Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Magister Ludorum" data-source="post: 7996229" data-attributes="member: 6862253">I said that I don't tell players no except in extreme situations. If someone wanted to dip into wizard at a later point, I would probably sit down with the player and work out a modification to the backstory. Maybe they had studied wizardry but never finished their schooling. Now they've decided to brush up and expand on those skills. I don't like the way some players treat characters as a bag of class abilities that exist outside of story and background, which is why multiclass discussions online do not interest me. The whole discussion seems to be focused on optimizing class abilities, not on creating an interesting character or story. I'm a combination storyteller and method actor when it comes to gaming.<a href="http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/theory/models/robinslaws.html" target="_blank">See Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering</a>Since I start most chronicles at 3rd level, it's not a problem. If someone wants to be a multiclass character they can do it. If I were playing at 1st level, I'd probably houserule some sort of hybridization for the first two levels that eventually would come together as a traditional multiclass character.I even do this for subclasses. I had a player want to play an eldritch knight but was unhappy that the character didn't feel like an eldritch knight at 1st level, so I gave them one cantrip at first level, a second cantrip at 2nd and then the other stuff at 3rd. This is, however, the main reason why I start at 3rd level. Characters can build multiclass characters and all single-class characters have their subclass by that point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Magister Ludorum, post: 7996229, member: 6862253"] I said that I don't tell players no except in extreme situations. If someone wanted to dip into wizard at a later point, I would probably sit down with the player and work out a modification to the backstory. Maybe they had studied wizardry but never finished their schooling. Now they've decided to brush up and expand on those skills. I don't like the way some players treat characters as a bag of class abilities that exist outside of story and background, which is why multiclass discussions online do not interest me. The whole discussion [I]seems [/I]to be focused on optimizing class abilities, not on creating an interesting character or story. I'm a combination storyteller and method actor when it comes to gaming. [URL='http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/theory/models/robinslaws.html']See Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering[/URL] Since I start most chronicles at 3rd level, it's not a problem. If someone wants to be a multiclass character they can do it. If I were playing at 1st level, I'd probably houserule some sort of hybridization for the first two levels that eventually would come together as a traditional multiclass character. I even do this for subclasses. I had a player want to play an eldritch knight but was unhappy that the character didn't feel like an eldritch knight at 1st level, so I gave them one cantrip at first level, a second cantrip at 2nd and then the other stuff at 3rd. This is, however, the main reason why I start at 3rd level. Characters can build multiclass characters and all single-class characters have their subclass by that point. [/QUOTE]

Verification