Class Combos

[Spatula]

I have always thought that ppl should use Multi-Classing to make there PrCl and some Core Classes.

Ranger = Fighter/Durid or Fighter/Cleric with Plant and Animal Domains.

The ranger is more of a fighter/rogue/cleric, really. Some of the class' most important class skills (hide, move silently, listen, spot) would otherwise be unavailable. I much prefer the existance of the core class to that sort of multiclassed monstrosity.

There needs to be a way to make multi-classing more ballenced with flat 1-20 characters. You can really hurt yourself with multi-classing to get your character concept.

What do you mean by more balanced? More powerful? You can hurt yourself with a single-class character as well, if you make poor feat, skill, or spell choices.

 

[melkoriii]

The ranger is more of a fighter/rogue/cleric, really. Some of the class' most important class skills (hide, move silently, listen, spot) would otherwise be unavailable. I much prefer the existance of the core class to that sort of multiclassed monstrosity.What do you mean by more balanced? More powerful? You can hurt yourself with a single-class character as well, if you make poor feat, skill, or spell choices.

Yes. BUt with Multi-classing you really lose out exspecualy if your a caster. You run into the same problems the Paladin and Ranger get at lvl 20. Save DC's that most anything can save against and spells that make little differance at that lvl.

Maybe they should have more things scale with character lvl rather then class lvl.

 

[Spatzimaus]

Mixing core classes works, up to a point. For one thing, anything involving a caster class suffers a caster level problem. For another, most core classes are at least a little front-loaded, and this can lead to some ridiculous extremes (You ought to meet Tattoo, the Halfling Barbarian/Bard/Fighter/Ranger/Shadow Dancer/Psychic Warrior/Assassin/Blackguard I used as an NPC bad guy, and that was before any splatbooks).

Now, if the core classes had been built in more generic, flexible ways (like the d20 Modern classes) then yes, I'd say you could make anything you need by mixing. But most of the 3E classes just aren't designed to be that flexible. In my opinion, of course.