Changes in core game fourth and fifth printings

The only deliberate change in 4th printing was restoring a missing speed indicator ring on the Minor Power Song of Sanctity. (Plus updating the printing on the box #.) 5th printing had a larger number of small fixes, listed below.
However, around this time the rulebook was retyped to make a searchable PDF, and all files were prepared for foreign-language localization. These introduced a number of errors - the Errata page includes the (thankfully few) game-affecting items; for an exhaustive list including typos and such see Core game 4th printing errors and typos.
There will be an errata pack available for low or no cost; for details see Errata Pack (Core 4th/5th, B&C 3rd).

5th printing changes

Note: This list is based off of things marked "done" on the to-do punchlist. Minor deviations are possible. (And I might mis-transcribe something, though I'm erring towards a flat copy-paste these days, even if the formatting's not quite as pretty.)

Rulebook

  • p. 17, "General Principle: You Can Skip Using a Power's Effect" Replace "a Power you've played" with "a Power". Delete the phrase ", as if it had a blank text-box".
  • p. 17, "General Principle: You Can Skip Using a Power's Effect" Replace 2nd paragraph (starting with "Similarly...") with "When using a Power with thresholds, you may act as if you have fewer Elements than you really do, to avoid hitting thresholds. Other than that, it's all or nothing - you can't pick-and-choose instructions."
  • p. 17, under "Elemental Thresholds" Change the last sentence ("If you meet more than one threshold under a Power...") to "Resolve the base effect and all threshold effects that you meet, in order from top to bottom."
  • p. 18, "Damage, Destruction and Removal" section Correct spelling of "remaining" in final sentence.
  • p. 26, second paragraph under Kingdom of Sweden Change "Sweden begun leveraging" to "Sweden began leveraging"

Major and Minor Power Cards

  • Major Power: Blazing Renewal - In threshold effect, change "4 Damage." to "4 Damage in that land."
  • Major Power - Blazing Renewal Change "places 2" to "adds 2". Change "was returned" to "was added".
  • Major Power - "The Trees and Stones Speak of War", threshold effect Replace "the Defend effect with them" with "each's Defend 2 with them"
  • Minor Power: Gift of Power Change effect to "Gain a Minor Power Card" (instead of "Gain a Minor Power")

Spirits

  • Spirit Panel: Ocean's Hungry Grasp - Special Rules Change "place/move [Presence]" to "add/move [Presence]" (twice)
  • Spirit Panel: Ocean's Hungry Grasp - Special rules Change "Oceans on boards with any of your [Presence]" to "On boards where you have 1 or more [Presence], Oceans"
  • Spirit Panel: Ocean's Hungry Grasp - flavor text on back, second line Correct spelling: "tempestous" -> "tempestuous"
  • Spirit Panel: Ocean's Hungry Grasp - flavor text on back, second paragraph, second line Correct spelling: "evey" -> "every"
  • Spirit Panel: Ocean's Hungry Grasp: Special Rule "Oceans in Play" "for Powers and [Blight]" should read "for Spirit Powers/Special Rules and [Blight]".
  • Spirit Panel - Vital Strength of the earth Change Setup and Play Style to use the same font weight as other Spirit Panels' Setup/Play Style (it looks like they're lighter?)
  • Unique Power: Mantle of Dread Change "one of their lands" to "a land where it has [Presence]"
  • Unique Power Card "Crops Wither and Fade" Increase spacing between "2 [Fear]." and "Replace 1 [Town] with 1 [Explorer]". Decrease spacing between the ~OR~ and the lines above and below it. (The 2 Fear always applies, and right now it's not clear whether it's grouped with the "Replace 1 Town" effect.)

Other items

  • Adversary: Brandenburg-Prussia, Level 4 Correct spelling of "Aggressive" in "Aggressive Timetable"
  • Invader board Make the "1 Fear per Town destroyed 2 Fear per City destroyed" a little less overlookable, either via increasing size or something non-garish which calls attention to it so first-time players notice it more readily
  • Reference card: Turn Order "Under Explore, change the text to Explore: If [Town]/[City]/Ocean is adjacent/present, add [Explorer]"
  • Box exterior Indicate printing date or "5th printing"