Goblinoid Mount Training

Prerequisite: Goblin or hobgoblin

Benefit: When you ride a friendly mount, the creature can use your defenses in place of its own (not including any temporary bonuses or penalties).

In addition, the mount can make Acrobatics, Athletics, Endurance, or Stealth checks using your modifier (not including any temporary bonuses or penalties) in place of its own.

Hobgoblin Beast Companion

Prerequisite: Hobgoblin, ranger, Beast Mastery class feature, hobgoblin discipline racial power

Benefit: When you use hobgoblin discipline and your beast companion is adjacent to you, you can also end one effect a save can end affecting your beast companion.

In addition, your beast companion gains a +1 feat bonus to all defenses while it is adjacent to you.

Hobgoblin Phalanx Soldier

Prerequisite: Strength 13, hobgoblin

Benefit: You gain proficiency with all shields.

In addition, you ignore the check penalty for wearing a shield.

Hobgoblin Weapon Training

Prerequisite: Hobgoblin

Benefit: You gain proficiency with all flails and spears.

In addition, you gain a +2 feat bonus to the damage rolls of weapon attacks that you make using flails and spears. This bonus increases to +3 at 11th level and +4 at 21st leve

Phalanx Advance

Prerequisite: Hobgoblin, bard, Virtue of Valor class feature

Benefit: When you use your Virtue of Valor class feature, you and each ally adjacent to you can shift 1 square as a free action. Your allies must end the shift in a square adjacent to you.

Warcaster Tactics

Prerequisite: Hobgoblin, any arcane class

Benefit: You can omit one square adjacent to you from the area of effect of any arcane close blast or burst power you use.

Warrior's Sacrifice

Prerequisite: Hobgoblin, hobgoblin discipline racial power

Benefit: As a free action on your turn, you can expend your hobgoblin discipline power to allow an ally adjacent to you to make a saving throw.