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<blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 3763850" data-attributes="member: 2268"><p>I think a part of the differences in how folks approach this problem is the preference in how the game system feels. Going for a &quot;base class&quot; approach emphasizes, in my opinion, the effect of classes as archetypes (meaning class as a solid career path in a game world) and the effect of niche protection, while a strong multi-class approach emphasizes a system of modularity and the effect of classes as &quot;toolbox&quot; (meaning a class as a package of abilities that can be added, swapped and modified). I like the base class approach, which is why I puzzled together a base class. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Incidentally, I'm pretty convinced that you will get a working multiclass system if you reduce the archetype emphasis of classes a lot more, and turn further toward a skills and feats based character creation system. Maybe somebody will one day come along and prove me wrong, but so far I've seen great systems on the &quot;strong classes&quot; side as well as the &quot;strong modularity&quot; side of the spectrum, but no system that really manages to combine them equally. D&amp;D 3.X shows that clearly, since there are multiple approaches in the last 8 years to make the strong classes much more malleable, with the drawback that the characters themselves can become a lot more unwieldly.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Geron Raveneye, post: 3763850, member: 2268"] I think a part of the differences in how folks approach this problem is the preference in how the game system feels. Going for a "base class" approach emphasizes, in my opinion, the effect of classes as archetypes (meaning class as a solid career path in a game world) and the effect of niche protection, while a strong multi-class approach emphasizes a system of modularity and the effect of classes as "toolbox" (meaning a class as a package of abilities that can be added, swapped and modified). I like the base class approach, which is why I puzzled together a base class. :) Incidentally, I'm pretty convinced that you will get a working multiclass system if you reduce the archetype emphasis of classes a lot more, and turn further toward a skills and feats based character creation system. Maybe somebody will one day come along and prove me wrong, but so far I've seen great systems on the "strong classes" side as well as the "strong modularity" side of the spectrum, but no system that really manages to combine them equally. D&D 3.X shows that clearly, since there are multiple approaches in the last 8 years to make the strong classes much more malleable, with the drawback that the characters themselves can become a lot more unwieldly. [/QUOTE]

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