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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gambler1650" data-source="post: 2809935" data-attributes="member: 11033">Just a bit more information, this time primarily for a couple members of the  group who have access to the 2nd Edition rules but not the 3rd Edition rules.In 3rd Edition (D20), there's something called Multi-Classing.  The upshot is, at each 'level up' due to experience, you get to choose which Class you want to take a level in.  Unlike 2nd Edition, each character class doesn't have its own Experience Point table for determining when to  level up, each character uses the same Experience Point table.  So... you start off as a Fighter.  Maybe after a couple of levels you decide you should learn how to fight better without weapons.  So at 4th level you take a Defender class level instead of a 4th Fighter Level.  You are now a 3rd level Fighter/1st level Defender.  All skills for the new class are determined according to that class.  So a former 'Class Skill' when you were taking Fighter levels could become a Cross Class Skill  instead.  If all the levels of your various classes are within 1 level of each other (3rd level Fighter, 2nd level Defender) then you suffer no Experience Point penalty.  However, if you have a difference of more than 1 level between any two classes your character has, you gain a 20% experience point penalty (you gain 20% less experience for any XP award) until your levels are within 1 of each other again.  Each race has a 'Favored Class' and basically you ignore that class for purposes of determining this penalty.  For instance, a Dwarf has Fighter as their Favored Class.  That means a character with Level 5 Fighter, Level 3 Defender, Level 2 Channeler suffers no XP penalty, but a Level 5 fighter, Level 4 Defender, Level 2 Channeler would.Additionally, there are 'Prestige Classes'.  These are Classes that you can only take levels in if you meet certain requirements (often class levels in a base class, being of a certain race, having a certain alignment, etc).   They usually permit greater powers per level than the base classes.  In this campaign, Prestige Classes will be permitted via roleplay.. ie, learning of a secret organization, seeing someone do something that you'd like to do, etc.  I will probably give a list of Prestige Classes to each person, and they can give me a response of which they'd be interested in pursuing, and I can try to work that into the story.  However this won't happen for a bit.Finally, Midnight has something called "Legendary Classes".  Only the most remarkable individuals in  the world of Midnight become Legends.  Each Legendary Class has 5 levels.  Once a character takes a Legendary Class level, they must take the next 4 before they're allowed to take any other class level (unlike Prestige Classes where a character could take 1 Prestige Class level, then a base class, then another Prestige Class level in the same or different Prestige Class, etc).  These will be even more restrictive and I will likely not provide a list of them.  Instead, your character will be approached by a member of said Legendary Class if they catch the eye of the organization.  Mind you, this will happen past 10th level, and I have no idea how far we'll actually get. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Finally, and this is important for the 2nd Edition AD&D players.  An orc is not an always an orc.  An orc could be Gark, Slayer of Dwarves.  Humanoid (and some other creatures) can now take Class levels too.  In 2nd Edition AD&D, orcs were probably never seen again after the party reached a certain level.  Here, you can see a 20th level orc (or a goblin for that matter).  So the upshot is, never assume that the inauspicious orc you see alone is cannon fodder.  It might be.  Probably 90% of the time it's just a scout, or hunter.  But it could be Gark...</blockquote>

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