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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4196017" data-attributes="member: 40961">Love it.Its very different from 3e multiclassing.  But its a better solution.A 3e multiclass character often fell far from both trees.  For example, if you played a multiclass 50/50 fighter/wizard, and you ever tried to rely on straight melee with no magical buffs, you were a fool.  You lacked the HP, attack bonus, and AC to accomplish that.  Likewise, if you tried to rely on throwing fireballs at someone, you were (less, but still) a fool.  Your best bet was to create a hybrid buff/power attack/polymorph combination that resembled none of the original classes.  Or, run as fast as you could for a PRC.Now, we don't have full 50/50s.  But we DO have a structure that lets a Fighter/Wizard cast a Fireball and expect it to rock someone's world.  That fireball is no longer massively gimped by coming from a multiclass character.  Likewise, a Wizard/Fighter who wants to bust someone's head with an ax can take a Fighter power that lets him do that, and gains a great backup for when things get dirty and close quarters.Meanwhile, the 50/50s sucked before until you got a PRC to fix them.  Now they'll need base classes.  Its not that different, but it does have a "we meant to do it this way" vibe that 3e multiclass PRCs did not.  I'm ok with that.  We've already got one (in spite of what people pretend, paladin is a cleric/fighter hybrid, always has been).  The spellblade or whatever the heck its called is coming out rather soon for those who want magical buffs and teleports to augment their melee.</blockquote>

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