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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 4748916" data-attributes="member: 2198">I would tend to doubt that, but it's hard to say without knowing a lot more, really.  Maybe you can post the 2e details and what the player considers important to the concept over in the 4e rules forum.  I would be inclined to simply bend the rules here and there (e.g. allow the player to swap in an at-will attack from the 2nd class), or use the playtest hybrid rules from the recent Dragon article. The staff of power is actually in the PHB I believe, but it's pretty lackluster.  But an item with a lot of powers is not inherently overpowered, as there's a limit on the number of item powers one can activate per day.  So if the staff had 5 daily spells stored in it - the player could only use 1 per day (+1 per milestone).  If it instead had encounter-level spells stored in it, that would be much more powerful, as I don't think there's a limit on that.</blockquote>