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<blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 4748537" data-attributes="member: 537">(reposted from RPGnet)I'm really dubious about this.I guess the reason they're doing this is to address a known drawback of the 4E paradigm: less flexibility when it comes to chargen. Going back to the quasi-building-blocks approach of 3E does address this, but brings with it all the drawbacks of THAT paradigm.At least it looks like they know this, which is why it isn't RPGA-legal (yet), won't appear in the DDI, and there's sidebar after sidebar of disclaimers and warnings. I'm not convinced that they'll iron out all the problems by the time PHB3 goes to print; they didn't succeed in 2000 or 2003, and there's no reason to suppose it'll be different now. Therefore, if they do go ahead with this, let's hope the disclaimers and warnings stay in the book. It won't stop the CharOp mavens, but it might go some way to keeping newbies out of the traps.Edit: Should add however, Lizard has posted some cogent arguments why the newbie trap thing might not be as bad as all that. Basically, it should be a lot more transparent than previous editions' multiclassing, so it's easy to tell whether you've accidentally gimped yourself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hong, post: 4748537, member: 537"] (reposted from RPGnet) I'm really dubious about this. I guess the reason they're doing this is to address a known drawback of the 4E paradigm: less flexibility when it comes to chargen. Going back to the quasi-building-blocks approach of 3E does address this, but brings with it all the drawbacks of THAT paradigm. At least it looks like they know this, which is why it isn't RPGA-legal (yet), won't appear in the DDI, and there's sidebar after sidebar of disclaimers and warnings. I'm not convinced that they'll iron out all the problems by the time PHB3 goes to print; they didn't succeed in 2000 or 2003, and there's no reason to suppose it'll be different now. Therefore, if they do go ahead with this, let's hope the disclaimers and warnings stay in the book. It won't stop the CharOp mavens, but it might go some way to keeping newbies out of the traps. Edit: Should add however, Lizard has posted some cogent arguments why the newbie trap thing might not be as bad as all that. Basically, it should be a lot more transparent than previous editions' multiclassing, so it's easy to tell whether you've accidentally gimped yourself. [/QUOTE]

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