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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6275992" data-attributes="member: 58197">You can take "most of" and "since AD&D" out of that sentence. Thanks to exponential XP charts, AD&D multiclassing within the level range of most campaigns amounted to "Instead of being a wizard X, you are a wizard X-1/fighter X-1 gestalt." It was crazy-broken. With 3E you had to wait for ill-conceived splatbooks to really exploit the multiclass system. AD&D let you do it out of the box.IMO, the ideal multiclass system would support both the 1-2 level dip and the even split. I think they're on the way to accomplishing that; there is clearly a lot of thought going into it. To enable a more "old-school" feel, they could include a module along these lines:Limited MulticlassingIf your DM chooses to allow only limited multiclassing, you use the multiclass system as described, but with the following restrictions:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Non-humans who multi-class must spread their class levels as evenly as possible. Your level in any class can never be more than 1 level ahead of any other class. Furthermore, once you reach 2nd level in any class, you can never add another class.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Multi-classed elves must be part wizard.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Multi-classed dwarves must be part fighter.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Multi-classed halflings must be part rogue.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Humans do not have to keep their levels balanced. However, once you put a level in a new class, you have abandoned your old class forever and can never advance in it again.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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