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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5119387" data-attributes="member: 25619">98th percentile isn't that elite.  Think of it this way.  There are ~700 Major League baseball players, mostly ages 20-40, out of how many millions of males in that age range who played baseball (or softball, or wiffle ball, or other precursors) across all the countries that play it?98th percentile would be something like one of the top 50,000 turning 20 in each year . . . not even good enough for a good college team.I figure D&D characters are similarly a rare elite, well into the 99th percentile of the population.Which means expecting a fighter to be as good as a cleric at healing is like expecting a pitcher to be a good power hitter -- possible, but rare enough that requiring multi-classing to "pay for it" doesn't seem unfair to me.Nod.Malcolm Gladwell said (paraphrasing) that to be really excellent at something, you generally have to spend 10,000 hours practicing it -- considering that 2000 hours is a normal working year, most people don't have time to do that quickly, for more than one field.  Heck, most people never get truly excellent at anything, other than watching TV.People more often do it serially than simultaneously, I think . . . I know a former minor leaguer (A short season) who's now a good software engineer.</blockquote>