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Haldrik wrote:

I tend to evaluate powers by their combat potential, but I agree, Ghost Sound is truly awesome.

I don't, because D&D is a roleplaying game, not a pure combat simulation game. There are too many occasions in an RPG in which combat doesn't even come up, even with a premade adventure or LFR-type of scenario, since the players can all choose to do something completely outside of the realms of combat that a DM isn't entirely prepared for. But the number of times that Ghost Sound might be useful? Oooh, a whole lot more often in my experience.

Haldrik wrote:

One feat for all cantrips? At Will? NO WAY!

EACH cantrip - at the very least - is as powerful as a Utility power.

Not even close.

The fact its At-Will makes it BETTER than an Encounter or Daily Utility.

No, the fact that it's at will makes it usable more often than an encounter or daily power. It has no bearing on the magnitude of the mechanics within the power.

Feats arent powerful. A feat cant get an extra Encounter or Daily Utility power - neither can it get a cantrip.

Yet there's plenty of instances to prove you wrong. The Wizard multiclass feat gives you a free at will power as an encounter power. At least that power has a reasonable combat application (most notably multimarking). The only real strength of the feat I'm proposing is that it allows you to take Wizard paragon paths or multiclass further.

Maybe a feat (without a power swap) could let a character choose one cantrip as a Daily - but even that Id have to think about more carefully.

DAILY? That is the most arbitrary thing I've ever heard.

AwD: The Wizard multiclass feat gives you a free at will power as an encounter power. At least that power has a reasonable combat application (most notably multimarking).

OK, one At-Will cantrip as an Encounter power, is probably thinkable. But it would have to happen AFTER the player has already invested in the Wizard Multiclass feat. In other words, the cantrip feat would have to have the Wizard Multiclass feat ("Arcane Initiate") as a prerequisite, like the other Multiclass power swap feats do.

Haldrik wrote:

LOL! You obviously havent been in a campaign where players habitually abuse cantrips. Its almost a sport.

Correction: I've never been in a campaign that broke the rules by allowing cantrip abuse.

Think about it. Prestidigitation alone can ignite fires at will, create a brief facial disguise, vanish an item during an inspection, and so on and so on. One single cantrip can do all of this and much more. At Will.

Player's Handbook]Nothing you create with this cantrip can deal damage, serve as a weapon or a tool, or hinder another creature’ wrote:

Nothing you create with this cantrip can deal damage, serve as a weapon or a tool, or hinder another creature’s
actions. This cantrip cannot duplicate the effect of any other power.

So no, you can't set creatures on fire, you can't disguise yourself (changeling racial power, no duplication, etc.).

Making an item vanish is a big freaking "So what?" for me. The Wizard can do it for free.

Haldrik wrote:

OK, one At-Will cantrip as an Encounter power, is probably thinkable. But it would have to happen AFTER the player has already invested in the Wizard Multiclass feat. In other words, the cantrip feat would have to have the Wizard Multiclass feat ("Arcane Initiate") as a prerequisite, like the other Multiclass power swap feats do.

No, you're being arbitrary again. I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. The rules forbid basically any abuse you could ever think of, and what you're suggesting is horrible from a balance perspective (and I mean horrible; I don't use the word lightly).