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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 2791761" data-attributes="member: 12460">Hardly. As a perfect case in point, I offer myself. I'm currently working on two separate degrees, one in Genetics and one in History, two completely unrelated fields. Virtually all of my friends from Freshman year have graduated while meanwhile I am in my fifth year and three semesters away from graduation. Of course, in this situation, I feel the 2nd-edition multi-classing rules were actually superior. Therein, I'd be a multi-class geneticist/historian who would probably be 1.5 levels behind the rest of the party, but my class abilities would be roughly even and my loyalties an amalgam of the two. But this is ENWorld so we're talking about 3rd edition where (assuming each year in school = 1 level) I'd be a geneticist2/historian2 and four years from graduation (i.e. 4 levels in each class).The problem with 2nd edition is it couldn't account for the historian who 10 years later decides to go back to school and become a geneticist unless you were a dual-classing human, at which point you could never go back to being a historian again, but retained all your previous knowledge of being a historian once you have accomplished an equal amount of study in genetics (in the meantime I guess you just aren't refreshing yourself with the facts of history). 3rd edition is superior in this regard. It allows me to pick up a new line of work at any point in my life and retain the skils I previously developed, even allowing me to go back to developing them further later if I so desire. However, it doesn't account for the difficulty of keeping your skills practiced in two different fields. I can guarantee you it would be quite difficult to maintain proficiency IRL in two different professional fields (for instance a software engineer and a lawyer) and it would in some way hamper your ability to proceed through both at the same rate as someone who stuck to one field. I feel like an experience penalty is an appropriate way to simulate this.</blockquote>

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