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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4289889" data-attributes="member: 22424">In which case I take back my criticisms of 4e multiclassing. That sort of thing is an abomination.Multiclassing should be about the range of options, traded against raw power. Your Fighter/Wizard should be on balance as powerful as Al's Fighter or Bob's Wizard, but he should be neither as good a Fighter as Al's character nor as good a Wizard as Bob's character.This sort of carefully calculated multiclassing built out of a level here, a dip there, PrC on top of PrC, all held together with careful selection of feats to get the maximum raw power at the expense of the fun of everyone else at the table is one of the worst things about 3e.No, and that's a good thing.What is less of a good thing is that it is impossible to build a triple-classed character at all, meaning that the Jack-of-all-trades concept is out. However, such characters were either massively overpowered (2nd Ed) or massively hampered by a lack of focus (3e), so I'm not terribly upset at its loss.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 4289889, member: 22424"] In which case I take back my criticisms of 4e multiclassing. That sort of thing is an abomination. Multiclassing should be about the range of options, traded against raw power. Your Fighter/Wizard should be on balance as powerful as Al's Fighter or Bob's Wizard, but he should be neither as good a Fighter as Al's character nor as good a Wizard as Bob's character. This sort of carefully calculated multiclassing built out of a level here, a dip there, PrC on top of PrC, all held together with careful selection of feats to get the maximum raw power at the expense of the fun of everyone else at the table is one of the worst things about 3e. No, and that's a good thing. What is less of a good thing is that it is impossible to build a triple-classed character at all, meaning that the Jack-of-all-trades concept is out. However, such characters were either massively overpowered (2nd Ed) or massively hampered by a lack of focus (3e), so I'm not terribly upset at its loss. [/QUOTE]

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