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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lurker37" data-source="post: 4244736" data-attributes="member: 9522">This thread has raised an interested question about retraining:Does it occur before or after you select feats/powers for that level? In other words, can you use it to get the requisites for abilities you also buy that level, or do the retrained feats etc only count for abilities bought at later levels?If retraining lets you fulfill prerequisites for other abilities bought that same level, then even single-class characters could change substantially in a single level-up. I wonder what exactly is involved in retraining? Is it meant to take time? Money? Require a tutor? Can it be done mid-dungeon or does it require a visit to a town?It occurs to me that this is a parallel to 3E multiclassing. If a the player of a 3E fighter announces at level-up that they're taking a level of wizard, which they've roleplayed no interest into until now, and the DM doesn't require them to explain how their fighter learnt spellcasting, that strikes me as a variation of the same thing. Some groups would not even consider this a problem, while other may well implode over it.Further to that, I would hope that any rules for time and resources required to retrain or multiclass will be in the PHB rather than the DMG, so both DM and players know what is expected well before it becomes an issue. ( I'm assuming that the player does not give the DM forewarning of their retraining/multiclassing intentions, which is quite possible in an inexperienced group. ) On another point, it's interesting that although some aspects of multiclassing seem unimpressive when described, based largely on a perceived loss of number of available powers (or feats), playtesters have reported that it works without overshadowing single-class characters, and those who have chosen to multiclass have not regretted it. Either it works better in practice than it sounds, or we don't have the full picture.</blockquote>

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