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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7225510" data-attributes="member: 20564">I see this is that years studying prior to starting adventuring can make even someone ill-suited at least minimally competent, but you need to have some talent in order to merge two different disciplines and use them both together.&nbsp; Seems okay to me.This is because D&amp;D doesn't have an &quot;abandon path&quot; mechanic.&nbsp; 5e multiclassing is additive, and assumes you are using everything you have from both (which includes your skills, weapon and armor proficiencies, HPs and saves as well as your class features).&nbsp; If it had a way to say &quot;F-orget this, magic is no good, let me bang on things with a club&quot;, it would work.To be honest, you could write that into your backstory - take an appropriate background for skills and say you tried to study magic but couldn't make it.&nbsp; 5e lacks a formal mechanic once you reach 1st level.But the example - I am bad at casting magic, which means I can flawlessly cast magic under pressure while also also working an unrelated discipline - is just as off-putting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7225510, member: 20564"] I see this is that years studying prior to starting adventuring can make even someone ill-suited at least minimally competent, but you need to have some talent in order to merge two different disciplines and use them both together. Seems okay to me. This is because D&D doesn't have an "abandon path" mechanic. 5e multiclassing is additive, and assumes you are using everything you have from both (which includes your skills, weapon and armor proficiencies, HPs and saves as well as your class features). If it had a way to say "F-orget this, magic is no good, let me bang on things with a club", it would work. To be honest, you could write that into your backstory - take an appropriate background for skills and say you tried to study magic but couldn't make it. 5e lacks a formal mechanic once you reach 1st level. But the example - I am bad at casting magic, which means I can flawlessly cast magic under pressure while also also working an unrelated discipline - is just as off-putting. [/QUOTE]

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