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<blockquote data-quote="am181d" data-source="post: 5880589" data-attributes="member: 3576"><p>3e Multi-Classing is the best.</p><p></p><p>1e/2e rules never made any sense: Elves are nearly immortal, but they advance in all classes at once and cap prematurely, but humans live a fraction as long, take one class at a time, and get unlimited advancement? Nonsense.</p><p></p><p>Don't like the 4e rules either. It's clearly a hack because they couldn't figure out a proper way to balance the math. Like when they nerfed polymorph and wildshape.</p><p></p><p>My only objection to 3e multi-classing is the caster level problem, but setting caster level equal to class level goes a long way (if not all the way) to solving that problem. I'd probably also take the spells per level chart and turn it into a "spells you get at each level chart" so that if you're a 16th level fighter who takes 17th level in wizard, you can cast Wish 1/day but nothing else. In my opinion, this approach makes a lot more sense *story-wise* than the default. (If I'm a legendary war hero who has toppled empires and killed demi-gods, and I decide I want to learn a spell, I'm gonna learn a frickin' great spell.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="am181d, post: 5880589, member: 3576"] 3e Multi-Classing is the best. 1e/2e rules never made any sense: Elves are nearly immortal, but they advance in all classes at once and cap prematurely, but humans live a fraction as long, take one class at a time, and get unlimited advancement? Nonsense. Don't like the 4e rules either. It's clearly a hack because they couldn't figure out a proper way to balance the math. Like when they nerfed polymorph and wildshape. My only objection to 3e multi-classing is the caster level problem, but setting caster level equal to class level goes a long way (if not all the way) to solving that problem. I'd probably also take the spells per level chart and turn it into a "spells you get at each level chart" so that if you're a 16th level fighter who takes 17th level in wizard, you can cast Wish 1/day but nothing else. In my opinion, this approach makes a lot more sense *story-wise* than the default. (If I'm a legendary war hero who has toppled empires and killed demi-gods, and I decide I want to learn a spell, I'm gonna learn a frickin' great spell.) [/QUOTE]
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