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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 1125029" data-attributes="member: 2486">I'd say abuse.  I've been DMing a Fighter/Rogue/Ranger/Holy Liberator/Order of the Bow Initiate/Templar, and, frankly, it was silly.  The character was way past the power level of any other PC, immune to most things and could kill pretty much anything solo.  For me, a class is not just a flat set of statistics.  A class represents something- a niche, a profession.  Whilst it is reasonable that an archetype might incorporate two different classes, such as a fighter/wizard or fighter/rogue, having twenty is quite farcical.  When prestige classes are melted into the blend, it makes it even more absurd.  Even those PrCs which are not specifically tied to an organisation (Red Wizards) should have a special feel and some roleplaying requisities.  In retrospect, I should have realised that it was a con when this character went to the temple of Correlon for the *first* time immediately before taking a level in templar.  Apparently, he was religious as a child (ie before the campaign).  Apparently.If you just regard character development as a flat set of building blocks to engineer a set of stats, then this is a perfectly legitimate, albeit unorthodox, method of character creation.  To those of us whom regard a character as much more than that, it's a violation of that very notion.</blockquote>