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Message: <blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 4261529" data-attributes="member: 43019">No, they aren't. It's an actual term - ie, Channel Divinity cheerfully displays 'Cleric Feature' on it while Healing Strike does not. Healing Strike is an encounter 3 attack ability and with multiclassing you can swap it for one of the two paladin healing abilities, for example... and it's different, but not necessarily better.If they've done their job correctly, there should be minor differences between the powers, but it should not be 'Class X has more hit points, more armor, and cooler class features than Y does, so Y's powers are all better than X'sIf that is true for any of the classes in the PHB, then WotC has failed a basic balance test.From everything I've seen, however, the differences are not pronounced and that is not the case. If you were making a new class, for instance, and you balanced your features properly, you could draw on powers from different classes for ideas.Also, if the dearth of options currently available bothered you, it wouldn't be bad to do things like let a paladin take "Priest's Shield" from a cleric or "Tide of Iron" from a fighter.Edit: Fair proof that WotC at least thought they were doing something like what I'm talking about is the Eternal Seeker that lets you take powers from any class whatsoever freely.</blockquote>