D&D 4E Dragon 421 is up! Level-by-level Multiclassing for 4e; Dragonlance Items; Draconian!

[Klaus]

http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/dragon/2013March

Make multiclass characters in a whole new way. Face the cold wrath of Cryonax, the Evil Elemental Prince of Cold. Release the mephits! PLUS: Draconian character options and magic items of Krynn.

We proudly present for your gaming pleasure, Dragon 421. Inside you'll find:

Editorial: Sharpen Your Pencils, by Steve Winter
Mephits, by David Flor and Jared Espley
Lords of Chaos: Cryonax, by Michael E. Shea
Legendary Items of Krynn, by Daniel Helmick
You Say Dragonborn, I Say Draconian, by Daniel Helmick
Alternative Multi-classing Rules, by Robert J. Schwalb and Matt Sernett
Eye on the Realms: Abyssal Trade Goods, by Ed Greenwood

I am honored to have illustrated the Legendary Items of Krynn article, including the Staff of Magius and Tanis wielding Wyrmslayer.

 

[Siberys]

Not sure how I feel about the MCing rules... On the one hand, they're flexible and don't require feat investment. On the other hand, it feels a tad too 'quick and dirty', I guess? I may take the kernel of that idea and rework it myself... I'd already rolled all of the feat swap feats into one, and then made that a standard part of all base MC feats. I may just make it a base part of the character advancement rules - but that, just as with these rules, feels /too/ open somehow. :/

I liked the Draconian article a lot, Wayne England art notwithstanding (I've never liked his stuff...). The limited flight option I particularly like. I'm not so sure about the daily racial power, but it makes sense for the desired effect.

I was hoping the Mephit article had familiars. As I recall, there was no water mephit familiar, and I homebrewed a replacement. I was hoping for something official, but alas, no dice.

I miss the Eye on Eberron and Eye on Dark Sun articles.

 

[TwoSix]

I am honored to have illustrated the Legendary Items of Krynn article, including the Staff of Magius and Tanis wielding Wyrmslayer.

I liked the art in that article a lot!
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[Dannager]

Mephits! Finally!

 

[Obryn]

The best part of the new multiclassing rules is how optional they are.

It's basically a huge Pandora's Box for silly optimization tricks.

-O

 

[D'karr]

The best part of the new multiclassing rules is how optional they are.

It's basically a huge Pandora's Box for silly optimization tricks.

-O

Almost like a "dial" you can tune to whatever setting you like. What a concept... LOL

 

[adamc]

I wish they would make an HTML version of Dragon; I hate dealing with pdfs.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Yeah, the MCing options look pretty wild and not totally thought out, which is a good thing. Put the dial in the hands of the DM.

Wonder how DDI will handle it?

 

[Klaus]

Yeah, the MCing options look pretty wild and not totally thought out, which is a good thing. Put the dial in the hands of the DM.

Wonder how DDI will handle it?

Unearthed Arcana articles aren't supported by the online tools.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

This was one I was looking forward to for the MC rules. I suspect that this is the result of what they'd worked on, what? a year ago? Two? and then abandoned. I further suspect that they abandoned it in part because of Next and in part because these rules are utterly broken

I both like and disliked them for the same reasons. I've already waived the feat requirement of MCing in my games, and basically let characters swap powers freely, but maintained the rule of singular multiclass only. Works well, minimal abuse so far. I may consider using rules like these, but I actually liked the restrictions on MCing once I got used to them, so, we'll see.

I am honored to have illustrated the Legendary Items of Krynn article, including the Staff of Magius and Tanis wielding Wyrmslayer.

I was never a huge DL fan, and so I only skimmed the articles, but I did take notice of the handsome Tanis artwork. Failed to look up at the art credits, but it doesn't surprise me that it was you