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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 5995856" data-attributes="member: 545">In the example I provided, my PC would be in an 8ish level party.  So he would have 8th level Fighter HPs (good!).  But as he progresses along his new career direction he has the abilities of a low level Thief.From the perspective of the other PCs in the party, he is sandbagging in the most absurd manner and taking a full share of XP and gold and magic items.  After all, in order to get any XP at all, my PC is only using the abilities of a Thief, i.e. he sucks and expects to be treated like a full party member.  Isn't that, well, stupid?Now this is not so bad if the dual classing happens at lowish level.  It is huge later along the campaign. I may be misremembering how the HPs work...I will have to look that up.  Anyone have their 1e PHB handy, not sure where mine is right now...</blockquote>