Two quick XP questions

[Felnar]

Wouldn't that character incur 2 20% penalties for each of the classes at level 1???

ya, i remember it as being 20% for each class not within 1 level
so 40% total for him

 

[Herobizkit]

You have made a common mistake. Experience is based on the CR of each individual monster, not the EL of the entire encounter.

Seriously?! And I've been levelling characters pretty fast as is. I wonder if this makes a huge difference in XP awards?

 

[Li Shenron]

Wouldn't that character incur 2 20% penalties for each of the classes at level 1???

I think so too. He'd be Monk 3 and Fighter 1, Ranger 1, so IMHO he'll get -40%.

Barbarian is his favored class, but even if it wasn't, I'd say that being now forbidden for him to advance in Barb levels, it should be fair not to count it for the Xp penalty purposes (although maybe not fully by the rules).

What screws this PC hard is the Monk restrictions: if he takes levels in something else, he won't be allowed to take more Monk levels anymore.

I wonder how that player came up with such a bad multiclassing anyway, how does he justifies the character concept? Two classes already require some good explanation, but how the hell is he going to justify those levels in Ranger and Fighter? "I took a holiday in the woods and hunted some aberrations?" Frankly these sort of combinations piss me off enough that I would not give him any Xp penalty discount at all.

 

[Thanee]

I think so too. He'd be Monk 3 and Fighter 1, Ranger 1, so IMHO he'll get -40%.

Even if it would rack up like that, which I seriously doubt, it would still be only one class, which is not in alignment with the others, the Monk. So, in any case, it's -20%.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Li Shenron]

"Your multiclass character suffers a -20% XP penalty for each class that is not within one level of his most experienced class."

That's from the 3.0 PHB (maybe in 3.5 it's changed, but i couldn't find it in the SRD), and there's an example about a Gnome Rogue 9/Wiz(Ill) 2/Fighter 1 that has -20% and gets -40% if he picks up a single level of Cleric.

 

[cmanos]

1. You are correct, sir. Check this utility out.

2. He would take a 40% hit to XP as others have stated. Aescetic hunter would be a good start, but wouldn't deal with the fact that when he goes up in fighter he would lose his monk abilities. Interestingt hat they have Feats in the CV for Monk/Rangers, Monk/Paladins, Monk/Mages and Monk/Rogues, but no other classes.

Monastic Training from the Eberron Campaign Setting, taken once for Fighter and once for Ranger would offset both penalties.

 

[Thanee]

"Your multiclass character suffers a -20% XP penalty for each class that is not within one level of his most experienced class."

Right, somehow I thought it was counted from any class, not the most experienced one.

But it kinda makes sense as a means to prevent racking up front-loaded bonuses.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Li Shenron]

Right, somehow I thought it was counted from any class, not the most experienced one.

No problem, if I hadn't checked myself before I wrote the first post, I would have made the same mistake. In our group we have become too much used to ignoring xp penalties altogether