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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 5993201" data-attributes="member: 6689464">I guess it all comes to how you see multiclassing, multiclassing as dabbling, multiclassing as a turning point or mullticlassing as broadeningAD&D Multiclass-Dabbling is impossible-Pretty much the posterchild for Broadening-Not good at all as a turning pointDualclass-You can "dabble" by starting on a class ans quickly changing classes-Difficult for broadening of your abiliites, but there is a sweet spot-Excellent as a turning point, but there is no looking back3.X-You can dabble at any point unless your primary class had a restriction -Easy to broadden your abilities, but they get too diluted at times, specially for spellcasters-Good as a turning point, but you can also look back.4e Feat multiclassing- Very good for dabbling.- Not too good for broadenning your abilities, but some good feat chains allow you the equivalent of extra encounters and dailies.- Extremely taxing as a turning point, it would consume five feats on average and your paragon path, not to mention carefull planning and is a long process. Even then your starting class keeps advancing regardless of your wishes and you never get to be a full member of the new class and you can only do it once 4e Hybrid- Not good for simple dabbling, however humans could emulate it- Not as much as gainning breadth, but you get some flexibility - Since it is done at character creation, there is no place for multiclassing as a turning point, however psionic-non-psionic human/half elf hybrids can accomplish a better result by mixing with feat multiclassing, being able to get as much as three encounter powers from the second class (1 from paragon multiclass, 1 swap from psionic class and 1 swap from the non-psionic)  still takes a lot of time and consumes lots of resources and can only be done once.</blockquote>

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