Con 15
Benefit: As long as you have at least 3/4 (or 75%) of your maximum hit points you gain a +10ft bonus to your speed and a +2 enhancement bonus to Strength and Dexterity checks as well as Strength and Dexterity based skill checks. These bonuses increase by +10ft and +2 respectively at your 5th character level and once every five levels thereafter.

Elemental Strike
Prerequisites: Int 13, Magical Aptitude, Knowledge (Arcane) 1 rank, Spellcraft 1 rank
Benefit: As a swift action you may make a Spellcraft check against DC 15. If you succeed choose either Cold, Electricity, or Fire. For 1 round your attacks deal damage of the chosen type instead of their regular damage and deal 1d6 extra damage. For every 5 points by which you beat the check DC you may choose to deal +1d6 extra damage of the chosen type.
Special: Each use of Elemental Strike requires a material component, like many arcane spells, in the form of a specific gemstone. To choose cold an indigo quartz must be used. To choose electricity a yellow quartz must be used. To choose fire a red quartz must be used. The gemstone is destroyed when used. The required value of the gemstone depends on exactly how much damage you wish to deal (in a pinch you may use an expensive gemstone on a low Spellcraft check).

• +1d6 additional damage ---- 10gp gemstone
• +2d6 additional damage ---- 25gp gemstone
• +3d6 additional damage ---- 50gp gemstone
• +4d6 additional damage ---- 100gp gemstone
• +5d6 additional damage ---- 150gp gemstone
• +6d6 additional damage ---- 200gp gemstone
• +7d6 additional damage ---- 250gp gemstone
• +8d6 additional damage ---- 300gp gemstone
• +9d6 additional damage ---- 400gp gemstone
• For every +1d6 beyond 9d6 the gemstone must cost 100 more gold pieces.

Overwhelming Assault¹
(Replaces the feat of the same name from PHB2)
Prerequisites: Base Attack +9
Benefit: Whenever you attack a creature, for each attack that has successfully hit that creature this turn, your attack gains a +1 bonus to hit and deals +1d6 additional damage. An attack that hits doesn't count itself for the purposes of determining whether it deals extra damage (but it is counted by later attacks).

Goad¹
(Replaces the feat of the same name from Complete Warrior)
Prerequisites: Cha 13
Benefit: As a swift action designate a hostile creature within line of sight as the target of this feat. That creature must succeed on a will save (DC 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Charisma modifier) or else be forced to include you as a target or within the area of any attack, spell, or ability it uses until the end of the encounter. If a creature other than you attacks the target of Goad or includes it as a target or within the area of a harmful spell or ability the effect of Goad ends. Likewise, if you become helpless, unconscious, or dead the effect of Goad ends. A creature that successfully saves against Goad, or for whom Goad has ended, is immune to Goad for 24 hours.
Special: Goad is a Mind-Affecting, Compulsion effect.

Improved Goad¹
Prerequisites: Cha 15, Goad, Base Attack +6, Diplomacy 4 ranks or Intimidate 4 ranks
Benefit: When you use your Goad feat you may designate any number of hostile creatures within a 100ft radius centered on you as the targets of the feat. The saving throw DC of your Goad feat increases by +1 for every 4 ranks you have in either Diplomacy or Intimidate (but not for both).

Counterattack¹
Prerequisites: Con 15, Base Attack +1
Benefit: Whenever a creature attacks you, after the attack is completed you may make an attack of opportunity against that creature. If the creature's attack hits, your attack of opportunity suffers a -4 penalty to the attack roll. At 5th level and every five levels thereafter reduce the penalty to your attack of opportunity's attack roll by 1.

Defy Death
Prerequisites: Con 17, Diehard
Benefit: When you have 1/2 (or 50%) your maximum hit points or fewer you gain Hardness like an object equal to your base attack bonus and Spell Resistance equal to 10 + your base attack bonus. You may allow any spells and effects you choose to automatically penetrate your SR to without spending actions to do so.

Entrenchment¹
Prerequisites: Base Attack +6
Benefit: Your attacks of opportunity deal double damage for 1 round after you fight defensively, use total defense, or take a penalty of at least -2 with Combat Expertise.

Fringeward¹
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Combat Reflexes
Benefit: Whenever you're dealt damage by an attack, spell, or ability you may give up an attack of opportunity to reduce by 1/2 any damage dealt by that attack, spell, or ability to another creature within your reach. If you are fighting defensively, using total defense, or taking a penalty of at least -2 from Combat Expertise, the damage dealt to that creature is reduced to 0.

Breathing Room¹
Prerequisites: Con 15
Benefit: Whenever you successfully hit a creature with an attack and are fighting defensively, using total defense, or taking a penalty of at least -2 from Combat Expertise you regain 2 hit points. At your 5th character level you regain 4 hit points and for every five levels thereafter you regain 2 more hit points.

Refuse Death
Prerequisites: Con 19, Diehard, Defy Death, Base Attack +15
Benefit: Once per turn, when an attack, spell, or ability would kill you, or reduce you to 0 hit points, you remain alive and with 1 hit point.

Vigilance¹
Prerequisites: Wis 13, Alertness, Base Attack +6, Listen 3 ranks, Spot 3 ranks
Benefit: You cannot be flanked or surprised and retain your Dexterity modifier to AC even when flat-footed. When you hit a creature with an attack you pinpoint its location for 1 round, even if it moves.

Staggering Assault¹
Prerequisites: Base Attack +9
Benefit: Whenever you successfully hit a creature with an attack, that creature must succeed on a Fort save (DC 10 + 1/2 your base attack bonus + the higher of your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution modifiers + 1 per attack that has hit that creature this round) or become Staggered for 1 round.
Special: When you Stagger a creature with this feat, if that creature was already Staggered it becomes Dazed for 1 round. If that creature was already Dazed it becomes Stunned for 1 round. If that creature was already Stunned it becomes Stunned for 1 additional round per three points of your base attack bonus.

Trollslayer¹
Prerequisites: Base Attack +6
Benefit: As a standard action you may make a special Trollslayer attack. Trollslayer overcomes all Damage Reduction, Energy Resistance, and Regeneration. When you deal damage to a creature with Trollslayer it cannot regain hit points for 1 round.

Magebreaker¹
Prerequisites: Base Attack +6
Benefit: As a standard action you may make a special Magebreaker attack. Whenever you successfully hit a creature with Magebreaker, for 1 round all magical equipment possessed by the creature and all ongoing magical spells or abilities affecting the creature are suppressed.

Mortal Wound¹
Prerequisites: Trollslayer, Base Attack +12
Benefit: With the Mortal Wound feat, Trollslayer bypasses all immunities. Furthermore, when you deal damage to a creature with Trollslayer, for 1 round that creature gains Vulnerability to all types of damage and suffers a -2 penalty to saving throws.

Grievous Silencer¹
Prerequisites: Magebreaker, Base Attack +12
Benefit: Whenever you successfully hit a creature with Magebreaker all ongoing magical spells or abilities effecting the creature are dispelled, and for 1 round, that creature is unable to cast spells or use spell-like abilities.

Transfixing Glare¹
Prerequisites: Intimidating Strike, Base Attack +1
Benefit: As a standard action you harass your foes, causing creatures you threaten to make a Will saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2 your base attack bonus + the higher of your Strength or Charisma modifiers). For as long as you continue to threaten it, any creature that fails takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls and AC against creatures other than you, and a -4 penalty to Concentration, Listen, and Spot checks. These penalties increase to -4 and -8 respectively when you have Base Attack +5 and by -2 and -4 respectively for every five points of base attack bonus you gain thereafter.
Special: Transfixing Glare is a Mind-Affecting, Fear and Compulsion effect.

Stopping Power¹
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Intimidating Strike, Transfixing Glare, Base Attack +4
Benefit: When you use your Transfixing Glare feat creatures who fail their saves are Immobilized for 1 round. If you have Base Attack +8 or higher those creatures are Dazed for 1 round, then Immobilized for 1d4 rounds. If you have Base Attack +12 or higher those creatures are Paralyzed for 1 round, then Dazed for 1 round, then Immobilized for 1d4+2 rounds. Conditions bestowed on creatures because of this feat are automatically removed when you no longer threaten the effected creatures.

Strike Fear¹
Prerequisites: Cha 13, Intimidating Strike, Base Attack +8
Benefit: If you deal a creature enough damage to make it drop (typically by dropping it to below 0 hit points or killing it), all hostile creatures within a 100ft radius centered on you must succeed on a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 your base attack bonus + your Cha modifier) or be unable to take full-round actions for 1 round and lose either their next move or standard action (your choice).
Special: Strike Fear is a Mind-Affecting, Fear effect.

Incite Panic¹
Prerequisites: Cha 15, Intimidating Strike, Strike Fear, Base Attack +15
Benefit: When you use your Strike Fear feat you may choose for creatures that failed their saves to become Panicked or Paralyzed for 1 round (your choice) instead of suffering the normal effect. This is still a Mind-Affecting, Fear effect.

Delaying Strike¹
Prerequisites: Int 15, Combat Expertise, Base Attack +3
Benefit: Whenever you ready an action to make an attack, any creatures hit by that attack delay their action until the end of the round, even if you interrupted their action. If you hit more than one creature with this action those creatures delay until after all other creatures, but act on initiative counts that are 1 point more or less than each other as determined by you.

Improved Delaying Strike¹
Prerequisites: Int 19, Combat Expertise, Delaying Strike, Base Attack +12
Benefit: When you use your Delaying Strike feat any creatures hit delay their action until the end of the next round (effectively they are Dazed for 1 round but complete their action on the round after).

Rallying Cheer
Prerequisites: Str 13, Con 13, Cha 13, Perform 1 rank
Benefit: You may issue a Rallying Cheer once per encounter as a standard action affecting yourself and allies within 60ft. For 1 round after using Rallying Cheer whenever you or an ally deals damage or is dealt damage roll 1d6. Add the result to damage dealt by you or an ally, but subtract the result from damage that is dealt to you or an ally.
Special: For every 4 ranks of Perform you have roll an extra 1d6.
Special: For every 8 ranks of Perform you have your Rallying Cheer lasts 1 additional round.

Dodge
(Replacing the PHB feat of the same name)
Prerequisites: Dex 13
Benefit: You may take a 5ft step in addition to your normal movement in a round. You may take 5ft steps even when it isn't your turn. If you take a 5ft step while being attacked you don't automatically avoid the attack, but you do gain a +4 bonus to AC against it.
Special: You gain 1 additional 5ft step per round at your 5th character level and once every five levels thereafter.

Mobility
(Replaces the PHB feat of the same name)
Prerequisites: Base Attack +1, Balance 1 rank, Tumble 1 rank
Benefit: Your speed increases by 10ft and you never provoke attacks of opportunity for moving out of threatened squares.

Action Before Thought¹
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Base Attack +9
Benefit: You may use immediate actions even when you are surprised or flat-footed. As an immediate action you may attack the creature closest to you.

Lightning Warrior¹
Prerequisites: Dex 15, Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes, Mobility, Base Attack +2
Benefit: Double your movement speeds. You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls, AC, and Reflex saves, increasing by +1 when you have base attack bonus +5 and at every five points of base attack thereafter. When you make a full attack you may make one extra attack at your highest attack bonus, or up to two extra when you have base attack bonus +10, or up to three extra when you have base attack bonus +20.

Guard Ally
Prerequisites: Base Attack +1, Listen 1 rank, Spot 1 rank
Benefit: As an attack of opportunity, you may oppose the attack roll of any attack targeting an adjacent ally with an attack roll of your own. If your attack roll meets or exceeds the opposed attack you become the target of that attack instead.

Interposing Guardian
Prerequisites: Guard Ally, Base Attack +5, Listen 3 ranks, Spot 3 ranks
Benefit: You may use your Guard Ally feat to oppose attacks targeting any allies within up to 5ft + 5ft per 5 points of your base attack bonus. When you use your Guard Ally feat you may exchange places with the ally if both you and the ally are willing.

Implacable Sentinel
Prerequisites: Mobility, Base Attack +5, Balance 3 ranks, Tumble 3 ranks
Benefit: Your threatened area increases to 5ft + 5ft per 5 points of your base attack bonus. You may move up to your speed to attack an enemy that provokes an attack of opportunity from beyond your reach. This movement is in addition to your normal movement per round.

Expert's Aid¹
Prerequisites: Int 13, Combat Expertise, Base Attack +6
Benefit: When you use the Aid Another action you may choose to grant one of the following options:

• Guided Strike - Your ally gains a bonus to their next attack roll equal to 1/2 your base attack bonus.
• Guarded Heart - Your ally gains a bonus to their AC against a foe's next attack equal to 1/2 your base attack bonus.
• Advised Resistance - Your ally gains a bonus to their next saving throw equal to 1/3 your base attack bonus.
• Tactical References - Your ally gains a bonus to the saving throw DC of their next attack, spell, or ability equal to 1/4 your base attack bonus.

Veteran's Insight¹
Prerequisites: Int 15, Wis 15, Combat Expertise, Combat Focus, Expert's Aid, Middle-Aged
Benefit: As a full-round action you may use the Aid Another action on all allies who can hear you within 5ft per point of your base attack bonus. For each ally in the area you may choose a different option from those granted to you by your Expert's Aid feat.

¹ - A Fighter can select this feat as one of his bonus feats.

[Garryl]

Adrenaline - This should specify that only enemies threatening you grants the bonus, since your allies threaten you too (they just don't usually do anything about it). I don't see why it boosts the save DCs of your spells, and I don't think its a good idea to have that as part of the feat, either.

Seize Victory/Total Victory - Great Cleave works independently from Cleave, rather than modifying it. Therefore, Great Cleave does not allow unlimited uses of Seize Victory each round.

Overwhelming Assault - This includes attacks from other characters that have hit your target during the same turn, right? Does the bonus on damage rolls include the current attack? (The attack roll bonus wouldn't since the attack hasn't hit yet, but the damage isn't rolled until the attack has hit.)

Goad - So, if you pack yourself close to your allies, the goaded creature can't use area effects, and if you die, the goaded creature can't attack anything at all? There's also no range.

Defy Death - If you mean to include weapon damage types that are covered by DR instead of resistances, you should make this grant hardness instead. It'll also let it stack with existing resistances and DR. Having SR can be a pain if your allies try to buff or heal you, so you may want to make it easier to lower. I use the following wording:

You can raise or lower this spell resistance without an action, even when it is not your turn and even if you are unaware or cannot act.

Fringeward - My inner MtG wording lawyer says that by the time you're dealt damage, it's too late to reduce it to an ally, but that changing "whenever you're" to "whenever you would be" should fix that.

Magebreaker - Affecting, not effecting (which would only be relevant to suppress creation, summoning, and maybe calling spells that brought a creature here).

Delaying Strike - If you hit two or more creatures simultaneously, they'll both be forced to delay until after the other indefinitely and approach -infinity initiative.

Rallying Cheer - I don't even understand how this works. As far as I can tell, the damage bonus will only apply when you deal damage as part of the same action (so, War Leader's Charge is about it), and the damage decrease only applies similarly (so, when you're all hit by the same area attacks, I guess). Plus, if you have at least 4 ranks in perform, the amount of damage reduced is itself reduced by 1d6 and thus is at the minimum reduction of 1. That's obviously not what you intended, but I don't know what you actually did intend.

Dodge - So, you get 5 ft of AoO-less movement whenever you move normally. I don't see where avoiding attacks comes in.

Lightning Warrior - Got enough attacks?

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Adrenaline - This should specify that only enemies threatening you grants the bonus, since your allies threaten you too (they just don't usually do anything about it). I don't see why it boosts the save DCs of your spells, and I don't think its a good idea to have that as part of the feat, either.

I was unsure how that one worked. I'll specify. I included the boost to spell DCs because I was boosting all other offensive things and I figured that if an enemy is threatening a caster he's kind of in trouble, so why not throw it in there.

Seize Victory/Total Victory - Great Cleave works independently from Cleave, rather than modifying it. Therefore, Great Cleave does not allow unlimited uses of Seize Victory each round.

Yes. So it does. That's great actually, lol.

Overwhelming Assault - This includes attacks from other characters that have hit your target during the same turn, right? Does the bonus on damage rolls include the current attack? (The attack roll bonus wouldn't since the attack hasn't hit yet, but the damage isn't rolled until the attack has hit.)

Answer to Q1: Yes. Answer to Q2: No (I'll add reminder text).

Goad - So, if you pack yourself close to your allies, the goaded creature can't use area effects, and if you die, the goaded creature can't attack anything at all? There's also no range.

I worded the area effect line. It's meant to allow the goaded creature to use area effects as long as you are among the area. I'll edit it. Clearly, if you do it ends the effect, I'll just make sure to add that in.

Defy Death - If you mean to include weapon damage types that are covered by DR instead of resistances, you should make this grant hardness instead. It'll also let it stack with existing resistances and DR.

For now I like "resistance to all types of damage" better, mostly because hardness is an object-only trait. Why wouldn't "resistance to all types of damage" stack with energy resistance and damage reduction? I see no reason it wouldn't.

Having SR can be a pain if your allies try to buff or heal you

Yes, good point. I'll have to edit this a bit.

Fringeward - My inner MtG wording lawyer says that by the time you're dealt damage, it's too late to reduce it to an ally, but that changing "whenever you're" to "whenever you would be" should fix that.

Hrm. I don't like that wording. Plus D&D isn't MtG, I don't think it's necessary to worry about "the stack" here.

Magebreaker - Affecting, not effecting (which would only be relevant to suppress creation, summoning, and maybe calling spells that brought a creature here).

Aha! Good point.

Delaying Strike - If you hit two or more creatures simultaneously, they'll both be forced to delay until after the other indefinitely and approach -infinity initiative.

Reminder text, reminder text, reminder text.

Rallying Cheer - I don't even understand how this works. As far as I can tell, the damage bonus will only apply when you deal damage as part of the same action (so, War Leader's Charge is about it), and the damage decrease only applies similarly (so, when you're all hit by the same area attacks, I guess). Plus, if you have at least 4 ranks in perform, the amount of damage reduced is itself reduced by 1d6 and thus is at the minimum reduction of 1. That's obviously not what you intended, but I don't know what you actually did intend.

I'm very confused about what you're misunderstanding here. Let's assume you've got 12 ranks in Perform: When you use Rallying Cheer, for the next two rounds, anytime you or an ally deals damage (with an attack, spell, or ability) roll 4d6 and add that to the damage dealt. Likewise, anytime you or an ally is dealt damage roll 4d6 and subtract that from the damage you are dealt.

Dodge - So, you get 5 ft of AoO-less movement whenever you move normally. I don't see where avoiding attacks comes in.

The feat allows you to 5ft when it isn't your turn. So ordinarily, if a creature walked up to attack you without reach, and you 5ft stepped back you'd be out of range for that creature's attacks. I wanted to enable 5ft steps out of turn, but I felt that sort of perfect defense was too powerful. Hence the compromise.

Lightning Warrior - Got enough attacks?

I need to make is scale with base attack bonus, not character level.

[Garryl]

For Adrenaline, it feels wrong to me to boost save DCs for two major reasons. Spells are usually based on patience and concentration to influence the world around you, so being threatened and having your adrenaline rushing seems like it should make it harder, not easier. Second, I don't see the need for such a significant boost to save DCs, especially since morale bonuses to save DCs are much rarer than to attack/damage rolls and are thus less likely to overlap with something you already have. Caster level would probably be a better choice, if you must boost spellcasting.

For the resistance to everything in Defy Death, I'm pretty sure that multiple resistances don't stack unless they specify otherwise. I also seem to remember a line in Rules Compendium about resistances specifically not applying to weapon damage (not sure, I only browsed it once). Hardness works better because its unambiguous, almost nothing bypasses it (the three Mountain Hammer strikes from Stone Dragon are about it, adamantine only bypasses it if you're an object), and creatures can have it too (mostly Psicrystals, but I'm pretty sure there are others).

Rallying Cheer - I don't even understand how this works. As far as I can tell, the damage bonus will only apply when you deal damage as part of the same action (so, War Leader's Charge is about it), and the damage decrease only applies similarly (so, when you're all hit by the same area attacks, I guess). Plus, if you have at least 4 ranks in perform, the amount of damage reduced is itself reduced by 1d6 and thus is at the minimum reduction of 1. That's obviously not what you intended, but I don't know what you actually did intend.

I'm very confused about what you're misunderstanding here. Let's assume you've got 12 ranks in Perform: When you use Rallying Cheer, for the next two rounds, anytime you or an ally deals damage (with an attack, spell, or ability) roll 4d6 and add that to the damage dealt. Likewise, anytime you or an ally is dealt damage roll 4d6 and subtract that from the damage you are dealt.

Sorry, I kept missing the "or an ally" part of the "whenever you or an ally deals/takes damage" bits. I kept reading it as whenever you deal damage, your allies deal +1d6 damage and whenever you take damage, your allies take 1d6 less damage.

As for more Perform ranks negating the reduction in damage, I kept parsing that as meaning to decrease the amount you reduce the damage by by 1d6 per 4 ranks, rather than either a) increasing the reduction by 1d6, or b) decreasing the damage taken by another 1d6. Sorry about the confusion.

Dodge - So, you get 5 ft of AoO-less movement whenever you move normally. I don't see where avoiding attacks comes in.

The feat allows you to 5ft when it isn't your turn. So ordinarily, if a creature walked up to attack you without reach, and you 5ft stepped back you'd be out of range for that creature's attacks. I wanted to enable 5ft steps out of turn, but I felt that sort of perfect defense was too powerful. Hence the compromise.

Alright. I kept parsing it as saying that you could only take that extra, out of turn 5' step as part of normal movement (ie: a move action or something, which would have had to be readied anyways).

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For Adrenaline, it feels wrong to me to boost save DCs for two major reasons. Spells are usually based on patience and concentration to influence the world around you, so being threatened and having your adrenaline rushing seems like it should make it harder, not easier. Second, I don't see the need for such a significant boost to save DCs, especially since morale bonuses to save DCs are much rarer than to attack/damage rolls and are thus less likely to overlap with something you already have. Caster level would probably be a better choice, if you must boost spellcasting.

I'm pretty sure all non-Cleric, non-Wizard spellcasters would take issue with that interpretation of casting spells. Is there a bonus type that would make more sense do you think? I really think I ought to let it remain boosting spell DCs (as it boosts the DCs of other offensive things), so my preferred solution would be to change the boost from morale to some other type so that it doesn't stack with other spell DC boosts (of course I'm pretty sure that normally that sort of thing is entirely untyped).

For the resistance to everything in Defy Death, I'm pretty sure that multiple resistances don't stack unless they specify otherwise. I also seem to remember a line in Rules Compendium about resistances specifically not applying to weapon damage (not sure, I only browsed it once).

Troublesome, and it makes a degree of sense...

Hardness works better because its unambiguous, almost nothing bypasses it (the three Mountain Hammer strikes from Stone Dragon are about it, adamantine only bypasses it if you're an object), and creatures can have it too (mostly Psicrystals, but I'm pretty sure there are others).

I've used Hardness for its convenience before, so I suppose I might as well use it now.

Sorry, I kept missing the "or an ally" part of the "whenever you or an ally deals/takes damage" bits. I kept reading it as whenever you deal damage, your allies deal +1d6 damage and whenever you take damage, your allies take 1d6 less damage.

Ah, sorry about the confusion. I've reworded it, so I hope it's more clear now.

Alright. I kept parsing it as saying that you could only take that extra, out of turn 5' step as part of normal movement (ie: a move action or something, which would have had to be readied anyways).

Ah, I see, I see. I'll try and reword it so that it's more clear.

[Nytemare3701]

Mind if I use your Dodge?

[bkdubs123]

Mind if I use your Dodge?

I don't mind at all, go for it.