Alpha 0.0.31a: Sorcerer and Duelist Rebalancing
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Alpha 0.0.31a
| Type | Game update |
|---|---|
| Released | 30 September 2026 |
| Version | 0.0.31a |
| Previous | Alpha 0.0.31 |
| Next | Alpha 0.0.32 |
| Patch notes | All updates |
Alpha 0.0.31a is a game update released on 30 September 2026. This patch rebalances Sorcerer spells and Knight feats, adds Arcana experience from casting, and fixes party travel, trading and combat bugs.
Balance Changes
Sorcerer
- Casting spells now grants Arcana experience when you spend an action, spell slot, charge or use, with more experience awarded for higher spell ranks.
- Most buff and utility spells now cost a bonus action instead of a full action, allowing you to cast a damaging spell alongside them.
Arcanist Bloodline
- Infusion now allows all Arcanists to deliver touch spells at range.
- Distant Touch now increases the damage of touch spells carried through Infusion by 20%.
- Arcane Compulsion now gives each enemy disadvantage on its first save against your spells in a fight.
- Stored Power now grants up to three charges from spells that use slots, each adding 5% spell damage for 10 minutes, with new charges refreshing the duration and casts no longer consuming them.
Solstice Bloodline
- Intensify now also strengthens an existing burn when you apply more Burning to the same enemy.
- Eclipse can now be switched on once and off once per fight at no action cost.
Spell
Increased damage and level scaling for the spells below. Cantrips and Novice spells now gain an additional increase at level 4.
The tables show damage dice before other bonuses, with multiple rays or missiles written as their count multiplied by their dice.
Cantrips
Damaging cantrips now scale from level 4, with further increases at higher levels.
| Spell | Level 1 | Level 4 | Level 8 | Level 11 | Level 17 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acid Splash | 1d6 | ||||
| Arcane Blast (arcanist) | 1d8 | ||||
| Corrosive Touch | 1d6 | ||||
| Firebolt | 1d8 | ||||
| Ice Lance | 1d6 | ||||
| Kinetic Bolt | 1d6 | ||||
| Searing Frost (solstice) | 2d3 | ||||
| Shadow Bolt (item) | 1d8 | ||||
| Smite (item) | 1d8 | ||||
| Telekinesis (arcanist) | 1d6 |
Solar Aura and Lunar Aura (solstice) scaling
| Bonus | Base | Level 4 | Level 11 | Level 17 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armor (while wearing cloth) | 15 | |||
| Resistance | 20 |
- Create Water now removes one Burning effect per cast.
Novice
Damage before level 4 is unchanged; the revised scaling starts at level 4.
| Spell | Base | Level 4 | Level 11 | Level 17 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acid Arrow | 2d6 | |||
| Arcane Barrage | 6 × 1d4 | |||
| Burning Hands | 2d6 | |||
| Frost Nova | 1d6 | |||
| Molten Grasp | 2d10 | |||
| Shocking Grasp (item) | 3d10 | |||
| Shockwave | 1d8 |
Mage Armor and Lesser Heal scaling
| Spell effect | Base | Level 4 | Level 11 | Level 17 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mage Armor: armor | 15 | |||
| Lesser Heal (item): healing | 2d8 |
- Arcane Barrage now fires more missiles as you level up, as shown above.
- Mage Armor grants its armor bonus while wearing cloth and stacks with Solar Aura or Lunar Aura.
- Mage Armor now reduces physical damage by 10%, up from 5%.
- Lesser Heal now also removes one Bleeding effect from its target.
Apprentice
| Spell | Base | Level 11 | Level 17 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frigid Touch | |||
| Kinetic Blast | |||
| Lightning Bolt (item) | |||
| Moonbeam (solstice) | |||
| Scorching Ray | |||
| Sunbeam (solstice) |
- Scorching Ray now fires two rays that can both hit the same enemy or be split between enemies, scaling to three rays at level 11 and four at level 17.
Adept
| Spell | Base | Level 11 | Level 17 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arc (item) | |||
| Battering Blast | |||
| Fireball | |||
| Force Punch | |||
| Hailstorm | |||
| Living Bomb | |||
| Vampiric Touch |
- Haste now grants advantage on attacks and Dexterity saves instead of a flat accuracy bonus, in addition to its movement speed and evasion bonuses.
Expert
| Spell | Base | Level 11 | Level 17 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arcane Implosion | |||
| Cone of Cold | |||
| Fire Snake | |||
| Flame Strike | |||
| Icy Prison |
Spellcasting in Armor
Cloth now gives class spells additional casting bonuses. Your body armor determines how armor affects your spellcasting.
| Body armor | Spell attacks | Enemy saving throws |
|---|---|---|
| Cloth or no body armor | +20 accuracy | Your spell save difficulty increases by 2 |
| Light | No casting accuracy bonus | Unchanged |
| Medium | -20 accuracy | Your spell save difficulty decreases by 2 |
| Heavy | Roll with disadvantage | Enemies roll with advantage |
- Other armor slots and shields do not affect spellcasting armor weight.
- Spells cast from items and spells that cannot miss are unaffected by armor.
Warrior
Knight
- Renamed Dualist to Duelist.
- Duelist parry chance now scales with level: 10% at level 1, 15% at level 5, 20% at level 9, 25% at level 13, 30% at level 16 and 35% at level 19.
- Riposte now uses your weapon's damage type and can trigger item effects.
- Riposte now triggers once per round after a dodge, block or parry for every Knight, including Duelists.
- Ripostes triggered by a parry now have advantage on critical strike rolls.
- Severing now triggers on melee critical hits against all enemies, including bosses. It still always triggers on melee hits against Normal or Elite enemies below half health.
- Severing now deals 1d4 extra damage, scaling to 1d6 at level 9, 1d8 at level 13 and 1d10 at level 17. The target must make a Constitution save to avoid a disabled limb.
- Severing now always inflicts Severed Tendon, which reduces accuracy and evasion by 20 for four rounds, or two rounds on a successful save.
- Commanding Presence now activates on command instead of automatically, granting the party advantage on its next attacks once per long rest.
Damage & Defenses
- Boar Rush now adds 1d4 weapon damage against nearby enemies, with full charges still adding your proficiency bonus and reaching up to six times your movement speed.
- Force damage now penetrates half of the defender's armor and ignores physical resistance.
- Corroding now removes 15 armor per stack, up to 45 armor.
- Crowd control spells are now more effective against Elite enemies, Exalted Elites and Bosses, with reduced saving throw bonuses against spell conditions.
- Disarming an enemy now leaves them Disarmed for an hour of game time.
- Your party can now only hold captives up to two levels above you. Captives continue following your party.
- Enemies are now more likely to target whoever is fighting them in melee.
Interface
- Rage, Boar Rush, Exsanguinate and similar abilities can now be activated like spells.
- Boar Rush and other strike ability cards now show travel distance and bonus damage separately from weapon damage.
- Spell cards now show a separate scaling row for each level at which a spell improves.
- Ability damage breakdowns in the spellcasting interface can now be expanded or collapsed.
- Mage Armor and aura cards now show their armor bonus at your level, or explain when your equipment prevents it from applying.
- Spellcasting now shows each target's save chance, modifier and difficulty together, followed by the effect of a successful save.
- The character sheet and body armor cards now explain how your armor affects class spells.
- The character sheet now shows Duelist parry chance, and attack results show when you parry instead of dodge.
- Buying ammunition that does not fit your ranged weapon now shows a warning.
- Gaining Hidden now shows its attack and defense benefits alongside its movement cost.
- Burning effects now show their remaining damage and duration in rounds.
- Stacked bleeds now appear as one Bleeding effect, with a tooltip showing their damage and current number of stacks.
- Mage Armor and aura rows in the spellbook now show their action cost, resistance and armor bonuses without opening the spell card.
- True Temper's description now specifies that it requires a natural roll of 18 or higher.
General Improvements
- The Sell tab and companion pack now list your newest pickups first.
- Equipping and removing gear no longer adds separate messages for each effect gained or lost.
- Updated 32 character voices.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where Wizard Hat granted 3% global critical chance instead of 3% spell critical chance.
- Fixed a bug where captors left their hostage behind when moving.
- Fixed a bug where the travel map on a move card turned upside down for westward journeys.
- Fixed a bug where a skill roll requested alongside an attack or spell failed to resolve separately or award its experience.
- Fixed a bug where travelling to a named destination asked you to choose a place within it again or claimed an impossible move succeeded.
- Fixed a bug where merchants could not deliver quoted equipment or materials missing from their stock list, or offered unavailable consumables instead of a real alternative.
- Fixed a bug where Beast Tongue still required a Primalism check to speak with animals.
- Fixed a bug where a spell aimed at a creature discovered that turn was refused before its target appeared.
- Fixed a bug where a mistaken material list immediately stopped a craft with "Items can't be duplicated."
- Fixed a bug where Rage used for a killing blow was restored when the fight ended before the enemy could counterattack.
- Fixed a bug where the Narrator forgot an offered item's powers or treated it as acquired after you declined or set aside the offer.
- Fixed a bug where an expired Flattered effect repeatedly appeared as newly gained.
- Fixed a bug where found gold was taken from an unrelated corpse or lost when a nearby body had no gold.
- Fixed a bug where asking for three prices in one message resulted in empty responses.
- Fixed a bug where broken item links appeared as raw link text in the story.
- Fixed a bug where enemies and companions skipped their turns after you cast a spell.
- Fixed a bug where allies' attacks disappeared after a dice roll followed by a spell.
- Fixed a bug where Infusion was refused even though you could afford the cast.
- Fixed a bug where the Narrator failed to recognize harmless uses of cantrips you knew.
- Fixed a bug where spell cards and the Spells tab showed the wrong effects while Eclipse was active.
- Fixed a bug where switching Eclipse off outside combat left it in the status list.
- Fixed a bug where Hold Person used the wrong difficulty for a boss's escape save.
- Fixed a bug where party members were treated as enemies by spells and spreading effects.
- Fixed a bug where Bramble Call failed to deal its bonus damage against goblins.
- Fixed a bug where held or incapacitated creatures could still move or act.
- Fixed a bug where a trap failed to catch a creature arriving in the scene.
- Fixed a bug where an attack named its weapon as "None".
- Fixed a bug where killing blows showed incorrect remaining health or failed to show the target as defeated.
- Fixed a bug where companion travel choices carried over from another adventure and unexpectedly split the party.
- Fixed a bug where companions named in a move were left behind or companions who should stay behind came along.
- Fixed a bug where party members appeared in the wrong place after travelling.
- Fixed a bug where an arrest failed to place you in custody or let you travel freely afterward.
- Fixed a bug where custody showed no source or named "Engine" as the captor.
- Fixed a bug where a crossing you had sealed trapped your own party inside.
- Fixed a bug where movement choices omitted the road you were already standing on.
- Fixed a bug where a refused map move showed a retry prompt instead of explaining the refusal.
- Fixed a bug where a fast character's long journey appeared as instant travel.
- Fixed a bug where directions gave a distance of zero feet to a destination you had not reached.
- Fixed a bug where the game clock ignored time the Narrator said had passed.
- Fixed a bug where a merchant offered more gold than they could pay.
- Fixed a bug where an agreed sale was treated as a gift and paid no gold.
- Fixed a bug where a merchant continued haggling over an item you had already bought.
- Fixed a bug where agreeing in chat to sell part of a stack produced no trade card.
- Fixed a bug where ordering a meal opened a crafting card that treated gold as an ingredient.
- Fixed a bug where a companion trying to steal from a shop failed to take the displayed item.
- Fixed a bug where putting an item down was treated as giving it to someone.
- Fixed a bug where crafted usable items became unusable materials.
- Fixed a bug where the Narrator described a crafted item's powers incorrectly or claimed it had no power.
- Fixed a bug where dismantling items always returned all their materials instead of a random amount.
- Fixed a bug where dismantling a weapon dropped it instead of granting its materials.
- Fixed a bug where dismantling plain crafted items awarded no experience instead of half the experience of crafting them.
- Fixed a bug where crafting experience went to the wrong skill instead of the skill used for the craft.
- Fixed a bug where a third legendary crafting option was hidden on another page.
- Fixed a bug where the character sheet did not show increased carrying capacity.
- Fixed a bug where carrying too much failed to apply its Strength and Dexterity penalties.
- Fixed a bug where selecting "Show all" in an item's spell popup closed the popup.
- Fixed a bug where equipping a focus offered a main hand choice even though it always equipped in the off hand.
- Fixed a bug where gifts and persuasion stopped changing relationships in long adventures.
- Fixed a bug where persuading an ordinary foe required the difficulty reserved for addressing a god.
- Fixed a bug where a nearby acquaintance incorrectly prevented resting.
- Fixed a bug where a known character became "A Stranger" after dying.
- Fixed a bug where the Narrator created an NPC with its own name.
- Fixed a bug where NPCs stopped acting on their own or companions stayed silent during ordinary conversation.
- Fixed a bug where journal events referred to your character as "the player".
- Fixed a bug where revival left you unable to resume play.
- Fixed a bug where a failed roll confirmation lost its roll card or crafting offer.
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