Practiced Dilettante

[Shadowsmith]

I'm thinking about introducing a paragon feat for half-elves into my game.

Practiced Dilettante
Prerequisites: half-elf, 11th level
Benefit: Your dilettante encounter power becomes an at-will power for you.

Would this be over powered?

 

[FireLance]

Possibly in some cases, but I think the problem is more with specific at-will powers than with the feat itself: High-Strength fighters and paladins taking righteous brand, for example.

Although there might be some concern about melee characters getting access to at-will area attacks, any power with the Implement keyword will become less useful as the character levels, unless the character also takes a multiclassing feat that will grant him the ability to use an appropriate implement.

 

[Shadowsmith]

Possibly in some cases, but I think the problem is more with specific at-will powers than with the feat itself: High-Strength fighters and paladins taking righteous brand, for example.

Although there might be some concern about melee characters getting access to at-will area attacks, any power with the Implement keyword will become less useful as the character levels, unless the character also takes a multiclassing feat that will grant him the ability to use an appropriate implement.

I can see high-strength half-elves getting good use out of this feat and righteous brand. But in those cases, is it really more powerful than their classes' at-wills. I guess for fighters it could be in some situations.

I'm going to allow it for now. If it ends up being overpowered, my players will understand my removing it from the game. Of course the only half-elf in my game is a wisdom based cleric with a good dexterity who picked Sly Flourish.

 

[RyvenCedrylle]

I would probably write it such that you can switch out one of your current at-wills to make the Dilletante power at-will. That puts it more in line with Paragon multiclassing. Admittedly, this gives the half-elf a significant flexibility advantage as he could Paragon multi-class AND take this feat, giving her two at-wills from outside her class. I'm not sure why he would do that, exactly, but the CharOp folks could break it, I'm sure. You may also want to make a requirement, then, that you can't Paragon Multiclass and have practiced Dilletante.

 

[scarik]

I would definitely require them to swap an at will for it with the at-will they swap becoming an encounter maybe.

I think letting them get Twin Strike for a Cha Paladin with Hammer Rhythm would be nasty.

 

[FireLance]

I think letting them get Twin Strike for a Cha Paladin with Hammer Rhythm would be nasty.

I don't see how it would be much worse than a ranger with twin strike and either Hammer Rhythm or Scimitar Dance, depending on ability scores.