[RPG] Do 4E Essentials Mages gain more Cantrips after 1st level

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I was finally getting around to reading my 4E Essentials books, specifically the Heroes of the Fallen Lands Wizard, the Mage. After discovering the nice hybrid of Vancian and 4E Core magic, I noticed that a Mage, regardless of school, gains 3 Cantrips at 1st level.

What I'm getting at is this; Does a 4E Mage gain more Cantrips as they progess in level or do they only know the 3 Cantrips from levels 1 to 30?

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They only know their cantrips they start the game with. However, it is reasonable to ask to learn an extra one as a feat, due to the precedent set with the Psion.

Diverse Focus [Elan Bloodline]

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Elan Heritage, psion, Discipline Focus class feature

Benefit: Choose and gain a Discipline Focus other than one you already possess. You can use any powers associated with that Discipline Focus as daily powers.

and with Gnome:

Fey Trickster

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Gnome

Benefit: You gain the wizard cantrips mage hand and prestidigitation as encounter powers.

As the cantrips are Wizard Utility spells without a level, it's impossible to take them in your utility slots. (Though that would be a perfectly reasonable house-rule, considering the relative utility of cantrips and utility powers.)

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[RPG] acquire cantrips with the Wizard multi-class feat

There is no general way to gain Cantrips as they are Wizard Utility powers with no level. Without a level they can't be used to substitute for another gained power.

There are a couple other ways besides being a gnome though

the Resourceful Magician paragon path (Bard) grants the Wizard's Cantrip class feature if the bard possesses the Arcane Initiate feat (Dragon #376)
Fey Cantrip feat allows Fey creatures to gain 1 cantrip (Heroes of the Feywild)
Wild Talent Master feat allows you to select 3 Wild Talents which are basically psionic cantrips (Dark Sun Campaign Setting)

[RPG] How should I give out treasure in Dungeons and Dragons 4e Essentials

The DMG and Rules Compendium each have guidance on treasure to be awarded by level. I'm not going to reproduce the whole table here, but I'll provide the first level from the RC for your benefit.

(11–14) 2d6 × 100 sp; (15+) 2d6 × 10 gp; 
(18+) 1d2 gems worth 100 gp; 
(20+) one art object worth 250 gp; 
(13+) one magic item of level 1d4 + 1

Roll 4d20, add or subtract two for each party member over or under 5. Each line represents a separate roll. If the roll for the line meets or exceeds the target then you add that item to the parcel. For magic items an odd roll is common, even is uncommon and a natural 20 is a rare. You should provide about 10 parcels per level for your adventurers.

Another note: please don't give your players random magic items as part of these parcels, if you want to give random treasure, do it separately. The power progression is keyed around folks getting items they will use.

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