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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keldryn" data-source="post: 5434376" data-attributes="member: 11999">I'm just joining this discussion now, so excuse me if I seem to be butting in, but I would disagree that the system is based heavily on building your character via multiclassing.D&D has always been a class-based system, and the classes in the core rules of every version generally reflect strong fantasy or mythological archetypes.  In my opinion, this is where D&D is at its best.  This is less about which version of the rules are used and more about character options that are based on those archetypes.  When D&D starts to stray from those archetypes, it tends to fall apart (in my opinion, again).  It happened as 2e developed, it happened again with 3e, and it's happening with 4e as well.The fact that a character "concept" requires a handful of levels in 6 different classes indicates to me that the designers never intended the system to work in this way.  This is a class-based system being forced to work like a point-based system, and I think it is unfortunate that D&D 3.x went in that direction (or was perceived to have gone in that direction).  Prestige classes were supposed to be limited by the campaign, representing specialized roles that are grounded in the campaign setting.  It's never stated in the rules, but frankly I can't see why a PC should ever have more than one prestige class, given what they were intended to represent.The whole "favored class" setup may not have accomplished its goal very well, but clearly it is there to discourage taking levels in too many classes.  Given the lineage of the game and the example characters in early 3.x products, it seems to me that the designers intended multiclassing in 3.x to serve the same purpose as it did in 1e and 2e -- to give PCs some flexibility and versatility at the expense of a bit of raw power, not to combine in ways which don't make sense in the context of the game world in order for players to give their PCs the specific abilities that they want.Going back to the core 3.5 books after a couple of years and ignoring the supplements which came after gives me a very different perspective on the game.  It's actually a fairly elegant update of the AD&D games that I grew up on.  Reading about the Beardfist Fistbeards of the world over the past few years made me forget that.</blockquote>

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