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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6077618" data-attributes="member: 87792">This.  For the record Stuart's non-wizards are also pawns but in my game both his warlock and his barbarian acted appropriately.  And any game should reward the behaviours it wishes to encourage.Hybrids do cause problems (they are one of the very few things I ban; my ban list basically amounts to every class in the PHB 3 except the Monk unless you can give me a very good non-mechanical reason to let one of the five other PHB 3 classes in, and hybrids are hard-banned).  The basic problem with hybrids is that if you don't know what you are doing you end up with a thoroughgoing mess that gets tangled in its own action economy and does nothing well - and if you do you can get either the combined strengths of two classes (the Archer Ranger gives up very little to go hybrid, and can gain half the healing of a warlord by hybriding with a lazylord) or some synergies that were simply not meant to be like the Executioner/Warlock with a 4d8+Con or Cha Melee Basic Attack at level 2.</blockquote>