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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9746626" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Alternatively, the problem is à la carte multiclassing, rather than Frankenstein.Because the only other edition which permitted à la carte multiclassing had this problem, just worse because it had much more serious flaws than 5e has.It's emblematic of a lot of ideas from 3e. That is, à la carte MC is a beautiful idea, compelling, intuitive, fun. It near-instantly created several memes in an era before "meme" was even a thing--the TVTropes page for "Took a level in Badass", for example, literally is a 3rd edition mechanical concept having completely outgrown its roots.It just has one small problem: It's terrible at being a game mechanic. 5e has had to pretzel itself over and over again to try to make à la carte MC not cause serious problems.If it weren't for that one little issue, it would be wonderful. It is, as I previously argued in a now-ancient thread, a beautiful example of meta-aesthetics being prioritized over actual game design. It's a rule that looks good, that sounds good. A rule that feels right, it has truthiness galore. It feels so obvious and natural--a bridge between the chunky artificiality of classes with levels, and the overcomplicated, difficult-to-understand morass that most pure point-buy systems become! But beneath that superficial, meta-aesthetic beauty, it is a bloody nightmare to actually design and implement, and as we are seeing quite clearly, even concerted efforts to fix it have resulted in (at the very least) disappointing results.To have one à la carte muticlassing system break down may be regarded as a misfortune, Mr. Worthing. To have two looks like carelessness.</blockquote>

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