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Since it's the new hot topic, I felt like a little poll was called for.
In a general theoretical sense (not necessarily the specific implementation), what is your favorite style of multiclassing and why? Do you have any dealbreakers? Just curious. Make sure you post why that is your answer.
Even though I didn't play during the era of 3e, I have to say 3e-style multiclassing most appeals to me. It is the only system that lets you choose how deep you want to go--in all other systems, a fighter/mage is just a fighter/mage, and that's the end of it. In 3e-style, you can be mostly fighter with a little bit of mage, or mostly ranger with a bunch of fighter and one cleric because of that incident in the demonweb pits. It allows your character to be more than a class; it allows the character's class makeup to be an expression of the character, rather than the other way around.
Of course, the problem was that multiclassing was a system-mastery nightmare, but assuming they can balance it, I'm sold. (And it won't take much to balance the other forms of multiclassing, so I'm glad they're trying this one first.)
In a general theoretical sense (not necessarily the specific implementation), what is your favorite style of multiclassing and why? Do you have any dealbreakers? Just curious. Make sure you post why that is your answer.
Even though I didn't play during the era of 3e, I have to say 3e-style multiclassing most appeals to me. It is the only system that lets you choose how deep you want to go--in all other systems, a fighter/mage is just a fighter/mage, and that's the end of it. In 3e-style, you can be mostly fighter with a little bit of mage, or mostly ranger with a bunch of fighter and one cleric because of that incident in the demonweb pits. It allows your character to be more than a class; it allows the character's class makeup to be an expression of the character, rather than the other way around.
Of course, the problem was that multiclassing was a system-mastery nightmare, but assuming they can balance it, I'm sold. (And it won't take much to balance the other forms of multiclassing, so I'm glad they're trying this one first.)