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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7164568" data-attributes="member: 6683613">This is not a true cost. It's completely irrelevant for any campaign that doesn't run to level 20, and even in the rare campaign that does go the distance, it's still irrelevant for 95% of that campaign's run-time (assuming equal time spent at each level). It is as if you introduced a rule that said rogues gain experience at three times the rate of fighters, and argued that it's fair because they both eventually hit the same ceiling. But by the time fighters hit that ceiling, rogues have already been sitting at the ceiling for two-thirds of the campaign. That matters a lot more than the existence of the ceiling.I really like your idea in principle. I like 2E dual-classing and the Final Fantasy job system and The Secret World's deck system. I think keeping low costs for low-level abilities makes a lot of sense. And if I ever get around to homebrewing an RPG, multiclassing is probably going to look something like this. But if it's going to be balanced, it has to be balanced at every level of play, not just at the ceiling.</blockquote>