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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4749173" data-attributes="member: 46559">Hmm.  I'm of two minds about this.  First, I don't think this is unbalanced; in addition to Intelligent Blademaster, compare also to the Martial Training feat from PHB2 (which pretty much makes Intelligent Blademaster obsolete).  This, like those feats, allows wider customization options at the cost of a feat, which I think is pretty reasonable.  The only thing that gives me pause is that Elemental Tempest is effectively the racial paragon path for Genasi.  Looking at other racial powers and racial paragon paths in PHB and PHB2, they pretty much all have limited options for which attributes you can use.  If I said yes to this, I'd be hard pressed to think of a good reason to say no to a dragonborn who wanted to spend a feat to use, say, Cha for its breath attacks because he was a warlock who wanted to go Scion of Arkhosia, or a half-elf wanting to use Cha for its Dilettante power, even when it's normally a Str power, etc. etc.  I'm starting to feel like all this easy customization is somehow paradoxically leading to more homogenous characters.  I don't think that's necessarily a reason to nix this feat, but...  Eh.  It's 1 A.M. and I'm rambling nonsensically.  I'm gonna shup up and think more about this, and see what other people have to say.</blockquote>