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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4197195" data-attributes="member: 19675">Optimization Schmoptimization- those commandments are garbage.Multiclassing exists to help you find the best in-game representation of your mental vision of a PC, to realize that character & personality within the framework of the rules.  To do otherwise is to massage some rules to create a game artifact and slap a name on it- you might as well name them PC#1, PC#2, PC#3...PC#N.Nobody's barred from actually multiclassing- you just see it as somehow unfair that a multiclassed spellcaster actually has to give up something of value (N number of spells of Z levels) in order to gain something else of value (extra combat feats, sneak attack, whatever).Do you honestly think that its usually the case that a general practice physician is as good at brain surgery as a dedicated specialist?  Or that someone who is a world-class marksman who plays piano is equally good at it?  What about a person who bowls once a week as opposed to someone who bowls twice a day?NO- generally speaking, the person who picks one thing to practice is almost invariably better at it than those who dabble, and the 3.x multiclassing rules reflect that.</blockquote>