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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5431967" data-attributes="member: 42582">This PC has skill training in Arcnana and Nature (at least), has Arcane attacks (including lightning bolt or something similar), has shapechanging, probably some healing (as a 1st ed Druid), can use rituals (including planar travelling) and can fight in melee.I'm looking at a druid (for shapechange) and perhaps swordmage (for the lightning and melee capacity). Maybe Wis and Int primary, and Con as a follow-up secondary for druid and swordmage. Done through either multi-class (feat heavy, but you'll get the ritual casting for free as a druid) or hybrid.This isn't going to be the most broken PC of all time, but I'm sure with a bit of experimentation and tweaking you could try and get something viable. Not as viable as a 1st ed Druid/MU/Ranger, though - which, if you don't mind me saying, is one of the stronger combos on offer from an already pretty strong multi-class mechanic.I'm assuming that this character is mostly a stealth combatant using illusions to help with stealth?I've had such PCs in Rolemaster games, and have looked at how I'd make them in 4e.The best two classes in 4e for access to illusions are Wizards and Bards. Swordmages can also get personal invisibility, as do Warlocks. Stealth likes reasonable Dex, but with skill training and items it's not essential that it be a primary stat.Any way, the upshot is that there are multiple ways to do this build. They won't preserve the AD&D stats (which presumably include STR, INT and DEXof 17+ for dual-classing to Assassin and Illusionist). One I think might be viable would be a melee-based, light skirmisher, bard/warlock hybrid. Add in thief or ranger multi-classing for extra fun - or even wizard multi-class for access to more illusions. You'll have majestic word 1x/enc - treat that as your 4e PC's analgoue of remove exhaustion in AD&D, and you're good to go.Unlike the druid/swordmage, I think this could actually be a very fun and viable 4e PC who would at the same time capture a lot of the feel of the AD&D PC.</blockquote>

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