How common are multi or prestige classed PCs?

[Moe Ronalds]

My group is made almost entirely of people that are new to the game except for me and the alternate GM. The alternate GM has yet to pick up another class or PrC in any of my games, though I'm playing a fighter/rogue swashbuckler type in his.

 

[Chimera]

It used to be fairly common in 2e, but in 3e it has been pretty rare in the campaigns I've been in.

My Houserules tend to limit multiclassing (it requires 6 game months of training to gain a new class and you can only be a Bard, Wizard, Sorcerer or Psion if you were born with that ability), so I expect it won't happen too much when I start the next campaign up this fall.

The first exception is Fighter (or Warrior), which may be picked up after six game months of Adventuring experience.

The second is if the player worked at it, I would accept an apprenticeship to another PC for that time to gain the class.

 

[johnsemlak]

In my current game I beleive only 1 out of six characters (all level 6) are muticlassed. We're all aiming for a prestige class, however. My fighter will take some cleric levels to meet the PrC requirements however.

If I were the DM, I would modify the PrC in question so I didn't have to mulitclass to get it, but that's another story.

 

[dave_o]

In the campaign I play in, all the PCs (and NPC) are straight classes, all around 13th level. I'm the only multiclass, and that's only a Rogue 11/Guild Thief 2. So, it's not too big of a stretch.

I tend to dig mutliclassing, though. A concept I really wanna try out is a Sorcerer/Fighter duelist. Maybe even Sorcerer/Fighter/Rogue.

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