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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 5362274" data-attributes="member: 17106">My observation of multiclassing in my experience with 2e was that it was very desirable, and almost every group had multiclass characters. The thief/mage and fighter/thief were archetypes unto themselves. The rules for multiclass characters were confusing and offered limited choices, but it seems to me multiclass characters were clearly superior and very popular.The idea of splitting up classes into each individual level was to me a very logical step. Before, everyone had their own XP chart, and were of different levels. Now, everyone was on the same scale. The concept that a fighter4/thief 4 was equivalent to a fighter 6 was always hard to wrap my head around. Now one could take individual levels of each class, without cross pollinating the hit points and other benefits. Ultimately, this is in my opinion not a departure but an evolution, the same way saving throws against wands and breath weapons evolved into will and ref, or the same way THAC0 evolved into BAB. With prestige classes, I can now make characters very reminiscent of my 2e multiclass characters that are more balanced and make sense.</blockquote>