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Message: <blockquote data-quote="candidus_cogitens" data-source="post: 492854" data-attributes="member: 770">I guess it is time to reply to this serious allegation ... that I am powergaming! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> I decided to do apprentice levels partly for character reasons and partly for what you might call "powergaming" reasons.  The character reason is that I thought it would not make much sense to start off as a rogue and then switch to barbarian at level two, only to switch back at level three.  It seemed more reasonable that starts out with some barbarian abilities and some rogue abilities.  And I don't think it really amounts to a huge advantage over what other starting characters might have.But, perhaps you would say that any time you take only one level in a second class, it is power gaming.  But that isn't what you said, so I assume it is not your point of view.  So, maybe what you would have found preferable, Orias, would be to take barbarian at first, and then switch to rogue from then on.  The problem with that is that the rogue is severely weakened if you don't start out as a rogue at level one--weakened in a way that no other class is.  A rogue's strength is in his skills.  If you don't start out as a rogue at first level, you end up 24 skill points behind, or more!  So, I think it is reasonable to want to avoid that crippling disadvantage.</blockquote>

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