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This is veering way off the original topic, but I wonder how well it would work to give humans a bonus encounter power from their class instead of an at-will. Too strong? It would need to scale with level in some way, but maybe shouldn't always be of the highest level you have encounter powers...

Temporary hitpoints go away when you take a rest. (PHB p. 294) That includes short rests, so they only last all day if you never stop to recharge your encounter abilities.

Both, really! I mean, I totally want to play a cleric of the Raven Queen who cuts enemies down with a scythe and also blasts them with deathly radiance, because that's badass, but I'm not gonna pretend I'll be as effective as the cleric of Kord who takes bastard sword proficiency and...

That's not really true for rangers and fighters. With fighters, you always take Cleave, and then Reaping Strike if you're two-hander or Tide of Iron if you're weapon-and-shield. Sure Strike is just weak no matter what. Same thing with rangers - you take Twin Strike and then Hit and Run for...

I like to think that radiance comes in a different form for each god, regardless of alignment. Pelor grants his clerics dazzling beams of golden sunlight, Sehanine provides a soft silvery luminiscence, Asmodeus a harsh red glare, the Raven Queen a pale reddish glow like the last glimmer of...

It seems to me that a cleric is best off choosing either Wisdom or Strength and not trying to do both anyway.

I would rate the halflings' encounter power quite a bit higher than the rather crappy tiefling one.

I'm disappointed, not in the basic model of feat-based multiclassing, but in the particular execution of it they gave us. The feats are poorly balanced, there's sloppy bits like the inability to enter ranger paragon paths, and the multiclass-instead-of-paragon option seems really underpowered...

Well, obviously. But the people in favor of killing this one have put forward reasons which we, at least, think are good ones. So what you're saying is that while sometimes cows are sacred for a good reason, this isn't one of those times and this particular sacred cow has no reason for...

In that sense, it's probably balanced. I think I have issues with balancing powers that way, but that's getting into deeply theoretical territory. (The issues have to do with "swinginess" and the extent to which a character should be permitted/encouraged/pushed into specializing for a...

Lots of the replies here are along the lines of "solos are really tough, so it's ok for solo-killing powers to be strong" or "dailies are supposed to be strong, so it's ok for this daily to be strong". And those answers totally ignore the real question, which is "is this daily, and the class...

That doesn't mean it needs to be strictly better than the greatsword in every respect. Other two-handed military weapons are better than the bastard sword in various ways. I'm well aware of the wonkiness of D&D's peculiar ideas about what these various weapons and armors are and how they work...

Yeah, but I was talking about the weapons themselves, not the characters optimized for using them... Heh! I guess that kinda works. :)

Red dragons can do that - they have a Tail Strike attack that triggers when an enemy moves into a square flanking the dragon, and if it hits it pushes that enemy away as well as dealing damage. And Orcus has a tail attack that triggers whenever an enemy moves adjacent to him, and can stun and...

It is, however, a little weird that a bastard sword is strictly better than a greatsword even if you never use its one-handedness. It seems like greatswords got the short end of the stick this edition for whatever reason.

That notion has no relation to reality. A person's strengths and weaknesses, whether she's real or fictional, are far more complex and multidimensional than the six attributes can measure. Are you unable to imagine a character whose flaws don't take the form of weak muscles, frailty...

...how?

Attributes are one of my few big dislikes about 4e. Massive agreement with the OP.

Officially, no. It might be a nice thing to allow anyway, though. There are a lot of cases where a human simply doesn't have any useful option for her bonus at-will; giving another way to spend it might go a long way towards making humans good at most or all classes instead of only a few.

Careful Attack should be +4, and so should the fighter's Sure Strike. Both are very weak at-wills for their classes.