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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7182098" data-attributes="member: 29398">You ban halflings?&nbsp; You don't mention gnomes, so I assume you allow those?&nbsp; That's going to have a negative effect on your alignment audit, you know.As far as I'm concerned, in general the harder it is to multiclass the better.&nbsp; You could even ban it outright and I wouldn't shed any tears.3e's version of multiclassing was, in my own experience having tried it, rather awful; particularly if one or both classes was a caster.I don't mind it at all, for a few reasons:- it allows me to more easily run adventures in vastly different climates and settings (desert, arctic, jungle, etc.) now and then without having to DM weeks or months of travel- in my game teleportation has risks (this is an important balancer!); in that in most cases every time you use it there's a small chance you'll end up in solid rock or something similar: dead- it gives parties more choices as to what to do next and how to go about it- it requires a lot of resource use to be able to take an entire party along on a teleportThe one I did have to rein in was Planeshift, as even in 1e it has no risk and can take more people; what I did (to quite good effect thus far) was restrict the arrival points to one of a) your first point of entry to a given plane*, or b) a previously-visited temple to your own deity.&nbsp; The only exception is when going to your own deity's home plane your arrival point is predetermined (though always safe).* - on anyone's home world this would, of course, be their birthplaceLan-&quot;if the Great Serpent of the Norse was just a bit bigger it'd be 'planes on a snake'&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7182098, member: 29398"] You ban halflings? You don't mention gnomes, so I assume you allow those? That's going to have a negative effect on your alignment audit, you know. As far as I'm concerned, in general the harder it is to multiclass the better. You could even ban it outright and I wouldn't shed any tears. 3e's version of multiclassing was, in my own experience having tried it, rather awful; particularly if one or both classes was a caster. I don't mind it at all, for a few reasons: - it allows me to more easily run adventures in vastly different climates and settings (desert, arctic, jungle, etc.) now and then without having to DM weeks or months of travel - in my game teleportation has risks ([B]this is an important balancer![/B]); in that in most cases every time you use it there's a small chance you'll end up in solid rock or something similar: dead - it gives parties more choices as to what to do next and how to go about it - it requires a lot of resource use to be able to take an entire party along on a teleport The one I did have to rein in was Planeshift, as even in 1e it has no risk and can take more people; what I did (to quite good effect thus far) was restrict the arrival points to one of a) your first point of entry to a given plane*, or b) a previously-visited temple to your own deity. The only exception is when going to your own deity's home plane your arrival point is predetermined (though always safe). * - on anyone's home world this would, of course, be their birthplace Lan-"if the Great Serpent of the Norse was just a bit bigger it'd be 'planes on a snake'"-efan [/QUOTE]

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