10.7.1: Clearer ability usage times and costs

General changes

• All active abilities now explicitly list the action required to use them in the ability description box
• Abilities that increase fatigue when used now list that as a cost above the ability's effect
• Many labels that pointed to incorrect book pages have been fixed
• The Exertion ability tag has been removed
• Intangible creatures can more explicitly move through enemies

Characters

• Increasing Intelligence after character creation now more explicitly grants you trained skills and insight points

Adventuring

• Creatures can no longer sustain two instances of the same ability by any means
• Performing a ritual from a ritual book you did not write no longer has any penalty
• Performing a ritual from a mystic sphere you do not have access to now also doubles the time requirement

Combat

• Trip is now a Brawling ability
• The rules for asymmetric grappling have been redesigned as "controlling the grapple" to improve clarity

Classes

• Barbarian: Savage Precision no longer affects Dirty Trick
• Fighter:
  • Combat Discipline has been restructured and generally buffed
  • Equipment Training has been restructured and is slightly more offensive
  • Sentinel: Guarding Strike has been buffed
  • Tactician:
    • Battle tactics generally have weaker scaling
    • A new Lead from the Front battle tactic has been added
    • Shifting Stance can now grant an adjacent ally +1 accuracy instead of a +1 bonus to vital rolls
• Monk:
  • Unhindered Agility no longer increases Reflex defense
  • Perfect Precision now also allows using Dexterity instead of Strength for Brawling abilities
• Ranger:
  • Boundary Warden now also grants exotic weapon proficiency at an insight point discount
• Rogue:
  • Virtuoso now allows sustaining as a free action instead of as a minor action, but no longer allows sustaining two copies of the same performance
  • Virtuoso+ has been replaced with a new All the World's a Stage ability
  • Confound has a different rank 5 upgrade
  • Sneak Attack now deals slightly more damage at ranks 1-3
• Sorcerer: The Wildspell+ table has been redesigned to be less powerful
• Warlock: Abyssal Blast has been redesigned

Skills

Equipment

• Mundane weapons:
  • Spending insight points to gain proficiency with exotic weapons is now part of the core rules, rather than a variant
  • Compact weapons, and items stored out of convenient reach, no longer count against the number of items you can have readily available in combat
  • Compact weapons are now lightweight for their size, like other weapons
  • The ancient dragonfang breath attack now deals double weapon damage
  • Diamondsteel weapons now provide +3/+5 for crits rather than +2/+4
  • Starmetal weapons have been added
    • They provide extra damage, but have an accuracy penalty and a Strength requirement
• The damage dealt by magic items have been slightly increased
• Magic apparel:
  • Amulet of Perfect Equality is now rank 4 instead of rank 5
  • Bracers of Blessed Protection have been buffed
  • Healing Belt is now rank 1 instead of rank 2
  • Ring of Protection no longer scales its bonus to vital rolls
• Magic armaments:
  • Trimmed armor has been added
  • Fixating weapons have been redesigned
• Other magic items
  • Potion of Healing now heals more
  • Sending stones have been added

Mystic Spheres

• Various overland movement abilities now end when you attack or take damage, rather than when you take any action other than movement
• Aquamancy:
  • Aqueous Form now imposes a -1 Armor penalty
  • Added Efficient Aqueous Form
• Channel Divinity:
  • Agent of the Divine is now rank 1 instead of rank 3, but no longer scales its vital roll bonus
  • Divine Seal has a faster casting time
  • Persistent Divine Seal added
• Chronomancy:
  • Evasion is now Accelerated Evasion and is rank 2 instead of rank 3
  • Efficient Accelerated Evasion added
  • Gentle Repose is now rank 1
  • Persistent Gentle Repose added
  • Stasis Chamber now only affects objects
  • Persistent Stasis Chamber added
  • Rapid Overland Haste now has a longer casting time
• Electromancy: Chain Lightning has been simplified
• Photomancy:
  • Greater Blurred Motion has been redesigned
  • Enduring Invisibility now ends if you attack
  • Disguise Image and its variants have a faster casting time
  • Various improvements to Continuous Light have been added
• Polymorph:
  • Malleable Body now imposes a -1 Armor penalty
  • Overland Runner added
• Prayer:
  • Blessing of Perseverance is now rank 1, but no longer intrinsically scales with rank
  • Indomitable Blessing no longer scales its vital roll bonus
  • Blessing of Vitality is now rank 5
  • Permanent Bless Water replaced with Persistent Bless Water
• Pyromancy: Soul of the Phoenix now also increases fatigue level
• Revelation:
  • Armorbreak Sight is now rank 2 instead of rank 4, but is Deep
  • Greater Armorbreak Sight has been replaced with Efficient Armorbreak Sight
  • Empowered Distant Sight only reduces longshot penalty by 2 instead of 3, but is not Deep
  • Locate Object now has a longer casting time
  • Read Magic has been removed
  • Sending and its variants are now lower rank
  • Rapid Sending has been added
  • Scry Creature is now rank 3 instead of rank 4, but has a 100 mile limit
  • Distant Scry Creature has been added
  • Private Sanctum only lasts for one year
  • Scryward is now rank 2 instead of rank 3, but it only lasts for one year
• Telekinesis:
  • Floating Armament is now rank 2 instead of rank 3
  • Greater Floating Armament has been replaced with Efficient Floating Armament and Heavy Floating Armament
  • Retributive Kinetic Shield has been removed
• Thaumaturgy: Absorb Magic only grants a +1 defense bonus instead of +2
• Toxicology: Bitter Remedy and Restful Draught have a faster casting time
• Umbramancy: Deep Shadowform has been replaced with Efficient Shadowform
• Verdamancy:
  • Shape Plant added
  • Massive Flourishing Grass is no longer deep
  • Sense Plants has a faster casting time

Feats

• Barbaric Ancestry:
  • Ancestral Battlecry and Ancestral Totem can now be used as a minor action if you pay one fatigue
  • Ancestral Totem is now smaller and no longer blocks enemy movement
  • The level 18 ability has been changed
• Battle Armory:
  • Now also grants minor action attunement at level 6
  • The level 18 ability is now more interesting
• Celestial Ancestry: Redesigned the level 1 ability and some scaling details
• Draconic Ancestry: Now increases fly speed at level 18 instead of increasing height limit
• Fateweaver: Fateseal now has a more standard critical effect
• Iron Will: Now also grants the ability to detect Subtle mental effects at level 1
• Healing Specialization: Healing Touch now heals more HP
• Precognition: Now also grants +2 awareness and immunity to full unawareness at level 1
• Regenerator: Regenerative Recovery now heals more HP
• Shieldbearer: The passive Armor defense bonus is now doubled when you total defense
• Sphere Focus -- Polymorph: Now has different level 12 and 18 scaling
• Toughness:
  • Now grants better sleep reduction starting from level 1
  • Now also grants damage resistance at level 6
• Weapon Focus: Now grants +2 power instead of +2 damage at level 12

Uncommon Species

• Drow: Deep Darkness now has more standard wording
• Incarnation: Untethered incarnations have different rank scaling

Variant Rules

• Added "Complex Cover" variant