10.6.3: Redesigned flight and ranged weapons

General changes

Characters

• Falling damage now has a higher limit

Adventuring

• Rules for crafting poisons have been clarified

Combat

• Flying and gliding have been redesigned, and is now generally simpler to track but more difficult to use in combat
• The "floating" trait has been added, and prevents creatures from falling if they didn't actively move
• The Sprint ability now affects all movement modes, not just land speed

Skills

• Disguise modifiers have been slightly simplified

Equipment

• Medium armor now provides a +1 vital roll bonus, and heavy armor now provides a +2 vital roll bonus
  • Special armor-like abilities, such as bracers of armor, also provide equivalent bonuses
• It is now easier to swap weapons around between your hands, making it easier to take other actions while dual wielding or using heavy weapons
• Arbalest and heavy crossbow now have the Heavy tag
  • Arbalest now only provides +1 accuracy instead of +2
• Hand crossbows have been renamed to pistol crossbows for Historical Accuracy, and are easier to dual-wield
• Repeating crossbows now do not have a reload to repeatedlly fire, allowing them to be used with shields
• Light crossbows, pellet crossbows, and recurve bows have been added
• Titanbow now deals 1d8 damage instead of 1d6
• Bows now take a non-action to reload
• Crossbows now generally take a minor action to reload instead of a free action
• Damaging items now generally deal slightly more damage

Classes

• Fighter: Equipment Training now provides slightly different medium and heavy armor bonuses

Mystic Spheres

• Aquamancy: Detect Water has been redesigned as Sense Water
• Pyromancy: Detect Flame has been redesigned as Sense Flame
• Telekinesis: Rapid Reload has been nerfed and is now Mental Reload
• Toxicology
  • Detect Poison has been added
  • Intensify Poison has been redesigned as a rank 1 spell
  • Several new rituals have been added
• Verdamancy
  • Fertile Patch has been redesigned as a ritual
  • A new Bramblepatch cantrip has been added

Feats

• Arbalist has been added
• Trickshot has been added

Optional Rules

• Uncommon species are now split into a separate chapter for easier reference
• A new Incarnation uncommon species has been added