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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 2418192" data-attributes="member: 3146">No. I think that synergizing means that one set of abilities helps the other. For instance magic improves the character's physical attacks (ranged or melee) or defenses (AC, etc). Another example would be a better base attack bonus and feats like Point Blank and Precise Shot improving the utility of ranged touch spells and better than usual AC and hit points making touch range spells more practical.Synergy is important because in a D&D combat, you don't just need to be able to do something, you need to be able to do something well. To use your example, a fighter who wants to do two weapon fighting should have a bow and a selection of arrows in DR penetrating materials, but he shouldn't ignore feats essential to his fighting style (Two Weapon Fighting, Improved Two Weapon Fighting, Weapon Focus, Weapon Specialization, etc) in order to pick up Point Blank Shot. If the character does that, he's trading being a good two weapon fighter and a mediocre archer for being a mediocre two weapon fighter and a slightly less mediocre archer. Given that the character wants two weapon fighting to be his main tactic (maybe 75% of the time), it doesn't make sense to sacrifice significant amounts of TWF ability (75%) for a minor increase in archery ability (10-15%). As you later note, a multiclass character has to sacrifice some of the abilities that a single classed character would have in order to achieve flexibility. If the multiclassed character still wants to be good at the role he's sacrificing, he needs to get something out of the new class that makes him better at what he does as well as give him flexibility. Well, if you're set on playing a multiclassed warmage/fighter, I can't stop you. But you should think about whether being tougher and more capable in melee than a straight warmage really means anything. After all, a warmage is tougher and more capable in melee than a straight commoner, but warmage is still not a frontline class. A fighter/warmage is tougher than a straight-class warmage, but that doesn't mean that he can hold his own against a fighter or a fighter/sorcerer. Similarly, a fighter/warmage will have more offensive flexibility than a guy who just swings a sword but that's only relevant to the degree that the offensive flexibility is useful. A fighter who can cast 5d6 fireballs is more flexible than a fighter who can't but by the time he's 10th level, those 5d6 fireballs won't be worth much. You can have all of the options you want, but in the end it's only the ones worth choosing that actually matter. That's why it's important to avoid the situation where your choices are "A. Cast a spell that's not very effective at this level or B. Swing your swords and get slapped silly by the bad guys."</blockquote>

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