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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9883949" data-attributes="member: 4937">Technically, it's not multiclassing - it's actually two different classes or two paths within the same class.  You wouldn't do multiclassing things like half the hit points determined when you leveled up in one class or divide the XP among the two classes.Interesting, adding new abilities one at a time from level 1 to level 6 is how my homebrew 3e Champion class that replaces the Paladin works.  But in 1e AD&D, there is very little though in the Paladin that is front loaded except the complete disease immunity.Because I hate immunities with a passion I would like to redact to a large bonus to disease resistance.  This wouldn't be something I'd would consider front loaded.  I suspect however that the immunity to disease is the way it is in part because there isn't a unified rule regarding how disease is handled in 1e AD&D, and unsurprisingly disease is its own separate subsystem that doesn't allow a saving throw (except when it does, as in the case of the giant rat) and has its own separate rules that vary if we are talking natural disease, lycanthropy, mummy rot, etc.  It's really hard to write up a general rule here.  And to be quite frank, I hate that.  But again, if we try to fix it into a unified system as is done in 3e to a great extent and even more so in my own 3e homebrew fork, then we are not only rewriting large passages of 1e but making it feel much more 3e overall.  This brings us back to any well written comprehensive overhaul of AD&D will look a lot like 3e AD&D.But all that aside, I'll probably try to write up a variation of disease resistance for the paladin because immunities are such a blunt tool.  I suspect that in a write up of the Paladin and the Ranger I'm going to slightly reduce the XP requirements to level because they just aren't as powerful of classes relative to Fighter once specialization became a thing and because I'm likely to tone down their advantages in certain areas to be more mid because AD&D (and to a large extent 3e that inherited the 1e mindset) tends to have an all or nothing thing going where one thing trumps the other and you either rock-paper-scissors win or you struggle.</blockquote>

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