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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 6084260" data-attributes="member: 98255">I've played with a guy for many years that loved hybrid rules purely from their ability to be exploited, much as that same gamer would do when multiclassing under 3.x. The two systems (3.x MC vs 4e hybrids) share a lot in common; both are easy to break in either direction and appeal to two sets of gamers for distinct reasons. Additionally, the reasoning for supporting them is the same.As many proponents of either system will use 'organic character growth' or the ability to play that special snowflake as a reason to use either system, as will use it because of its ability to create broken characters, and in both cases, you can't have one without the other. 3.x tried to balance things by adding XP costs for excessive multiclassing, but all that does is set the parameters for gaming the system - obviously it was still possible and easy to do for those with the inclinations.4e tried to balance it by making it a huge sacrifice of class features, but because of the way some classes were designed, this was only partly successful, leaving them, in the end, to say, "this is potentially broken; use it at your own peril."At least they were up front about it.</blockquote>