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<blockquote data-quote="Bad Paper" data-source="post: 3198200" data-attributes="member: 24674">When you lose a level, you lose it from the class with the highest number of levels.&nbsp; Your situation would only apply to a third-level PC dropped to second.&nbsp; If you're that low of level, you have other things about which to worry, and you'll get that level back in the blink of an eye.&nbsp; If &quot;you didn't want [Barbarian 2] anyway,&quot; then you shouldn't have taken the class at all.&nbsp; That's the point of the rule.It's amazing that you discovered some sort of incongruity between this game and the real world!&nbsp; I wonder how often that happens.Every class has some kind of penalty built in: you can't wear metal armor, or you have a crappy skill list, or you need to lug this damn spellbook around.&nbsp; Barbarian is the only class that has a penalty (Illiteracy) that disappears if you take another class before taking barbarian.&nbsp; My houserule fixes that, and reflects the wizard's extra effort to &quot;keep in shape&quot; while learning the fine art of barbarianism.&nbsp; This also reflects my flavor preference: that a barbarian/wizard is just weird.I once made a grapple monkey that was a monk/ranger/wizard/fleshwarper.&nbsp; Yeah, we do these things.&nbsp; What else is there to do but break the system?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bad Paper, post: 3198200, member: 24674"] When you lose a level, you lose it from the class with the highest number of levels. Your situation would only apply to a third-level PC dropped to second. If you're that low of level, you have other things about which to worry, and you'll get that level back in the blink of an eye. If "you didn't want [Barbarian 2] anyway," then you shouldn't have taken the class at all. That's the point of the rule.It's amazing that you discovered some sort of incongruity between this game and the real world! I wonder how often that happens. Every class has some kind of penalty built in: you can't wear metal armor, or you have a crappy skill list, or you need to lug this damn spellbook around. Barbarian is the [b]only[/b] class that has a penalty (Illiteracy) that disappears if you take another class [b]before[/b] taking barbarian. My houserule fixes that, and reflects the wizard's extra effort to "keep in shape" while learning the fine art of barbarianism. This also reflects my flavor preference: that a barbarian/wizard is just weird.I once made a grapple monkey that was a monk/ranger/wizard/fleshwarper. Yeah, we do these things. What else is there to do but break the system? [/QUOTE]

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