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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5830662" data-attributes="member: 35909">I'm ok with the xp penalty BUT I hate how it works.  By that I mean, especially with the non-core classes, it basically forces you to be human if you want to multiclass.  There is no favored class (scout) or favored class (warblade) or whatever as far as I know.  I also disagree with the assignments of many of the PHB races.I think every race that doesn't get favored class (any) should have a LOOOOONG list of racially appropriate classes.  IMO, cleric and rogue should be options for any race, since they are so fundamentally basic (Fighter, on the other hand, is not; for example I would give Elves Warblade, Swashbuckler, and so forth as melee class options but not the full plate tower and shield trained Fighter).  A player picks one of them and treats that as his favored class.  Favored class (any), instead of treating the highest leveled class as favored, would in turn treat whichever one as favored would be most beneficial.  So a human fighter 5 / barbarian 4 / rogue 1 would be able to have rogue as favored class, not fighter, and avoid the xp penalty.That's how I try to handle it.  Haven't DMed in a while and most of my friends tend to play humans anyway so it actually seldom comes up.</blockquote>