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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6185932" data-attributes="member: 5143">Mainly because they let people pick and choose the best abilities each level they went up.&nbsp; This allowed a large amount of min-maxing.This hit me in the face when a player at a convention pointed out to me his logic how going up one level of Sorcerer when the rest of your levels were Fighter was the best idea.&nbsp; He pointed out 2 or 3 first level spells that gave enough benefits to entirely outweigh all the benefits you got for most levels of fighter.&nbsp; His argument was that a 19 Fighter/1 Sorcerer was almost ALWAYS better than a 20 Fighter.&nbsp; And he was right.&nbsp; A bunch of other people pointed out that a 1 Barbarian/1 Sorcerer/18 Fighter was almost always better still.&nbsp; There was certainly an argument to make that a 1 Cleric/1 Barbarian/1 Sorcerer/17 Fighter was even better...though you might be losing too much BAB at that point.That's just the simplest form of the min-maxing that occurs.&nbsp; Add in PrC, Racial levels, and feats and it got much, much worse.D&amp;D was always created as a class based game.&nbsp; It isn't a point based game.&nbsp; I like the class based nature of it.&nbsp; I know a lot of other people do as well.&nbsp; When completely free multiclassing exists, it removes all benefit of having a class based system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 6185932, member: 5143"] Mainly because they let people pick and choose the best abilities each level they went up. This allowed a large amount of min-maxing. This hit me in the face when a player at a convention pointed out to me his logic how going up one level of Sorcerer when the rest of your levels were Fighter was the best idea. He pointed out 2 or 3 first level spells that gave enough benefits to entirely outweigh all the benefits you got for most levels of fighter. His argument was that a 19 Fighter/1 Sorcerer was almost ALWAYS better than a 20 Fighter. And he was right. A bunch of other people pointed out that a 1 Barbarian/1 Sorcerer/18 Fighter was almost always better still. There was certainly an argument to make that a 1 Cleric/1 Barbarian/1 Sorcerer/17 Fighter was even better...though you might be losing too much BAB at that point. That's just the simplest form of the min-maxing that occurs. Add in PrC, Racial levels, and feats and it got much, much worse. D&D was always created as a class based game. It isn't a point based game. I like the class based nature of it. I know a lot of other people do as well. When completely free multiclassing exists, it removes all benefit of having a class based system. [/QUOTE]

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