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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 6806997" data-attributes="member: 53980">You know, I was looking at the 5e xp table and I think AD&D style multiclassing would be feasible. Not perfectly balanced of course (that wasn't even the case in AD&D) but I suspect it would be functional.Multiclassed characters would start a level behind single classed characters (once the single classed are level 2). When the single classed characters are 20th level, a two-classed character would be 15th level, while a three-classed character would be 12th. You become more versatile at the cost of raw power. This type of multiclassing would need to be done when the character is created, and probably shouldn't be combined with 5e MCing.- Hit Dice would be the average of all classes. (A fighter/wizard's HD would be [[1d10 + 1d6] / 2] + Con.)- Gain all armor, weapon, and tool proficiencies.- Choose one strong and one weak save, from those available to your classes, to be proficient in. (If you want to be old school about this, give them proficiency in saves from all of their classes, but I suspect that might be overkill.)- Choose the highest number of skills gained from among your classes. These skills can be chosen from any of your class lists.- Starting gold as an average of your classes.- Gain features from all classes. Spell slots should be as a single-classed character, but spells known would be gained as normal (per the 5e MCing rules).Admittedly, these characters will gain a LOT of ASIs. Not counting fighter/rogue bonus ASIs, a two-classed character will gain 6, while a three-classed character will gain 9. Arguably this is okay, since such a character is likely to be quite MAD. The only restriction that I would put on such characters might be to say that ASIs gained at the same level must apply to different ability scores. That would curb the absurdity of a three-class character boosting an ability score of 14 to 20 overnight.</blockquote>

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