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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 9042971" data-attributes="member: 6750908">My very first D&D character ever, in AD&D First Edition in 1993, was a single-classed (and very illegal) Elf Monk.I have not played a single-class character since, and I don't intend to ever start.The Third Edition "pick a class every level" style of multiclassing was always bad; to Wizards' credit, they figured it out very early in Third Edition's lifespan and spent all of 3.5's life cycle slapping bandaids on it. It degraded class design to accommodate it, leading to defining class features being delayed until later levels and an accumulation of pointless ribbon features to avoid "dead levels".Finally, for Fourth Edition, Wizards abandoned this system in favor of feat-based multiclassing and the hybrid system in PHB3.The fundamental premise isn't any better in Fifth Edition than it was in Third, and in several ways, the implementation in Fifth Edition is considerably worse.Multiclassing was clunky and weird in AD&D, but it got the job done. Both of the multiclassing systems in 4e are... less than ideal, but they work well enough. Later Pathfinder (1e; I don't know 2e well) supplements, both official and third-party, included much more viable alternatives to the default Third Edition rules. (I wasted countless hours trying to come up with my own.) Even B/X, via a couple of different Gazetteers, had viable proto-multiclassing rules.Multiclassing is an important part of the game. Don't throw the baby out just because some people keep trying to drink the bathwater.</blockquote>

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