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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5729386" data-attributes="member: 1165">It's the same in 4e.Any fighter could take a multiclassing feat, but those abilities are based on Int, so taking Magic Missile as an encounter ability isn't that great an ability. Furthermore, the GM controls all "builds" of NPCs. Fighter/mages can be as common or as rare as the GM wants.I assume you mean "multiclass feat". Sure, you could multiclass in 3.x as a wizard with Int 9. It's not a smart move, but you can do it. Or you could multi with cleric, if you had a decent Wisdom.Why is this a bad thing?I disagree. You can use more powerful abilities less often. A 10th-level wizard would get 3 daily attack spells and possibly 3 daily utility spells, adding up to six big bangs over the course of a day. A 10th-level 1e to 3e wizard would have more than that many 4th and 5th level slots.My own group is currently 6th-level. The wizard can prep Sleep and Stinking Cloud/Bigby's Icy Grasp each day as his "big bangs". He still has to worry about not knowing what's coming up. (In one session, he wasted Bigby's on a brute with high Athletics, so it escaped every round, making grappling it a waste. The damage still counted.)At paragon, you start trading abilities. I haven't seen a paragon character yet, but it seems to me a paragon PC only gets 4 daily abilities at higher levels (since you can/must trade out lower-level daily powers).You need to be at least 4th-level. Enchant Magic Item is a 4th-level ritual. Brew Potion is 5th-level. You can't do it earlier.You need the Ritual Caster feat, which is not free for non-casters. (Classes that use supernatural powers, like paladins, aren't casters, and still have to pay for the feat.)You need to be trained in Arcana or Religion if it's not a bonus feat for your class. (Nature is not enough; rangers don't have it easy if they want to do the magic thing.)In 3.x, most character classes were casters, so in fact even a ranger could, with one feat, craft items like Boots of Striding. A 4e ranger would have to spend two feats to do that - Ritual Caster, and then Skill Training (Arcana/Religion) or a multiclass feat to get that skill training as part of the package.From what I can see, the only complaint is that multiclassing became easy in 3.x/4e. (In 2e, a human couldn't multiclass, but could dual-class; this wasn't easy. A demihuman had to announce their classes at 1st-level; while you could start out a triple-classed character, you couldn't add any new classes over your career.)</blockquote>

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