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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Machiavelli" data-source="post: 2905265" data-attributes="member: 40964">For roleplay purposes, in almost every situation it makes next to NO sense to cherrypick classes, unless you need those levels of those classes to qualify for a prestige class your character is striving for.  Unless your character is VERY erratic and non-commital (hard to imagine roping such a character into joining an advanturing party, though, isn't it?) why would he/she decide one day to be a monk, and then leave the monastery and join a warmage college, after a year of classes head out to the courts of nobility to entertain and beguile the rich, then next year join the temple of a god, before thrusting him/herself into the wilds to be first a brutally savage barbarian, then a protector of nature, with a final few lessons at the skilled hands of a random ranger met in the woods?Yet this sort of ridiculousness happens in cherry-picking.  My worry then isn't so much that a munchkin is power-gaming, but that a DM is oblivious to the insanity.But anyway, yeah, I do indeed like the Rage rewrite, even though I don't think the side-effect of discouraging cherry-picking is really all that necessary.  It's for that reason that I don't mind the Cleric's turn undead ability: if you take 1 level of Cleric just to have the ability and use it for some power-gaming purpose (Divine feats, et al.), you should be promptly bitch-slapped back into playable fantasy by your DM.  Clerics tend to be "clerical" for life, and should be inevitablity drawn to add more levels if not pressed onward to a higher calling (such as a PrC with Cleric prerequisites).</blockquote>

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