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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 3774465" data-attributes="member: 18">Interesting on alternate class survivor, I'll have to take a gander at that - I would wager the preferences of a bunch of DMs like ENworld are a little different to if we somehow polled all the players in our campaigns, though.Completely agree that even more PrCs were made for this, but that's because literally hundreds of PrCs, many of them completely unecessary or serving nigh-exactly the same purpose as others, were created. They were the pointless &quot;filler-crunch&quot; of 3E in 90% of cases (I'd be willing to be that 10% of PrCs represented around 75-80% of all PrC levels taken, even just accounting for official WotC PrCs).I think that really only strengthens my &quot;multiclassing was completely borked in 3E&quot; point, though.On-topic, I sincerely hope the Swordmage is quite distinct from a Fighter/Mage, but not just &quot;better&quot;, like someone with 15 levels of Duskblade was really honestly, just better than someone with 8 levels of Mage and 7 levels of Fighter, or what have you. Presumably a Fighter/Mage will have more &quot;zap-boom&quot; effects (which actually work, rather than being laughable) and the Swordmage will have have a lot of quick-casting buffs, ports, and so on as it's creator suggests.That's not a logical assumption. He could be in PHB3, or PHB4, or never. We've been specifically told Psionics will be back, and it's popularity in 3E (much greater than in 1E or 2E) seems to suggest that will be sooner rather than later (though I doubt PHB2, more likely a Psionics Handbook in the same year as PHB2).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 3774465, member: 18"] Interesting on alternate class survivor, I'll have to take a gander at that - I would wager the preferences of a bunch of DMs like ENworld are a little different to if we somehow polled all the players in our campaigns, though. Completely agree that even more PrCs were made for this, but that's because literally hundreds of PrCs, many of them completely unecessary or serving nigh-exactly the same purpose as others, were created. They were the pointless "filler-crunch" of 3E in 90% of cases (I'd be willing to be that 10% of PrCs represented around 75-80% of all PrC levels taken, even just accounting for official WotC PrCs). I think that really only strengthens my "multiclassing was completely borked in 3E" point, though. On-topic, I sincerely hope the Swordmage is quite distinct from a Fighter/Mage, but not just "better", like someone with 15 levels of Duskblade was really honestly, just better than someone with 8 levels of Mage and 7 levels of Fighter, or what have you. Presumably a Fighter/Mage will have more "zap-boom" effects (which actually work, rather than being laughable) and the Swordmage will have have a lot of quick-casting buffs, ports, and so on as it's creator suggests. That's not a logical assumption. He could be in PHB3, or PHB4, or never. We've been specifically told Psionics will be back, and it's popularity in 3E (much greater than in 1E or 2E) seems to suggest that will be sooner rather than later (though I doubt PHB2, more likely a Psionics Handbook in the same year as PHB2). [/QUOTE]

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