D&D 4E 4Ed Feat clarification

[Dannyalcatraz]

I have 2 questions regarding Reserve Maneuver (PHB2 p191), which reads (in part):

Choose an Encounter Attack Power from your class. The power must be your level or lower and one that you don't already have. When you regain the use of your powers at the end of any rest, you can gain the use of the chosen power instead of regaining the use of an Encounter Attack Power of the same level or higher.

1) Has this Feat been expanded to include Augmentable At-Wills for psionic characters?

2) If your PC is multiclassed, can he choose a reserve power from his 2nd class to sub for a power from his primary class?

 

[Tony Vargas]

1) no.

2) Maybe, technically. Though, as 'Martial Class' is a preq, it'd make sense if it aplied only to a martial power, it doesn't explicitly say so.

 

[Mummolus]

1) Has this Feat been expanded to include Augmentable At-Wills for psionic characters?

The feat would need to be completely re-written for psionic characters, since they don't lose the use of their augmentable at-wills. That's the fun thing about psionic characters - you can use the same power several times and augment it each time, so long as you have the power points to do so.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Thanks, all- pretty much as I suspected.

However:

Though, as 'Martial Class' is a preq, it'd make sense if it aplied only to a martial power, it doesn't explicitly say so.

Unless it has errata, the only prereq in PHB2 is "11th level."

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Thanks, all- pretty much as I suspected.

However:

Unless it has errata, the only prereq in PHB2 is "11th level."

Right. There are no prerequisites causing any issues with this feat. HOWEVER there is a rather little-understood characteristic of multi-classing. You are considered a member of the multi-class FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREREQUISITES, but not for any other purpose.

This means if you are MCed into class X you can take a feat that has a prereq like "must be a member of class X", but requirements that are stated in the TEXT of the feat aren't prereqs and you don't count as a member of the multi-class for those purposes.

Thus you are not a member of the multi-class for purposes of which powers you can swap in. Thus a fighter/wizard cannot use Reserve Maneuver to swap in a wizard power because for purposes of reading the text of the feat he's a fighter, not a wizard.

Beyond that the design of MCing doesn't really seem to fit with swapping to get powers from the second class, which you normally have to spend feats to do at all. Honestly, allow it if you don't have an issue with it, but I think RAW doesn't support it.

 

[Tony Vargas]

Unless it has errata, the only prereq in PHB2 is "11th level."

I was thinking of the Martial Flexibiltiy/Readiness/Versatility series of feats. Not the first time - 'Manuever' suggests 'exploit' to me. :shrug:

Digging out the book and looking at the complete text, I'd conclude that the power you associate with the feat must be 'from your class', but that the power you give up recovering to gain it need only be an 'encounter attack power,' so need not be a power of any class (it could be a PP or Theme power, for instance), but merely of an apropriate level, and could certainly be a swapped-in power from your multiclass, for instance.