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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5451543" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think the 'one feat gets you all 3 power swaps' idea basically works. It lets you dip pretty far into the second class, at the reasonable price of 2 feats overall, for which you also get a skill and some other benefit. If you pick up all 3 power swaps, then you can PMC and at the cost 2 vs 4 feats that becomes a lot more reasonable option. Most players will still avoid it, but I suspect a lot more would do SOME power swapping vs nowadays just picking an MC feat to get around some prereqs and get a skill, which seems kind of paltry. Beefing up PMC a bit in general doesn't seem like a bad idea either. The loss of the action point mechanics and whatnot is a pretty big deal. There could be some way to make up a bit for that. Making a whole set of MC PPs seems excessively onerous, but maybe each class could have a single generic AP feature you can pick up. It doesn't rise to the level of a full PP, but you ARE getting a lot of flexibility as it is and you do get to pick class powers from the second class in lieu of PP powers already, so it isn't that bad. Most PPs have at least 1 dud power anyhow, so in some ways you're already ahead of the game. I'd be good with WotC doing something like that. It won't break the game and it will make MCing a much more viable option. In some ways it might actually be clearly better than the existing hybrid system, which is interesting but has its own issues for sure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5451543, member: 82106"] I think the 'one feat gets you all 3 power swaps' idea basically works. It lets you dip pretty far into the second class, at the reasonable price of 2 feats overall, for which you also get a skill and some other benefit. If you pick up all 3 power swaps, then you can PMC and at the cost 2 vs 4 feats that becomes a lot more reasonable option. Most players will still avoid it, but I suspect a lot more would do SOME power swapping vs nowadays just picking an MC feat to get around some prereqs and get a skill, which seems kind of paltry. Beefing up PMC a bit in general doesn't seem like a bad idea either. The loss of the action point mechanics and whatnot is a pretty big deal. There could be some way to make up a bit for that. Making a whole set of MC PPs seems excessively onerous, but maybe each class could have a single generic AP feature you can pick up. It doesn't rise to the level of a full PP, but you ARE getting a lot of flexibility as it is and you do get to pick class powers from the second class in lieu of PP powers already, so it isn't that bad. Most PPs have at least 1 dud power anyhow, so in some ways you're already ahead of the game. I'd be good with WotC doing something like that. It won't break the game and it will make MCing a much more viable option. In some ways it might actually be clearly better than the existing hybrid system, which is interesting but has its own issues for sure. [/QUOTE]

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