Multiclassing is for the weak.

[slwoyach]

i would like to respectfully disagree. it may only be my personal playing style, but i pick a particular concept i want to play, only to find it does not exist in d&d. so i take a number of this and that and the other and patchwork it together. my result is a chimera of base and acf and prestige, but i get my concept. invariably, my character is behind the power curve as a result. by quite a few levels.

Exactly, before the Swashbuckler class was published the best "swashbucker" was the simple fighter/thief or fighter/bard. I still think the fighter/bard is the best, but wish there was no spellcasting.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

I greatly dislike multiclassing, When someone has one level in mage/warrior/psion/chocolate bunny, it begins to feel less like a role playing game and more like calculus.

As I mentioned in another post a week or three back, I had designed, for the purpose of pure RP fun, to make and play a character based off of my cat. It was a Shifter character with the intention of taking a different class each level. that campaign didn't last too long, he was a level 6 Scout/Barbarian/Druid/Cleric/Warblade/Duskblade by the time we were done. He had such an "Oh shiney!" mentality that he'd just start trying to practice the kinds of things he saw other people doing around him.

Most enjoyable role play character I've ever had. Not game-breakingly powerful, and likely would have fallen miles behind my fellow players if we passed level 10+, but he was definitely able to hold his own.

 

[Elf Witch]

While multiclassing can be used by powergamers and munchkins to make super powerful characters it is not the main reason for it.

In my experience most of the gamers I have seen multiclass have done so to make their character concept work.

Multiclassing is one of the best things about 3E because it gives players so many different choices when it comes to creating characters.