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<blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 2785489" data-attributes="member: 36150">If you ask me, Gestalt rules found in the Unearthed Arcana is the ultimate solution... with a few tweaks.Have the players pick two core classes.&nbsp; They MUST stick with the two core classes until they are able to prestige.&nbsp; After that point, they can choose to level in a prestige class and one or the other of their core classes.Personally, I prefer the new multi-classing rules.&nbsp; I would rather have a character that can do a lot of things kinda well than a few things extremely well.Have you ever looked at Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed/Evoved?&nbsp; That is an excellent alternate Players' Handbook that is fully 3.x compatible (Unearthed 3.0, Evolved 3.5 I think; don't quote me) and encourages characters to stick with one class to 20th level.&nbsp; Each class has stong abilities all across the board, and it's actually worth it to level one class all the way to 20.&nbsp; Multi-classing is still permissible, but one actually misses out on the really good stuff if one does so.Compare the PHB: Other than the Monk and the Druid (and I suppose the Bard), no class gets any really new or impressive abilities past 10th level.&nbsp; So why bother sticking it out to 20th when you can have all the good stuff in the earlier levels?&nbsp; There's no real motivation (to me, anyway) to make a 20th level Fighter, say.&nbsp; Mages and Clerics, sure... at least they get new and more powerful spells, but really aren't that impressive otherwise.&nbsp; Anyhow, I'm starting to ramble, but I hope I made my point. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Herobizkit, post: 2785489, member: 36150"] If you ask me, Gestalt rules found in the Unearthed Arcana is the ultimate solution... with a few tweaks. Have the players pick two core classes. They MUST stick with the two core classes until they are able to prestige. After that point, they can choose to level in a prestige class and one or the other of their core classes. Personally, I prefer the new multi-classing rules. I would rather have a character that can do a lot of things kinda well than a few things extremely well. Have you ever looked at Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed/Evoved? That is an excellent alternate Players' Handbook that is fully 3.x compatible (Unearthed 3.0, Evolved 3.5 I think; don't quote me) and encourages characters to stick with one class to 20th level. Each class has stong abilities all across the board, and it's actually worth it to level one class all the way to 20. Multi-classing is still permissible, but one actually misses out on the really good stuff if one does so. Compare the PHB: Other than the Monk and the Druid (and I suppose the Bard), no class gets any really new or impressive abilities past 10th level. So why bother sticking it out to 20th when you can have all the good stuff in the earlier levels? There's no real motivation (to me, anyway) to make a 20th level Fighter, say. Mages and Clerics, sure... at least they get new and more powerful spells, but really aren't that impressive otherwise. Anyhow, I'm starting to ramble, but I hope I made my point. :) [/QUOTE]

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