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So, RAW it appears that dueling cape is incompatible with any of the swashbuckler stance feat lines - it uses a hand, so the dueling parry line is out; it lacks the parry feat, so the parry line is out; and it is not a buckler, so the buckler line is out. Is this correct? Is it intended?

I ask because, from my perspective, that makes the item ultimately inferior to every other option for the class for which one would assume it was designed. Perhaps the +1 to feint is valuable enough to a specific type of swashbuckler? At higher levels, I doubt it.

So, channel energy ... it's handled three different ways between three classes? Would it be possible to consolidate them all (hopefully to use spell points)? Also, given how central the mechanic is to Cleric, is it strange that the other two classes can gain it as a feat after their dedication feat is eventually added but multiclass clerics can never get it?

My personal opinion - and it's just an opinion! - is that choosing fighter and buying into cleric for channel energy and channel smite and then buying into cavalier for the companion traits would basically let people get the majority of the Paladin benefits without the alignment restrictions. That's something everyone wants, right?