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<blockquote data-quote="Vaeron" data-source="post: 5349110" data-attributes="member: 3956">Sadly, not a single piece of this is correct.&nbsp; HotFL and the Rules Compendium both reinforce what has always been true of power aquisition and power swaps, etc: If the class matches, the power type matches, and the level matches, any power can be taken.&nbsp; If it doesn't have a level, the level doesn't match, or the class doesn't match, it can't be taken.&nbsp; That's the same rule that's been in play for all of 4e.So, I will quote what is printed in a huge sidebar box right in the middle of the Levelling Up chapter of HoFL:&quot;OTHER SOURCES: Other Dungeons &amp; Dragons supplements, including D&amp;D Insider, offer additional powers that you can choose from.&nbsp; Whenever you choose a new class power, you can select it from the list presented in this book or you can take a power of the same class, level, and type (attack or utility) from another source.For example: when your slayer reaches 2nd level, you could select a 2nd-level fighter utility power from a source other than this book or you could choose one of the 2nd level fighter utility powers in the &quot;Knight&quot; section of this book.&quot;So, for example, Fighter Utility couldn't be taken since it has no level and is aquired in a particular way.&nbsp; But Fighter Utility 2 could be picked up in exchange for any other Fighter Utility 2.The rules in Essentials 4e explicitly state that powers can be taken from ANY other player sourcebook, so I wish people wouldn't spread this contradictory information around, innocently or no.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vaeron, post: 5349110, member: 3956"] Sadly, not a single piece of this is correct. HotFL and the Rules Compendium both reinforce what has always been true of power aquisition and power swaps, etc: If the class matches, the power type matches, and the level matches, any power can be taken. If it doesn't have a level, the level doesn't match, or the class doesn't match, it can't be taken. That's the same rule that's been in play for all of 4e. So, I will quote what is printed in a huge sidebar box right in the middle of the Levelling Up chapter of HoFL: "OTHER SOURCES: Other Dungeons & Dragons supplements, including D&D Insider, offer additional powers that you can choose from. Whenever you choose a new class power, you can select it from the list presented in this book or you can take a power of the same class, level, and type (attack or utility) from another source. For example: when your slayer reaches 2nd level, you could select a 2nd-level fighter utility power from a source other than this book or you could choose one of the 2nd level fighter utility powers in the "Knight" section of this book." So, for example, Fighter Utility couldn't be taken since it has no level and is aquired in a particular way. But Fighter Utility 2 could be picked up in exchange for any other Fighter Utility 2. The rules in Essentials 4e explicitly state that powers can be taken from ANY other player sourcebook, so I wish people wouldn't spread this contradictory information around, innocently or no. [/QUOTE]

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