D&D 5E To MC or not MC? That is the question!

[Stoutstien]

I don't see anything about the character you mentioned that couldn't be better handled by a class specifically designed to capture the character and playstyle you wanted.

Sure Homebrew is an option but not all table allow it.
I wanted the ability to buff an ally and allow them to make an attack, repositioning of the party when necessary, help action at range.
It also has enough utility with decent spell selection and skills.

Not something that's currently available without multiclassing

 

[Weiley31]

EVERY story needs a Main Cha-oh wait....not THAT MC....

Well putz it all.

 

[Helldritch]

If you MC in my game, you never go back to your old class. This has slowed the MC madness by a lot, almost enough to make it non existant. In my two groups (12 players in total, 6 per group) only one is MC.

 

[Wiseblood]

Only a few players have decided to multiclass. One because there was no 5e subclass that did it when converting from 3.5e. One because he was converted from PF after a long hiatus. The third chose to multiclass because the class he was in didn’t have much going forward.

At levels 12-20 i didn’t notice if anyone was op.

 

[Iry]

So are you saying their is an optimum mediocre? How would I know if someone were do such? Maybe if they make the absolute median character? Or would we want to calculate the mean or some other statistical average? I don't know how I would even know...

The infamous optimized basketweaver is a great example. Essentially picking a character concept and then optimizing towards being effective at the concept. Even if that concept is strange.

"Having Fun" is a valid thing to min/max.

 

[Blue]

Every game I'm in allows multiclassing.

In one, we have a bunch of people who are more for the play then the system. Use an app to create and level characters. They tend to stay single classed. We did have two people who multiclassed, one (also a fantastic player) who did so quite successfully, and one who's multiclasses cherry-picked nice abilities but didn't come together (in the level range we played) so they were quite far behind the straight-classed characters in the power curve.

Other groups have differing mixes of straight and multiclassed characters. I find that the players who are more likely to be careful enough not to shoot themselves in the foot with it (reasonable system familiarity) would rather have it even if they are planning a straight classed character, and the others don't care. No one is against it.

 

[TwoSix]

The best way to get your players to really want to multiclass is to ban it.

 

[Azzy]

Since we started playing 5e, multiclassing has been available but so far no one has done it. A couple players have talked about doing so, but never ended up doing so.

 

[DND_Reborn]

From the responses so far, I am thinking if I allow multiclassing, I would only ban dual-full-caster combos unless you do it from the beginning and keep them equal as you advance.

So, no sorcerer/warlock, no cleric/wizard, etc. unless at 2nd level you take the second class immediately. Then, if the two classes are ever more than 1 level apart, the lower class can no longer advance as the separation represents your decision to focus on the stronger class.

Other multiclass combinations, up to two classes only, and with any degree of difference in level, would be allowed as normal.

I am not sold on it, myself, just something I came up with this evening. What do people think about the idea?

 

[Helldritch]

From the responses so far, I am thinking if I allow multiclassing, I would only ban dual-full-caster combos unless you do it from the beginning and keep them equal as you advance.

So, no sorcerer/warlock, no cleric/wizard, etc. unless at 2nd level you take the second class immediately. Then, if the two classes are ever more than 1 level apart, the lower class can no longer advance as the separation represents your decision to focus on the stronger class.

Other multiclass combinations, up to two classes only, and with any degree of difference in level, would be allowed as normal.

I am not sold on it, myself, just something I came up with this evening. What do people think about the idea?

Not a bad idea. I do something different with multiclassing. It works out well at my table but your idea has some merit. You will however have the problem with palylock...