• Clarified Opposed Skill Checks.
  • It is possible to take 10 on any defensive skill check (i.e. in Melee Weapons vs Parry, Parry is "defensive"). Common examples include Parry, Dodge, Block, Fortitude, and Willpower.
  • It is recommended that enemy minions always take 10 on these checks.
• Partially fleshed out rules regarding Effects, including Action, Cooldown, Duration, Range, and Target.
  • Range has been simplified to 5/10/20 squares, no level component. Use Enlarge if you want more range. (Note: this only applies to Effects, i.e. Powers and Maneuvers. Weapons are still governed by Range Increment)
• Clarified Wound Points
  • Wound Points are caused by any attack that inflicts an Injury.
  • Whether or not the injury itself is mitigated or healed, the Wound Points remain (though they can be mitigated and healed separately).
  • If you build up enough Wound Points, you suffer effects such as Disabled, and can even die.

• Added Invocation, Evocation, and Thaumaturgy.

• Reorganized all powers into Power Skills.
  • They are all now proper skills, with base uses and feats. Gone are mention of "base powers" and "techniques"; the BP cost and mechanics are just like any other skill.
  • 7.2.0 powers have been grouped into fewer, more inclusive groups. For instance, Affinity and Plants are now part of a single group: Affinity.

Armor

• Now modifies Fortitude skill in addition to providing DR, Resist, and buffs.
• Fortitude skill can be used to mitigate injuries, wound points, critical hits, and sneak attacks. This has the potentially to majorly affect combat flow. For example:
  • John attacks Imhotep with a blaster. He rolls Ranged Weapons and gets a 26. He rolls 35 damage.
  • Imhotep attempts to Dodge (1d20+10), but only gets a 21. He is hit!
  • Imhotep rolls Block (1d20+15), achieving a 30. He blocks 10 damage, reducing the damage to 25. This is still above Imhotep's Damage Threshold, so he will suffer an injury.
  • Imhotep rolls Fortitude (1d20+20) to mitigate the injury. Thanks to his heavy armor, he achieves a 35. This reduces the injury by one category (from minor to none). Imhotep suffers no injury (but he still suffers the Wound Points).
  • It is not necessary for all of the defensive checks to be rolled; it is possible to take 10 on them. Thus, Imhotep could be said to have a "Dodge AC" of 20, a "Block AC" of 25, and a "Fortified AC" of 30. And so...
    • Any attack that beats 20 hits, but is blocked, and any injuries it causes are mitigated.
    • An attack that beats 25 but not 30 is not blocked, but still subject to mitigation.
    • An attack that beats 30 is not mitigated in any way.