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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ratskinner" data-source="post: 6142411" data-attributes="member: 6688937">Ahh multiclassing...how I love and dread thee.I figure the multiclassing rules need to be able to reflect all the following situations:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The guy who "knows a little bit of X". -Dabbling</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The guy who blends classes X and Y. - Concurrent MCing</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The guy who started off as an X, but then became a Y (prestige class or no). -Sequential MCing</li> </ul>In addition, for any of those situations, the rules should also:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">keep the multi-class character balanced and competitive with single-class characters.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">which means there must be some cost (usually levels) for the added breadth of the character</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">but it should work in a way that those three levels of Wizard I took way back when aren't dragging me down and useless now.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">avoid making NPC creation an accounting homework-like exercise.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">be modularity-aware (i.e. not depend heavily or intricately on other subsystems).</li> </ul>So long as whatever they come up with can handle all that (and I think its actually quite doable, given some of the OGL rulesets I've seen on this), I will be happy with it.</blockquote>