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<blockquote data-quote="Driddle" data-source="post: 1630560" data-attributes="member: 3447">As posted on the ENW front page, the &quot;Buy the Numbers&quot; PDF product has been released. I didn't know such a thing was in the works, but it would seem to answer the question I've had for a while, &quot;Why doesn't someone deconstruct the d20 D&amp;D character design system?&quot;&nbsp; You know, make it easier to pick and choose the abilities you really want when you're multiclassing instead of investing in an entire level of a class that means nothing to you otherwise.The product blurb reads as follows:Tired of multi-classing, just to get one ability from a certain class? Perhaps you wanted to be a Rogue with a few spells, but the ‘singing’ Bard was not appealing. Maybe you wanted to be a nature warrior, but did not desire all the spells from the Ranger class? Have you ever wanted a mage who could rage? Have you ever thought it was silly to adventure for weeks and weeks without ever showing improvement, but then you hit a ‘magic’ number of xp and ‘BAM’: all of your abilities increase? ...I don't want this to spin off into a product review thread (which would mean it needs to go elsewhere on the board). Instead, I'd like to discuss the viability of such a system that would allow the experience-point &quot;purchase&quot; of a single BAB bonus, for example, or spell-casting level without all the extras. Is it a Bad Thing or a Good Thing?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Driddle, post: 1630560, member: 3447"] As posted on the ENW front page, the "Buy the Numbers" PDF product has been released. I didn't know such a thing was in the works, but it would seem to answer the question I've had for a while, "Why doesn't someone deconstruct the d20 D&D character design system?" You know, make it easier to pick and choose the abilities you really want when you're multiclassing instead of investing in an entire level of a class that means nothing to you otherwise. The product blurb reads as follows: [I]Tired of multi-classing, just to get one ability from a certain class? Perhaps you wanted to be a Rogue with a few spells, but the ‘singing’ Bard was not appealing. Maybe you wanted to be a nature warrior, but did not desire all the spells from the Ranger class? Have you ever wanted a mage who could rage? Have you ever thought it was silly to adventure for weeks and weeks without ever showing improvement, but then you hit a ‘magic’ number of xp and ‘BAM’: all of your abilities increase? ...[/I] I don't want this to spin off into a product review thread (which would mean it needs to go elsewhere on the board). Instead, I'd like to discuss the viability of such a system that would allow the experience-point "purchase" of a single BAB bonus, for example, or spell-casting level without all the extras. Is it a Bad Thing or a Good Thing? [/QUOTE]

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