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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5549455" data-attributes="member: 92305">I allow multiclassing, if it "makes sense". My game is set in Conan's Hyborian Age, and all the PC's are Cimmerian (Race) Barbarians (Class). They're all members of the same clan. I built a <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/281868-cimmerian-blood.html" target="_blank">sandbox </a> for my players to explore, and it's up to them where we go from the beginning I put together. Now, I won't allow multi-classing if one of my Cimmerian Barbarians wants to become, say, a Barbarian/Pirate, not unless they get their butts out of Cimmeria and onto the deck of a ship for a while. In order to multi-class, they've got to go "live" the class type for a while. If they spend time with the Hykanian Steppe Nomads, then I'd allow Barbarian/Nomad multiclassing. If they leave Cimmeria and join a mercenary group or a formal army, I'd allow multiclassing into Barbarian/Soldier. Some multiclassing may require a sponsor or mentor or teacher. For example, my Cimmerians don't read. In fact, they are suspicious of the written word, thinking it some form of sorcery that someone can make marks and communicate detailed ideas. It's like magic to them, and it scares them. But, people grow. Conan did. After he left Cimmeria he picked up all sorts of skills that he shunned as a Cimmerian native--like using a bow (not a "manly" way to fight) and horseback riding (not many horses in rocky/hilly Cimmeria). Let's say, somehow, the PCs get tight with the village Oracle. That could be the start of a road towards a Barbarian/Scholar character. As long as it "makes sense", as I said above, then I'll allow it. I don't want them multi-classing out of the blue. There are some multiclass combinations that they can do on their own, too. For example, I might allow a Barbarian/Thief class if the character invests himself into doing "thiefy" things, practing picking locks and stuff like that--living the life of a thief. But, also remember, in Conan, it's not necessary to have a class in order to be a certain type of character. Conan only ever got to Thief level 1, but he became a master thief. He stole a bunch of stuff and was a type of "2nd story man", capitalizing on his native skill at climbing. In this game, anybody who steals is a thief. They don't need to be classed as a thief in order to be one.      What is "Sons of Conan"? The name of your campaign?      I've got a pretty detailed backstory for the PCs, so I wanted them all to be Barbarians.  Plus, the Conan game is a new game for us. It makes it easier to learn if all characters start out the same class. That way we're avoiding a lot of issue and shortening the learning curve. It's mostly a story-based decision. I started every PCs out at Age 11 (the day before their 12th birthday). We played a game session. Then, at the next session, I skipped ahead a year. The boys were Age 13. The session after that, I skipped ahead another year, with the boys at Age 14. This type of thing has really built up the PC's "character". We know a lot about them. I plan on keeping this pattern as I want to eventually live through these characters' entire lives. We know about their childhood, then we skip to their teens, play a bit, skip again to their 20's, play some more, and so on.      Yeah, glad you like it. I've used it for a long time. It's a good way of doing things. With this Conan game, I gave the players a choice. They could do 4d6, drop lowest, and arrange stats to taste. Or, they could do 4d6, drop lowest, and use The Slide. If they did the Slide, their characters started with double Fate Points (which are highly valuable in the Conan game)--stuff that can keep their characters' alive. So, it's a good incentive to use the Slide, but I kept the "arrange to taste" option in there--at a decent opportunity cost.    This is the first time in a campaign where I've told the players their character's names. I have a reason--the names are part of my plot. The PCs were all named with "special" names, and as the game progresses, the players are starting to learn just how important their names are.  They have a destiny. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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