Examples of role-playing based multi-classing?

[Remathilis]

Ashinoto was the prodigy of a wu-jen and an oni she summoned but could not control (tiefling). Sensing great power in him, the wu-jen tutored him in the ways of magic through constant study and training bordering on cruelty. Eventually, when old enough, he rebelled and killed his mother in self-defense and fled with her spell-books into the wilds until coming across an abandoned grove with an arch in it. He stepped through the arch and ended up in Sigil, the City of Doors. Alone and confused, he lived on the streets stealing bread and jink. He eventually met up with member of the Sign of One, who were impressed by his ability to bend reality around him and finished his training as a mage.

(Tiefling, Mage/Thief).

 

[billd91]

In our current Skull and Shackles campaign (the Pathfinder adventure path), I'm playing a half-orc summoner with a peg leg who has been pressed into the life of a pirate. After spending some time sucking at the skills of a sailor (I mostly cooked) and deciding that ambition was the path to getting out of a crappy life, I decided that it was time for him to focus on improving his skills - including his interpersonal skills - not his spells and combat. So, thinking of the skills he was trying to exercise regularly, his innate abilities, and his ambitions as well as any NPCs on board who could act as a mentor or instructor, I took a level as a bard. Now, several levels later (as a summoner, still have just the one bard level), he not only uses summoned creatures and eidolons to fight, he also inspires the crew with his songs as they attack other ships and sings about his ship's exploits when in port.

 

[am181d]

In 3e, Tasc, my sometimes cannibal elf fighter multi-classed into Psionic Warrior after eating a Mindflayer's brain. A few levels later he also picked up the half-Illithid template, with some gnarly tenatacles.

Lesson: DO NOT EAT A MINDFLAYER BRAIN!

 

[Jeff Carlsen]

We had a fighter/pistoleer character decide, because the party had been trapped in a vile city by magical creatures, that she should learn about some of that magic stuff and took a couple level of wizard late in her career.

 

[Elf Witch]

All my multiclassing is based on role playing not just to get the cool stuff.

Some examples: Inala cousin to the Emperor ex centurion of one of the Kalamar legions. She was built with three ranks of Aristocrat from Rokugan and the rest fighter. I took the levels in Aristocrat because it made sense that she would have some decent social skills and a heirloom blade. I wanted a noble knight ala King Arthur but not a paladin. Someone who was educated and knew her way around a royal court kind of hard to do as a straight fighter.

Miranda in our Age of Worms she is a wizard with three levels of human paragon. The reason I built her this way is she studied weapons with the novices at the temple of Herineous, at one time she was not sure if she was going to follow in her mother's foot steps as a cleric or her father's footsteps as a wizard.

Mikayla was a rogue/fighter/ Initiative of the bow. This was 3E before they fixed ranger. I envisioned her as a female Legolas. She was very dexterous using tumble to move around the combat to find the best advantage to use her bow. I could not have built her as well going straight fighter or straight rogue.

Lysandra sorcerer/wizard. In the world she was born in sorcery is punishable by death she studied to be a wizard to hide her sorcery talk about a strictly role playing decision because a wizard/sorcerer is not that powerful you overlap on so many things. But it was a blast to play.

I have played with people who use multiclass as a way to power game but the majority tend to do it to be able to create a character concept. Sometimes it is hard to do with just one class which is why I like multiclassing rules.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

We had a fighter/pistoleer character decide, because the party had been trapped in a vile city by magical creatures, that she should learn about some of that magic stuff and took a couple level of wizard late in her career.

A guy in the last D&D campaign I ran did the exact opposite- he reasoned that the region the party was in and the nature of their immediate circumstances dictated his Mage would have taken a level of Fighter.

 

[Gorgon Zee]

My very first 4e character: Sigbert. After his tribe suffered yet another depressing loss against magic-using opposition, they looked around for the brightest warrior e could, and Sigbert's sister (role played by my wife) volunteered him, as a way to escape the rather tiresome life of barbarian woman. So he was sent away to Waterdeep to study and become a fighter/wizard.

He hates using magic, but his sister writes home to complain if he doesn't use it every adventure.

Best moment ever: BBEG laughing at us from a cliff top. Arcane gate behind him, charge through and push him off the edge. Party strikers then finish him off.

 

[Cadence]

Thank you all! That's exactly what I needed to go back into some of the threads with a more open mind.

 

[MichaelSomething]

A barbarian / bard who sings Dragonforce songs when he rages!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

A barbarian / bard who sings Dragonforce songs when he rages!

Haha!

I once described Magnus Skyhammer as:

...my Dwarven Starlock whose clan is into astronomy, fighting aberrations, capoira, steel drums & ragga jungle.

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