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How does a DM insult his vision by precluding something that wasn't in his vision? If a DM creates a world, ideally, he will create something interesting that he is enthusiastic about, hopefully making the game better for the players. For a lot of DMs, that's hard to do if they have to find a...

Doubtful. Looking at the actual gnoll pages from the MM ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/benimoto/2308404914/sizes/o/), it's pretty much identical to the swordwing excerpt. A couple sentences introducing a variant, a couple sentences about that variant, and then a few paragraphs of general lore...

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220613 That's a link to a post that compiled all the preview pages from D&DXP. There's links in the post to 2816 x 2112 res versions.

Exactly.

Seriously? So if someone doesn't like it, they didn't have an open-mind? Or they did, but they yielded to the opinions of others? Really? Would you like to take another shot at phrasing your argument? And this argument simply falls flat. It's better in most ways except simulationism? Um, what...

Just to end my contribution to whatever this has become, I don't think these power-swap feats will be worthwhile. I might be wrong. Done and done.

So what are you spending the feat on? I mean, if choosing a power with this multiclassing feat is no different than choosing Cleave over Tide of Iron, two equal-level powers, why the feat? Just so you add other equal-level powers to go alongside Tide of Iron on the list of things you didn't...

Except you're not using a feat to select Cleave instead of Tide of Iron.

At the expense of increased tactical options in situations the class is intended for. Let's say I'm a greatsword-using fighter. Sure, I could gain a ranger archery power that opens up a new tactical option, but that's at the expense of one of my own melee-focused powers, a power that keys off...

Because you're using a feat! That is the entire point. Imagine a restaurant scenario. I go in, look at a menu, and order a $10 entree. (I've just picked a power). Now I order a $5 desert. (I just chose a feat). You go in, look at the menu, see a whole list of $10 entrees, but decide that...

At the expense of giving up an equal-level power from your own list! If I toss $5 in the garbage, and then take $5 from a friend, I haven't gained anything (except an angry friend). But this is irrelevant, because of this: So you're basing your comments on the assumption that powers of the...

edit: This is now irrelevant. Give me a moment to update my response.

"You just cherry-picked the best power from a class's list, and you got to give away a weak power from yours." My point is I'm not seeing how. The powers swapped are going to be of equal level, so how are you getting rid of a weak power and gaining a strong power? Wouldn't that be predicated on...

I'm still not following. You realize it's saying that if you replace a 5th level power in your primary class, it can only be replaced by a 5th level or lower power from your secondary class, even if you're higher level. Assuming you realize that, you seem to be basing the usefulness of this...

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by this, but this seems like it might be relevant: "When you take one of these power-swap feats, you give up a power of your choice from your primary class and replace it with a power of the same level or lower from the class you have multiclassed in."

This seems to be a lot of speculation since we're largely in the dark on what feats can do in 4E. Of the very few feats we've seen has been the Toughness feat, which grants HP equal to 3 + level. If you're a 10th level character, would you rather have 13 HPs, or the chance to swap a daily power...

Completely agree. That might be my biggest annoyance about 4E.

Absolutely agreed. Same thing with the bonus to initiative provided by Combat Leader. Everyone just adds the +2 to their character sheets and we're done with dealing with that ability. Easy enough.

That's not true. I've already given one example for what could be designed into the mechanics to stop that: bonus XP. If you give players bonus XP for a certain number of a encounters in a day, you can pretty much guarantee the players are going to try and get it. It doesn't even have to be much...

But if you rest, you automatically get an action point and your 'milestone' stuff presumably recharges.