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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malkav666" data-source="post: 4805352" data-attributes="member: 70565">Well in this case I think the design article is correct.In previous editions a fighter/barbarian would be about the same as a barbarian fighter in so much as they would both have roughly the choices and could in fact be made exactly the same if one so desired.Do to the way multiclassing is handled in 4e (which I personally do not like, but that is not a matter for this thread), a fighter who takes the barbarian multiclass feat is really a full blown fighter with a little bit of barbarian dashed in, and a barbarian who takes the fighter multiclass is just a fighter with a few barbarian perks. I think that they would remain different enough to be considered two different builds as they would draw the lion share of their class powers from two different lists. Point in case, you could not make the exact same character stroke for stroke when comparing a 4e fighter/barb vs. a 4e barb/fighter.Whereas in older renditions (3e in this example) I could make a barb/fighter (take my first level barbarian and second as fighter) and a fighter/barb (the reverse) and the only thing stopping me from being able to get 100% duplicity between the two would be the way 3.e handles skills at level 1. The in combat maneuvers of these characters could be the exact same if I wished. In 4e this is not the case. A fighter is a fighter no matter what type of multiclass topping I choose to sprinkle on top. (of which I have 16 different flavors to choose from at this time). love,malkav</blockquote>

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