House Rule (Multi-Classing)

[-Avalon-]

This is to get a feel for whether this is a good idea or not:

Since we have Initiate feats that give a "splash" of flavor but do not really give what is needed for paragon paths, my players and I have come up with a possible way to alleviate the issues:

Initiate feat gives the first splash
-> Apprentice feat - would allow the player to swap an at-will power for one of their own, and give one ability from the basic class options : IE gives a style for the rangers, etc. This feat has pre-req of the initiate feat.

Then there are the Novice, etc etc, on to paragon level:
At paragon level 11, the player then would have the choice of either going with a PP using the one ability they got from the Apprentice feat, or doing paragon multi-classing. If they choose to go PP-MC then instead of getting to swap an at-will (which was moved to the apprentice feat), they instead pick up the rest of the class abilities and still gain the abilities from PP-MC as per the PHB per PP-MC. Only other change is that since the Apprentice feat will be listed as a multi-class feat, it is required as well for PP-MC.

This will fix it so that the players have 2 options: Either dabble a lil with one other class so that they can get the PP from a different class' lists, or build upon the MC structure to make a true dual classed character.

Any Thoughts?

 

[lexoanvil]

for the PP it seems like its slightly too strong. i think giving them an action point related feature like most pp give and maybe a single class ability or 2 in some cases might be more balanced.

the rest seems alright to me.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Moved to house rules.

I'm already using something slightly similar in mechanics to that.

IMC the multiclass feat doesn't give a trained skill and a random(?) benefit.

Instead, the multiclass feat has a prereq of a certain trained skill for each class, and if you take the multiclass you

a) swap one of your at-will powers for a power of the class
b) gain one particular class feature of the new class (as defined in my multiclass feats)

I wanted to do this because a lot of the 'feel' of a class comes from their at-wills, and I want multiclassers to properly 'feel' like a mixture of the two classes.

Cheers

 

[mattdm]

Be aware that swapping out at-wills is going to make a lot of people dip into barbarian.

 

[aurance]

Be aware that swapping out at-wills is going to make a lot of people dip into barbarian.

Not only barbarians. Actually, swapping at-wills is an incredibly powerful benefit when used in certain combinations. Adding this on top of a paragon path is a significant boost in power from baseline 4e.