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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1216942" data-attributes="member: 813">{GREAT BIG PLUG}Check out <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1828&src=ThrowingDice" target="_blank">Character Customization</a> for a method to customize core classes. The first third of the PDF is dedicated to a method of customization that involves chunking the bits and pieces of the core classes into "tracks" and then you trade the tracks your class has that you don't want for the tracks that you do want.The system presented warns that DM discretion is advised. (Any system can be broken if you throw enough munchkins at it.) Sample customized classes are printed with each class.Don't just take my word for it. Read the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/reviews/index.php?sub=yes&where=currentprod&which=CC" target="_blank">reviews</a> available from enworld to help make your decision. CC is 3.0 compatible only. I'm still tweaking it to 3.5 because all of those minor changes to the character classes modify the chunking of tracks in subtle ways.{/GREAT BIG PLUG}I feel so late to the party. I think the best part about approaching this from the modify existing classes side is that it maintains the class feel of the game. The modified class just becomes another available class in the world. As DM you don't feel bad when you use the character's own class variant against them. If you used some sort of point-buy system or other classless option, sending a clone of your PCs against them is trite.I don't like how multiclassing works in 3e. It never gives me the right feel. A fighter/rogue is not a swashbuckler. A fighter/wizard s not a battle mage. They are only approximations of the idea.</blockquote>

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