How Is Multi-classing Working In Your Campaign? (not including PrCs)

[Laslo Tremaine]

A couple of things have gotten me thinking recently...

How is multi-classing working out in your campaign? How many people are actually using it (and I don't consider Prestige Classes to be multi-classing)?

It seems to me that fighters and rogues do fine with multi-classing, but any caster gets pretty disadvantaged by it.

In my main campaign we have the following...

Human Cleric of Pelor, 8th lvl
Elven Ranger, 9th lvl (Monte Cook's variant FYI)
Halfling Bard, 10th lvl
Human Wizard, 9th lvl
Human Rogue, 10th lvl
Human Conjurer/Alienist, 5/4
Human Monk/Rogue, 6/3 (Due to a curse that changed his alignment)
Half-Celestial Satyr Barbarian, 5th lvl (don't ask...)

So in our group we have one person who has multi-classed, and that is due to a curse that made him chaotic, not by the player's choice.

How do things fare in your campaign?

 

[Moonlion]

For all the people I play with in toto, it's actually closer to 90%.

Most everyone selects a prestige class at one time or another. About 15% choose more than one core class.

 

[el-remmen]

Well, I chose 50% only because one of the players plans to have his character pick up some rogue levels soon - and that will mke half the party multi-classed. . .

Of course, I have some restrictions on multi-classing (like it takes a lot of time, money and effort to train for it) so it is not as prevalent as it would be in a game that does not take into account such things as the amount of time it woudl take to learn to cast spells or to enter a seminary. . . or how to use every martial weapon pretty well.

 

[Victim]

Our fighter took some rogue levels. In our intitial group, everyone else was a spellcaster, and dabbling when your main class is a caster really hurts spell progression.

 

[Cloudgatherer]

My group has been playing since 3e came out. I've had one PC take one level of sorcerer with his monk, but that's it. Every other character has been a straight classed character (not including PrCs).

 

[CRGreathouse]

I choose 1/4, but 1/2 is technically correct - I have a Bbn11/Clr1 in the group.

 

[Uvenelei]

In the past year, through two dozen or so PC's from various short-run campaigns, maybe one has multiclassed. And that was only so he could get into a Prestige class, so he did it for one or two levels early on.

 

[Psion]

We had a 50/50 fighter monk for a while (he was an elf and had to stick by the one level rule... and no, I do not use the stupid monk advancement rule as written.)

We had one character take some fighter levels to help him qualify of a PrC, and one was a wizard with two fighter levels.

The rest of the characters have been single class except for those with PrC's.

 

[Eye Tyrant]

I started my primary PC off with the variant multiclass rules, where you start off 0/0 with 500xp in each class...

 

[Hadraniel]

everyone in our campaign has multi-classed. I am playing a psionic warrior/rogue/shadowdancer. I have the psionic warrior to help with my rogue abilities...psionic leap is pretty sweet. Most of us wanted to start playing our prestige classes before we started.

Fighter/Bard = swashbuckler
Barb/ranger = scout and drow slayer
Pal/Monk = it has to do with his history
Cleric/Wiz = the man who makes the stuff

Most of us are at the point to prestige class.