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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4476329" data-attributes="member: 19675">Its fair and balanced in that it doesn't violate the principle of "Opportunity Costs" and introduces no new problems via the Law of Unintended Consequences. 1) Human knowlege is incremental.2) Systems in which PCs can bypass learning all of the various precursors amount to "cutting in line" or "social promotion."  Were a 14th level warrior ("Conan") to walk into a school of Wizardry ("Hogwarts") and after a year of studies (multiclassing into Wiz1) demand to learn magic equivalent to a 15th level Mage...and actually gets to do so?  That would be unfair.3) In this case, the Law of Uninteded Consequences tells us that a system in which PCs can gain high level magic abilities after a minimum of study- our Conan learning Summon Monster VIII as his first spell- further marginalizes the non-magic using classes.  By and large, its accepted that after a certain point, the full casters simply outdo half- and non-casters in "power."A system that lets Conan grab arcane power like above is a further mechanical disinsentive to keep your PC solo classed.4) Its also unfair from an internal world consistency basis for the same reasons.  In such a world, there is no reason NOT to multiclass- those who don't are morons.  In such a world, magic academies or willing mentors couldn't teach anything low level and be profitable- why spend time in the middle of nowhere learning this and that unpleasant thing learning arcana when you can do what you want for most of your life, then show up and learn Shapechange over the weekend? Sure it does- realism is the launch point and foundation of any good game.  If nothing else, it provides the control versus which rules for reality warping effects- magic, psionics, ultratech- can be compared, mechanical incentives examined.</blockquote>

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