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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 7985659" data-attributes="member: 6855114">Mmmm... I could not disagree more on that view. A fighter knows he's a fighter. Just as a navy SEAL knows he's a navy SEAL and not a jet fighter pilot. He might know how to pilot, but it is not his area of expertise. A medical doctor knows he's a doctor and if he is a neural surgeon, he'll not only define himself by neural surgery but he will present himself (or herself) as such.How people perceive you culturaly has no bearing on what you have trained to be. It could be part of your culture, yes. But it has no bearing on what you are. A medical doctor is a medical doctor. No matter his sex, origin or religious beliefs. The same goes for a mechanic, a secretary or whatever.The fighter, paladin, barbarian, ranger, monk and thief are part of the martial classes. They can all fight. That is for sure. But the paladin is not a fighter nor is he a monk or a barbarian and the same goes for the others. They are not a fighter unless they take a level in the fighter class.  Would not work this way. A player can learn the class of another player since the player would be "teaching" his way to his friend. But if no divine caster are in the group, then the fighter better have a good story to justify this. With the right set of background it could be entirely possible. A fighter taking the acolyte background would be justified in doing so, especialy if he had been RPing the religious aspect of his fighter. I would allow and encourage such a change.But the fighter with the criminal background deciding somehting like this out of the blue, without any previous RP for such a switch, will have a lot explaining how it could happen (storywise). And I would not be the one asking for the motivation (RP wise) for this kind of switch. I can bet you that it would be the other players that would ask for what was the trigger. Not only I would not allow it, but the other players would expect as much.As for your experience in multiclassing. You are one of the few that do it this way. IME most multiclassing happen when the character starts higher than 1st level. I may be wrong, but that is what I have seen so far not only in my games, but in the games of a dozen or so masters that are in my area (at least those that I know and have as accointance).</blockquote>

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